Bloodbath

***Bloodbath*** is the first season of *Aurora's The Challenge*. It premiered on March 3rd, 2023 and concluded on April 4th, 2023.

## Description

Get ready for the most intense and cutthroat competition yet, as Aurora's The Challenge: Bloodbath takes the stage. The competition will be fierce as 30 contestants compete solely for themselves. The war is over, but the madness is just beginning. Who will emerge victorious in the Bloodbath, and who will fall victim to the ruthless competition?

## Format

* **Daily Challenge:** Players compete in the main challenge either individually, in pairs, or in teams. For individual and paired challenges, the two winning players select one additional player to form the Blood Pact. For team challenges, all members of the winning team form the Blood Pact.
* **Nominations:** Players not in the Blood Pact participate in nominations and must nominate two players to go in the elimination round. They are given a chance to discuss the nominations before voting two names each. The players who receives the most votes will participate in the elimination round.
* **Blood Pact:** Following nominations, the Blood Pact selects three players to interrogate. At the most, two of these three chosen interrogated competitors will be selected for possible elimination. At the Sacrifice, the Blood Pact individually votes for two players out of the three nominated and also choose whom they face off against. However, a member of the Blood Pact may volunteer for elimination, instead of voting for an interrogated competitor (in the case of two or more members of the Blood Pact volunteering, the highest placer in the challenge out of the contenders will be placed in elimination)
* **Eliminations (Sacrifice):** The player selected by nomination participates in an elimination round against the player selected by the Blood Pact, or the volunteer from the Blood Pact. The loser is eliminated while the winner receives a Red Skull and remains in the game. The Red Skull is required to participate in the Final Challenge and can only be earned by winning in a elimination round.

Prize money is split as follows:

* **Winner:** $250,000
* **Runner-Up:** $125,000
* **Third Place:** $50,000
* **Fourth Place:** $40,000
* **Fifth Place:** $20,000
* **Sixth Place:** $15,000

### Twists

* **Red Skull:** Winning an elimination round earns a player a Red Skull, a requirement to compete in the Final Challenge.

## Game Summary

Blood Pact players in **bold** indicate that the player volunteered to compete in Sacrifice.

**Notes:**

* Riley was medically disqualified from the game following the "First Impressions" challenge due to being caught snorting cocaine behind cameras. Andi was brought in to replace Riley.
* Larissa withdrew from the game prior to the "Blood Dropout" challenge feeling like her head wasn't in the game and had several responsibilities outside the game. Goof was brought in to replace Larissa.

### Elimination Progress

Competition
     The contestant won the final challenge.
     The contestant lost the final challenge.
     The contestant was eliminated at the final challenge.
     The contestant won the challenge and was part of the Blood Pact.
     The contestant won the challenge, but was not part of the Blood Pact.
     The contestant did not win the challenge but was selected for the Blood Pact.
     The contestant was not selected for Sacrifice.
     The contestant was nominated by the Blood Pact to go into Sacrifice.
     The contestant won in Sacrifice and earned a Red Skull.
     The contestant was in the Blood Pact, but threw themselves into Sacrifice and won.
     The contestant was eliminated in Sacrifice.
     The contestant was in the Blood Pact, but threw themselves into Sacrifice and lost.
     The contestant was eliminated at the challenge.
     The contestant was removed from the competition due to injury or illness.
     The contestant withdrew from the competition.

### Voting Progress

* **Bold** indicates the contestant was in the Blood Pact

## Trivia

* Andi McQuoid, Dorito Dorito & Goof Dude were flown to Romania with the initial cast to serve as alternates in case anybody was disqualified. Andi & Goof entered the game as replacements, but Dorito was sent home after being unused.