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Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from the Wednesday, August 28, episode of “The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras.”

If one thing is known by the cast of “The Challenge” — and the viewers — it’s that Tj Lavin doesn’t mess around. He proved just that during the latest episode. After Era 3 won the daily challenge, captains Tony and Averey were forced to select which other team captains would have to face the losers, Jodi and Darrell, in elimination. However, they couldn’t get on the same page.

While Tony wanted to send Derek and Aviv into the arena, since that’s who Darrell asked for, Averey was extremely close with Derek and refused to turn on them, instead wanting to target Kaycee and Kyland.

They both knew that if they couldn’t agree on who to send into the sand, Tj would make them compete. When neither budged, that’s exactly what happened.

Typically on The Challenge, players fight, scratch and claw to avoid being called down into the Arena because in the sand, anything can happen. In Wednesday’s episode of Battle of the Eras, one player makes a move so boneheaded, so egotistical, that it directly leads to his own demise.

When the cast sees Tj again, they’re told to choose team representatives, but they aren’t told what that means exactly. But this isn’t their — or our — first rodeo. We all know that the losing era’s reps are probably going into elimination. But alas, Jodi and Darrell step up for Era 1,...

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