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Endurance (TV series)
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Endurance is an American reality television
children's program, currently shown on the Discovery Kids
cable network
in the United States
and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS
television series Survivor
, though with a teenaged cast (however, there are more elements of the U.S.
version of Big Brother). Endurance contestants live in a remote location and participate in various mental and physical challenges, although Endurance contestants compete as pairs (one boy and one girl), and the outcome of the competitions determines which pair of players is eliminated.
In its six-year run between 2002
–2008
, each season began with a new slate of contestants, who were gradually eliminated as the season progressed until the remaining two teams competed to get all of the Endurance Pyramid pieces. The winning boy and girl received an all-expenses paid vacation package with their parents to an exotic location as the prize.
Production ended with the final episode of the sixth season, first aired on March 8, 2008. Reruns of Endurance continue to be televised in the U.S., on The Hub, Discovery Kids's successor, until October 14, 2011. Spanish-dubbed reruns also air on weekends on Azteca America
. Three seasons of Endurance (Hawaii, Tehachapi and High Sierras) were each nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award
in the category of "Outstanding Children's Series", however the show never won.
Contestants ages 12–15 were chosen each spring from five-minute audition tapes sent in by more than 12,000 teens to the show's production team. Twenty players were selected to participate in each of the first five seasons of Endurance; this was reduced to sixteen in Season 6. In a 2004 newspaper interview, Roth revealed that he looked for as diverse a group as possible. Shooting of the series took place each summer over a three week period and began with the selected teenaged contestants arriving at a secret remote location in late July. Each season was taped in a different location, including California, Hawaii, Mexico, and Fiji.
In a January, 2007, interview with the Boston Globe, Connor Finnegan recalled his experience as an Endurance: High Sierras player the previous summer: "At first it was weird being filmed all the time. You'd be talking and suddenly there would be a camera or microphone shoved into your face. The big rule with reality TV is never to look at the camera."
As part of the show, host J. D. Roth and the players sometimes discuss the interpersonal drama occurring among the teams. Roth has said that many participants have become close friends while the series was being shot, learning tolerance for people who were different from themselves. However, the Boston Globe reported that there was friction among the players on Endurance: High Sierras following the controversial break-up of teams. Finnegan's mother said, "There was definitely some nastiness", complaining that the producers and writers, "deliberately put the kids in situations that are designed to increase the drama and tension". But, Taylor Sico-McNulty, another Endurance: High Sierras contestant from Massachusetts and Finnegan's partner, said that when she returned home following the show's California taping, she "really missed seeing all the other kids in the cast every day", adding that a number of player reunions have since been held.
Another player from the fifth season, Dakota Fisher of Eliot, Maine, echoed the feeling, saying that his appearance on Endurance left him with relationships he will never forget. "You should have seen me a week after the show, it was depressing", said the 15-year old who had been trying for two years to get on the Emmy-nominated teen reality program.
Roth said in a 2007 news release, "Being on Endurance is a life-altering experience for every kid who is selected. With only the sun, moon, stars and each other, these kids have no choice but to get to really know each other. They learn to dig deep within themselves when someone says they can’t do something. They learn to overcome first impressions and prejudice and they build tremendous self-confidence by tapping into skills they never even knew they had."
Endurance is the successor to Moolah Beach
, a show created by Roth which was not renewed after its single 2001 season, when a change in ownership of Fox Family Network (now ABC Family
), opened up a new offer from Discovery Kids for a reality series. For four seasons (2002–2006), Endurance was also broadcast on the NBC
network as part of its Saturday morning Discovery Kids on NBC block of programs.
In Season 3, the eliminated players were brought back the following day to compete in a second chance Right to Stay game. The winner of this game (Tom) chose his partner from the group of girls (Vanetta), forming the Brown team.
In Seasons 3 and 5 the group was required to choose two players (a boy and a girl) who were allowed to sit out the Right To Stay Challenge, automatically advancing as if they had survived the challenge. In season 3 the boys were required to choose one girl to be safe and the girls were required to save a boy, the boys saved Lindi and the girls chose Reece because they were the most attractive in their opinions. In season 5, Darci and Aric were selected to sit out. They were then each allowed to save one other person (of the same gender). Darci chose Kelsey, Aric chose Alex.
After the teams are decided, they each receive one pyramid piece of the Endurance Pyramid. To win the game and the grand prize trip, one team must possess all of the pieces. (10 pieces in the first season, 12 in Seasons 2 and 3, 13 in Seasons 4 and 5, and 14 in Season 6).
intransitive game, the teams select fire, wood, or water to defeat one another in a best 2 out of 3 match, e.g.,
The first team to win two rounds wins the challenge and the right to stay in the game. The losers are immediately eliminated. In Season 1, the losing team's pieces went to the team winning the next episode's challenge; in all subsequent seasons, the losing team gave their pyramid pieces to any team of their choice, with a farewell note read to the remaining contestants.
* Introduced in the Finale of the prior season.
was added. It is a border that is placed around the Friendship piece. It may be transferred to another team with any temple mission. In Season 5 the Triangle of Immunity was given to the Purple Team of: Dakota Fisher and Kelsey Schultz, by Anna and Garret. The team in possession of the Triangle of Immunity can avoid being sent to temple once, but is only able to use it until the final four. Once they reach the final three, the Triangle of Immunity is removed from the game. Season 6 removed the Triangle of Immunity, as the Friendship piece is back to a regular pyramid piece.
The team with fewer pieces starts by placing pieces by a group of pyramids, one of which has the gold pyramid under it. That team may claim as many as it wishes but must leave at least one pyramid unclaimed. The team with more pieces must claim the pyramids that its opponent did not claim. At this point, the gold pyramid is revealed, and the team that has claimed it wins all the pieces that were played on the board. If teams have the same number of pieces the team that had fewer pieces the round before places first. If teams are tied in first round, the team that won the final mission places their pieces first
There are three pyramids to start the game, and one more is added every round thereafter.
The team that gets all the pyramid pieces wins the challenge, the game and the grand prize trip.
The Blue team of Aaron Thornburg and Jonna Mannion won their grand prize trip, which was a trip to the Amazon
*.
Jonna Mannion was a participant on the show The Real World: Cancun
and its spin-off show, The Challenge: Rivals
, shown on MTV. She is also on the TruTv series, Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel
as a cocktail waitress. She was also featured in the LMFAO
music video for "La La Land."
The season consisted of seven teams (in order of elimination):
Key
Notes
, near the resort town of La Paz, Mexico. An unusual twist in this season was the return of Jenna and Max, who were previously eliminated in season one, chosen to become the Brown
Team from an alumni vote of Season 1 contestants who reunited at a reunion. One contestant, 14-year old Tyler Burkhalter, competed despite having diabetes
requiring daily insulin treatments.
In the end, Max DeLeo and Jenna Jimenez won the game, earning the grand prize trip to Atlantis Paradise Island
in the Bahamas.
This season consisted of eight teams (in order of elimination):
Their eliminations did not affect the arrival of Max and Jenna as the Brown team, who arrived after the formation of the seven official teams.
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Notes
.There were many twists including bringing back six eliminated players, after the right to stay, to compete in a challenge to become an official endurance player. The winner would choose someone from the opposite sex and they would become the Brown Team. Tom won and chose Vanetta as his partner. Later, Vanetta injured her knee: while walking outside of her hut and stepping down, she cut her leg on a piece of bamboo. The cut required more than 20 stitches, and she was removed from the game, making Tom the first person in Endurance to be a one-person team. Also, he was the first person to go to the Temple of Fate without a partner.
In the end, the Gray team of Chris Vanderweir and Lindi Oest won, with a trip to the Galápagos Islands
as their prize.
This was the only season to see the Gray team continue on past the first temple elimination. There was also a special program at the conclusion of the season showing winners Chris Vanderweir and Lindi Oest enjoying their trip to the Galápagos Islands.
After the season, Vanetta Smith of the Brown team starred in the movie Freedom Writers
.
Demian Martinez was also a contestant on The N's reality show, Girls v. Boys Puerto Rico
.
The eight teams competing were (in order of elimination):
Key
Notes
in the summer of 2005 for airing beginning that Fall. A 13th pyramid piece, Friendship, was added this season. The Red team of Franke Sisto and Erika Cook won the grand prize, a trip to Costa Rica
.
Julie Dubela appeared on American Juniors in 2003 and auditioned for American Idol
.
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in the High Sierra Mountains of central California. Contestants lived in multi-level tree houses without electricity. The Green Team of Alex Carignan and Cealey Godwin, won the grand prize, a trip to Hawaii.
In a new twist to the fifth season's contestant selection, the Discovery Kids website held a casting poll in which fans could vote for one boy and one girl out of six hopefuls. Garret Manno and Kelsey Schultz won this poll by a narrow margin and were the 99th and 100th contestants out of the history of the program.
In the third episode ("Unwind"), one team – Garret Manno and Anna Asare – was eliminated without going to Temple. They finished last in the first challenge and left the game without a team color; the other seven teams selected colors as they finished. The "colorless team" received the "Immunity Triangle", which they gave to the Purple team of Kelsey and Dakota. The team that received the Triangle of Immunity may use it once to avoid going to the Temple of Fate; they never did.
The Blue team of Connor Finnegan and Taylor Sico-McNulty set a record this season by surviving three trips to the Temple. Dakota Fisher, of the Purple team, was featured in a commercial for Burlington Coat Factory
. Kelsey Schultz, also of the Purple team, appeared in the movie Queen Sized
. Max McFarland of the Orange team was featured on in-store advertisements nationwide in Hallmark Gold Crown stores
. Aerial Miranda of the Red team, competed in a family edition of Fear Factor
.
* Initially, the Blue team was Ike and Taylor and the Gray team was Connor and Darci. The Blue team gave the Samadhi to the Red team thinking they were going to switch Alex and Cameron but they used it to switch Connor and Ike.
** Anna and Garret were eliminated after an Endurance mission and never went to the Temple of Fate.
Key
Episodes began airing on October 13, 2007, on the Discovery Kids channel with the finale broadcast March 8, 2008. A new feature, the "Magic Box", was introduced in this season's third episode (Mana Kisi), giving a secret advantage to the team that wins it.
The Blue team of Ben Scheuer and Jordyn Barbato won the grand prize which was a trip to Australia
. This was also the second time the blue team has become the endurance champion with Jonna Mannion and Aaron Throrburg being the first in season 1.
Also, with this being the last season, that leaves the Purple, Orange and Yellow teams without winning an Endurance.
Briana Vega (who was on the Yellow Team) became a contestant on High School Musical: Get in the Picture
Rebecca Simonoko (who was eliminated in the right-to-stay challenge) is currently featured on a web series entitled, "Life on Tour," a teen travel experience from the makers of "The Real World."
There was no Gray or Brown team this season, which meant only six teams competed:
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Reality television
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children's program, currently shown on the Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids
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cable network
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in the United States
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and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS
CBS
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television series Survivor
Survivor (U.S. TV series)
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, though with a teenaged cast (however, there are more elements of the U.S.
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version of Big Brother). Endurance contestants live in a remote location and participate in various mental and physical challenges, although Endurance contestants compete as pairs (one boy and one girl), and the outcome of the competitions determines which pair of players is eliminated.
In its six-year run between 2002
2002 in television
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–2008
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, each season began with a new slate of contestants, who were gradually eliminated as the season progressed until the remaining two teams competed to get all of the Endurance Pyramid pieces. The winning boy and girl received an all-expenses paid vacation package with their parents to an exotic location as the prize.
Production ended with the final episode of the sixth season, first aired on March 8, 2008. Reruns of Endurance continue to be televised in the U.S., on The Hub, Discovery Kids's successor, until October 14, 2011. Spanish-dubbed reruns also air on weekends on Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
. Three seasons of Endurance (Hawaii, Tehachapi and High Sierras) were each nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
in the category of "Outstanding Children's Series", however the show never won.
Production
The show was produced by 3Ball Productions. Its co-creator, former actor and children's game show presenter, J. D. Roth, is the executive producer and on-screen host. Roth received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2006 as "Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series" for Endurance: Tehachapi but did not win.Contestants ages 12–15 were chosen each spring from five-minute audition tapes sent in by more than 12,000 teens to the show's production team. Twenty players were selected to participate in each of the first five seasons of Endurance; this was reduced to sixteen in Season 6. In a 2004 newspaper interview, Roth revealed that he looked for as diverse a group as possible. Shooting of the series took place each summer over a three week period and began with the selected teenaged contestants arriving at a secret remote location in late July. Each season was taped in a different location, including California, Hawaii, Mexico, and Fiji.
In a January, 2007, interview with the Boston Globe, Connor Finnegan recalled his experience as an Endurance: High Sierras player the previous summer: "At first it was weird being filmed all the time. You'd be talking and suddenly there would be a camera or microphone shoved into your face. The big rule with reality TV is never to look at the camera."
As part of the show, host J. D. Roth and the players sometimes discuss the interpersonal drama occurring among the teams. Roth has said that many participants have become close friends while the series was being shot, learning tolerance for people who were different from themselves. However, the Boston Globe reported that there was friction among the players on Endurance: High Sierras following the controversial break-up of teams. Finnegan's mother said, "There was definitely some nastiness", complaining that the producers and writers, "deliberately put the kids in situations that are designed to increase the drama and tension". But, Taylor Sico-McNulty, another Endurance: High Sierras contestant from Massachusetts and Finnegan's partner, said that when she returned home following the show's California taping, she "really missed seeing all the other kids in the cast every day", adding that a number of player reunions have since been held.
Another player from the fifth season, Dakota Fisher of Eliot, Maine, echoed the feeling, saying that his appearance on Endurance left him with relationships he will never forget. "You should have seen me a week after the show, it was depressing", said the 15-year old who had been trying for two years to get on the Emmy-nominated teen reality program.
Roth said in a 2007 news release, "Being on Endurance is a life-altering experience for every kid who is selected. With only the sun, moon, stars and each other, these kids have no choice but to get to really know each other. They learn to dig deep within themselves when someone says they can’t do something. They learn to overcome first impressions and prejudice and they build tremendous self-confidence by tapping into skills they never even knew they had."
Endurance is the successor to Moolah Beach
Moolah Beach
Moolah Beach was a reality show in the vein of Survivor but with teenagers competing in competitions in order to not be exiled from the beach and ultimately win $25,000...
, a show created by Roth which was not renewed after its single 2001 season, when a change in ownership of Fox Family Network (now ABC Family
ABC Family
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), opened up a new offer from Discovery Kids for a reality series. For four seasons (2002–2006), Endurance was also broadcast on the NBC
NBC
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network as part of its Saturday morning Discovery Kids on NBC block of programs.
The Right To Stay Challenge
Shortly after they arrive, the group of 20 contestants competes in the first Endurance game, called the Right To Stay Challenge. As the name implies, this game eliminates a group of contestants from continuing any further in the game. The game is normally a test of endurance, where each contestant has to hold on to something such as a bar or a pole for as long as possible. In Seasons 1 through 4, the first three girls and the first three boys to let go were eliminated. In Season 5, the game was a test of balance and speed, and the last two boys and last two girls to finish the game were eliminated. In Season 6, the first two boys and two girls to let go of a rope were eliminated, winnowing the sixteen hopefuls to twelve contestants who earned the right to stay, forming six teams of players.(except in season 6 with only 14 players going down to 12)In Season 3, the eliminated players were brought back the following day to compete in a second chance Right to Stay game. The winner of this game (Tom) chose his partner from the group of girls (Vanetta), forming the Brown team.
In Seasons 3 and 5 the group was required to choose two players (a boy and a girl) who were allowed to sit out the Right To Stay Challenge, automatically advancing as if they had survived the challenge. In season 3 the boys were required to choose one girl to be safe and the girls were required to save a boy, the boys saved Lindi and the girls chose Reece because they were the most attractive in their opinions. In season 5, Darci and Aric were selected to sit out. They were then each allowed to save one other person (of the same gender). Darci chose Kelsey, Aric chose Alex.
Choosing teams
The day after the Right To Stay Challenge, the remaining players compete in another game to determine teams. Each team consists of one boy and one girl. The game and the rules vary from year to year. The team colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and grey (brown is added in seasons with 8 teams and grey is removed in seasons with 6 teams.)After the teams are decided, they each receive one pyramid piece of the Endurance Pyramid. To win the game and the grand prize trip, one team must possess all of the pieces. (10 pieces in the first season, 12 in Seasons 2 and 3, 13 in Seasons 4 and 5, and 14 in Season 6).
Endurance Mission
With the teams now assigned, they begin competing in Endurance Missions. This is usually a test of skill. The team that wins an Endurance Mission will typically earn another piece of the Endurance Pyramid and the Samahdi. The Samadhi contains something that will have a negative effect on one team during the Temple Mission, and the winners of the Endurance Mission get to choose which team has to play with its effect. However, it is customary, that when three teams remain, the winners of the Samadhi have the right to not give its effect to a team, leaving a level playing field for the final Temple Mission.Samadhi
The teams compete for a Samadhi fairly often through the entire game. All of them but two had a negative impact on another team. In Season 3 (Endurance Hawaii) there was a Samadhi that benefitted the team that it was given to. Chris and Lindi (the Gray Team) won that Samadhi, and decided to keep it and in Season 5, the Blue team won the power to switch two teams around. In Season 1 the team that won the Samadhi at the Final 3 stage chose to eliminate it from the game. In Season 2, the team that won the Samadhi at the Final 4 stage chose to eliminate it from the game as well. This pattern was broken in Season 3, however. Also, in Season 5, the first Samadhi (won in the mission "Hot Potato") was the ability to make two players switch teams or give another team the power to make the switch. Taylor and Isaac, the original Blue team, won this Samadhi. They gave it to the Red team, who used it to switch Connor onto the Blue team and Isaac onto the Gray team. The first time the Samadhi was introduced, J.D. noted that the word Samadhi means "contemplation."Temple mission
This mission is usually one of endurance (hence the show's title). The team that wins a Temple Mission usually earns the right to choose two other teams to send to the "Temple of Fate", the elimination challenge.Temple of Fate
The two teams sent to the Temple of Fate bring with them all pyramid pieces they have won up to that point. In a variant of the Rock, Paper, ScissorsRock, Paper, Scissors
Rock-paper-scissors is a hand game played by two people. The game is also known as roshambo, or another ordering of the three items ....
intransitive game, the teams select fire, wood, or water to defeat one another in a best 2 out of 3 match, e.g.,
- water puts out fire (water wins)
- fire burns wood (fire wins)
- wood floats on water (wood wins)
The first team to win two rounds wins the challenge and the right to stay in the game. The losers are immediately eliminated. In Season 1, the losing team's pieces went to the team winning the next episode's challenge; in all subsequent seasons, the losing team gave their pyramid pieces to any team of their choice, with a farewell note read to the remaining contestants.
Pyramid pieces
The pyramid pieces play an important part in the game, since one team must possess all of the pieces to win the game. Season 1 had 10, Seasons 2 and 3 had 12, Seasons 4 and 5 had 13, and Season 6 has 14.| Pyramid piece | First used during |
|---|---|
| Commitment | Season 1 |
| Courage | Season 1 |
| Discipline | Season 1 |
| Leadership | Season 1 |
| Luck | Season 1 |
| Perseverance | Season 1 |
| Strength | Season 1 |
| Heart | Season 1 |
| Knowledge | Season 1 |
| Trust | Season 1 |
| Ingenuity | Season 2 |
| Teamwork | Season 2 |
| Friendship | Season 4* |
| Karma | Season 6* |
Triangle of Immunity
In Season 5, the Triangle of ImmunityImmunity (reality television)
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was added. It is a border that is placed around the Friendship piece. It may be transferred to another team with any temple mission. In Season 5 the Triangle of Immunity was given to the Purple Team of: Dakota Fisher and Kelsey Schultz, by Anna and Garret. The team in possession of the Triangle of Immunity can avoid being sent to temple once, but is only able to use it until the final four. Once they reach the final three, the Triangle of Immunity is removed from the game. Season 6 removed the Triangle of Immunity, as the Friendship piece is back to a regular pyramid piece.
Magic Box
In Season 6, a new aspect of Endurance called the Magic Box was introduced. This is a challenge where teams compete for the chance to gain an advantage over the other teams. Leslie Powell and Will Cuddy (the Green team) won the first Magic Box in the episode "Mana Kisi". Inside, the Magic Box contained one free round at the Temple of Fate, to be used before the Temple of Fate challenge begins. In addition to winning a Magic Box, teams are allowed to do what they want with the information given. They decided to lie about it. In the end when the Green Team was sent up to temple with their friends the Orange Team, they used their advantage against them and sent the Orange Team home.Final Challenge
For the Final Challenge, both teams go to the Temple of Fate with all the pieces they have won. These pieces are now used as chips to play a shell game type challenge.The team with fewer pieces starts by placing pieces by a group of pyramids, one of which has the gold pyramid under it. That team may claim as many as it wishes but must leave at least one pyramid unclaimed. The team with more pieces must claim the pyramids that its opponent did not claim. At this point, the gold pyramid is revealed, and the team that has claimed it wins all the pieces that were played on the board. If teams have the same number of pieces the team that had fewer pieces the round before places first. If teams are tied in first round, the team that won the final mission places their pieces first
There are three pyramids to start the game, and one more is added every round thereafter.
The team that gets all the pyramid pieces wins the challenge, the game and the grand prize trip.
Season 1 - Endurance (2002-2003)
The premiere season was taped in the summer of 2002 on Parsons Beach on Catalina Island, California. Each of the seven teams played for one of seven grand prize trips.The Blue team of Aaron Thornburg and Jonna Mannion won their grand prize trip, which was a trip to the Amazon
Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
*.
Jonna Mannion was a participant on the show The Real World: Cancun
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and its spin-off show, The Challenge: Rivals
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, shown on MTV. She is also on the TruTv series, Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel
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as a cocktail waitress. She was also featured in the LMFAO
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music video for "La La Land."
The season consisted of seven teams (in order of elimination):
| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece(s) | Trip | Temple Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | |||||||
| 7th | Gray | Max DeLeo | Los Angeles, CA | 14 | Jenna Jimenez | Rogers Park, IL Rogers Park, Chicago Rogers Park is one of the 77 Chicago community areas on the far north side of Chicago, Illinois, and is also the name of the Chicago neighborhood that constitutes most of the community area... |
14 | Heart and Trust | Galapagos Islands Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a... |
Green |
| 6th | Purple Purple Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue, and is classified as a secondary color as the colors are required to create the shade.... |
Brandon Hendrix | Winter Park, FL | 14 | Layla Brisco | Gardena, CA | 14 | Strength | Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east.... |
Orange |
| 5th | Orange Orange (colour) The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm, and has a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressed RGB colour space, the expression of which is the RGB colour wheel. The... |
Skyler Russell | Phoenix, AZ | 14 | Chelsea Burris | Apache Junction, AZ | 14 | Luck | Bali Bali Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east... & Komodo Komodo Komodo may refer to:* Komodo dragon, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo* Komodo , in Indonesia** kvh, a language spoken there, as listed in the standardized code ISO 639... |
Green |
| 4th | Green Green Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered... |
Trevor Wilkins | Chicago, IL | 12 | Lana Neiman | Lincoln Park, IL Lincoln Park, Chicago Lincoln Park, is one of the 77 community areas on Chicago, Illinois North Side, USA. Named after Lincoln Park, a vast park bordering Lake Michigan, the community area is anchored by the Lincoln Park Zoo and DePaul University... |
14 | Commitment | Amazon* | Yellow |
| 3rd | Red Red Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye... |
Christian Justice | San Clemente, CA | 15 | Ashley Gudzak | Jacksonville, FL | 14 | Leadership | Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Yellow |
| 2nd | Yellow Yellow Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green... |
Jon Crocilla | Chicago, IL | 15 | Sabrina Lloyd | Sugar Land, TX Sugar Land, Texas Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a... |
15 | Perseverance | Belize Belize Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official... |
Blue (Finale) |
| Winner | Blue Blue Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal... |
Aaron Thornburg | Bozeman, MT | 15 | Jonna Mannion | Chandler, AZ | 13 | Courage | Amazon |
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| Shane Peltzman | Huntington Valley, PA | 13 | Lacey Elick | Bellville, TX | 14 |
| Ron Neurauter | Glen Ellyn, IL | 15 | Heather Ichihashi | Brooklyn, NY | 14 |
| Alejandro Rose-Garcia | Austin, TX | 15 | Cree Howard | Bozeman, MT | 15 |
Elimination table
| Contestants | |Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 3 | 12 | ||
| Aaron & Jonna | WIN1 | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAMDHI | WIN | WIN | WIN | LOSE | FIRST | |
| Jon & Sabrina | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE2 | TEMPLE | WIN | SECOND | |
| Christian & Ashley | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||
| Trevor & Lana | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | WIN | OUT | |||||
| Skyler & Chelsea | SAMDHI | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAMDHI | OUT | |||||||
| Brandon & Layla | SAFE | SAFE | SAMDHI | OUT | |||||||||
| Max & Jenna | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
Notes
- 1In "Tilt", the winning team, in this case the Blue team, won the two remaining pyramid pieces that were not in play after the "Fate Falls" challenge.
- 2 The Yellow team would have received the Samadhi, but the Blue team decided to take it out of the game.
- 3In “Don't Drop the Ball”, the only prize up for grabs was the pyramid piece left behind by the Red team.
Season 2 - Endurance 2 (2003-2004)
Endurance 2 was taped in Baja CaliforniaBaja California
Baja California officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North...
, near the resort town of La Paz, Mexico. An unusual twist in this season was the return of Jenna and Max, who were previously eliminated in season one, chosen to become the Brown
Brown
Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color....
Team from an alumni vote of Season 1 contestants who reunited at a reunion. One contestant, 14-year old Tyler Burkhalter, competed despite having diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced...
requiring daily insulin treatments.
In the end, Max DeLeo and Jenna Jimenez won the game, earning the grand prize trip to Atlantis Paradise Island
Atlantis Paradise Island
The Atlantis Paradise Island is a resort and waterpark located on Paradise Island, The Bahamas. Officially opened in 1998, the resort was created by South African hotel magnate Sol Kerzner and Kerzner International Limited. Paradise Island first opened its Coral and Beach Towers as the Trump...
in the Bahamas.
This season consisted of eight teams (in order of elimination):
| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece | Temple Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||||||
| 8th | Gray | Wayne Williams | Bloomfield, NJ | 15 | Maryelle DeVitto | Winter Park, FL | 14 | Heart | Orange |
| 7th | Red | Phil Morelli | Denver, CO | 14 | Jacquelynn Pointer | Silver Spring, MD | 13 | Discipline | Orange |
| 6th | Blue | Scooter Magruder | Orlando, FL | 14 | Christa Scholtz | Austin, TX | 13 | Trust | Purple |
| 5th | Yellow | Shep Allen | Wayzata, MN | 14 | Calley Payne | Elberton, GA | 15 | Commitment | Brown |
| 4th | Purple | Jeff Phillips | Sanger, CA | 15 | Annie Kim | Bethesda, MD | 15 | Leadership | Brown |
| 3rd | Orange | Tyler Burkhalter | Jacksonville, FL | 14 | Michelle Durand | Linden, NJ | 14 | Knowledge | Green |
| 2nd | Green | Mike Lavigne | Shelton, CT | 15 | Keetin Marchi | Fairfax, VA | 14 | Teamwork | Brown (Finale) |
| Winner | Brown | Max DeLeo | Los Angeles, CA | 15 | Jenna Jimenez | Rogers Park, IL Rogers Park, Chicago Rogers Park is one of the 77 Chicago community areas on the far north side of Chicago, Illinois, and is also the name of the Chicago neighborhood that constitutes most of the community area... |
15 | Perseverance |
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| David Cofresi | Clermont, FL | 14 | Sarah Ruckreigle | Breckenridge, CO | 14 |
| Glen Powell | Austin, TX | 14 | Abbey Konz | Humble, TX | 14 |
| Trey Griffin | Sebring, FL | 14 | Simone Bouffard | Antioch, CA | 15 |
Their eliminations did not affect the arrival of Max and Jenna as the Brown team, who arrived after the formation of the seven official teams.
Elimination table
| Contestants | |Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 2 | 12 | ||
| Max & Jenna | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAMDHI | TEMPLE | SAFE | TEMPLE | WIN | WIN (4) | FIRST | |
| Mike & Keetin | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE1 | WIN | TEMPLE | WIN (4) | SECOND | |
| Tyler & Michelle | TEMPLE | SAMDHI | TEMPLE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | OUT | |||
| Jeff & Annie | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||||
| Shep & Calley | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||
| Scooter & Christa | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAMDHI | OUT | ||||||||
| Phil & Jacquelynn | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||
| Wayne & Maryelle | OUT | ||||||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
Notes
- 1 The Green team would have received the Samadhi, but the Orange team decided to take it out of the game.
- 2 In the final challenge, the Brown and Green teams competed for the eight pieces left behind by the Orange team. Each team won four pieces.
Season 3 - Endurance 3: Hawaii (2004-2005)
Moving to Wainiha Valley, Kauai, Hawaii, for the third season, a number of production problems were encountered, including difficulties in obtaining location permits, torrential rains, muddy conditions, and mosquitoes. It had 21 episodes including casting specials showing the selection process. One of the contestants, Rachel Lofton of the Red team, is the daughter of Pro Football Hall of Famer and San Diego Chargers coach James LoftonJames Lofton
James David Lofton is a former American football player and coach. He is a former American football coach for the San Diego Chargers but is best known for his years in the National Football League as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers , Los Angeles Raiders , the Buffalo Bills...
.There were many twists including bringing back six eliminated players, after the right to stay, to compete in a challenge to become an official endurance player. The winner would choose someone from the opposite sex and they would become the Brown Team. Tom won and chose Vanetta as his partner. Later, Vanetta injured her knee: while walking outside of her hut and stepping down, she cut her leg on a piece of bamboo. The cut required more than 20 stitches, and she was removed from the game, making Tom the first person in Endurance to be a one-person team. Also, he was the first person to go to the Temple of Fate without a partner.
In the end, the Gray team of Chris Vanderweir and Lindi Oest won, with a trip to the Galápagos Islands
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...
as their prize.
This was the only season to see the Gray team continue on past the first temple elimination. There was also a special program at the conclusion of the season showing winners Chris Vanderweir and Lindi Oest enjoying their trip to the Galápagos Islands.
After the season, Vanetta Smith of the Brown team starred in the movie Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a 2007 American drama film starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach,...
.
Demian Martinez was also a contestant on The N's reality show, Girls v. Boys Puerto Rico
Girls v. Boys
Girls v. Boys, also known as GVB, is an American reality series that has aired on The N from August 8, 2003 to October 7, 2005. GVB pits teams of adolescent boys and girls against each other in physical competitions. The series had four seasons: GVB: Tampa, GVB: Hawaii, GVB: Montana and GVB: Puerto...
.
The eight teams competing were (in order of elimination):
| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece | Temple Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||||||
| 8th | Blue | Antonio Iannicelli | Wellesley, MA | 14 | Willa Zhou | Seattle, WA | 15 | Commitment | Orange |
| 7th | Green | Bjorn Leum | Ennis, MT | 15 | Alex Reid | Plano, TX | 15 | Heart | Yellow |
| 6th | Red | Kareem Nugent | Bronx, NY | 15 | Rachel Lofton | Poway, CA | 13 | Trust | Brown |
| 5th | Brown | Tom Maden | Little Rock, AR | 14 | Vanetta Smith | Cleveland, OH | 14 | Perseverance | Yellow |
| 4th | Purple | Reece Bors | Shelbyville, KY | 14 | Sarah Baker | Downers Grove, IL | 13 | Discipline | Gray |
| 3rd | Yellow | Monroe Gierl | Glendale, WI | 15 | Bryanah Bascon | Stoughton, MA | 14 | Teamwork | Gray |
| 2nd | Orange | Demian Martinez | Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ... |
15 | Nicole Clark | Los Angeles, CA | 14 | Leadership | Gray (Finale) |
| Winner | Gray | Chris Vanderweir | St. Augustine, FL | 15 | Lindi Oest | Tampa, FL | 13 | Knowledge |
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| Marshall Katheder | Orlando, FL | 14 | Taylor Madison | Dallas, TX | 15 |
| Brandon Anderson | Lithonia, GA | 13 | Eleanor Monahan | Hyde Park, MA | 14 |
Elimination table
| Contestants | |Episodes | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 62 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 134 | 14 | |||
| Chris & Lindi | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAMDHI | TEMPLE | WIN | TEMPLE | WIN (2) | FIRST | ||
| Demian & Nicole | SAFE | TEMPLE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SECOND | |||
| SAMDHI | WIN | TEMPLE | WIN1 | WIN | SAMDHI | SAMDHI | TEMPLE | WIN | SAFE | SAMDHI | OUT | |||||
| Reece & Sarah | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||||||
| Tom | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||
| Vanetta | DQ3 | |||||||||||||||
| Kareem & Rachel | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| Bjorn & Alex | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||
| Antonio & Willa | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
- (DQ) This team/person was disqualified before they were sent to temple.
Notes
- 1 In "Out on a Limb" there was no Samadhi to give to another team, nor did the winning team win a pyramid piece. The winning team (Yellow) got the chance to create two super-teams. The Yellow team created their super-team of Yellow, Grey, and Purple. The second super-team was Orange, Brown, and Red. The winning super-team members were all safe from going to the Temple of Fate.
- 2 The Samahdi won by the Grey team in the endurance challenge allowed them to steal another team's pieces. The Grey team chose to steal the Yellow team's two pieces.
- 3 Due to Vanetta's removal from the game, Tom was eliminated at the Temple of Fate alone.
- 4 The final challenge, the Grey and Orange teams competed for the two pieces left behind by the Yellow team. The Grey team won both pieces.
Season 4 - Endurance: Tehachapi (2005-2006)
Returning to California for the next two seasons, Endurance: Tehachapi was taped in the Tehachapi MountainsTehachapi Mountains
The Tehachapi Mountains , regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States...
in the summer of 2005 for airing beginning that Fall. A 13th pyramid piece, Friendship, was added this season. The Red team of Franke Sisto and Erika Cook won the grand prize, a trip to Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
.
Julie Dubela appeared on American Juniors in 2003 and auditioned for American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
.
Contestants and teams
There was no Brown team this season, which meant only seven teams competed:| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece | Temple Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | |||||||
| 7th | Gray | John Kardian | Westchester, NY | 15 | Julie Dubela Julie Dubela Julie Dubela is an American singer living in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She is known in the Boston, Massachusetts area for her live performances of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and has also gained national attention for her TV appearances.-Live performances:She has performed for the... |
Stratham, NH | 14 | Commitment | Blue | |
| 6th | Yellow | Chris Tavarez Christopher Tavarez Christopher Tavarez is an American actor, model and athlete. After modeling as a young child, his parents were encouraged by scouts to pursue the world of acting for their son.... |
Atlanta, GA | 12 | Callie Simpkins | Frederick, MD | 14 | Trust | Red | |
| 5th | Orange | Michael Delvecchio | Bailey, CO | 15 | Kylie Glessman | Simpsonville, SC | 15 | Knowledge | Purple | |
| 4th | Blue | Shea Thomas | Douglasville, GA | 15 | Amelia Land | Macon, GA | 15 | Courage | Red | |
| 3rd | Green | Isaac Hainley | Portland, OR | 15 | Jeszie Geronimo | Boston, MA | 15 | Leadership | Purple | |
| 2nd | Purple | Jonathan Lebowitz | New York, NY | 15 | Daniela Bustamante | Boca Raton, FL | 14 | Perseverance | Red (Finale) | |
| Winner | Red | Franke Sisto | Sewell, NJ | 15 | Erika Cook | Lake Forest, CA | 15 | Heart | ||
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| Nick Verderosa | Bethel, CT | 15 | Brittany Harvey | Slidell, LA | 15 |
| Tucker Baer | Littleton, CO | 15 | Kendall Yorkey | Menomonee Falls, WI | 14 |
| Keith Walker II | Chandler, AZ | 14 | Brooke Bellows | Maitland, FL | 14 |
Elimination table
| Contestants | |Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 113 | 12 | ||
| Franke & Erika | SAFE | SAFE | WIN1 | TEMPLE | SAMDHI | SAFE | SAMDHI | TEMPLE | SAFE | WIN | WIN (3) | FIRST | |
| Jonathan & Daniela | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | TEMPLE | TEMPLE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | TEMPLE | WIN (4) | SECOND | |
| Isaac & Jeszie | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAMDHI | OUT | |||
| Shea & Amelia | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||
| Michael & Kylie | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | OUT | |||||||
| Chris & Callie | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||
| John & Julie | SAMDHI | OUT | |||||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (TEMPLE) The team came in last place during the Endurance mission and was forced to go to Temple in the next episode.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
Notes
- 1In "Drop Out," there was no Samadhi to give to another team. The winning team (Red) got the chance to create two super-teams. The Red team created their super-team of Red, Green, and Yellow. The second super-team was Blue, Purple, and Orange. The winning super-team members were all safe from going to the Temple of Fate.
- 2In "Waterworks," the Purple Team was forced to go to Temple of Fate in the next episode for coming last in the Endurance mission. If they won the next Temple Mission (the "Fireball" challenge), they could have sent another team in their place. However, they did not win it, so the Purple Team went to Temple.
- 3In “Spin Fly,” each team won a certain amount of Pyramid Pieces in the challenge, which is indicated in parentheses.
Challenges
- Blocked
- Raft Pull
- Drop Out
- Super Stumped
- Waterworks
- Fireball (a challenge from a previous season voted by "Endurance" fans to appear again)
- Hang Five
- Cubed
- Final Endurance
- Circle of Trust
- Spin Fly
- Final Temple
Season 5 - Endurance: High Sierras (2006-2007)
The fifth season was taped at Shaver LakeShaver Lake
Shaver Lake is an artificial lake on Stevenson Creek, in the Sierra National Forest of Fresno County, California. At elevation , several smaller streams also flow into the lake and receives water from the underground tunnels of Southern California Edison's Big Creek hydroelectric project...
in the High Sierra Mountains of central California. Contestants lived in multi-level tree houses without electricity. The Green Team of Alex Carignan and Cealey Godwin, won the grand prize, a trip to Hawaii.
In a new twist to the fifth season's contestant selection, the Discovery Kids website held a casting poll in which fans could vote for one boy and one girl out of six hopefuls. Garret Manno and Kelsey Schultz won this poll by a narrow margin and were the 99th and 100th contestants out of the history of the program.
In the third episode ("Unwind"), one team – Garret Manno and Anna Asare – was eliminated without going to Temple. They finished last in the first challenge and left the game without a team color; the other seven teams selected colors as they finished. The "colorless team" received the "Immunity Triangle", which they gave to the Purple team of Kelsey and Dakota. The team that received the Triangle of Immunity may use it once to avoid going to the Temple of Fate; they never did.
The Blue team of Connor Finnegan and Taylor Sico-McNulty set a record this season by surviving three trips to the Temple. Dakota Fisher, of the Purple team, was featured in a commercial for Burlington Coat Factory
Burlington Coat Factory
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retailer focusing on clothing and shoes, with over 450 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico.. In 2006, it was acquired by Bain Capital, LLC in a take-private transaction...
. Kelsey Schultz, also of the Purple team, appeared in the movie Queen Sized
Queen Sized
Queen Sized is a Lifetime drama telefilm that premiered on January 12, 2008, starring Nikki Blonsky. The movie was made in Shreveport, LA.-Plot:...
. Max McFarland of the Orange team was featured on in-store advertisements nationwide in Hallmark Gold Crown stores
Hallmark Cards
Hallmark Cards is a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts....
. Aerial Miranda of the Red team, competed in a family edition of Fear Factor
Fear Factor
Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...
.
Contestants and teams
The eight teams competing were:| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece | Temple Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||||||
| 8th | N/A | Garret Manno | Orlando, FL | 13 | Anna Nti Asare | Laramie, WY | 14 | Friendship | got eliminated without going to temple |
| 7th | Gray | Isaac (Ike) Moody | Riverside, CA | 15 | Darci Miller | Baldwin, NY | 15 | Luck | Yellow |
| 6th | Yellow | Aric Manthey | Madison, SD | 15 | Lilly Brown | Bloomington, IN | 15 | Trust | Blue |
| 5th | Orange | Max McFarland | Kansas City, MO | 14 | Kristine Turner | Huntington Beach, CA | 14 | Strength | Blue |
| 4th | Red | Cameron Uranick | Orlando, FL | 14 | Aerial Miranda | Dallas, TX | 14 | Knowledge | Blue |
| 3rd | Blue | Connor Finnegan | Acton, MA | 15 | Taylor Sico-McNulty | Boxford, MA | 14 | Perseverance | Green |
| 2nd | Purple | Dakota Fisher | Eliot, ME | 15 | Kelsey Schultz | Rockwall, TX | 15 | Teamwork | Green (Finale) |
| Winner | Green | Alex Carignan | Leominster, MA | 14 | Cealey Godwin | Tallahassee, FL | 14 | Commitment |
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| Adrian Bardales | LaPlace, LA | 15 | Martina Iwala | Ruston, LA | 14 |
| Rafael Liriano | Bronx, NY | 15 | Stefanie Fernandez | Boca Raton, FL | 15 |
Elimination Table
| Contestants | |Challenges | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 53 | 6 | 7 | 84 | 9 | 10 | 115 | 12 | ||||
| Alex & Cealey | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | FIRST | |||
| Dakota & Kelsey | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAMDHI | WIN | WIN | WIN (3) | SECOND | ||
| Connor & Taylor | SAFE | WIN2 | SAMDHI | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | TEMPLE | WIN | TEMPLE | OUT | ||||
| SAFE | SAFE | CTRL | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | TEMPLE | OUT | ||||||
| Max & Kristine | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | OUT | |||||||
| Aric & Lilly | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
| Issac & Darci | SAFE | SAFE | SAMDHI | SAMDHI | OUT | ||||||||||
| Garret & Anna | OUT | ||||||||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (TEMPLE) The team came in last place during the Endurance mission and was forced to go to Temple in the next episode.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
- (OUT) The team was eliminated without a team color.
- 1 In “Unwind” Garret & Anna finished last in the challenge meaning they were eliminated without receiving a team color.
- 2 In “Hot Potato” the Blue Team of Ike and Taylor won the Samadhi that would allow the team who possessed it to switch two players on any two teams. After receiving the Samadhi, the Red Team used it to put Ike on the Gray team with Darci and Connor on the blue team with Taylor.
- 3 In “Fill & Spill” there was no Samadhi to give to another team. The winning team (Purple) got the chance to create two super-teams. The Purple team created their super-team of Purple, Red, and Orange. The second super-team was Green, Blue, and Yellow. The winning super-team members were all safe from going to the Temple of Fate.
- 4 In “Create Your Own Game” the Red Team was forced to go to Temple of Fate in the next episode for coming last in the Endurance mission. If they won the next Temple Mission (the "Fill ‘Er Up" challenge), they could have sent another team in their place. However, they did not win it, so the Red Team went to Temple.
- 5 In “Slingshot Alley” the Green and Purple teams competed for the final eight pyramid pieces of the game. The Green team won five while the Purple team won three of the pieces.
Challenges
- Unwind
- Hot Potato
- Move It Along
- Walk The Plank
- Fill & Spill
- Superboats
- It’s A Drag
- C.Y.O.G.
- Fill ‘Er Up
- All Tied Up
- Slingshot Alley
- Final Temple
Season 6 – Endurance: Fiji (2007-2008)
Repeating the candidate selection innovation first introduced for Season 5's Endurance: High Sierras, a casting poll was again held at the Discovery Kids website, allowing fans to select two contestants from a group of six hopefuls. The contest ran from June until July 9. Will Cuddy and Leslie Powell won the casting poll (and later became the Green Team). Two contestants are siblings of previous Endurance contestants. Connor Konz's sister Abbey and Leslie Powell's brother Glen both competed in Season 2 (and were subsequently eliminated in the Right-to Stay challenge).Episodes began airing on October 13, 2007, on the Discovery Kids channel with the finale broadcast March 8, 2008. A new feature, the "Magic Box", was introduced in this season's third episode (Mana Kisi), giving a secret advantage to the team that wins it.
The Blue team of Ben Scheuer and Jordyn Barbato won the grand prize which was a trip to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. This was also the second time the blue team has become the endurance champion with Jonna Mannion and Aaron Throrburg being the first in season 1.
Also, with this being the last season, that leaves the Purple, Orange and Yellow teams without winning an Endurance.
Briana Vega (who was on the Yellow Team) became a contestant on High School Musical: Get in the Picture
High School Musical: Get in the Picture
High School Musical: Get in the Picture was a reality-based TV series, which debuted July 20, 2008 on the television channel ABC. Stan Carrizosa was named the winner on September 8, 2008. Tierney Chamberlain was the runner-up....
Rebecca Simonoko (who was eliminated in the right-to-stay challenge) is currently featured on a web series entitled, "Life on Tour," a teen travel experience from the makers of "The Real World."
There was no Gray or Brown team this season, which meant only six teams competed:
| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Piece | Temple Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||||||
| 6th | Yellow | Kyle Curtis | Pearland, TX | 15 | Briana Vega | Winter Springs, FL | 15 | Perseverance | Purple |
| 5th | Purple | Connor Konz | Humble, TX | 15 | Jackie Wei | Highlands Ranch, CO | 15 | Leadership | Blue |
| 4th | Orange | Caleb Courtney | Blowing Rock, NC | 15 | Lauren Dixon | Maitland, FL | 15 | Courage | Green |
| 3rd | Red | Jonathan Young | Orange Beach, AL | 14 | Hannah Gross | West Bloomfield, MI | 14 | Heart | Blue |
| 2nd | Green | Will Cuddy | Beaverton, OR | 15 | Leslie Powell | Austin, TX | 15 | Friendship | Blue (Finale) |
| Winner | Blue | Ben Scheuer | Cloquet, MN | 15 | Jordyn Barbato | Gibsonton, FL | 14 | Strength | |
| Boy | Girl | ||||||||
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age | ||||
| Andres Ramirez | Austin, TX | 15 | Rebecca Simonoko | Ludlow, MA | 15 | ||||
| Matthew Jones | Raleigh, NC | 14 | Cinnamon Aldridge | Omaha, NE | 13 | ||||
Elimination Table
| Contestants | |Challenges | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 73 | 8 | 95 | 10 | |||
| Ben & Jordyn | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAFE | WIN | TEMPLE | WIN (2) | FIRST | ||
| Will & Leslie | WIN1 | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | TEMPLE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN (3) | SECOND | |
| Jonathan & Hannah | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAMDHI | WIN | WIN4 | OUT | |||
| Caleb & Lauren | SAFE | WIN2 | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | OUT | |||||
| Connor & Jackie | SAFE | SAFE | TEMPLE | SAMDHI | OUT | |||||||
| Kyle & Briana | SAFE | TEMPLE | OUT | |||||||||
Key
- (FIRST) The team won the Final Temple Mission and became “Endurance” Champions.
- (SECOND) The team lost the Final Temple Mission and were the runners-up.
- (WIN) The team won the Endurance Mission, the previously eliminated team's pyramid pieces, and the Samadhi.
- (WIN) The team won the Temple Mission.
- (SAMDHI) The team was handicapped with the Samadhi by the winning team.
- (SAFE) The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to Temple or did not receive the Samadhi.
- (TEMPLE) The team won at the Temple of Fate and avoided elimination.
- (TEMPLE) The team was selected to go to Temple by the Endurance mission winners.
- (OUT) The team lost at the Temple of Fate and was eliminated.
- 1 By winning the first challenge, the Green team won the Magic Box.
- 2 The Orange team decided to remove the Samadhi from the game so that they could instead automatically send the Yellow team to the Temple of Fate.
- 3 In “Shark Bait” the Blue and Red Teams won the challenge, granting them both immunity from the Temple of Fate.
- 4 In “Stand Bags” the Red Team won the challenge but was not guaranteed immunity because of it.
- 5 In the "Scavenger Hunt" challenge, the Blue and Green teams competed for the final five pyramid pieces of the game. The Blue team won two while the Green team won three of the pieces.
Status
| Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ale | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Alejandro | IN | IN | IN | LADY | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Angel | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Arodi | IN | IN | IN | IN | LADY | LADY | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Brenda | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Caro | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Cecilia | IN | IN | LADY | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Chema | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Chia | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Citlali | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Edgar | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Emmanuel | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Fernando | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Francisco | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Jonathan | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Juan | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Lesly | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LADY | LADY | LADY | LADY | ||||
| Lorena | LADY | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Lucia | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Marta | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Oscar | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Perla | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Rubi | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Samuel | IN | LADY | IN | IN | IN | WIN | LADY | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Susana | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||
| Homero | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | OUT | |||||||||
Key
- The person was given the Lady and won a Bible-a-thon.
- The person was given the Lady that week.
- The person was still carrying the Lady from the previous week.
- The person won the week's Bible-a-thon.
- The person was not named or did not assist.
- The person willingly left the group.
Notes
- On week 6 Arodi kept the Lady due to trip.
- Through week 6 Homero said he was leaving the group due personal reasons, but would still attending on and off.
- On week 8 the group was splited into two teams to compete on the Bible-a-thon.
- Lessly was still carrying the Lady on weeks 9, 10.
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