In the first challenge of the season, each team competed separately to determine which 8 people from each era would advance to the next round of the game to play as a team. The 2 people from each gender that finished last in each era was sent directly to elimination, while the ones from each gender that finished first got to choose their opponent. More @Wikipedia
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