‘The Challenge’ 40 producers clean up Derrick and Horacio’s elimination

“The Challenge” may not be airing a new episode this week, but the drama has continued.

The September 4 episode of ‘Battle of the Eras’ featured Derrick Kosinski and Horacio Gutiérrez Jr. faced each other in the sand in an elimination that ended in great confusion for all parties. Host TJ Lavin announced that Derrick defeated Horacio in the competition, which included a battle to place 40 pins in a wall amid an endurance challenge.

After the episode aired, Horacio claimed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he had placed all his pins correctly in the wall, while Derrick had not. He also claimed that the production helped Derrick picks up pins that have fallen from the wall and puts them back. Footage showed Derrick with an empty hole in his wall when two pins were put into one. Additionally, Horacio said his ball got stuck while he was on the platform, causing him to fall behind.

Variety confirms that after a week of back and forth and claims from many cast members, producers held a Zoom call with Derrick and Horacio on Tuesday, September 10, where they showed them unedited footage of the lines being told to the players and the players. full competition.

“I think the head producers at Bunim/Murray Productions and the people at MTV made the decision to do something they’ve never done in forty seasons – because of all the negative feedback – and that’s me and Horacio doing the visuals and the lines to show. about how this thing turned out,” Derrick said on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast ‘Challenge Mania’which he presents together with Scott Yager.

Horacio joined the podcast and said the producer said, “This is probably the first and last time we will do this to someone. We’re going to show you the raw footage, along with the rules.” The footage showed about five minutes of lines being told to the participants, including one that clarified the pin drop mistake.

“The last rule was that once a pin is placed, it counts. We all missed it,” Horacio said, admitting he was clearly wrong. Derrick added: “They also said, ‘If they fall off the wall – they will fall off the wall – let them fall.’… That was my main takeaway.”

This means that production members didn’t actually help him pick up pins that Derrick had already placed in the wall and replace them. In fact, it didn’t matter at all; once they were placed in, they counted.

During the Zoom call, they were also shown the raw footage of the elimination, which lasted about five minutes. There were nine different camera angles: four on Derrick, four on Horacio and one on TJ. “Every possible camera angle was shown,” he added. “It was completely unedited.”

The final result was that Derrick won by 13 seconds. “For them, picking up my own pegs took about four seconds,” Horacio said. “The ball was stopped – they said they stopped my time when I came to a complete stop… it lasted about seven to eight seconds, if I’m not mistaken, which resulted in Derrick beating me by a second or less than a second. That was their final conclusion. It was one of the toughest eliminations they had apparently experienced.”

“The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras” airs Wednesdays on MTV at 8pm ET.