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Choose your own disadvantage

  • In this task, the contestants must choose a disadvantage for themselves, either in the task at hand, or in the next task they are assigned.
  • It may be a completely free choice, or a choice of one or more predefined disadvantages.
  • In the case where they are selecting from a pre-existing list of disadvantages, their result in the actual task to be completed may benefit from them selecting more than one of the options, as a multiplier may be applied.

Adaptations

In this solo version of the hammock-loading task, the contestants must first choose at least one disadvantage for themselves, prior to starting. Each disadvantage chosen increases the number by which their final weight will be multiplied.
In this version of the task, the contestants must choose a disadvantage for themselves in the following task, without knowing what it involves.