Tug of the Strongests

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## Tug of the Strongests

### Challenge

Pull the other team off the edge to be safe from elimination.

### Winner(s)

Match 1:* Madness of '"Bland"' Colors
* The Friendies

Final Match:

* A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!***

### Release date

October 14th, 2021

**Tug of the Strongests** is the 12th episode and overall of the Research of the Cyro-Battle! series. It was released in October 14th, 2021.

## Plot

The episode begins with Cobalt asking Gray about why he threw him at the basket while Green is nearby listening to the conversation, only for Gray to grab and throw Cobalt despite him asking Green for help. Gold is seen with Bronze, dicussing about who will be eliminated. Only to be called a shamehead by Bronze. The intro starts at this point.

### Elimination

Turquoise falls onto her platform and then askes about the block shes on, only to look up behind her and see the rest of her team on the higher blocks. RST skips to the votes and Helium and Red are safe with no votes, only to be bombarded by two balls that Red get his eye blinded while Helium barely uses her foot to grab onto the edge of her platform. While Helium and Red are complaining bout their injuries, Ice and Teal are safe with one vote each. Ice catching hers perfectly while Bronze grabs the ball going for Teal and throws it at Helium, knocking her off to the far ground. Bronze himself, Gold, and Turquoise are in the bottom three while Bronze is saying hes the best and Gold tries to stop him, only to be scolded. Then RST tells him to look at the screen, only for Bronze to be humiliated that hes eliminated with 6 votes. As he is about to say his last words, the platform below him tilts and he falls into the eliminated place.

### Challenge

RST explains bout the challenge before the two matches started. With Magic of Cinder vs The Friendies and Madness of *"Bland"* Colors vs A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!***, then the match between Magic of Cinder and The Friendies begin.

#### Magic of Cinder vs The Friendies

Cyan begins telling his team to pull as hard as they can and Purple askes some help from her team while Dandelion tries to get Silver to get up before he drags them out. Blue is about to slip but Cyan tells him to hang in there while Yellow exclaims that they could lose. The two teams then tell their teammates to pull before Purple and her team are pulled out of their platform and loses, making Blue and his team the first team safe.

#### Madness of "Bland" Colors vs A Better Gamers Than THAT!

Red begins to tell his team to pull the rope, which works well as Lime and his team begin to struggle early on to get back. Helium then talks that their team is gonna fail cause of her while Turquoise slips and loses her grip on the ground. Cobalt exclaims that they are gonna lose easily cause of them before Olive tells him that his coffee power to save them and begins pulling more hard, much to Gold complaining in fear and Helium trying to get him back to normal. Lime is confident that their team will win until Gray comes up with a idea that Black denies because of Helium. Turquoise then shouts their team to pull while Lime does the same thing but in a more stronger way and Gold tries to shout at them to let go, but to no avail. As the match gets more chaotic, it's until that Red realises that Helium floating off the ground is making himself and Ice float off the ground while Turquoise complains, later revealing that they aren't having enough ground power to add friction to the rope. Red also accidently kicks Teal on the neck and apologizes, before Green and Olive tells their team to pull. Much to the other team's horror, they fall down and Lime and his team is the next team safe.

#### Magic of Cinder vs A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!***

Red askes about where Ice went, only for Teal to say that she died from the fall the previous round. Purple and her team are seen pulling as hard as they can while Gold begins to complain about Helium being the reason why they're lose. Red comes up with the Sang-Woo plan from Squid Game despite Turquoise losing her foot grip. Red and his team charge over at the edge and Gold, despite being off the platform, is lifted by Helium and they begin to pull Purple and her team closer to their edge. Much to Purple's horror, her team isn't able to recover fast enough and they are pulled off the edge leading to their loss, making Red and his team the last team safe.

### After Challenge

Ice and Licorice are recovered form the challenge but Ice dies after crashing head-first while Licorice lands infront of Yellow's face and his team by accident, only to be scolded by Cyan who wasn't affected. The the voting screen appears.

### Stinger

Dandelion is seen with Olive at his Coffee Stand, talking about how Silver messed up his team. Olive replying with that hes mainly dumb alot and is not sure how he is still in the competion but tells him that he atleast has some coffee to enjoy.

## Trivia

* This marks the first time that a contestant is eliminated by half of the second-most voted.
	+ Since Bronze is eliminated, they will be the first metal contestants since Steel to be eliminated.
* Since Magic of Cinder loses this challenge, all teams has been to elimination.

## References

* The challenge and thumbnail is referring to the Squid Game third challenge, Tug of War.
	+ A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!*** running up to the edge is also referring to Sang-woo's (Player 218) strategy that helped them survive.

## Deaths

* Ice (Died from the fall during the challenge, later died from landing head-first after being recovered.)
* Licorice (Head kicked out and turned into shreds by Silver.)