The Esteban's Challenge: Missionaries

***Missionaries*** is the seventh season of *The Esteban's Challenge*. It premiered on September 14, 2023 and concluded on November 2nd, 2023.

## Description

After the challengers had to work with their exes for a whole season, this time, an individual competition comes to Prague, where the players will have a very important mission: Eliminate the people they don't want to work with, and they better hurry up, because individuality will run out sooner than expected.

## Format

Each challenge, one contestant of each gender will be crowned the winners and will form "The Missionaries" along with the best third player, they will have to choose 3 contestants of the designated gender to possibly face the contestant who came last in the challenge. In the elimination The Missionaries will vote for one of the 3 nominees to compete in Purgatory againts the last place contestant, the winner remains in the game, and the loser goes home.

After sevent eliminations and redemption challenge, the game will change into a five-team competition. The winning team of the challenge will form The Missionaries. They would interview the team that came last in the challenge to decide who would be the representatives of each gender on their team for Purgatory and discuss possible rivals. In purgatory, the winning team nominates a male/female pairing from any team (including the losing team), the winning pair stays in the game, and the losing pair goes home.

### Twists

* **Redemption Challenges:** In episode 9, it was revealed that all the contestants who had been eliminated in Purgatory would have a possible second chance to return to the main game. Two redemption challenges were held in which the best player of each gender returned to the game.
* **Teams:** At the end of episode 8 the players were notified that they would no longer compete as individuals. In episode 10, the first part of the challenge was a race with some checkpoints, in which as the players arrived they positioned themselves above a color, four teams were formed, plus the team of the players who won redemption.

## Game Summary

### Elimination Progress

**Competition**
     The contestant's team won the Final Challenge.
     The contestant's team lost the Final Challenge.
     The contestant's team was eliminated at the Final Challenge.
     The contestant won the Challenge and was part of the Missionaries.
     The contestant placed in the Top 3 in the challenge and was part of the Missionaries.
     The contestant was not selected for Purgatory.
     The contestant was nominated by the Missionaries to go into Purgatory but was not selected to compete. *(Episodes 1-8)*
     The contestant's team was nominated for Purgatory but was not selected to compete. *(Episodes 10-18)*
     The contestant was selected for Purgatory, but did not have to compete.
     The contestant won in Purgatory
     The contestant won in the elimination by default.
     The contestant won the challenge, but was selected for Purgatory, and won.
     The contestant was eliminated in Purgatory.
     The contestant was removed from the competition due to injury or illness.
     The contestant withdrew from the game.
     The contestant was disqualified from the competition.
### Redemption Progress

**Competition**
     The contestant won the Redemption challenge and returned to the game.
     The team lost the Redemption challenge but was ont the top 3 players and remained in Redemption.
     The contestant lost the Redemption challenge and was permanently eliminated from the game.