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Toy scores a basket

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Toy begins by trying to kick the basketball into the hoop. It rebounds off of the backboard and lands in the pool, so Toy finds a pool net to retrieve the ball and tries again. After retrieving the ball again, he places it in a bucket tied with rope, and changes into a wetsuit he finds in the shed. Draping the rope and bucket over his neck, Toy climbs the metal structure holding the basketball hoop, and tips the basketball into the net, shaking the net when the basketball gets stuck. In the studio, there is debate as to whether or not Toy touched the basketball while trying to get it unstuck; Toy argues that there was a net between his hand and the ball, and even brings up La mano de Dios (a controversial 1986 FIFA goal in the match between Argentina and England, where to this day there is disagreement as to whether or not the goal was legal). Toy takes 5 minutes 56 seconds, and comes second, but a point is deducted due to ‘Toy-gate’, so he only earns three points.

(Written by Jenny R and edited by Karl Craven)