MTV The Challenge: Secret Agents

***MTV The Challenge: Secret Agents*** is the third season of *MTV The Challenge*. It premiered on December 13, 2020 and concluded on January 19, 2021.

## Description

16 of the most conspiratorial, ruthless and dirty agents will be contained in pods to fight in the Vault and take home the prize.

## Format

16 Agents arrive to the beautiful Queenstown, New Zealand when they soon find out they will be contained inside the pods! Agents are informed that each and every one of them will be assigned with a secret target; meaning your goal/objective for this season is to outlast your secret target! If you succeed at outlasting your secret target & your secret target is eliminated, you will be assigned to a new secret target , where your former target’s target will now become your new target!

Before the start of each daily challenge agents who have money in their individual bank account will have the opportunity to visit the spy market; here at the spy market you can purchase advantages/disadvantages to help you prevail in the competition while hurting someone else’s game! Keep in mind if more than one person bets on the same advantage the person to receive the advantage will be randomized. Lastly challengers will have the opportunity to grab free money from the bank; as you see there is a channel set up here at the bank host will randomly drop a certain amount of money ranging from $1-1,000 each & everyday, the first agent to claim the amount that was posted will collect the earnings adding more funds to your bank account!

Agents will later compete in a daily challenge at the start of each round HOWEVER as though this may be an individual season some challenges (depending on the round) will be played individually, in duos/pairs, or teams! The top 3 performers of the daily challenge will earn the role as the Top Secret Agents for the round. They will also bank $2,500 into their individual bank account, immune from elimination & most importantly will have the power to automatically send another agent into the elimination arena known as The Vault!

Once the daily challenge has come to an end the remaining agents, excluding the Top Secret Agents, will cast a secret vote meaning everyone will cast their votes secretly, in your confessional, & the agent who receives the majority of votes will enter The Vault against the Top Secret Agents vote HOWEVER if you are a “Top Secret Agent” & you see the perfect opportunity to take your secret target out then you may volunteer to enter The Vault & take your target out of the game! Taking your secret target out head on in the elimination arena will automatically earn you $5,000 in your individual bank account! Agents who lost the daily CAN ask the Top Secret Agents to vote them into The Vault if they would like to go against their secret target; however, they CANNOT directly say that they specifically want to go in to face off against their target!

The agent with the MOST votes during the secret voting round & the agent that WAS nominated by the Top Secret Agents will enter The Vault to battle it out head to head for their right to stay in the competition! The agents who are in The Vault will be known as The Fugitives ... BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!! Agents with money in their individual bank account are given the opportunity to gamble on which player they think will win the upcoming elimination! The maximum limit you can gamble is up to $1,000. If the fugitive they bet on wins the elimination, they will earn DOUBLE THE MONEY that they gambled, but if the player they bet on loses the elimination then they will LOSE THE MONEY that they gambled; so place your bets wisely!

The winner of the elimination will bank $1,000 into their individual bank account. If you successfully enter The Vault with your secret target & take them out of the game you will bank $5,000 into your individual bank account! Even if you do not decide to take the opportunity, if you outlast your secret target you will also bank $2,000 in your individual bank account. The fugitive who loses the elimination will automatically be eliminated from the competition & sent home as THERE IS NO REDEMPTION HOUSE THIS SEASON! You get one shot to take your target out of the game, do you think you can hack it & become a Top Secret Agent?

## Twists

* **Tribunal (Top Secret Agents):** The challenge winners will have power and safety. They will determine the elimination matchup. They can also volunteer themselves into elimination to possibly eliminate their target.
	+ During individual and pair challenges, the one or two winning players will pick one other player to be in the Tribunal.
	+ During team challenges, the entire team will make up the Tribunal.
* **Purges:** Certain daily challenges are known as Purges where the worst competitors of the daily challenges are immediately eliminated from the competition.
	+ In the "Run It Up the Flagpole" challenge, the worst performing individual is eliminated. No elimination occurred during the challenge due to G-Dub withdrawing from the competition.
* **Top Agents Twist:** During the fourth stage of the final it was announced that the first three eliminated from the stage will be able to pick their partner of the last three remaining to be their partner for the remainder of the final. The pair with the fastest combined time will win the season meaning there are two winners.
	+ **1st Pick:** *Esteban &* ***Kitana***
	+ **2nd Pick:** *Jacob &* ***Monty***
	+ **Default Pick:** *Oscar &* ***Tadakatsu***

In the end, the three agent duos compete in the Final Challenge and compete for their share of $550,000, with the winning team taking it all. Unbeknownst to the contestants until the final challenge, the person who accrues a faster time during aspects of the final challenge that are individually timed has a choice between keeping all the money to themselves, or sharing it with their partner.

### Daily Missions

* **Crack the Code:** Agents will start off by starting their stopwatch and commencing the "!dailychallenge1" command in order to receive their jigsaw puzzles. Once completed their puzzle, which when finished displays a binary code, they must translate that binary code to English text and will stop their stopwatch once they type in their translated text. The 3 players who complete the challenge with the quickest time will form the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** *G-Dub, Caleb & Monty*
* **Switchagories:** Agents will be split into 5 teams consisting of 3 members. In that team, the three agents will be given a 3 categories, which are Entertainment, Geography and Science. Once agents are designated with their respective category, they will be given a question related to their category in which they must answer within 10 seconds a valid answer corresponding to the question, the goal is to have as much answers as possible until your time ends. Once you cannot come up with a valid answer within 10 seconds, your timer ends and the amount of correct answers you have is your score, which will be added to your teams final score. The team with the highest score overall will form the top agents.
	+ **Winners:** Team 2 *(Booty, G-Dub & Globalist)*
* **Race to Unmorph:** Agents will be paired with another agent forming 7 duo teams. Agents will begin the challenge by starting their stopwatch, the player that starts the stopwatch must end the stopwatch, and commencing the "!stage1" command. THere are 8 stages in the challenge where they will be given a picture of two agents collab together where they must determine the two agents that are combined together in that respective photo. When all 8 stages are complete the person who started the stopwatch must end it to stop their time. The duo with the highest score and time will win the challenge and become the first two members of the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** *Fury & Globalist*
* **Breaking the Bank:** Agents will begin the challenge by starting their stopwatch and commencing the "!dailychallenge4" command. When hitting the command, the agent is given a word search comprised of 4 terms used in the reality TV show, The Challenge, once they have found the 4 terms, they must use the amount of letters in those terms and use those numbers to solve a code which they will be given a slide puzzle. Once they complete their slide puzzle, they will end their stopwatch. The 3 players with the fastest times will become the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** *G-Dub, Globalist & Monty*
* **Search and Stack:** Agents will be split into 4 teams consisting of 3 agents. Before the challenge where to begin, agents must pick the order in which they will stack first, second and third. When every agent on the team is ready, one person will start the stopwatch and commence the command “!dailychallenge5” After doing so, a picture with a list of 45 items will be sent. Each item will have a number next to it. Agents will begin to stack the 45 items in numerical order, starting from 1 and ending at 45 in your predetermined order. The team who stacks all 45 items in the fastest time will become the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** Team 1 *(G-Dub, Kitana & Monty)*
* **Attack, Defend or Grab:** Each round, agents will decide whether they would like to attack another player, defend themselves from an attack, or get $1,000 in their bank account however if nobody attacks, there are only defenders and cash grabbers or if an attack is defended and no one else attacks, then no one receives any money, and the player selected by random will be eliminated from the competition. Once it comes down to two remaining players, a player will be randomized as the winner of the challenge with one player being given $5,000 and the other becoming a Top Agent.
	+ **Winners:** *Jacob*
* **Sequences:** Agents will be paired with another agent forming 5 duo teams. Duos must be online and join the voice channel with production in order to begin the challenge. In the daily challenge, production will give the agents a sequence containing champions from The Challenge, where they will be given a question based off the sequence. This will continue this 9 more times until they will be given a tiebreaker prompt in the event of a tie. The duo with the highest score will win the challenge and become the first 2 members of the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** *Booty & Jacob*
* **Scrambling Maze:** Agents will be split into 3 teams consisting of 3 members. Agents will begin the challenge by starting their stopwatch and commencing the "!dailychallenge8" command. Each agent will be assigned a maze based off its difficulty containing 3 letters which when all 9 letters are discovered they will use those 9 letters and unscramble them to find the command where everyone will be given a final task. Once all agents complete the final task they will stop their stopwatch. The team with the fastest time will win the challenge and form the Top Agents.
	+ **Winners:** Team 1 *(Estebans, G-Dub & Kitana)*
* **Run It Up the Flagpole:** Agents will begin the daily challenge by starting their stopwatch and commencing the "!flag1" command to receive their first 5 flags. Once they are given their first 5 flags, they must order them alphabetically and then type: ”I raise the \_\_\_ flag up the flagpole #" 100 times and move onto the next flag alphabetically. Once you are finished the 5th flag you will commence the "!flag2" command and vice versa. Once you raise all 10 flags, you are to commence the "!equation" command where you are given a math problem based off the challenge. The 3 players with the fastest time will become the Top Agents, however this challenge is a **Purge**, meaning the player with the worst performance and slowest time will immediately be eliminated from the game.
	+ **Winners:** *Estebans, Monty & Tadakatsu*
	+ **Purged:** N/A

### Vault Games

* **Picture Perfect:** Agents will begin the stopwatch in their respective confessionals and receive a list of 20 items. They must find images with items from the list, and the player with least amount of images of the items in the list will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Booty vs. Josh*
* **Filler:** Agents will be given a board with random colors placed upon that board where both players are given a corner. They will select a color adjacent to their square, they will continue this until the board is cleared up with two colors or until it is evident one player has a clear edge over the other on the board. The game is best of 3 and the player who wins 2 of 3 will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Caleb vs. Jacob*
* **Oppenheimer:** Agents will be competing in a live challenge where the Hosts will drop a certain category where the agents will have to send 30 emojis corresponding to that category, the first to do so will earn a point. The agent who earns 4 points first will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Booty vs. Ronnie*
* **Algebraic Agents:** Agents will be given 15 questions relating to algebra and if they find an answer, they must respond with the answer and the chronological placement of the season from The Challenge. In order to get the point they need to have the correct answer and season. The player who scores the most points in the quickest time will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Fury vs. Jacob*
* **Eye Spy:** Agents will be given 5 images which each have a hidden emoji in that corresponding image. They will start off with the first image and once they find the emoji, they can move onto the next. Once they find all 5 emojis, they will stop their stopwatch to be given their final time. The player with the most emojis correct in the quickest time will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Estebans vs. Taona*
* **I Can Do it:** Agents will be given a task and will bet on how fast they are able to complete that task. The agent who submits the lower time will then compete in that task and be only given that time to complete the task. Agents will score a point if they successfully complete their task or their opponent unsuccessfully completed their task with the time they bet on. The player who scores 3 points first will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Graham vs. Tadakatsu*
* **Puzzle Decryption:** Agents will be given a chain of sudoku puzzles which consists of 4 colored green rings. Those 4 rings will correspond to a number combination once they complete all 4 sudoku puzzles. The player with the most correct puzzles in the fastest time will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Booty vs. Estebans*
* **Reverse Tug O' War:** Agents will be given a phrase they will have to retype but with reversed capitalization, if the player does it in the correct way and phrase the bell will be closer to the player. The player with the bell completely on their side will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Globalist vs. Tadakatsu*
* **Shady Diamonds:** Agents will receive a set of diamonds and once they correctly guess the diamond with the different shade, they can stop their stopwatch. The player with the fastest time will win the elimination and earn $1,000 in their individual bank account.
	+ **Played by:** *Chris vs. Kitana*

### Final Challenge

* **Go With the Flow:** One agent will start the stopwatch and commence the command "!finalstage1" to receive a link to a website containing flow puzzles. Agents will also get a series of instructions that they must follow. Once these instructions have been followed, the agent who started the stopwatch must then end the stopwatch.
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans, Monty & Tadakatsu):** 32 minutes and 16 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob, Kitana & Oscar):** 54 minutes and 44 seconds
* **Tire Stacks:** One agent will start the stopwatch and commence the command "!finalstage2" where one agent will solve a jigsaw puzzle. Once the puzzle is complete and sent in the team chat, they must decide the order in which one person will stack first, second, third and vice versa. There are numbers on tires where one member will be responsible for the number combination. Once the number combination is unlocked, one member will be tasked to do the final task, and once that task is complete, one player will end the stopwatch.
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans, Monty & Tadakatsu):** 13 minutes and 37 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob, Kitana & Oscar):** 12 minutes and 37 seconds
* After Stage 2, the total times are:
	+ **Estebans:** 45 minutes and 53 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 45 minutes and 53 seconds
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 45 minutes and 53 seconds
	+ **Jacob:** 1 hour, 7 minutes and 21 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 1 hour, 7 minutes and 21 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 1 hour, 7 minutes and 21 seconds
* **Halfway Point:** Agents will start their stopwatch and commence the "!finalstage3" command where they will be given 3 mazes, one that is qualified as easy, one as medium and one as hard. Once you finish all 3 mazes, you will proceed to the next and final section of the third stage. Once you complete the 2nd part, you will end your stopwatch.
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 1 hour, 23 minutes and 50 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 1 hour, 26 minutes and 42 seconds
	+ **Estebans:** 1 hour, 39 minutes and 16 seconds
	+ **Jacob:** 1 hour, 39 minutes and 46 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 1 hour, 52 minutes and 13 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 2 hours, 9 minutes and 17 seconds
* After Stage 3, the total times are:
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 2 hours, 9 minutes and 43 seconds
	+ **Estebans:** 2 hours, 25 minutes and 9 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 2 hours, 34 minutes and 3 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 2 hours, 38 minutes and 6 seconds
	+ **Jacob:** 2 hours, 47 minutes and 7 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 3 hours, 16 minutes and 38 seconds
* **Secret Agent Target:** This is the only live stage of the final. Each finalist will begin with 13 swords, and their objective is take swords from other finalists and place it into their barrels. Once you lose all of your swords, you are eliminated from the challenge and will be given a penalty depending on when you were eliminated. The last finalist standing with all of their remaining swords will receive no time penalty for the final.
	+ **No penalty:** Jacob
	+ **5 minute penalty:** Estebans
	+ **10 minute penalty:** Oscar
	+ **15 minute penalty:** Tadakatsu
	+ **20 minute penalty:** Monty
	+ **25 minute penalty:** Kitana
* After the stage ended and the duo picking ended, the pairs are:
	+ **Finalist Pair #1:** *Estebans & Kitana*
	+ **Finalist Pair #2:** *Jacob* &v*Monty*
	+ **Finalist Pair #3:** *Oscar & Tadakatsu*
* After Stage 4, the *individual* total times are:
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 2 hours, 24 minutes and 43 seconds
	+ **Estebans:** 2 hours, 30 minutes and 9 seconds
	+ **Jacob:** 2 hours, 47 minutes and 7 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 2 hours, 58 minutes and 6 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 2 hours, 59 minutes and 3 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 3 hours, 26 minutes and 38 seconds
* After Stage 4, the *pairs* total times are:
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans & Kitana):** 5 hours, 29 minutes and 12 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob & Monty):** 5 hours, 45 minutes and 13 seconds
	+ **Team 3 (Oscar & Tadakatsu):** 5 hours, 51 minutes and 21 seconds
* **Puzzle Mashup:** One of the agents will start the stopwatch and commence the "!finalstage5" command. They will receive four puzzles in which one agent will pick two puzzles to do and the other two get the other two puzzles. The puzzles consist of a 120 piece jigsaw puzzle, a word search, a 5 by 5 slide puzzle and a tangram puzzle that they must complete up to level 20. Both agents must complete both of their respective puzzles. Then once finished, the agent who started the stopwatch must be the one to end it.
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans & Kitana):** 33 minutes and 39 seconds
	+ **Team 3 (Oscar & Tadakatsu):** 38 minutes and 5 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob & Monty):** 47 minutes and 0 seconds
* After Stage 5, the *individual* total times are:
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 3 hours, 2 minutes and 48 seconds
	+ **Estebans:** 3 hours, 20 minutes and 46 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 3 hours, 32 minutes and 42 seconds
	+ **Jacob:** 3 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 3 hours, 45 minutes and 6 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 4 hours, 4 minutes and 43 seconds
* After Stage 5, the *pairs* total times are:
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans & Kitana):** 6 hours, 2 minutes and 51 seconds
	+ **Team 3 (Oscar & Tadakatsu):** 6 hours, 29 minutes and 26 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob & Monty):** 6 hours, 32 minutes and 13 seconds
* **Final Dash:** Agents with start by starting their stopwatch and begin to type "I dash to the final line 1" and will precede by replacing the last number in when they progress. Both agents shall do so until both reach 25. Once they reach 25, they will be given 20 math questions with each agent being responsible for 10 of those questions. When both have completed the portion, both will proceed by typing "I dash the final line 25" and will continue that process till they get to 50. They will then once both done 50 receive trivia questions based off this respective season. Once all questions are answer they will continue using the dash to the final line copypasta until they BOTH reach to 100. Once done so the agent who started the stopwatch will end it.
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans & Kitana):** 15 minutes and 19 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob & Monty):** 16 minutes and 1 second
	+ **Team 3 (Oscar & Tadakatsu):** 21 minutes and 14 seconds
* After Stage 6, the *individual* total times are:
	+ **Estebans:** 3 hours, 19 minutes and 7 seconds
	+ **Tadakatsu:** 3 hours, 24 minutes and 2 seconds
	+ **Kitana:** 3 hours, 48 minutes and 1 second
	+ **Jacob:** 3 hours, 50 minutes and 8 seconds
	+ **Monty:** 4 hours, 1 minute and 7 seconds
	+ **Oscar:** 4 hour, 25 minutes and 57 seconds
* After Stage 6, the *pairs* total times are:
	+ **Team 1 (Estebans & Kitana):** 7 hours, 7 minutes and 8 seconds
	+ **Team 2 (Jacob & Monty):** 7 hours, 51 minutes and 15 seconds
	+ **Team 3 (Oscar & Tadakatsu):** 7 hours, 49 minutes and 59 seconds

### Final results

* **MTV The Challenge Secret Agents winners:** *Estebans & Kitana* (Estebans had the faster time and decided to keep all the money for himself.)

* **Second place:** *Oscar & Tadakatsu* (Tadakatsu had the faster time and decided to keep all the money for himself.)

* **Third place:** *Jacob & Monty* (Jacob had the faster time and decided to split the money with Monty.)

## Game Summary

### Elimination chart

**Notes**

* Tribunal players in **bold** indicate that the player volunteered to compete in the Vault.

### Vault Progress

     The contestant won the final challenge.
     The contestant lost the final challenge.
     The contestant won the daily challenge and was part of the Tribunal.
     The contestant did not win the daily challenge but was part of the Tribunal.
     The contestant was not selected for the Vault.
     The contestant was immune and did not have to compete in any competitions.
     The contestant won in the Vault.
     The contestant was selected for the Vault, but did not have to compete.
     The contestant lost in the Vault and was eliminated.
     The contestant was in the Tribunal, but threw themselves into the Vault and lost.
     The contestant withdrew from the competition.

### Voting Progress

* **Bold** indicates the contestant was part of the Top Secret Agents.

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 During the daily mission "Run It Up the Flagpole", G-Dub withdrew from the game for personal reasons.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 After the game Vault was announced, Ronnie withdrew from the game due to a family emergency. Therefore, the elimination did not take place.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Estebans has used his Immunity for 1 Round power that was purchased from the Spy Market and was randomly selected to be put into Team 1, who ended up becoming the Top Agents.
4. ↑ Due to be unable to come up with a unanimous decision or a majority on who to vote for, the Top Agents decided to relinquish power to Kitana, meaning she held the ability to select a player that isn't in the Top Agents to be her opponent for the upcoming elimination.
5. ↑ Two players did not submit a vote during Episode 3's house vote.
6. ↑ Kitana's vote was stolen, so she was not allowed to vote in the house vote in Episode 9.
7. ↑ Jacob did not vote before the deadline and his vote counted towards himself.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Booty volunteered in elimination as a Top Agent meaning no other Top Agent had a vote.