"Last time on the Ridonculous Race, our 17 remaining teams where their wills were tested, their artistic visions were pushed to the limit and their bravery was challenged, and Owen ended up eating more cheese than scientifically possible. In the end it was Gwen and Kevin of the Artists who were able to get a grip on first place, but for Gerry and Pete of the Tennis Rivals it was game, set, somebody light a match because man did they stink it up. Who will stink it up even more today? Well all of them have potential, but you'll still have to stay tuned because the time has come for the Ridonculous Race!"
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The sun was still rising over Paris as Don stood outside the Louvre "The Louvre was the location of the Chill Zone for yesterday's leg of the race which makes it the starting point for today, each team will start in the order they finished the day before so the Artists will be- Hey what are you doing?" he stopped the Ice Dancers from going first "I told you before that yesterday's winners will be going first, you'll just have to wait your turn."
"You heard him, wait your turn Ice Capades." Gwen made her way over towards the Don Box, with Kevin right behind her "I've got a bad feeling about those Ice Dancers, and not just because the shorter one reminds me of Heather."
Kevin nodded "I know what you mean, give guys like them an inch and they'll end up taking the whole race. So what's the tip say?"
"Hold that thought." Gwen pushed the button on the Don Box and grabbed the tip "It says we've gotta take the train to Calanque de Maubois and search the next train station for the Don Box with your next travel tip. Let's get moving."
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"Like Gwen said, teams must take the train south to Calanque de Maubois, which acts as the skirt along the south of France with sand so fine you actually want it to get in your shorts. The Red Cliffs are only one of the sites that make this a tourist spot as popular as it is. Did I mention that the beaches are awesome too? Because they are."
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It wasn't long before the Artists, the Ice Dancers and the Bromigos had taken their tips and were heading to the train station.
However, Devin suddenly found a mime stealing his and Carrie's tip "Hey get back here, give me that!" and he chased after it.
Junior, however, had his eyes locked on Carrie and tried to sound cool by making his voice a couple notches deeper "Hey, I'm Dwayne."
"Hi, I'm Carrie." she held out her hand.
Junior reached out to shake it.
That is, until Dwayne hijacked it and ruined the moment "Nice to meet you. Dwayne Sr, I see you've already met Junior. This kid, he really is such a great little guy."
"Dad…"
"I mean granted he does act up sometimes but that does tend to happen when they get close to puberty."
"And stay down!" Devin's voice could be heard in the distance "I've got the tip, let's get going homie!"
"Alright then, good luck to the both of you." and so Carrie rushed off after Devin.
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Junior let out a groan that clearay showed his frustration "Somehow my dad always managed to find a way to embarrass me."
Dwayne let out a chuckle "Oh come on son you know that's not true, you're just being self conscious. Oh and before I forget, I washed your lucky undies."
"Dad!"
"What?"
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Gwen shot a look at Kevin "I don't suppose you know how to get a taxi like some New Yorker reject?"
"No problem Lover Goth, I've got this." he pulled something out of his pocket.
"Is that a grappling hook?"
"Yep, I picked it up while you were in the shower this morning." he pressed a button on one of his boots, revealing hidden roller skating wheels on them "You gonna grab on or what?"
"There's no way this can be legal!" and yet she climbed on Kevin's back regardless, earning a raised eyebrow "What? I never said I was against the idea, after there's no way half the stuff I had to do on Total Drama was legal."
"Fair enough."
"So where did you get the retractable roller skates from?"
"Oh they were a gift from Cody, you know your boyfriend, and he seriously tricked them out for me."
"Are you gonna keep mentioning Cody until I tell him you know what?"
"Oh Gwen my dear albino goth friend, I'm gonna keep bringing him up even way after you tell him that." he latched onto the back of one of the cabs and ended up being pulled down the street with Gwen on his shoulders.
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Jacques was quick to notice a stairway leading to a subway "There's the subway, it's the fastest way to the train station!" and he and Josee took off.
Geoff observed this and turned to DJ "Hey DJ dude, let's just follow them."
"Where are they headed?" asked DJ.
"My guess is to the train station. See my strategy is simple, I say we just follow a team with members smarter than me which is pretty easy since they're all smarter than me."
"...You know Geoff, in your own very very messed up and twisted way that actually kind of makes sense. Let's do it!"
"Yeah man!" and with a triumphant fist bump, the two of them made their way down to the subway in an attempt to follow the Ice Dancers to the train station.
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By this point, Kitty and Emma were about to get their tip "Alright teammate of mine, let's have some fun!"
"No." Emma took the tip "Let's not have fun, let's come in first for a change. Train station, let's move."
"Woo hoo! Fun!"
"Stop it, seriously." and they took off.
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Dwayne was sweating buckets as he and Junior hitchhiked through the streets of Paris "Alright way to go son… Wasn't sure you'd… you'd be able to keep up with yours… yours truly…"
"No time for that dad, let's go!" Junior went on ahead.
Dwayne stopped for a moment to catch his breath "Okay… just hold up… Let me… catch my breath… real quick…"
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Gwen pointed to the large building ahead of them "Kevin check it out, I can see the train station up ahead! What's your plan for stopping the cab so we can get off?"
"Oh we're not gonna stop the cab." Kevin told her with a very VERY unsettling smirk, at least in the eyes of Gwen.
"What are you doing?"
"I saw this in a move once, Gwen you'd better hang on like your life depends on it because at this point it does!" he retracted the grappling hook's hold on the cab, causing them to go flying down towards the sidewalk in front of the train station, and he retracted the skates on his shoes and skidded to a stop "That… was… AWESOME! Hey Gwen how are you holding up?" he received no reply "Gwen? Hello? Earth to love struck goth?"
Gwen stumbled her way off of Kevin's back and over towards a trash can, and could be heard puking her guts out in a very violent fashion for like a mile around.
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"While Owen and Noah are the last team to take off from the starting line in front of the Louvre, the Ice Dancers, the Artists, the Best Friends, the Bromigos and Father & Son are about to board the first train to Calanque de Maubois. With this set in stone, the last 12 teams race to catch the next train south."
"The south of France is where the most glamorous people in the world hang out, it's like Paris but with glossier lipstick." Jen pointed out.
Tom suddenly let out a horrified gasp "Oh no no no, please please tell me I have it!" he pulled out a can of spray on tan "Oh that's a relief, spray tan?"
"Do you even have to ask?" and cue the spray.
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The Geniuses had taken a taxi to the train station with a thoroughly planned out means of arriving there. Exhibit A:
"Take Lefran to Canal-"
"Canal to Germain-"
"Germain to Belmont-"
"Turn left on the branch-"
"Reverse onto Bureau-"
"And U turn back to the Grand south to Dunkard."
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Kitty pulled out her cell phone and held it out to the driver "Hey do you think you could take a picture of me and my sister?"
Emma's ever present scowled turned even more hostile "We're in the middle of a race for a million dollars Kitty, this isn't a race."
"Oh come on, just one of me and my big sister in France! Paris!" and so she took a quick and forced selfie.
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By this point, the Stepbrothers, the Ultimate Duo, the Goths, the Geniuses and the Fashion Bloggers, who were now sporting a spray tan, had all made it to the train station and were waiting for the next train.
The Geniuses were trying to mock the Fashion Bloggers for their spray tans "Your skin pigmentation looks like it's received too much dihydroxyacetone." keep in mind I did say they were trying.
The Fashion Bloggers shared an awkward look.
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"As the second group waits at the station for the next train, the first 5 teams have just arrived at the beach in Calanque de Maubois."
"Over there, there's the Don Box!" Dwayne picked up the tip from the Don Box "Looks like it's another botch or watch, whose turn is it this time?"
"It's your turn, what's the challenge?" asked Junior.
"It says here who wants wo swim with… sharks. Oh boy."
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"In this botch or watch challenge, the teammate who didn't draw the caricature in Paris must swim out to a section of the Mediterranean and retrieve their team's travel tip from the dorsal fin of one of many great white sharks. Too bad they haven't tried to go after me or they'd get a taste of the widowmaker."
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"And it says here that if one of us gets eaten then our team will be disqualified." Gwen read out loud, her tone increasingly dry "Well at least they thought all of this through."
Kevin let out a groan "Oh man swimming with sharks would be awesome, at least for me but I pity the poor saps that have to go out there."
"You do realize that I'm still literally right next to you."
"Yeah I know, but I'm tough as f*ck and you've got Cody as your guiding light so use that as your motivation to not die."
"...F*ck you." and then she made her way into the water.
"Yeah that's gonna put a fire in her gut."
"Watch this bro, I'm gonna crush it like it's nothing!" Geoff dealt DJ a fist bump and made his way into the water.
"I'll be right back homie, at least I hope so." with a brave gulp, Devin slowly made his way into the water.
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It wasn't long before Josee, Devin, Gwen, Dwayne and Geoff had reached the shark area.
Dwayna was just doggy paddling his way after the other teams "Okay so as it turns out swimming in water infested with sharks is a lot harder on the old body than sitting at a desk all day, who knew?"
"Observe and be in awe!" Jose gracefully leapt over the shark and took her tip before making her way back towards the beach.
"Oh wow, nice move." Devin made a beeline for a shark of his own and prepared to grab the tip, when…
"GOTCHA!" Geoff burst towards the shark and grabbed it by the back "Hey sorry dude, you've gotta grab these thing by the horns! Congrats on your win back in Morocco by the way, I never got to say that before!"
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"As our first five teams continue the battle with the tough of the aquatic food chain, the second train carrying the next 5 teams finally arrives in Calanque de Maubois."
Mary was quick to notice something off "Weren't there 5 teams on board? I only count 4 right now."
"Nevermind that, there's the Don Box over there!" Ellody rushed over to get a tip.
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Devin ripped off a tip from one of the sharks, which prompted it to chase him while he swam away screaming, leaving the tip up for grabs by Dwayne.
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"I've gotta admit, I'm actually kind of proud of my dad." Junior sounded like he was in disbelief over what had happened "It really does take guts to swim towards a shark."
Dwayne let out a chuckle "Oh Junior this isn't your dad's first shark rodeo pal, if anything those sharks should've been scared of the Dwayne man!" he started throwing a bunch of punches and kicks, only to accidentally hit the camera guy, breaking the camera in the process "Oh man sorry about that, you okay?"
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Chet let out a groan of frustration as he made his way into the water "You draw a caricature while I have to swallow my own barf and swim with sharks?! This is so not fair!"
Lorenzo let out a chuckle "Only if you're you."
"Step back smart guy, let the Lightning show you how it's done. It's time for the Lightning to strike!" Lightning dove head first into the water.
Cameron let out a sigh "It's remarkable how it's scientifically possible for someone to be so arrogant-" his musings were cut off by a loud horn "What on earth? Is that the Fashion Bloggers?"
Sure enough, Tom and Jen were standing on a yacht at the edge of the beach "Hi everybody, hope you didn't miss us!"
"I thought you guys were on the second train with the rest of us."
"Oh we were, well at first anyway."
"See we stepped off of the train in Kan." explained Jen "Just to breathe it in I mean, and right there on the platform was the prince of Monaco. He asked where we were heading, one thing lead to another and before we knew it we had hitched a ride on a yacht with a prince! Oh that reminds me, thanks for the ride your highness!" she pulled a tip out of the Don Box "A botch or watch, Tom you're swimming with sharks?" she received no reply "Tom? You still in there? Hello?"
As it turns out, Tom was frozen in place with a horrified look on his face.
"Wow he's literally frozen with terror, I thought that only happened in cartoons." she received an odd look from Cameron "What?"
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Jacques let out a wistful sigh as he watched Josee make her way back to the shore "She hold such beauty, grace and strength. Every move makes her look like a swan that makes other swans look ugly." he was promptly bitten on the ass by an offended swan as a result "Alright you're beautiful in your own way, are you happy now?"
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Dwayne was swimming back to shore and drowning somewhat "Junior go get a bucket… we have to… build a castle…" he went under for a brief second every few words or so.
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"Dwayne might be semi drowning but he is right, for this all in challenge each team has to build a sand replica of the Palace of Versailles and when local sand castle prodigy, which is probably a fake name, decides that their castle is good enough for his tastes, he'll hand over the next travel tip."
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Gwen collapsed back onto the beach and spat out some water "Note to self, rinse my mouth of salt water when we get to the Chill Zone."
Kevin let out a scoff "Took you long enough, my sister's chihuahua knows how to doggy paddle faster than you."
"Thanks for the moral support." note the sarcasm in her tone.
"Moral support isn't what I do, that's Cody's thing."
"...I hate you so much."
"Nah you love me, but not like you love Cody."
Gwen responded to that by flipping him off.
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Devin burst up from beneath the water holding a tip "Yeah that's right man, the Devin man is bringing it back alive!"
Lightning burst up right next to him "Lightning taking the Sha-win!" his victory was short lived when he realized he was on top of a very angry shark "Sha-mommy."
Devin just slowly sank back down as Lightning swam away screaming with the shark and looked over to see Mary scare a few sharks away with just a magnet "Huh, so sharks are actually afraid of her. Who knew?"
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Mary was quick to clarify the misunderstanding "Sharks are not afraid of me but they are afraid of magnets. Well technically it's not fear, I was simply being facetious. Charged metals within salt water create a weak electrical field which is able to disrupt the electroreception senses of a shark. Oh I should explain, salt water is an ionic solution and it contains particles with unpaired electrons. I wish I had a dry erase board."
"Speaking of dry could we cut to something that won't put our viewers to sleep? Seriously even I find this mind numbingly boring."
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"SHABAM!" Lightning charged at the shark and started punching it underwater, which went downhill very fast for him.
"There that's much better, thank you."
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"The third and final train has arrived carrying Mom & Daughter, the Sisters, the Rockers, the Vegans, the Adversity Twins and the Reality TV Pros, and as more and more teams from the first and second trains it looks like Geoff and DJ are still trying to finish the first one."
DJ looked out from the beach, clearly concerned "No sign of Geoff anywhere, I hope the poor guy's okay."
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Geoff was having about as much luck with the shark as Devin did before him "Hey come on shark dude, could you at least chase me to shore?"
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Rock let out a sigh "I guess I'll do pretty much anything to win, I really do need the money for my parents. They're not getting any younger and they really want me to move out of their basement, but if I win the million then I can finally afford my own place!"
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A shark noticed something bubbling beneath the water and prepared to pounce.
That is, until Crimson rose from beneath the water, scaring the shark into giving her the tip and swimming away with its tail between its legs "Wimp."
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Soon enough, almost all of the teams from the first two trains were working on the sandcastle building challenge.
"You know dad, I've gotta admit I was worried about you before." Junior admitted "But now it looks like you're really going for it."
Dwayne chuckled "Well son building is what men were born to do."
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Gwen showed some concerns about hers and Kevin's sandcastle "Are you sure it has to be this big?"
Kevin let out a loud snort "What are you kidding, do you really wanna take a chance on losing here? Like the wise man once said, in life you've gotta go big or you go home and there's no way in hell I'm gonna go home! Besides take a look at the geniuses, they get it."
Gwen looked back and noticed the Geniuses drawing out their data "They're just drawing out their data on the sand."
"They're scientists, they know how important the planning stage is. To people like them it's as important as life itself. Kind of like how Cody thinks of you."
"Okay enough with that! I'll tell Cody that I love him if that will make you shut the bloody hell up!"
"It won't unless you actually want to say it. Face it Gwen, it won't mean anything if you don't mean it when you say it and you'll just be hurting him. Just a little something for you to think about, but if you're that annoyed then I'll try and keep the Cody mentions down to once a day or so alright?"
"...Fine." they shook on it.
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Dwayne was less than satisfied with the judgement he received "Not good enough? What are you out of your mind? It's the best castle ever, hey I'll have you know that I was building sandcastles while you were still making them in your pants pal!"
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"YES!" Owen held up a tip in triumph, only to find himself being circled and surrounded by three sharks "Any chance you guys are dolphins? Okay think about this Owen, you heard once that sharks can smell fear. Or was it dogs that can smell fear?"
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Despite that… incident, by this point almost all of the other teams were now working on their sandcastles, well except for a select few of them. Exhibit A:
Miles gently patted one of the sharks, rendering it docile "If we win the money then I'm going to start a charity dedicated to the preservation of these long misunderstood ocean creatures." she grabbed her tip, only to end up swimming away screaming as it chased her "I'm totally scratching sharks off of my preservation list!"
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"By this point all of the remaining teams have reunited and begun work on their sand chateaus, that is to say except for Geoff and DJ."
Dwayne put the finishing touches on his and Junior's very tiny redone sandcastle "Alright where is he? Little judge, tiny opinionated man?" he looked down "Oh there we go, so is this one to your liking?"
Sandy expected the tiny sandcastle and handed him the tip.
"Yeah now that's what I'm talking about!" he read the tip "Grab one of the speedboats parked at the dock and follow the GPS to the Chill Zone on a dock located on the southern tip of… Iceland?!"
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"That's right, Iceland. The southernmost dock on this is the location of the Chill Zone for this segment of the race, The last team to meet me on the Carpet of Completion could be cut from the race. You know, the usual."
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"Come on hurry, let's get moving!" with their tip in hand, Dwayne and Junior took off towards the dock.
Kitty was the first one to notice the tiny castle "Hey that's so cool, check out the cute little castle."
Kevin's jaw literally dropped down to the ground "Hold the mother f*cker, it doesn't have to be big? New plan Gwen, it doesn't have to be big."
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Dwayne was trying to start up one of the boats, but he was having trouble with that "Come on, come on…"
"I think we should just grab another boat." Junior told him.
"Hey don't worry about it sporto, you've just gotta adjust the… you know, the choke thingy mechanism."
"No way, I'm not having a repeat of what you did to my bike."
"Oh come on, you're blowing that way out of proportion."
"Am I? Dad you tried to attach a bell to my bike once and when you were done the wheels were gone. Just, gone."
"Hey that was a swedish bell, very tricky instructions and I had to take the whole bike apart to figure it out. Hey by the way, was that the summer you walked everywhere?"
"Yes, yes it was. You know what hold on, you've gotta turn the key and then press the start button." he did just that.
"Huh, must be one of those Swedish boats. Here look I'll drive-"
"No more of that dad, I'll drive while you hang back and keep a lookout for any of the other teams." and they took off.
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Geoff finally emerged from the water, having been halfway swallowed by his shark, only to be spat out onto the beach with his tip in hand "That was crazy wild."
"You okay dude?" asked DJ "You look a little bit out of it."
"I'm good, let's just get going." and they got to work just as the Best Friends, Artists, Ice Dancers and Fashion Bloggers received their next tips.
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It wasn't long before a a few more of the teams had reached the speedboats in an attempt to chase after Father & Son.
Devin had some trouble starting up the boat, but even though it took a few minutes he managed to get it going "Yes!" he and Carrie started to punch it, but it wasn't long before they ran into another problem "Oh man."
"What's the matter?" asked Carrie.
"This thing is almost busted, any faster and the motor is gonna die. Carrie take the wheel, I'm gonna try and fix the problem as best as I can." so he had Carrie take the wheel while he tried to work on the motor.
"Later suckers!" Kevin and Gwen passed them and high fived as they rocketed after the Ice Dancers and the Fashion Bloggers.
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Don was quick to address Dwayne and Junior and confirm their placement once they arrived at the Chill Zone in Iceland "Dwayne and Junior congratulations, you're the first team to arrive at this Chill Zone and that puts you in first place."
"Yes!" Dwayne patted Junior on the shoulders "Yeah that's right, we are the best and there's nothing they can do about it!"
"...Glad to see you're not letting it go to your head. But regardless, congratulations."
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"More and more teams are finishing up their sandcastles and heading to the boats, but one of them is getting hung up on details."
Ellody observedher data drawn out on the sand "Perfect, 373,996 cubic yards. Done, now all we have to do is build a perfect model with our data." said data was then washed away by the sea, much to her horror "Our data!"
"We'll just have to wing it." Mary told her.
"I never wing! I don't know how to wing!"
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Don was quick to address the Ice Dancers at the Chill Zone in Iceland as they started waving and blowing kisses "Jacques and Josee, you've arrived in second place." this earned hidden anger but didn't wipe away their smiles "Huh, I expected more insanity. Glad to see you're keeping it professional."
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"I! HATE! SILVER!" Josee started throwing a tantrum on the beach and throwing things out into the ocean, one of which hit a very familiar (to Total Drama fans) and angry shark on two legs (go ahead and guess who it is), which started chasing her while she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"...Nope." Jacques on the other hand just quietly snuck away.
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Don addressed the Fashion Bloggers when they arrived at the Chill Zone "Jennifer and Thomas, you've arrived at the Chill Zone in third place." this was met with delighted squeals "However you failed to arrive in Calanque de Maubois by train as the tip instructed, you travelled by yacht from Kan. I'm afraid I'll have to give you a 20 minute penalty."
Tom shrugged "Well I say it was worth it, we rode a yacht and we partied with a prince."
"Like the optimism." Don received a glare from Jen "What?"
"Hey!" that was when Owen and Noah showed up.
"Owen and Noah well done on the comeback, you two are in third place."
"YES!" Owen nearly squeezed Noah to death in a bearhug just as Gwen and Kevin arrived at the Chill Zone.
"Artists come in fourth."
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Geoff and DJ finally finished their sandcastle and received their tip "Oh man we're dead last, come on bro we've gotta move!" and they took off at full speed towards the boats.
Ellody poked her head up from behind her sandcastle "Did you hear something?"
"No now stop getting distracted, you need to focus." Mary told her.
"Of course."
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Don counted off the Fashion Bloggers once the 20 minute penalty was finally over with "Fifth place."
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Geoff and DJ managed to grab a speed boat and finally took off towards Iceland "Never! Say! DIE!"
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One by one the teams reached the Chill Zone in Iceland and were counted off by Don, starting with the Ultimate Duo.
"6th place!"
The Best Friends.
"7th place!"
The Stepbrothers.
"8th place!"
The Goths.
"9th place!"
The Sisters.
"10th place!"
Two random fat tourists.
"Who are you and who are you? Are you on this show?"
They left just as Mother & Daughter arrived.
"11th place."
The Vegans.
"12th place."
The Adversity Twins.
"13th place."
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"NEVER! SAY! DIE!" DJ and Geoff kept on racing towards Iceland, only to find the motor about to die "Oh great now what?"
"Oh man." Geoff let out a sad groan "I never should've let myself get stuck in that shark's mouth, now we're gonna get kicked out of the race because of me! That was the one thing I was afraid of!"
"Geoff listen to me dude." DJ put a firm hand on his shoulder "We win as a team and we lose as a team, and I know that win or lose you and I are bros and that's never gonna change. I'm fine if we end up losing."
"Well I'm not!" he grabbed onto the wires on the engine, leading to a very loud spark "Hey DJ?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm just gonna go ahead and say my bad now cause this is gonna be bad." and then they got rocketed into the sky by the explosion that followed, their screams echoing throughout all of France and beyond the horizon.
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"The Chill Zone could really use a sofa is all I'm saying- Oh look here they are." Don looked back just as the Rockers finally reached the Chill Zone "Rock and Spud, you've come in 14th place." this was met with cheers "Now that only leaves the Bromigos and the Geniuses, so where are they?"
Screams resounded through the air as DJ and a smoking and bloodshot looking Geoff crash landed in the water just short of the dock, along with various scattered parts of their boat. Or what was left of it.
"What in the-?!"
A soaking wet DJ dragged a very out of it Geoff out of the water and onto the shore "Hey Don, how's it going?"
"Um… where's your boat? You were supposed to take one of the speedboats here from Calanque de Maubois you know."
"Yeah I know, we did take it. It's just there… and there… and there… and there… and-"
"Okay stop I get it."
"We already know though, just blast us with the bad news."
"Well I would add in some suspense but after what you guys just went through I'll just cut to the chase, you guys are in second last AKA 15th place which means you guys are still in the race."
"Yay." he collapsed to the ground in exhaustion and caught Geoff in a high five, only to be electrocuted as a result "Ow…"
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Sunset came, and the Geniuses still hadn't finished their sandcastle.
"Ahoy Geniuses!" Don called from above on a helicopter "I'm afraid all of the other teams have reached the Chill Zone! You are out of the race! I'm in a helicopter, this is so cool!" and he took off back towards Iceland.
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"How ironic." Ellody noted "Our strength in urban planning was also our downfall."
"That just proves how flawed this show is." Mary pointed out "But we played our part."
"I supposed geniuses aren't always as intelligent as they believe." the two of them burst out laughing.
"You told a joke."
"I did."
"Wonderful."
"Affirmative."
A/N:
I took out Father & Son's penalty because I thought it was just a cheap way of giving the win to the Ice Dancers, and I figured Father & Son deserved the win more than the Ice Dancers did.
Tom freezing in terror was a minor reference to episode 11 of Total Drama Pahkitew Island, which will NOT be featured in this story arc. It will end with Total Drama All Stars and an epilogue that takes place a few years later.
I'm adding a little bit more romantic tension between Devin and Carrie than in canon to show that they're actually gonna end up together at the end of this fanfiction.
I'm giving Brody's role to Geoff in this story because I can't see DJ doing any of that stuff.
Rankings:
Father & Son: 1st
Ice Dancers: 2nd
Reality TV Pros: 3rd
Artists: 4th
Fashion Bloggers: 5th
Ultimate Duo: 6th
Best Friends: 7th
Stepbrothers: 8th
Goths: 9th
Sisters: 10th
Mother & Daughter: 11th
Vegans: 12th
Adversity Twins: 13th
Rockers: 14th
Elimination:
Geniuses: 16th
Tennis Rivals: 17th
LARPers: 18th