It is amazing what the chance of winning a million dollars will cause people
to do. These fourteen familiar faces once again come back to fight against Chris’ pain
and suffering at another chance to win it all. But with the promise of the challenges being
the dangerous and death-defying that they have ever been, which ones hold up to that standard?
Hi, I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is Total Drama All Stars Challenges:
Least Gruesome to Most Gruesome.
Like previous entries, a challenge will be considered if it has a set
of rules to be followed in order to complete it.
Also, if there are multiple parts, all of them will be ranked together as one.
Our gold medal for the least gruesome challenge is the regatta challenge.
Following the announcement of the merge, the teens are tasked with completing one
lap around Camp Wawanakwa via a boat. The sailing vessels vary in quality from a
speedboat and a fishing boat to a dinghy and a raft. During their race around the island,
Chef tries to sabotage the teens by throwing coconuts and dynamite.
This challenge is only made harder by the fact that Mal decides to sabotage several of the boats,
leaving four of the teens to share the raft as it is the only seaworthy option left.
Following that is the boxing challenge.
With each team going one player at a time, the teens must spin the “Wheel of Misfortune”
and last up to two minutes in a boxing ring with whatever threat they land on.
When Scott goes first, he ends up in the ring with a mutated shark named Fang who’d been
torturing him throughout the previous season. This caused the young man to freeze in terror and get
annihilated by the shark. Sierra goes next only to find out her opponent is the mother of the mutant
rat she adopted in the previous episode, to which she loses the fight and her adopted creature.
Duncan and Cameron immediately begin to question the chances of getting such personal opponents
and begin to think the game is rigged, which we see that Chef has been intentionally
rigging the opponents at Chris’ request. Whilst Chris does allow for one match
to be totally random to prove it’s not being manipulated, he immediately continues it after the
random match-up between Izzy and Mal. Though the challenge is said to have a touch of the “Phobia
Factor” from season 1 in it, most of the match-ups are not really fears but rather emotional
frustrations for the teens to fight against, making it difficult for them to want to fight.
Next is the pirate loot challenge.
The final four are each tasked with bringing back a piece of valuable treasure to Chris in good
condition. The last person to bring back their treasure or anyone who comes back empty handed
will be immediately eliminated. On top of that, the winner of the challenge gets to pick a second
person to be eliminated as well, determining who goes with them to the finale. Each person has a
different treasure to find: Zoey is to track down Sasquatchanakwa, Gwen needs to recover an intact
picture of Chris from his destroyed cottage, Scott has to retrieve a diamond guarded by Fang, and
Mike has to find the long lost gilded Chris award. Zoey and Gwen had little trouble in finding their
treasures whilst Scott struggled in his fight against Fang. Mike’s treasure was
seemingly the hardest to find as Chris had no knowledge of where the statue would be,
whereas the rest of the treasures could be found in general areas of the island. A scavenger hunt
isn’t too difficult, but Mal’s sabotage definitely made the tasks harder than they should be.
The cliff diving challenge comes next.
For the first challenge of the season, one player from each team has to cliff dive into the shark
infested waters in order to locate a key. Once a key is retrieved, the diver has to be pushed
in a baby carriage by another team member to the spa hotel in order to see if it unlocks.
If not, the duos have to race back to the beach before another player can take a chance.
Whoever unlocks the spa hotel wins the challenge. The most difficult
part is obviously the diving from such an enormous height into shark infested waters,
but as the teens have dealt with sharks before, it is not as intense as it could be.
Following that is the night challenge.
On the night of the blue harvest moon, the teams are tasked with racing from one side
of the island to the other and whoever’s entire team crosses the finish line wins.
Chris warns the teens that the phenomena will cause the animals to behave strangely
as an added challenge to the task. Having won the previous challenge,
the Villainous Vultures are given a map whereas the Heroic Hamsters are required to wear bacon
hats and sausage tails. During the challenge, it’s discovered that the blue harvest moon
causes the animals to behave as their opposite; for example, peaceful birds become deadly and
dangerous crocodiles act like friendly dogs. Other than the animals acting their opposite
and wearing the meat clothing, there doesn’t prove to be much threatening the challenge.
After that is the leechball challenge.
Teens are tasked with having a paintball battle but with a twist:
using leeches as the ammo instead. Chris tells the teams that the weapons are first come first serve,
as the good weapons are paintball guns and a cannon versus regular slingshots. Once retrieved,
the team who scores six points wins the challenge. As painful as leeches can be,
the teens for the most part do a pretty good job of avoiding being shot at,
especially the heroes evading the barrages of leeches from the villains.
Using the cannon has the potential of hitting multiple people, but it also causes whoever is
using it to essentially be a sitting duck as it is very heavy and difficult to move. The worst
part of this challenge is potentially getting hit with a leech or even several like Sam did.
Next up is the buried treasure challenge.
Teams are challenged to find seven 3-D printed puzzle pieces underneath the sand on their side
of the beach in order to recreate a sculpture of a landmark visited during World Tour.
As the Villainous Vultures had won the previous challenge,
they got the advantage of digging with shovels. However,
Chris warns the teens that there’s a pitfall filled with crabs around their building platform
and there are several booby traps hidden within the sand as well. The booby traps
range in severity from water geysers and emerging platforms to bee swarms and garbage explosions.
The ice cream sundae challenge is next up.
In this challenge, the final five must make ice cream sundaes from
Chris’ malnourished interns by collecting the ingredients from various parts of the island;
the ice cream can be found atop a snowy mountain, the cherries are in the middle of a swamp,
the nuts are guarded by a robot in the main lodge, and the chocolate sauce is surrounding
a fire breathing plant. Whoever’s sundae is consumed to completion first is the winner.
The treks to all these locations are dangerous; retrieving the ice cream means risking a fall
off of the mountain. Players run the risk of running into an alligator in getting the cherry
and having to avoid the robot when grabbing the nuts. Finally, the fire breathing flower is pretty
self-explanatory as to the threat it creates. When all the teens arrive with their sundaes,
Chris changes the challenge and forces the teens to eat the sundaes they created and
whoever finishes first wins. This is a decent flip to the challenge with the exception of Courtney
who allowed for a bird to vomit on her sundae that she was willing to give to the starving interns.
In turn, she is punished with not being allowed to eat anything else until her sundae is finished.
After that is the Obsta-Kill Course challenge.
Inspired by Chef Hatchet’s boot camp from the first season, the teens have to make their way
through a brutal obstacle course. First they must navigate a field of booby trapped tires and then
climb up a rope wall, with some of the rope options being more reliable than others. Then,
they must cross a set of monkey bars over a pond full of snapping turtles. Finally,
teens must navigate the “duck and cover” zone where they have to avoid
being shot at by Chef’s leechball gun. After Scott remarks that it sounds easy,
Chris decides to give all the teens a heavy backpack to wear throughout the obstacle course.
Should they abandon the backpack, they will face a penalty at the end, which is revealed
that the packs contain the necessary equipment to zipline to the finish. Chris makes no mistake
when he said that this challenge would be much more “hurty” than Chef’s boot camp.
Coming up next is the “paincakes” challenge.
Teams are tasked with completing a giant proportion of pancakes as fast as possible.
Players must go one by one eating as much as they can until their team’s siren goes off. Then, they
must navigate an obstacle course from the previous season without vomiting. Scott remarks that the
challenge sounds easy prompting Chris to add in an untested element called the “Salad Spinner”
at the end. If anyone vomits at any point during the challenge, they must sit out for the rest of
the challenge. Whichever team finishes their pancakes and completes the obstacle course
one final time wins. Attempting to traverse a tedious obstacle course on a full stomach
is definitely a difficult task but is made even harder by the fact that Chris booby trapped the
pancakes as well. Teens run the risk of animals, bombs, and mouse traps going off whilst eating.
Our bronze medal of gruesomeness goes to the rescue challenge.
During a video message to the teens celebrating the 100th episode of the “Total Drama” series,
Chris is unexpectedly attacked and captured by a feral Ezekiel. Chef then immediately tasks the
teens with finding Chris as their new challenge, telling them that without Chris, there’s no show
and no million dollars to be won. After bargaining with Chef for a better reward once Chris is found,
the teens decide to go investigate the mine as that was Zeke’s home in the previous season.
During the time that Chris is captured, Ezekiel has him suspended upside down over a vat of toxic
waste. Chris initially tries to sweet talk the feral teen into letting him go but then
infuriates him by listing all the injustices that had been done to the former homeschooler
to find out why the teen was so mad. This then causes Zeke to grab a pair of rats to chew up
the rope keeping Chris out of the toxic vat. Whilst searching for Chris, the teens run
the risk of falling further into the cave from various heights as well as potentially getting
nabbed by Ezekiel. When Cameron, Chef, and Gwen make their way to Zeke’s lair,
the feral teen is able to Chef’s bazooka and blast him with it before acid spitting the ceiling and
causing it to cave in. Gwen is eventually able to retrieve the bazook and blasts Ezekiel,
allowing her to rescue everyone and get out. We will never know what the intended original
challenge was outside of Chris’ note of hoping the teens aren’t allergic to various items,
but it sounds like it might have been less arduous than the rescue the teens had to initiate.
The silver medal of gruesomeness goes to the fun zone challenge.
Under the guise of the producers requesting that the teens get a well-deserved break,
Chris tricks them into entering the fun zone; a sealed off area of the island that
houses all of the mutant creatures from the previous season. Teams are challenged with
retrieving six eggs and bringing back to their teams basket. Anything that hatches from the
eggs and stays in the basket still counts, and whichever team reaches six eggs first wins.
Going up against the mutants from the last challenge in an enclosed environment proves
to be fairly difficult for the teens. However, some of the creatures can be
outsmarted or outran so for this reason we have to keep it out of the top spot.
The gold medal of gruesomeness goes to the final challenge.
Before beginning the challenge, the final two must each choose a weapon
and shoot down two balloons to reveal which two previously eliminated contestants will be helping
them win. With the helpers in tow, the final two are tasked with scaling a four tier moat in order
to reach the top, with a safety zone at the end of each moat. The first moat consists of toxic waste,
the second moat has lava, and the third has swamp water infested by Fang. The final level has the
teens avoid Chef as the “Mad King” and they must pull a sword out of a stone to determine who wins.
Chris gets fed up with an emotional moment that transpires and decides to make the
finale a free-for-all in order for more action to occur. Forcing the teens to cross dangerous
substances as well as leaving the rest of the eliminated teens in the balloons to fly away
shows the level of psychopathy that Chris has come to in his love of torturing the kids.
And that wraps up our list of the challenges from least gruesome to most gruesome. Which
challenge do you think was the most difficult to complete? Let us know in the comments below.
And as always, stay wicked!