Home of the Brave

**Home of the Brave** is the season finale of *The Challenge: KR 1*.

## Description

The remaining players fight to secure spots in the fast-approaching Final. Who will survive the brutal conditions and Taeyeon's twists and turns to earn the *Challenge KR* crown and ₩500,000?

## Challenge

**Location:** Seoul
**Challenge:** *Getting Tired*
Players will start by swimming across a 500 meter long lake, until they run and find an abandoned town. The complex they run to is filled with tires and tokens. Tokens are worth one point, with tires being worth various amounts of points. The higher the point value of the tire, the more difficult it is to get. After retrieving one item, players will run one kilometer back to their station to put their tires back to get points. The man and woman with the most points will win the challenge, while the woman with the least amount of points will be sent to elimination. In the case of a tie between points, both players of that gender will win, as there is no tiebreaker.

**Results:**

## Elimination

**Voted In:**

**Arena:***Pole Wrestle*
Players will start in the center of the Arena both holding on to a pole. On Taeyeon's signal players will try to push, pull, or drag the pole away from their opponents. The player to wrestle the pole out of their opponent's hand twice wins.

**Results:**

## Final Challenge

**Location:** Seoul
This Final Challenge will be played in stages where The Algorithm will randomly pair people together. Players will compete to win their stage to get the most points. First to finish each stage gets 5 points, second gets 4 points, and so on. If one partner quits in a stage, then the other partner is disqualified as well.

### Day 1

**Checkpoint 1:**
Players will swim 500 meters into freezing cold water to get to the shore. Once on the shoreline, they need to solve a puzzle.

Players start on a run. Then they will have to eat a plate full of onion and garlic with a drink of lemon juice. Then they will run along a path while solving a series of equations along barrels that they will run past along the way. First to get to the end and get the correct number will get five points, and so on.

Players will memorize a series of numbers and run to collect a decoder wheel. Once they run the full distance, they will use the decoder wheel to decode a message. Players to get their message first will get five points, and so on.

Players will move all of their dirt from a pile into their designated area. One player may rest in the tent while the other works on their dirt pile. This will go on throughout the night. The first players to move all their dirt will get five points, and so on.

**Results:**

### Day 2

**Checkpoint 5:**
This checkpoint is worth double points. The remaining players will run to the top of the mountain as a solo player. The run to the top has some stops players must complete before continuing. The first stop is a hexagon puzzle where players will fill in a hexagon with other shapes so that everything fits. The second stop is a sudoku puzzle that needs to be completed before continuing. After that, it's just a run to the top of the mountain. The first person to touch the flag at the top of the mountain will win ten points, then 8, and then 6.

With all the female players having quit, Dahyun was declared the female winner by default.

1. ↑ During Checkpoint 5 of the Final Challenge, Hikaru, Hwanwoong, Irene, Ryujin, and Winter all quit together during the sudoku portion.