Heather Pincelli

John Cena and a group of mentors called `The Cadre' lead 17 new competitors through individual and team-related challenges.

Contestants must learn to work together when they are tasked with a foot race in the muck, roped waist to waist.

Contestants must race to an array of boxes and choose between helping themselves or helping their teams.

Changes in game play increase the stakes, especially with a double elimination looming on the horizon.

After an upsetting elimination challenge, it is decided that the contestants need some tough love, and gossip raises tension back at camp.

The contestant learn about personal sacrifice during the first team challenge. The winning cadre leader chooses three rival contestants to face off in the individual elimination challenge.