Challenge
Both words in one sentence
- No teams, no nominations; a Proving Ground challenge is played among the lowest performers in the individual challenge, with the two losers facing off for elimination.
Source: Series / Top Shot - The spirit of this trope is played arrow-straight in each season's final challenge, where remaining students have to take host Andrew out onto public roads for a driving test.
Source: Driving Test -
Relaxed in the sequel: if you simply can't beat a challenge no matter how hard you try and you've played the game at least 5 times, you can call Arino and forfeit it to move onto the next one, but there's no way to complete them later and you can't forfeit any of the endgame challenges.
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Played and Challenge. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/challenge/played
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