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Use the scratching post to remove balls from your suit

Mae Martin and Frankie Boyle on the studio stage. They're each wearing a red boiler suit with Velcro stripes and cloth balls stuck to the stripes. They're each holding onto a rope-covered scratching post roughly their own height.

Task types:

Team

Live

Physical

Objective

Single brief

Original

Locations:

Pinewood Studios

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Using only the scratching posts, remove as many balls from your suit as possible.

Your team-mates may throw balls from the throwing spots throughout.

The throwing spots may not be moved.

Fewest balls on a suit after two minutes wins.

Also, if you're in a team of three, the two non-suit-wearers must hold hands throughout the two minutes.

The cast of UK series 16 on the studio stage. Mae and Frankie are wearing red boiler suits with Velcro stripes and many fabric balls attached to those stripes. The rest of the cast are dressed normally. A shopping cart full of more balls is at either side of the stage. On the lower floor are two large scratching posts. Frankie reads out the task.

Task notes

The contestants are lined up in their teams on stage, with one member of each team wearing a red suit with strips of black velcro on it.
Attached to this velcro, there are 25 blue and yellow balls.
Each team has a shopping trolley containing a bunch more of these balls, which are mostly pink or orange, and yellow.
The non-suit-wearing team members must remaining standing on their spots on the stage, but may throw these additional balls at the opposing team's suit-wearing member.
Two large cat scratching posts have been set up in front of the stage, against which the suit-wearing contestants must rub themselves, to remove the balls.

Task stats

Points

21

Disquals

0

Attempts

Here's a brief description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on writing up some additional detail, though!

Frankie gets so into rubbing against the scratching post that his overalls pop open, and he starts doing a sexy dance. He has 29 balls left on him at the end, so he and Ivo receive 3 points each.
After rubbing against the scratching post for a while, Mae decides instead to hide behind it, to prevent more balls from sticking to them. Mae has 17 balls left on them at the end, so they, Jenny, and Kiell receive 5 points each.

(Source credit: Taskmaster Wiki contributors)