The Royalty Challenge: Tokyo Drift

**The Royalty Challenge: Tokyo Drift** is the fourth season of *The Royalty Challenge*. Applications for the season opened in mid August and were closed in early September. The season started airing on September 9th, 2020. It consisted of 13 episodes with 12 pairs competing to earn virtual dollars for their *The Royalty Challenge* bank accounts. The season was hosted by returning hosts Brad, Jaysn and new co-host Parzi.

The season ended on October 11th, 2020 with Alex Rose being crowned the winner with Tasha Gaspard winning Player of the Season and Fan Favourite. In addition, DLS Theqhat won Rookie of the Season and Donnchadh Fitzgerald won Most Improved Veteran.

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Before the game begins, each set of challengers **(Veterans and Rookies)** will take part in an opening trial challenge before they enter the house. This challenge will determine a ranking order for both groups from 1st down to 12th. In order of their placement from the challenge, each group will pick from a set of 12 different cars that are different colours based on which car they are most aesthetically drawn to. After all the cars have been assigned/selected, ‘**Veterans**’ and ‘**Rookies**’ will be paired up based on the car they chose to form ‘**Fresh Meat**’ pairings. Players will compete in pairs until a certain point in the game; where the pairs will then split and the game will become completely individual.

At the start of the round each pair participates in the daily challenge followed by an elimination challenge; ‘**The Dragstrip'**. Each daily challenge has one winning pair; ‘**The Overtakers’**, gaining immunity and the ability to nominate three other players they want to face elimination. This selection process is called ‘**The Pit Stop**’. The nomination selection occurs immediately after the challenge, unlike in other Challenges, where there is a period of deliberation between the end of the challenge and the selection of the challengers for the elimination game.

After three pairs have been nominated, the rest of the pairs (excluding ‘**The Overtakers**’ pair) will individually vote for which nominated pair they would like to see in elimination; knowing that this pair will get to see who voted for them if they get the majority of votes. In the event of a tie, ‘**The Overtakers**’ will cast a vote to break the tie. The pair with the most votes, referred to as **‘The Burnouts’**, will then ‘**Call-Out**’ another person who voted for them to face them in elimination; this person plus their pair will then be the second pair in elimination. These two pairs (and eventually individuals) will face-off in **‘The Dragstrip’**. The winner(s) will remain in the game whilst the losers are eliminated from the game.

As well as competing for the title, the season continues **‘The Bank Progress’** which will be featured in each season. Winning the daily challenge will earn pairs $30,000 added to their bank accounts and winning an elimination will earn pairs $10,000 added to their bank accounts. When the game turns individual, the daily challenge is worth $15,000 and the elimination is worth $5,000. If you make it to the top 4 you will earn the contents for your placement for this season. At the end of the seasons, the contents of the bank accounts will be split between the pairs equally.

Players are competing for the money prizes of:

* **1st** - $30 + $150,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **2nd** - $50,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **3rd** - $20,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **4th** - individual bank account

* **The Overtaker(s)** - the daily winner(s); earning immunity for the round and the ability to nominate three pairs/individuals for potential elimination; only vote in the house-vote in the event of a tie.
* **The Pit Stop** - where the Overtakers' nominations are revealed and the house-vote takes place.
* **The Burnout(s)** - The pair/individual that gets the most votes in the house-vote and enters elimination.
* **Call-Out** - The pair/individual that voted for the Burnout pair and is called-out by them to face each other in elimination.
* **The Dragstrip** - the elimination area where pairs/individuals will fight for survival to stay in the game.
* **The Bank Progress** - The money you earn from winning challenges and eliminations that could be added to your overall winnings from the season.

* **Individual/Pair phases** - For the first time in The Royalty Challenge history, players would compete in pairs which will then break-off into individuals around the halfway point.
* **Fresh Meat pairs** - This season secretly was sub-titled Fresh Meat; meaning pairs formed of one returning player and one new player. This twist ended in **Round 6**.
* **Double Elimination** - In **Round 4**, a double elimination was announced where the called-out pair could call-out any other pair (other than the daily winners) to join as the third pair in elimination. In **Round 9**, the same double elimination took place but with individuals rather than pairs.
* **Stasis** - Once eliminated from the game, pairs would enter the Stasis; more commonly known as the Redemption House. They would from now on be individuals and were told one Veteran and one Rookie would return from any pair before the individual phase of the game begins.
* **The Drifters** - In **Round 7**, there were 3 individual Overtaker's who each unknowingly nominated one player each to go straight into elimination. Rather than face other challengers, three past-players from each season of The Royalty Challenge would face them in attempts to earn $30,000 for their bank accounts and to improve their elimination record. Dom Rou from Season 1 returned, Lex Quinn from Season 2 returned and Tommy Fairfax from Season 3 returned. If the challenger lost to the mercenaries, they would be eliminated from the game.

 **Host**

 **Co-host**

**The history of the season in the form of a season progress chart and elimination progress chart.**

**Key**

     The challenger won the daily challenge and became **The Overtaker(s)**
     The challenger was **nominated by The Overtaker(s)** but didn't go into elimination.
     The contestant was **immune** during the round.
     The challenger **won** the Dragstrip elimination game.
     The challenger **lost** the Dragstrip elimination game and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **purged** and was eliminated from the game.
     The challenger was apart of **The Drifters**; brought back to enter elimination to take out the challengers.
     The challenger was **eliminated** and not in the game.
     The contestant **quit** the game.
     The challenger was the **3rd** or **4th** placer of the game.
     The challenger was the **runner-up** of the game.
     The challenger was the **winner** of the game.

### **Major Alliances**

* **Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork (Day 1)** - *Christian ®, Alex, Allen, DLS, Duccy, Iris, Katie, Kendall, Malik, Marq, Nasir, Ny, Sylvia, Tasha, Tina and Zuzana*
* **Black Magic (Day 1)** - *Devin ® and Malik*
* **Clown Shit (Day 2)** - *DLS ®, Sylvia and Timmy*
* **The Leftovers (Day 2)** - *Jamie ®, Caoimhe, Devin, Donnchadh, Jaylen, Marti, Remi and Timmy*
* **The Fates (Day 2)** - *Devin ®, Donnchadh, Malik and Tasha*
* **Circling The Challenge (Day 3)** - *Alex ®, Remi and Zuzana*
* **The Leftovers Minus Marti (Day 7)** - *Devin ®, Caoimhe, Donnchadh, Jamie, Remi and Timmy*
* **Safe Space (Day 14)** - *Alex ®, Remi and Tasha*
* **VC Gang (Day 14)** - *Marti ®, Marq and Nasir*
* **The Real Rookies (Day 15)** - *Caoimhe ®, Alex, Devin and Remi*
* **The True Overtakers (Day 23)** - *DLS ®, Alex and Tasha*

### **Minor Alliances**

* **The Supernovas (Day 1)** - *Jamie ®, Caoimhe, Donnchadh and Katie*
* **Generation XYZ (Day 1)** - *Christian ®, Duccy, Kendall, Malik, Marq, Ny, Tasha and Tina*
* **Baddies Back Again (Day 1)** - *Kendall ®, Christian, Duccy and Ny*
* **Unstoppable 8 (Day 1)** - *Ny ®, Allen, Caoimhe, Donnchadh, Jamie, Nasir, Remi and Tasha*
* **Newbie Territory (Day 3)** - *Nasir ®, Alex, Allen, Caoimhe, Devin, DLS, Iris, Jaylen, Katie, Remi, Sylvia and Zuzana*
* **Unnamed Alliance (Day 15)** - *DLS ®, Marq, Remi and Tasha*

**Key**

     The challenger won the daily challenge and became **The Overtaker(s)**
     The challenger was **nominated by The Overtaker(s)** but didn't go into elimination/didn't get to vote.
     The challenger was **eliminated** and not in the game.

**Key**

     The challenger won the daily challenge and became **The Overtaker(s)**
     The challenger was **nominated by The Overtaker(s)** but didn't go into elimination.
     The contestant was **immune** during the round.
     The challenger **won** the Dragstrip elimination game.
     The challenger **lost** the Dragstrip elimination game and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **purged** and was eliminated from the game.
     The challenger was apart of **The Drifters**; brought back to enter elimination to take out the challengers.
     The challenger was **eliminated** and not in the game.
     The contestant **quit** the game.
     The challenger was the **3rd** or **4th** placer of the game.
     The challenger was the **runner-up** of the game.
     The challenger was the **winner** of the game.

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