Season 3 - Corporate Clash

## Corporate Clash

***Corporate Clash*** is the third season of *Jacob's The Challenge*. It began on July 15th, 2022 and ended on August 22nd, 2022.

## Description

16 rookies and 7 veterans arrive in New York to fight for power and prizes. However, with a season filled with drama and a format meant to push you and your duo to your limits, who will come out on top? Stay tuned to find out!

## Format

* There will be two groups for this season and each have their own separate functions. There are **The Executives**, and the **Corporate Cogs**. However, these are NOT teams.
* **The Executives**
	+ The Executives will be made up of 8 different people, each forming a duo. In the introductory challenge, the top 8 players will form the Executives.
		- *The Administrators* - 1st and 5th
		- *The Judiciary*- 2nd and 6th
		- *The Financiers* - 3rd and 7th
		- *The Negotiators* - 4th and 8th
	+ Being an Executive is the most important role you can have. This role is the ticket to the Final, where you will compete to win the season. Once you are an Executive, the only way you lose that role is by being eliminated. Being an Executive is also the only way to earn money, as you win $2,500 per cycle as an Executive, and are guaranteed to go home with money.
	+ *Corporate Challenge* - All of the Executives compete as duos in the daily challenge. The winning duo will receive safety and a double vote.
	+ *Voting* - The duos privately vote on which duo they want to see enter elimination. The duo that receives the most votes will be put into elimination.
	+ *Elimination* - The duo put into elimination will compete as INDIVIDUALS to stay in the game against whoever is put in from the Corporate Cogs. The last place player is eliminated.
* **The Corporate Cogs**
	+ The Corporate Cogs will be made up of everyone else. Their goal is to make it into the Executives by either:
		- Winning the Corporate Challenge, self-nominating, and beating an Executive in elimination OR
		- Being the last layer in the Cog Ceremony and winning elimination.
	+ *Corporate Challenge* - All Cogs individually compete in the daily challenge. The winning Cog will gain safety and start the Cog Ceremony, or they can Self-Nominate and put themselves into elimination automatically.
	+ *Cog Ceremony* - The winner of the Corporate Challenge begins the Cog Ceremony. They choose one person to be safe from elimination. The player they choose then chooses another, and so on until there is only one person left unpicked, and they will enter elimination.
	+ *Elimination* - The Cog put into elimination will compete against the voted Executives in an elimination challenge. If the Cog can manage to survive the elimination, they will take the spot of the eliminated Executive.
* **The Bailout Box** - Every cycle, one randomly selected Executive and one Corporate Cog will be given the chance to open the Bailout Box. Opening this box publicly grants you safety for the cycle. Opening the box however can be dangerous, and let that serve as the only warning to those who wish to be "Bailed Out".

### Format Changes

* **At the Final 14, the following changes were made to the format.**
	+ **Bailout Box** - The Bailout Box was removed from the game and could no longer be opened.

## Twists

* Double Elimination - In Episode 6, there were two Corporate Cogs that would win the daily, two extra Bailout Boxes, and one more person entered elimination. Two people were eliminated in this twist.
* Bailed Out - In Episode 8, anybody remaining who had opened the Bailout Box was forced to compete in a Purge Challenge. The two slowest players to complete this challenge were eliminated.