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- Last time on "99 To Beat"...

After getting tied up against Seth...

- Keep going. Push!

- Oh, my God. - What the heck!

- I can't watch this.

- We said a fond farewell to James.

He really is in so many ways the heart and soul of the show.

Ciara and Mario kiss goodbye...

- I wanted him to win more than me.

- And it wasn't quite arrivederci for Gianna...

- It's not going. - As she sent home...

- Colin, put the damn lid on!

[buzzer blares]

- Another Wagner.

69 have been eliminated, 31 remain.

With a million dollars on the line,

there's just one rule.

all: Don't finish last!

[dramatic music]

[cheers and applause]

- Players, welcome to "99 To Beat,"

where seemingly simple games mean serious money.

You know this.

We started out with 100 players.

Now we are down to 31 of you.

- Someone here in this circle will walk away with $1 million.

- Wow. - And that's a fact.

But before that, you need to remember the golden rule.

You don't have to finish first.

You don't have to be the best.

Just whatever you do...

all: Don't finish last.

[cheers and applause]

[tense music]

- Everyone here is pretty strong.

But besides me and Cara-Maria, Miranda,

I don't really see many people here as competition.

Me, you, and Miranda, just us three.

We got it.

I'm confident I can do this.

The tensions are high, but I'm stronger.

- I believe a lot of the skills from firefighting,

try to make a concise decision,

I think it's helped a lot with the games.

And I'm gonna continue with that pattern,

and hopefully, it works well for me.

[speaker clicks]

[suspenseful music]

- Players, you will take turns throwing a disk into a target.

The last person to land their disk in the target

will be eliminated.

- Here we go.

- If I ever thought a million dollars was on the line

for throwing a disk like this,

I would have been doing it a lot more.

But as always, I'm cautiously optimistic.

- This has gotta be a walk in the park

for front-runner David R, right?

- I have broken six world records for throwing disks.

It would be embarrassing not to get it in on the first try.

You don't get paid anything to break records.

If I win, this would be making back the money I've spent

to break 350 world records.

- We don't get to talk enough about Hadieh

and how consistent she is.

- I'm pretty confident going into this game.

I used to play a game with a disk,

and muscle memory works.

For me, it's just stay focused.

One and done, baby. Let's do this.

[buzzer blares]

- Alex going first.

- Is this easier or harder than these contestants expect?

- Come on, Alex.

- I'm just gonna throw it out there

before they throw it out there.

I think it's gonna be easier than they expect.

♪

Okay, maybe it's gonna be harder than it looks.

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

[buzzer blares]

Nothing wrong with missing your first shot.

But what's interesting about this game,

because everyone's doing it one at a time,

everyone's gonna be trembling.

Everyone's gonna be fighting their nerves.

And that's gonna affect their throw.

- It will.

- Is Hadieh next?

- Whoa! - Yeah, baby!

- Yes! - Whoo!

That has to feel good.

- Look at you. - Boom goes the dynamite.

- Boom goes the dynamite, indeed.

[upbeat music]

Interesting, like, vertical throw.

Whoa!

- Oh, yeah!

- Look at that.

She's like a superhero. - Whoo!

- Man, I just think about the release.

And if you're anxious, wah!

- Yeah, exactly.

- Mm.

Hey, oh, I thought that was in.

That's like a field goal when I think it goes in and it didn't.

Yeah! Nope.

- Look at Jared.

- The pressure.

- Talking to the basket, being friends with the basket.

- Ooh, short.

[buzzer blares] - Okay.

It's okay. Come on, Tabi.

- Yes, yes.

- Oh, I thought that was going in.

- It looks like the higher you get,

it kind of starts to sail, like, a different way.

- Yes.

[tense music]

♪

- Oh! - Yes!

- Good job. - Whoo!

- Let's go, Luigi.

- Oh, yeah!

Luigi!

- Hit the rim and bounced in.

Really great tactic.

Not sure if he meant it, but it worked.

- Good job, dude.

Good job.

- The Steph Curry of "99 To Beat," Luigi.

- Yeah!

- Whoa.

- David R is ridiculous.

- Come on.

- He made that look easy.

- He made it look easy.

- We know what to do now.

- 24 remaining.

Oh, I thought it was going in.

- [screams]

- Geraldine, she's just fierce right now.

Look at that.

- Oh, my God!

- Danni has moved on.

Marsha!

- This side of the circle, Ken,

we're starting to see people make it.

- I think so.

- Oh, thank you, God.

- Oh, wow.

- Yes!

Proud of you, son.

- Dagnabbit!

Oh, man!

- 22 players through.

9 left.

- Carlene and Leo, focus up.

- Ken, we're seeing the Wagners struggle.

There's three of them left.

Definitely not one that they do on Sunday afternoon together.

- [laughs]

[buzzer blares] - Oh, no. Oh, no.

That's gonna hurt. - That is just nerves.

That is nerves, and it's slipping out of your hand.

Oh, that hurts to watch.

- Still too short.

Oh, man.

- Oh! - Oh!

- Oh, my God.

Narrowly missing.

These are good throws.

- Unlucky bounce.

- Leo.

First of all, I'd raise his cowboy hat for visibility.

- Yeah, great point.

- I don't play basketball with blindfolds.

- [laughs]

- In the heat of the moment, I'm extremely competitive.

I'm a ranch hand by trade,

but I'm also a Team USA athlete with pentathlon.

So I'm hoping to use the money to send me to the Olympics.

♪

- Yeah! - Wow.

From our vantage point, that didn't look

like it was going in at all.

- I didn't think it was gonna go in.

Peter.

There should just be, like, a holy beam of light.

Great job, Leandra, one of the Wagners.

- Good job.

- Keeping the Wagner dream alive.

- Anna's moving on.

Maybe the most resilient Wagner of them all.

Five left.

- This is really tough, watching everyone

who struggles start to nail it.

One by one by one, the numbers are smaller and smaller,

and Joann is one of those numbers.

- Yes!

- Wow.

And then there were three.

- Miko, Joann, Tabi--

one of them is going home

just because they finished last on a disk throw.

- Everybody watching at home, I guarantee,

they're gonna be seeing this, and they're like,

"Really? It's a disk."

So close.

The stakes change when you're doing it for a million dollars,

and everybody watching you,

and it's just so different.

This is not a good feeling.

- Joann.

[gasps]

Slipped out of her hand.

- Fetal position.

That's no position for a queen.

That's just not working.

- That's his worst one, Ken. - It's not working.

- Yeah, it's not working. - I think that's his worst one.

- He's not adjusting.

This game is all about adjustments.

- Why am I struggling?

♪

- Whoa!

Tabi is going through.

There will be no Wagners left behind.

- Put it on a T-shirt.

- You got it.

- How the cookie crumbles.

- Miko, Queen Joann, one of them will be going home.

- Shoot.

Right now, these players feel so defeated, Ken.

- Yeah.

[buzzer blares]

- None of this is as easy as it looks

when there's a million dollars on the line.

- And they've been going for 21 minutes now.

It's gotta be exhausting.

- I'm giving up.

Like, I'm giving up.

- So un-queen-like.

Don't give up that throne.

- Yeah, exactly.

[gasps]

That was the closest yet, the best throw he has had.

Could that break him? - Heartbreaker.

- If Joann makes this, Miko is eliminated.

- This could be the throw that destroys someone's

million-dollar dream.

- [screaming] - Oh!

- [gasps]

[suspenseful music]

- If Joann makes this, Miko is eliminated.

This could be the throw that destroys someone's

million-dollar dream.

- [screams] - Oh!

Oh, my God.

- Wow.

[buzzer blares]

- Miko goes home.

And to think, Joann wanted to quit.

- Good job, girl.

- Wow, man, that was tense.

- Way to lock in.

- Oh, don't skip me. Let's go.

- Uh-uh. Hell, no.

Hell, no, girl.

- Everyone's stunned.

Miko, everybody's favorite.

- I think I'm in shock.

- This one just caught me.

It's not my day.

[somber music]

- Miko, your tenacity and persistence

have really shone through.

But you finished in 31st place,

and unfortunately, your million-dollar dream is over.

[cheers and applause]

- I'm flabbergasted.

My brother just passed.

And if I had the million,

I wanted to just take care of family.

But money isn't everything,

and I can take this experience with me.

Anything else is just a bonus.

- Miko is the 70th player to be eliminated,

meaning that prize now stands at $700,000.

- Lot o' money.

Is it too late for me to throw my hat in the ring?

All right, I'm gonna compete as a wild card.

- [laughs]

[speaker clicks]

- Players, you will each have a suitcase

that you have to push towards a target on the floor.

The players furthest from the center of the target

in each heat will face off against each other.

In the playoff, the player furthest from the target

will be eliminated.

- All right, circle sister.

- We can pull through this together.

- I actually got a good curling technique.

- I bet you do. - Yeah.

- Yeah, he does great in everything.

- You're too well-rounded.

- Is it me, or does Peter look more holy

as the game progresses on?

This is a guy who does, like, MMA for kicks, literally.

I'm just so fascinated with him.

- Strategy is just gonna be play my game.

Don't worry about what everybody else is doing.

And if I gotta knock somebody's suitcase

out of the way,

that's just the nature of the game, baby.

We're all here to win.

- I'm feeling confident.

I know that I can aim and get something in a target.

So I'll see you guys in the finish line.

[buzzer blares] - Okay, Ken. Heat 1.

I wonder what tactics we're gonna see.

Kind of doing a wind up by Ciara here.

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

- This is going off the rails.

- Come on, Anna.

- My theory is a suitcase matched her outfit.

I felt like put her in psychological ease.

Cara, she's just gonna be adjusting the wheels.

Really smart.

Ciara, unfortunately, has to go to the elimination round.

- Here we go. Heat 2. Gianna up first, Ken.

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, man.

Shoot.

- Great job, Leandra.

This might be a boon to Joann's confidence

and really erase the memories of the last event.

- That's pretty close.

- Closest so far.

Front-runner David R.

Oh, oh.

Gianna, unfortunately, will be joining Ciara

in the elimination round.

- Heat 3. Here we go.

- Danni, she is going for it.

- See it all over her face.

- [gasps] - Wow.

- No, no. Stop, stop, stop.

- Let's go, Chris.

[suspenseful music]

Oh, no.

Turned too much.

Unless Kevin just throws it backwards.

- Oh, no. - Come back.

- I'm okay. I'm okay.

- My son, Chris, is going to the elimination round,

which destroys me as a father.

- So far, we have Ciara, Gianna, and Chris

going to the final elimination playoff.

But who's gonna be joining them from Heats 4, 5, and 6?

Let's get Heat 4 underway, Ken.

- Marlina first.

- So that was a hard push.

- Damn.

- It'll be interesting to see what Melissa does here.

- If anyone can make an adjustment, it's Melissa.

- Stop.

Stop.

- Tabi is third.

- Why is it going that way?

- Oh, mine's out.

- Miranda is the furthest.

- Heat 5.

- Preston. Here we go.

Great job, Leo.

- If I'm Jennifer, you could try to knock him out.

- Knock him out. Knock him out. I agree.

Good, good, good, good, good, good.

Boom.

Have we seen David A in an elimination round?

- I don't believe so.

- I feel like that's me.

- I think so too.

- Well, we will now.

- Heat 6. Final heat, Ken.

- Okay. First up, Jared.

- Lord, have mercy.

- Whoa.

That's something else.

- You are beautiful.

You are elegant.

And you are perfectly placed.

- Wow.

- That's really good.

- Good job, Dakota.

- She slipped.

Oh, man.

So, Marsha is the final person going

into the elimination round.

- What a group.

[tense music]

- Elimination round.

They know how to play the game now.

They have a second chance.

One of them will be going home.

- I don't know how to do.

- I don't. I just--

- I'm overthinking it, I think. - I know.

Me too. - I think that we're here.

- I know. It's gonna be okay.

- Stakes are incredibly high.

I mean, a million dollars on the line, top 30.

There's not a lot of people left,

and I'm gonna have to get through

five really tough players

in order to make it out of this final match-up.

- Okay, so they're picking their numbers now

to see where they're actually gonna go in this.

Here's Ciara. She got two.

- She got two. Very good.

- David A with a fiveski, five hole.

- Three.

- Miranda, third.

Gianna, six.

Great spot.

- And she went first last time.

- Yep, she went first last time.

You're right.

Four, great spot for Chris.

- Marsha getting the one.

- Oh, no, Marsha.

That's the tough spot.

- I wanna make sure this time my hands don't slip.

And I gotta bring this home for Michaela.

- Here we go, Ken, elimination round.

- Look at the determination. - Yeah.

- She's been here before.

She's been on the verge of elimination

and has always kept her cool.

♪

- Wow, that was a really good push.

- That's really good.

- Really, really good.

And it's kind of on the outside where

maybe it won't get bumped, you know?

- Ciara, she's mentally tough.

She's a Power Ranger, for God's sake,

so she can handle this.

Wait.

Ciara just outstanding.

- Nice.

- Yeah, she's gotta be happy with that.

- They are all better at this round right now.

- You got it, Miranda.

- The trio looks nervous.

Could Miranda be going home?

- Miranda has played so well through all these challenges.

- And she's got that exterminator background.

That involves precision, like spraying ants

and stuff like that.

- [laughs]

♪

- Oh, no.

Please, please, please, please, please.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

- Wow.

- Yeah! - Wow.

- She's good! She's good.

- This is the closest it's been.

- He's gonna have to knock somebody out of the way.

You wanna get it in the middle of those.

- Come on, Chris. Come on.

Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy.

- Two of them have kind of created a little wall

on the left side,

so I'm thinking do the same throw I did last time

and hope that that spin kind of carries me towards the middle.

Or else I'm going home.

♪

- Ooh!

- Oh, Marsha's safe now.

- Oh, my.

- Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

- Damn.

- That's a good one.

- Ciara is closer, and he is closer.

This is crazy.

- Gianna, start to the right.

- Right now, Chris is furthest away.

It all comes down to Gianna with the final push.

She just has to beat him, or she's going home.

- This is worse than LAX baggage claim.

- So salt of the Earth celebrities

that travel commercial like you, me,

we can painfully relate to these things.

And in no way are we considered out of touch.

Chris or Gianna?

This will determine who's going home.

- Oh, my God.

♪

- Right now, Chris is furthest away.

It all comes down to Gianna with the final push.

[suspenseful music]

Oh, my God.

♪

- Oh.

- I think Chris is furthest out.

Shoot.

- It's okay. - Oh, man.

- Look at Chris.

Look at them already hugging.

They already know the outcome.

- I appreciate you guys.

- The person whose suitcase is furthest away

from the center of the target is...

Chris.

Therefore, Chris, you are eliminated.

[buzzer blares]

- Chris leaving.

Yes, he's going home,

but he's not going home a loser.

- It's okay.

- Thought for sure you were gonna be all right, man.

- I know, I thought so too. - Oh, gosh.

It's been fun playing with you.

- Oh, thanks, Gia.

- I'm proud of you, son!

- Thank you, Dad.

- I'm proud of you.

- I'm gonna miss you.

- I joke around with people who I love.

I always called him my son.

He always called me Dad.

We'll be keeping in touch.

Absolutely.

Because he's probably gonna be a big star one day,

and he'll remember I was always nice to him,

and he'll give me a job.

Chris, your wholesome, positive energy and spirit

really enlightened the entire competition,

but unfortunately, you finished in 30th place

and your million-dollar dream is over.

[upbeat music]

- I'm disappointed to be going out.

I thought that I was set up to go just a little bit further.

Just hoping I'd pull a number with a two in it at least.

But I still outlasted 70 people in this competition,

so that's nothing to be upset about.

- Chris is the 71st player to be eliminated,

meaning that the prize now stands at $710,000.

[applause]

- Oh, my God.

[speaker clicks]

- Players, you must bounce a pencil on its eraser

and land it point down into a cup.

The pencil must turn a minimum of 180 degrees.

The last player to land their pencil will be eliminated.

- One bounce, a pencil in the cup.

All day tomorrow, we'll have good luck.

- Tomorrow, we'll have good luck.

[tense music]

- Do you have records of this kind of thing too?

- For bouncing ping pong balls into cups, yes.

Pencils, not as much.

It'll take, like, four tries. That's what I'm thinking.

- The quicker you try it, the more chances you have.

- Yes.

I don't wanna count my chickens before they hatch,

but I have done this before.

- I think you gotta do,

like, a ding, and then it goes like a boom.

I'm feeling a little iffy about this one, not too sure.

I've never held a million-dollar pencil.

I'm just praying for the best.

- I think it's easy who we think will do well--

David R. - David R, of course.

- I mean, this guy, he doesn't miss.

- Yes, he probably does this for breakfast.

- [laughs]

- And I think people who were close

to being eliminated in the last game,

I think they'll be motivated and focused.

You talk about Gianna, Miranda, Marsha.

- Look how far back Ronald is from the desk.

I wonder--it's gotta be because of the height.

- How tall is Ronald?

That's like-- - I know.

Here we go, Ken.

- And they are off.

[energetic music]

- Ref, ref.

- Danni, the first one. - Danni, wow.

- Ref. - Leandra's going.

- Oh, my God. I don't know how to do it.

- Anna's in.

Jennifer, Carlene.

- Oh, thank God.

- Ten players left.

This is going faster than I thought.

- Me too. - Ref.

- Oh, good job, Marissa.

- Ref.

Thank you.

- 22 players through.

7 left. - Oh!

- I beat David R.

- Yo.

- I am shocked about David R.

It's these finesse games, hand shakes.

- Same with Ronald.

- Not too hard, Ronald.

Not too hard.

- Yes!

Yes!

- Hadieh's in.

- Gianna, point the tip to the cup.

- Peter.

- Peter's in. - Hallelujah.

Ronald's in!

Alex is in! - Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

- Final three-- Marsha, Gianna, David R.

[suspenseful music]

Marsha, she is steady as a cucumber.

- Towards the cup, Marsha.

- Gianna.

- Gianna looks panicked.

♪

- Marsha, let it bounce on its own.

There you go!

- Oh, my God, Marsha.

Then Gianna and David R, one of them are going home.

- Wow, wow, wow. - This is crazy.

David R has not ever been this close to elimination ever.

- Ever.

- Gianna's been in the bottom multiple times.

♪

God, Gianna's really panicking right now.

But again, so is David R.

- I've never been close to being out before.

But this has gone so fast,

I don't have time to process

that it's even a chance at this point.

I'm focused on getting that pencil in the cup.

- They're just, like, not hitting it.

- Oh, my gosh.

- So close.

Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh.

- Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

- Are you kidding me?

The upset of the season!

David R, front-runner, has gone home.

That is crazy.

I am in shock.

I cannot believe this. - Wow.

- Gianna has just taken down Goliath.

[overlapping speech]

- I can't believe it.

I honestly cannot believe it.

I'm still in shock.

What just happened?

- You just took down the giant.

- We were talking about bouncing a pencil in the cup,

and this felt like the Stanley Cup.

This was nuts.

- Of all the things.

I have so many bouncing records.

- I did not see this.

- The biggest elimination in "99 To Beat" history.

- Anyone can go home at any time.

- It's not about being the best.

It's about not finishing last, and he finished last.

- You definitely pushed the field, made us better.

- This is the number one seed

being eliminated early in the playoffs.

- It opens it up for a lot of people.

- David R, you were the monster favorite,

but unfortunately, you finished in 29th place,

and sadly, your million-dollar dream is over.

- Come on!

I've had one of the biggest failures of my life.

But this story is not gonna define me.

I met the most incredible people.

Every contestant here has an amazing story,

and I'm blessed to have met them, talked with them,

and become friends.

- David R is the 72nd player to be eliminated,

meaning that the prize now stands at $720,000.

- Wow.

- Whoo!

- I need that money.

[dramatic music]

♪

[tense music]

[speaker clicks]

- Players, this is a team game.

You will each be attached to an end of a rope

that is braided together.

You must untangle the ropes.

The last team to untangle themselves

will all be eliminated.

Team captains have been chosen at random.

- If you have a bad team, then this is gonna suck.

- Gray Team captain, Jennifer.

- Jennifer. She's a gamer.

- Yeah, Jen.

- Yellow Team captain, Ronald.

- Ronald, being a firefighter, deals with hoses,

knowing how to wind them up.

- The captain of the Pink Team--Peter.

[applause]

The captain of the Blue Team, Miranda.

- Miranda--will she choose her partners in crime,

Cara-Maria and Dakota?

Will the Cobra Kai get back together?

- I don't think they will.

I think they're gonna get split up.

- They better know,

like, I'm gonna be on Miranda's team.

- The captain of the Red Team, Luigi.

- Luigi. - Okay.

- Now we have come to play.

- Tiny but mighty.

- The captain of the Black Team, Tommy.

- I always thought he could be a great leader.

This is his time to shine.

- Green Team captain, Anna.

- The only two captains that we've had before

have been Ronald and Peter.

Everybody else, this is their first time.

- Jennifer, choose a player to join your team.

- Preston.

- Preston, the human pretzel.

- Yes. - I just came up with that.

- Kevin. [applause]

- Ciara.

- A Power Ranger.

- What if she didn't pick one of those two?

- Just do it, my little peanut.

- Cara-Marie.

- [laughs] Love it.

- Jake C.

- Melissa. - Hey, let's go.

- David.

- A non-Wagner, David A, a great choice.

Okay. It's the second round picks.

- Gianna.

- Carol.

- Being team captain is so much pressure.

It's like you're ten years old at dodgeball--

all kinds of social dynamics,

and you wanna pick the best team you can.

You wanna win.

- Wait, if Peter picks Dakota,

this could be the end of the Cobra Kai.

Whoa.

- Wait, if Peter picks Dakota,

this could be the end of the Cobra Kai.

- Dakota. - Whoa.

- Oh! - Whoa.

- Yeah, break them up.

- You better ask for forgiveness, sir.

- I was so close.

- I'm shocked.

- Danni, get your butt over here.

- Hadieh. - Whoo!

- Jared.

- Tabi.

- The bloodline.

- Leandra.

- Alex.

- He's a dancer.

- He knows choreography.

He knows how to step through things.

- Yes.

- Geraldine.

Come on.

- Leo.

- Leo, the rancher.

- Joann.

- Carlene.

- Marsha.

- Yeah, there we go.

- Team Miranda, that's the team to beat--

"Survivor" winner, you have a two-time winner

of "The Challenge," a great team on paper to beat.

Team Peter, just the right height.

They're all athletic. - Good point.

Every game is high stakes at this point

because we know every player is capable.

Every player is strong.

- Team Anna is really good. - All same height, pretty much.

- All same height, pretty much.

- We're getting down in numbers.

There's not a lot of players anymore.

So everything's at stake.

- I'm still feeling the ripple effect

from David R being eliminated. - What are you feeling?

What are your symptoms?

- It's almost like this was "The Matrix," and we lost Neo.

- Whoa.

- Who's gonna be new Neo?

Because there's a lot of alphas here.

But as you know, working in football,

there's the alpha alpha.

You have Tom Bradys, the Patrick Mahomes.

So who is the new alpha alpha?

I feel like people are just gonna step up to the plate.

- Great point.

all: Team Luigi!

all: Yellow!

all: Whoo!

[buzzer blares]

- Here we go, Ken.

- And we are off.

- Nice. Right here.

- Carlene over. - You got it.

- I'm stepping under.

- Imagine trying to figure this out with three other people.

I would start going cross-eyed. - Yeah.

- Because you're like, which way is it going?

- Very good, very good.

- Over you. - Over me.

- Now, you gotta go over.

- Yeah.

- Look at Team Jennifer.

They are already going in sync.

- Hold on. - Okay.

- That's good. That's two at a time.

- Cara is really doing the leading,

which I'll say this, a woman helping you untangle things.

- Yes. - I get it.

- Team Luigi is just talking right now.

They're just not doing anything.

- How does this work? - Oh, we need to pull this.

- Luigi is not a video game character,

and in fact, a human teacher.

- You know what this reminds me of?

When you're trying to do a potholder,

and you're feeling yourself.

Did you ever do those back in the day?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Man, I crushed at potholder.

[energetic music]

♪

It's hard to tell who's ahead.

- Why does this seem like Team Jennifer is the fastest,

but they look like they're lagging behind Team Ronald?

- I'm over here. - Yeah, I got it.

I got it. I got it.

- Who's on top? Who's on top?

- Ah, it looks like a little miscommunication

here with Team Miranda.

- Control, who's on top?

- Okay--

- Under.

- Team Luigi has no rhythm right now.

- Oh, goodness. - Over.

- Under.

- Good job, good job, good job.

- Melissa is very big into the good job,

and I am here for that. - Me too.

- Good job, good job, good job. - Look at Tommy.

Did you see him maneuver out of that?

- Yeah, are you surprised? - Oh, my God.

No, I'm not. - This guy, he's got the moves.

- Dude, he's a joy to watch.

Fitting because he's a dancer.

Team Luigi is just--

- Oh, yeah. They're struggling.

- Hold on. I gotta go all the way.

- Team Ronald is not doing well, in my opinion.

I just think they got a long ways to go.

- Maybe still trying to find their rhythm.

- Under me. - Yep.

- Wow, look at Ciara and Dakota working so well together.

- Yeah.

- Definitely in the lead.

Team Anna is rocking it.

- I am pumped for her. - Right?

- To come into her own since her husband was eliminated.

- I can do it over.

- Quick, quick.

- Good job, Leo.

- As these guys are getting closer and closer to the end,

their rope, I feel like is getting too close to the wall.

I think you need to pull it back a little bit

to see how much you have.

- Come on. Come on, like--

- Team Peter is like, they're done.

You gotta run back.

That's incredible.

Team Peter is new David.

- Thumbs up. [cheering]

- Wow. Good for them.

- Good for them.

Team Miranda, yes, yes, yes.

- The Cobra Kai live again.

- Let's go back to our spot.

- Wow, Team Anna right there.

- Yes! - Yes. Okay.

- Look at this.

I think Team Jennifer is next.

- Oh, my gosh. Go, pull, pull, pull, pull.

- Good job on Jennifer, the first team she's led.

[cheering]

- Come on.

- All the Wagners are through.

- Wow, you can't kill them off.

- That was awesome, guys.

Amazing.

[suspenseful music]

- Ken, there's only three teams left.

- This is going to be a nail-biter.

- Coming through. Coming through.

Almost there. Run right through the bag.

- White. It's white.

- There's so much rope. I can't imagine.

I'd be freaking out.

- Here we go. Tommy.

- Team Tommy is about to complete.

- Are we fully open?

- Back it up, back it up, back it up.

- Go, go, go, go, go.

Oh, my God. - It's okay.

Go, go, go, go.

- Yes!

- Our final two.

- Could this be the game that our queen goes home?

Or is this the game our beloved Captain Ronald goes home?

- Go, go. We're still in it. Go, go, go.

- We're feeling a little stressed.

I'm looking at Hadieh.

She's my circle buddy.

I'm nervous because it's down between the two of us.

- Keep fighting. Keep fighting. Keep fighting.

- We are going over, under, working hard,

pushing as much as we can.

- Look, Team Ronald's really making a comeback right now.

- Wait. Go over.

- Go back. You have to go back.

- Go back. Come here. Come here.

- Over Ron. Over Ron.

- Don't trip, don't trip, don't trip.

- Keep going, keep going, keep going, you guys.

- There's some drama there right now.

- Keep going. Over.

- They're about to go.

- Keep going, keep going.

♪

- Keep going, keep going, keep going, you guys.

- It's still tangled. - Hold on.

- There's some drama there right now.

They have to do a little bit more untangling.

- Keep going, keep going.

- It's down to Team Ronald versus Team Luigi.

- Go back, go back.

- Which four players are about to go home?

[suspenseful music]

Yeah, Team Luigi is eliminated.

- Oh, no.

- You have Hadieh, Jake C, the queen Joann, and Luigi.

This is...

- That's tough. - Shattering.

- That is a lot harder than it looks.

- It's so much harder.

- We definitely didn't go out for lack of trying.

Unfortunately, it just wasn't in our favor today.

- I have enjoyed you so well.

- Oh, same, Danni.

- Queen Joann, everyone here just

loves you and respects you.

Team Luigi, I'm afraid that you finished in last place.

Hadieh, Jake C, Queen Joann, and Luigi,

sadly, your million-dollar dream is over.

- "99 To Beat" is one of the most fun times

I've ever had in my life.

I may not have brought home the prize,

but I loved every single minute.

- Love you, Luigi!

Love you, Jake C!

Love you, Hadieh!

My queen, my queen.

[applause]

- With four people eliminated,

that prize has just grown by another $40,000

and now stands at $760,000.

[cheers and applause]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Players, you will start this game inside a pop-up tent.

You must pack up the tent and place it back in its bag

with the zipper fully closed.

The last player to pack up their tent will be eliminated.

- Interesting.

- Very interesting.

- I developed vitiligo at the age of 14, which was tough,

but I gained that confidence when I started modeling.

I never wanna go in there saying like,

yeah, I'm confident. I got this.

I'm gonna win. And then turn around and lose.

So I'm just gonna say I'm very positive in myself.

I'm gonna believe in myself and do what I can.

And I got this.

- It's crazy.

We got 24 remaining.

Who's outdoorsy here?

- Maybe Leo, the rancher.

- The two bottom wires, you want them to get

together as soon as possible.

My cousin had one just like this.

I think this is gonna be a very fast challenge.

Cut to me losing this challenge.

Could be.

- Wagners, I feel like that's what they do.

They sleep in tents.

I don't know.

- Family camping trips.

- I feel like I know how to do it.

But I'm nervous because I'm like,

when you get down to it, then, you know.

- Do you think Kevin, our soon-to-be dad,

is good with the tent?

- Being a first-time dad and with my wife not having a job,

I've got a lot on the line here.

I just really wanna bring the money home

for my beautiful wife and for our child.

[twangy upbeat music]

- Look at how everybody is just nestled

in their cocoon so quickly.

- Ronald can barely fit in his.

- Rock and roll, baby.

Let's go.

- This is ridiculous.

- Oh, my gosh.

- Danni, our "Survivor" winner,

knows how to pack a pop-up tent.

- Being a sports mom, I've been doing this every weekend

for how many years now.

And I know my husband is going to be

laughing right now knowing that I'm terrible at this.

- Oh, this is fun.

I feel like a cat.

Meow.

[buzzer blares]

- And they are off.

Whoa, okay.

They all awoke from their slumber very quickly.

Gianna is actually surprisingly fast.

- Oh, yes, yes, yes.

- Here's the thing.

Just when you count her out, she always surprises you.

- True.

[tense music]

- Cara right there is almost done.

That is crazy.

- [screaming]

- Leo finished first.

- Ref! - Look at that.

Geraldine finish before Cara.

- Yeah! - Oh, my gosh.

- Squish the dark ends together.

- That's what I did. - Then start.

There you go.

- Agonizing.

Look at Tabi.

- Ref! - Look at the Wagners.

Work it.

- It won't close!

- And, kind of, it's like origami.

Figure it out, how to hold it up.

- Origami. Well said.

- Completely zipped. Thank you.

- Come on, come on.

Dakota, come on.

- Press and fold it the other way.

Press and fold it the other way.

- Marsha is struggling.

- It's not going in.

- Leandra is done.

- Three of the Wagners are through.

Kevin is through. - Kevin is through.

- This is--this is crazy.

- Oh, man.

Alex is really far behind.

Oh, Carlene had to start over.

- And so has Peter. - Peter.

- This is not good.

- Don't tell me Peter is going to be eliminated.

We've already ordained him as the next front-runner.

- [grunting] - Ref, ref!

- 16 are through. 8 left.

- Oh, my God.

- Alex and Carlene have had to rethink

how they're folding this up.

They're really struggling.

- That would be me too.

I'm a glamping type of gal. - [laughs]

- It's funny how the tides turn so quickly because Peter

was really far behind.

Now he's on the verge of packing it.

- Yeah, no.

- And Gianna's been, like, on the verge of packing it

for seemingly forever.

- G, do you think that's going in or no?

- No.

- Oh, my God.

Gianna had to start over.

What is going on here?

Melissa.

Coach is through.

- This is the first one Preston's

really struggled with. - I know.

- Retwist it, Preston.

- But the thing is, once you have to repack it,

and it's like, pop it up again.

- Yeah. - Panic sets in.

- I can't.

- Period!

- Jared is through.

- Six are left.

- Grab it from the top, Gianna.

And then twist your wrist.

- Preston, look at us.

Grab a top corner and a side corner.

- Carlene's almost done.

Preston looks like he is--

Preston's moving up.

Peter is moving on.

- Pop, pop.

- Whoa!

Carlene is moving on through.

Incredible.

Final three-- Marsha, Gianna, Alex.

One of them is going home.

- Marsha, you need to be on the other side.

- This side? - Yes, opposite of the bag.

- This is so close. - This is so close.

- Good. Kneel on it.

Put your weight on it. - No.

- No. - No, just grab the top.

Just stop. Stop what you're doing.

- What top?

- I honestly cannot tell who is in the lead.

- Now that it's less people, you gotta be quicker.

I'm really feeling the pressure.

Really sweating, trying to get this tent into the bag,

but it just won't budge.

- This, the rest of this is easy.

It's just zipping.

- A lot of people saying, zip it, Marsha.

You can do this, Marsha.

Okay, I'm getting tired.

♪

- Whoa, Marsha.

Final two--Gianna, almost on the verge of elimination

for the second time. - Oh, God.

I wanna scream. You got it.

You got it. You got it.

You got it. - Alex has almost got it.

Come on, Alex.

Alex is on the verge.

Oh, my God.

Alex is on the verge.

♪

- Final two-- Gianna, almost on the verge

of elimination for the second time in one day.

- Oh, God. I wanna scream.

You got it. You got it.

- Alex is on the verge.

Oh, my God, Alex is on the verge.

Oh, my God, Alex has to start all over again.

This is outrageous.

As the late King David, who is still alive, said,

these sweaty palms are the worst.

- The late King David.

- Oh, G--oh, Gianna's so close, so close.

Are you kidding me?

- Oh, my gosh.

- Yes, she's got that clutch gene,

but still, is it too little, too late?

[clock ticking] [tense music]

♪

- Oh, my God.

Gianna has moved on through.

Alex is eliminated.

- Poor Alex.

- If we had an MVP of every episode of "99 To Beat,"

it would be Gianna.

- She doesn't back down.

She keeps it going even when she's bottom two.

It's insane.

- Bottom two twice today. - You did it.

- Thanks. - Way to fight.

Way to fight. - Good job.

- Way to fight.

- I'm sweating bullets.

My nerves are shot.

My heart rate is up.

Doesn't matter if I finish first or at the very end

because I'm still here.

- Oh, I'm sorry. - It's okay.

I couldn't get it in for nothing.

- Oh, Alex.

You fought hard.

- I never worked with a tent before.

Never been camping.

I just couldn't get it in the bag.

I'm rooting for Marsha to win this million dollars.

A lot of people see her as an underdog.

But I'm rooting for Marsha. Go, Marsha.

I hope you get this money.

When you win, make sure you call me and let me know.

[laughs]

- Alex, sure and steady all the way through,

a true team player.

You finished in 24th place,

and unfortunately, your million-dollar dream is over.

[cheers and applause]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Alex is the 77th player to be eliminated,

meaning that the prize now stands at $770,000.

[applause] - Whoo!

- It needs to be more.

100 people have walked through these doors,

and now only 23 remain.

- And if you guys didn't believe

you could win a million dollars before,

you better start believing it now.

- Mm.

And remember, players, whatever you do...

all: Don't finish last!

[cheers and applause]

- We'll see you next time on "99 To Beat."

[cheers and applause]

Next time on "99 To Beat"...

- That's amazing.

- Some big hitters face their toughest challenges yet.

- This is cruel and unusual punishment.

- Oh.

- This could be my last game.

- And could this be the end of a beautiful friendship?

- Miranda, Dakota, and Cara-Maria

on three separate teams.

Possibly one of them could go home.

- They're great people,

but they're not worth a million dollars.

- Just 23 remain,

and with a semifinal spot up for grabs,

the $1 million prize is closer than ever.

- The stakes are so high at this point.

It is life and death.