SHUFFEL! 6: Crosswind

SHUFFEL! 6: Crosswind is the sixth season of the reality show SHUFFEL!. The season aired from June 12th, 2009 up until September 18th, 2009. For the first time in the show's history, the season would future veteran players, contestants from past seasons of the show. Half of the cast would be returning players, while half of the cast would be new (newbie) players. Each veteran would play the game paired to a newbie player.

The season had mixed reactions from fans. Many fans felt as though there was a large amount of "bullying" on the season, especially towards some of the minoruty passengers, including Jolanda Skyes and Khristian Pierre. Most alumni feel as though there were no biases and that the pre-aviation ejected passengers were "salty", as Blair Red stated. The season featured a strong set of newbie players, and created some even more memorable veteran players. The season ended with Luna Apachi and Giselle Cox, two veteran players, making it to the final two of the game. Giselle won the season in a landslide vote, and became the sixth winner of SHUFFEL!

## Passengers

Harry Rivers

Allyana White

Alexis Rose

Erik Scandanaveo

Tyson Michaels

Ja'Maya Hart

Khristian Pierre

Jolanda Skyes

Melody Singz

Enrique Hernendez

Adrian Valency

Zander Naire

Blair Red

Sienna Cigs

Irene Hemp

Drake Champion

Salem Tenvee

Westley Brookes

Luna Apachi

Giselle Cox

## Game History

#### Week 1

Blair / Zander & Drake / Melody win topflight. The four passengers talk and agree that Salem / Luna need to be the first boots. They nominated the pair with Harry / Allyana as a backup target. Once Salem / Luna won killshot all eyes were on Harry / Allyana. Melody pushed Giselle and Sienna to vote the way she wanted, and Blair and Drake pressured the newbies, succeeded in getting Harry / Allyana out. Allyana had a huge meltdown and had to be removed by production.

#### Week 2

Drake / Melody & Irene / Enrique won topflight. Irene and Enrique wanted Sienna and Adrian out because Sienna made racist comments about Hispanics, meanwhile Drake and Melody had their sights set on Erik / Alexis, with Salem and Luna as decoys. Once SaLuna won killshot Erik and Alexis became the obvious targets. Drake and Blair came together and formed a final two, and there was no saving Erik / Alexis, who were ejected.

#### Week 3

Blair / Zander & Salem / Luna won topflight. SaLuna targeted Adrian / Sienna for being problematic, while Blair and Zander nominated Tyson / Ja'Maya for being outspoken. Ja'Maya fought with Blair at the nomination ceremony, and Blair said "where's your class girl?" In an Atlanta accent. Ultimately the newbie got her way and Tyson / Ja'Maya were ejected.

#### Week 4

Westley / Giselle and Sienna / Adrian won topflight. Westley and Giselle nominated Irene / Enrique as revenge for nominating them week two. Adrian and Sienna disagreed who to nominate, but eventually Sienna got her way, targeting Khristian and Jolanda for being "too different." Luna / Salem won the killshot to no surprise and sealed Khristian and Jolanda's fate. Jolanda gave a speech about prejudice before she and Khristian were flung out the plane.

#### Week 5

Luna, Blair, and Drake won topflight and all nominated one player. Luna nominated Zander, Blair nominated Enrique and Drake nominated Melody to everyone's surprise. Blair and Drake pressured the plane into ejecting Melody, which was shocking to the veterans. Melody tried her hardest to save herself, but her attitude throughout the game left everyone eager to vote her out, and she was ejected for 12th. On the way out she got into a heated argument with Drake.

#### Week 6

Giselle / Sienna won topflight. Giselle tried to talk game with Sienna, who didn't understand what she was trying to say so she gave up. Giselle nominated Adrian & Zander, with Zander being her target. Sienna nominated Blair & Enrique. Giselle tried to get the votes for Zander to go, but Blair and Drake made sure he stayed, bullying Westley into voting Enrique out instead.

#### Week 7

Irene / Salem won topflight. Salem turned on Drake, causing the two to get into each others faces. He also nominated Zander. Irene on the other hand nominated Adrian and Giselle. Drake won the killshot and spat on Salem, causing controversy among the fans. Salem and Drake had to be separated by production. Once the nominations were set, Zander had no chance of staying until Blair pushed the newbies to save him, forcing a tie between him and Adrian, where Adrian lost.

#### Week 8

Westley / Salem won topflight again. Westley and Salem both agreed that the trio of Drake, Blair, and Zander needed to be split up. Blair won the killshot and Zander was a final nominee again, this time there was no saving him and he was ejected after Drake flipped and voted him out.

#### Week 9

Westley won topflight in the double and nominated Blair, Drake, Sienna, and Salem, with the intention of getting Blair and Drake ejected. After Drake won the killshot he gloated to Westley and happily announced to Blair that he would not be saving her, seeing her a threat to win the game. Sienna and Blair were crying on the day of ejection, being sent home against Salem. This week SaLuna and Giselle / Westley made a final four pact.

#### Week 10

Against the entire plane, Drake won topflight and shocked the cast. He nominated Luna, Westley and Irene. He wanted Luna or Westley to go, and was shocked to see Irene be ejected. After the vote he got into a heated altercation with both Salem and Westley.

#### Week 11

Luna won topflight and kept Salem safe. This week she and Salem finally kissed and admitted their feelings towards each other. Drake was nominated against Giselle and there was no saving him after Westley won the killshot. He told everyone what he thought about them and told Luna he'd poison the jury against her if she made final two, he was ejected for 5th.

#### Week 12

Westley won topflight and was the only one safe. Giselle won the killshot and was crying as she faced the two nominees. Earlier in the week she and Luna made a pact to take each other to final two since they were both vets (Luna wasn't loyal to it). Giselle sobbed as she voted Salem out and he gave everyone a hug goodbye before leaving.

Luna struggled but eventually won the first class competition, where she held her end of the deal and ejected Westley, making the final two veterans only. Giselle gave a speech about peace love and kindness while Luna explained that she was an underdog. In the end, the newbies controlled the jury and voted for Giselle to win in a 7-2 vote.

## Trivia

* This season caused controversy and forced SHUFFEL! production to rewrite the contracts for passengers, now making it an expellable offense to make prejudiced comments or decisions in the game