The Global Challenge: The Island

**The Global Challenge: The Island** is the thirteenth season played of The Global Challenge Series. The premiere of the season was July 25th, 2022 and concluded on August 16th, 2022.

23 players were left down on Colón Island, Panama. They will be competing for their share of the prize money pool of $390,000 and the title of Challenge Champion.

### Format

At the beginning of each episode, a daily challenge will emerge, to which everyone competes. Players will be given 24 hours to compete in each daily challenge. While the daily is going on, ever player, within their individual confessional chats, will have 3 votes to distribute amongst their fellow peers to potentially be entered into the "Face-Off". Players may divide their votes in any way they wish, and the top vote getters will have their performances compared amongst one another. The player who does the best of the face-off performers will earn one of 8 obtainable keys. However, everyone still must try in the competition, as the players who place in the bottom 5 performers in the daily competition will lose their right to vote at the next possible vote-off. The overall HIGHEST placing player will earn the Sender for the following round, which allows them to select 1 individual to automatically enter into the face-off if they so choose. The remaining players who did not win the Face-Off that were entered into it must plead their cases to their peers as to why they should not be voted off of The Island. The player(s) with the most votes will be eliminated, and everyone will vote in their submissions, but their votes will be revealed publicly as to who they would like to see leave. The bottom 5 performers of the daily competition will not be able to vote during this phase. The winner of the Face-Off also cannot vote in the Vote-Off. The survivor of the Vote-Off, if there are still keys remaining, will obtain a key to be qualified to run the Final Challenge. If the vote ties for whatever reason, the winner of the Face-Off will break the tie. If the person it is used on received votes, all the votes to their name will be negated, thus, altering the nomination vote count.

There are 8 possible keys to earn within the grounds of Face-Offs, and Vote-Offs. One final 9th key would be obtainable right before the final, as a competition to determine who remained in the game, and who would be officially eliminated took place to determine the 9th and final finalist of the season.

Prize money splits as follows

* **First Place:** $300,000 to split
* **Second Place:** $60,000 to split
* **Third Place:** $30,000 to split

### Twists

* **Armageddon:** For episodes 4, 6, and 8, it was confirmed that it was an official double elimination episode. 4 nominees would be put up for the Face-Off, where 1 would earn the rewards of winning, where as the losing 3 players would be sent into a Vote-Off where only 1 would survive.
* **Key Purge:** At the end of episode 8, it was revealed that everyone who kept their key and lasted through the episode with it would be running the final challenge. For the players without a key, a final face-off would be played out to determine which player secured the secret and final 9th key, and who would be purged from The Island.
* **Team Final:** Before the final challenge began, the remaining players were required to nominate players to act as 3 captains. They each drafted players to be join their team, forming 3 teams of 3 players on each respective team to run the final challenge with one another.

## Game Summary

### Elimination chart

**Notes:**

* Bolded names for those entering the face-off mean they were chosen by the sender of the previous episode

### Face Off Progress

**Notes:**

* If a competitor has N/A that means they were in the bottom 5 scores of the daily challenge, excluding the face-off participants and could not vote
* Episode 2 Nota left before votes were due canceling the vote
* A 6-way tie for the bottom 5 scores forced all 6 of those in the tie to be unable to vote

Competition
     The contestant won the competition.
     The contestant made it to the end of the challenge but lost in the final.
     The contestant won the face-off and a key.
     The contestant won the face-off and took the key of another contestant.
     This player placed first overall in the daily competition and received the Sender advantage.
     This player placed first overall in the daily competition and received the Sender advantage, as well as won the face-off and a key. For episode 5 onwards they winner also stole a key from another player.
     The contestant lost the face-off but was not eliminated and received a key.
     The contestant lost the face-off, but was not eliminated.
     The contestant had their key stolen by the face-off winner.
     The contestant lost the face-off and was voted out.
     The contestant lost the face-off and was automatically eliminated.
     The contestant quit the competition.
     The contestant was given a key by an eliminated player.
     The contestant was given a key by a player in the game.