The Challenge 35: "Dee And Rogan Playing Off Emotions, Didn't Earn Red Skull Fairly"

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Dee and Rogan
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Ever since TJ announced the change to the game some of the competitors have been playing off their emotions while others are playing a scared game, even the vets.

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Jenn
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Dee and Rogan who won the finals last season on 'The Challenge' are back competing again. Last season they were a thing but this season they were no longer an item. However, Rogan had his eyes set on rookie Jenn and Dee didn't like it. When it was time for the women to fight for their first skull, Dee was adamant about sending in Jenn. She didn't like Jenn because Rogan was flirting with her so she was on board with sending her into the purgatory to go up against Jenny.

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Jay and Dee
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Ultimately, Jenn lost that battle and was sent home. With Jenn out of the picture Rogan was now available for Dee all to herself, so we thought. Instead of flirting and flaunting with Rogan Dee had other plans. To get back at Rogan she started flirting with Jay, who had already earned his red skull when he defeated Asaf. Jay went along with Dee's flirtations not knowing she was doing it to make Rogan jealous. Although Dee said she did like Jay and found him attractive, we all know she was flirting with Jay to get back at Rogan for flirting with Jenn.

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Jay vs CT
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After Jay earned the first red skull in the purgatory elimination he became a target and a threat. Vet Ct and rookies Bailey and Swaggy C were in the tribunal Rogan saw it as a chance to go in to purgatory against Jay. Feeding off of his emotions, Rogan begged the tribunal to put him into the purgatory with Jay. When it came down to the final vote, CT decided he wanted to get the red skull and let Rogan sit that one out. Ct is a strong competitor, and one of the strongest male competitors in the game. However, his swoleness and amazon strength wasn't fast enough to beat Jay and CT ended up going home. Not only did Jay defeat a veteran he also earned his second skull.

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Jay of The Challenge 35

Following Jay's second win was the females turn to battle it out in the purgatory. Dee who chickened out of purgatory when Jenn was in the ring decided she would go up against Ashley. Ashley was already at her boiling point so she was already fired up to win. During the purgatory challenge Dee collected her five challenge title pieces while Ashley was still trying to find the final piece. The objective was to put the five challenges in chronological order and Dee had no clue which order the challenges go in. She got the answers wrong three times but with the help of Wes, Dee won. Dee didn't win fairly because without Wes telling her the answers she would not have known the correct order. Ashley being a seasoned player would have gotten them correct with no help. While Dee was trying to figure out the order Ashley would have found her piece and beat Dee fair and square.

After Dee got her red skull it was the males turn and Rogan was coming after Jay, again. This time the tribunal didn't hesitate to send Rogan into purgatory. The problem was Rogan was already in his feelings after Dee kissed Jay in his face. He was furious at Jay when he should have bee furious at Dee. No way the tribunal should have put Rogan in there with Jay knowing he was in rage and acting off his emotions. As soon as Rogan got the chance to hurt Jay in a physical way he did just that. He went into the purgatory with the intent to cause harm to Jay and that was not a fair win.

Both Rogan and Dee are playing off their emotions in this game and it's not fair to those who are really there to compete to win. TJ should implement striker rules to prevent people like Wes from giving answers, and from people like Rogan feeding off his emotions and intentionally causing bodily harm. 

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