The Vault

***The Vault*** is the 2nd season of *Val's The Challenge*. This season premiered on May 16th, 2023 and concluded on June 9th, 2023.

## Description

In the series' second season, 28 people will travel to Croatia to compete in a test of social, competitive, and strategic ability. Unlike the previous season, you will have teammates that you must rely on or eliminate to make the final. With teams consistently changing, the players will be challenged in ways they've never been before. With an increased prize of $1,000,000, which team will come out victorious and become the champions of Val's The Challenge: The Vault?

## Format

* **Daily Mission:** Players will compete in their teams. The winning team will be named “The Vault” and they’ll select one team where they choose the players participating in the elimination round. This team will be "Compromised".
* **Nominations:** The remaining teams that lost the mission will then vote one player each from their team into the elimination round.
* **The Vault:** Following nominations, The Vault will vote in two players from the team they compromised into the elimination round.
* **Elimination ("The Lair"):** Eliminations round will take place in the "Lair" and they'll be played in pair matchups. The pairs will consist of one player from the losing team's nominations and one player from The Vault's compromised nominations. The creation of the pairs will be randomized. The winning pair of the elimination will remain in the game, while the losing pair will be eliminated. In addition to winning the elimination round, the winners will infiltrate and join the compromised team.

Starting in Episode 7, the two teams with the lowest amount of players will be merged to form one team and there will be three teams competing. The winners of the daily mission still form "The Vault", however they do not compromise a team anymore. The losing teams will vote in one player from their own team, then The Vault will vote in one player from both of the losing teams to head into the Lair. The elimination round is still played in pairs, this time being with one player from the losing team vote and the player from the other team's winning vote being paired together. The winners of the elimination round will infiltrate and swap teams with each other.

### Twists

* **Team Draft:** At the start of the season, everyone will compete in a daily challenge where it will determine the captains of the season. These captains will pick their team one by one. The Vault was decided by the team with the best average score, however the scores weren't revealed before the team draft.
* **Inflitration:** After every elimination round, the pair that wins will both join the "Compromised" team, leaving their previous team and joining a new one. From Episode 7 and on, the winning pair would infiltrate and swap teams with each other.

## Game Summary

### Elimination Chart

* **\*1** - To decide the teams, everyone will play individually where the top 4 performers will draft their team. After the teams are assembled, the team with the best overall time will win the daily challenge and form "The Vault". The team with the best time ended up being the Green Team, therefore they formed "The Vault".
* **\*2** - Due to this team stalemating, one person from that team was chosen at random to play in the Lair.

### Elimination Progress

Competition
     The contestant finished the Final Mission and won.
     The contestant finished the Final Mission and lost.
     The contestant was eliminated at the Final Mission.
     The contestant won the mission and formed "The Vault".
     The contestant won the mission and formed "The Vault" but their team could not decide on a vote so they were eligible to be chosen to compete in the elimination round.
     The contestant placed in the top 4 in the first mission and was a team captain.
     The contestant was not selected for the elimination round.
     The contestant was compromised by the "The Vault", but was not selected for the elimination round.
     The contestant won the elimination round.
     The contestant lost the elimination round.
     The contestant won the challenge, but was picked at random to go in due to a stalemate and lost the elimination round.
### Voting History

* **Bold** indicates a vote by a member of "The Vault".
* *Italics* indicate the contestant did not vote and received a Self-Vote.

## Episode Guide

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