The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon

**The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon** is the first season of *The Royalty Challenge*. Applications for the season opened on April 5th and were closed in late April. The season started airing on April 24th, 2020. It consisted of 14 episodes with 20 contestants competing to earn virtual dollars for their *The Royalty Challenge* bank accounts. The season was hosted by Jaysn and Brad.

The season ended on May 28th, 2020 with Otto O'Reilly being crowned the winner and Dom Rou winning both Player of the Season and Fan Favourite.

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At the start of the round each player participates in a daily challenge followed by an elimination round; ‘**The Parthenon’.** The challenges involve players competing individually or in pairs against each other. Each challenge has two winners; the top scoring player will decide whether to become ‘**The Coin Holder**’ (*where they receive 2 coins*) or ‘**The Ruler**’ (*where they start a selection process with the non-immune players*). Whichever the top scoring player chooses, the other automatically becomes the opposite. The Coin Holder will not know how the coins come into play until a later point in the season. Both of the challenge winners are immune from the possibility of having to enter the Parthenon that round.

The immune contestant, referred to as **‘The Ruler’**, begins a selection process, referred to as **‘The Olympian Picking’** by voting for three players they want to face elimination. The nomination selection occurs immediately after the challenge, unlike in other Challenges, where there is a period of deliberation between the end of the challenge and the selection of the contestants for the elimination game. By Round 8, the Ruler only nominated two people for potential elimination. The people selected in this process will select from one of four cards, which has the initials of the game on, held by the hosts to determine **‘The Parthenon’** game in which the two players will compete for survival. Each round, a new card is added to replace the one that was chosen in the previous round.

The non-immune players, besides the three people nominated by **‘The Ruler’,** will then each select one of **‘Hades’ cards’** on a first come, first serve basis *(numbered by how many people are selecting a card)*. One card has a death sign and the rest have nothing; whoever selected **‘Hades’ Mark’** will be the first person sent into elimination. That person will then choose the person they want to face in elimination from the three people nominated by ‘**The Ruler**’. The two players will enter **‘The Parthenon’** and the loser is eliminated from the game.

As well as competing for the title, the season introduces **‘The Bank Progress’** which will be featured in each season. Winning the main challenge will earn players $15,000 added to their bank accounts and winning an elimination will earn players $5,000 added to their bank accounts. If you make it to the top 4 you will earn the contents for your placement for this season.

Players are competing for the money prizes of:

* **1st** - $50 + $150,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **2nd** - $50,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **3rd** - $20,000 (virtual) + individual bank account
* **4th** - individual bank account

* **The Parthenon** - the elimination area where players will fight for survival to stay in the game.
* **The Coin Holder** - one of the top two players in the main challenge who receives two coins. This player is immune.
* **The Ruler** - one of the top two players in the main challenge who starts the Olympian Picking selection process. This player is immune.
* **The Olympian Picking** - The selection process of the Ruler nominating three people.
* **The Nominee’s Cards** - The cards the player sent into the Parthenon by the Olympian Picking chooses from to decide the elimination game.
* **Hades’ Mark** - The cards non-immune players select in order to determine the final person going into the Parthenon; whoever picks the death symbol card faces elimination and chooses one of the Ruler’s three nominees to go against.
* **The Bank Progress** - The money you earn from winning challenges and eliminations that could be added to you overall winnings from the season.

* **The Greek Sale** - In the middle of the game, an auction will be held where players can use 1 coin to participate in a challenge to earn a *power/advantage* in the game. The highest scorer in the challenge will receive the power/advantage secretly. The advantage has to be played in round 8 or 9. The advantage was to send a third person into elimination; causing the second double elimination of the season.
* **The Underworld** - When being eliminated from the game, players will enter the Underworld. If they earned coins in the game, they can use them to get Charon to get them across the river. If they don’t have a coin, their soul automatically becomes a part of the river and has no presence in the game. Once an eliminated player crosses the river, they will decide whether to enter Elysium or Tartarus. If they enter Elysium they will get to play their coins to add an advantage to a living player’s score in the following challenge. If they enter Tartarus they will get to play their coins to add a disadvantage to a living player’s score in the following challenge. For the finale, the people in Elysium and Tartarus will form the ‘Souls of the Dead’ and compete in Stage 1 and 2 to try and add a disadvantage to player’s finale scores. The only player to cross the river was Donald.
* **Double Elimination** - In Round 4 and Round 9 there were two double eliminations. In Round 4, the Hades' Mark player picked a nominee and then that nominee decided out of the other two nominees who to join them. The two losers of the elimination were then eliminated. In Round 9, Otto used his power to send Dorian into elimination with Nicole and Stewart.

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**The history of the season in the form of a season progress chart and elimination progress chart.**

* Shortly after winning the elimination in **Round 5**, Donnchadh decided to quit the game. allowing Mikee' to survive.
* At the beginning of **Round 8**, the players with coins were offered an advantage competition with the price to enter costing 1 coin. Otto won the challenge and earned the power to send a third person into elimination. He chose Dorian in **Round 9**.

**Key**

     The contestant won the daily challenge and became **The Coin Holder**
     The contestant won the daily challenge and became **The Ruler**
     The contestant was **nominated by The Ruler** but didn't go into elimination.
     The contestant was **won** the Parthenon elimination game.
     The contestant **lost** the Parthenon elimination game and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **purged** and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **eliminated** and not in the game.
     The contestant **quit** the game.
     The contestant was **eliminated** and resided on either Elysium or Tartarus in **The Underworld**. They later returned as the mercenaries, **Souls of the Dead**, in the finale.
     The contestant was the **3rd** or **4th** placer of the game.
     The contestant was the **runner-up** of the game.
     The contestant was the **winner** of the game.

### **Major Alliances**

* **TN’s Angels (Day 1)** - *Otto ®, Donald, Randi and Tadakatsu*
* **Heavenly Seven (Day 1)** - *Joshua W ®, Dorian, Kay, Malik, Nicole, Queenasia and Stewart*
* **Wendy and New York take The Challenge (Day 1)** - *Dorian ® and Queenasia*
* **Badasses (Day 1)** - *Randi ® and Joshua F*
* **The Cloud (Day 2)** - *Stewart ®, Donald, Dorian, Joshua W, Karter, Kay, Queenasia, Randi, Tadakatsu, Tory and Dom*
* **The Silent Killers (Day 2)** - *Joshua W ®, Donnchadh, Nicole and Sarah*
* **Peanut Butter Petty Time (Day 4)** - *Stewart ®, Dom, Donald, Dorian, Joshua W, Queenasia and Tory*
* **Archer (Day 27)** - *Randi ®, Nicole and Otto*

### **Minor Alliances**

* **Bad Bitches (Day 1)** - *Randi ® and Stewart*
* **Fine Mofos (Day 1)** - *Randi ® and Dom*
* **Kiwis and Bananas (Day 4)** - *Tadakatsu ®, Otto and Randi*
* **The TFC Trio (Day 4)** - *Tadakatsu ®, Donald and Mikee’*
* **The Cleanup Crew (Day 15)** - *Randi ®, Donnchadh, Otto and Tadakatsu*

**Key**

     The card which had the **Hades' Mark** in that round.

**Key**

     The card was **not played**.
     The card was **added to the optional cards** in Round 1 or **replaced** one played the previous round.
     The card was **replaced** one played the previous round AND was **played** and became the elimination game that round.
     The card was **played** and became the elimination game that round.

**Key**

**Key**

     The contestant won the daily challenge and became **The Coin Holder**
     The contestant won the daily challenge and became **The Ruler**
     The contestant was **nominated by The Ruler** but didn't go into elimination.
     The contestant was **in** or **won** the Parthenon elimination game.
     The contestant **lost** the Parthenon elimination game and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **purged** and was eliminated from the game.
     The contestant was **eliminated** and not in the game.
     The contestant **quit** the game.
     The contestant was **eliminated** and resided on either Elysium or Tartarus in **The Underworld**. They later returned as the mercenaries, **Souls of the Dead**, in the finale.
     The contestant was the **3rd** or **4th** placer of the game.
     The contestant was the **runner-up** of the game.
     The contestant was the **winner** of the game.

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