Shermon Braithwaite

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.

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

The teams are shocked to learn who survived elimination, each team's strategic skills are put to the test when they have to choose which prize puzzle they will solve, two contestants get closer to each other and complicate the elimination challenge.

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

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

The cadres appoint new team captains who must navigate their blindfolded teammates during a boat race to prove they can work well together. A contestant makes a revelation and Cena surprises a competitor with an off-site trip.