For the luxury challenge, the teams had a crazy obstacle course that involved moving 24 medicine balls around an entire health club -- through a pool, up some stairs, under some bars and finally down a basketball court, where the last person had to do squats. Kristin had to sit out for medical issues that weren't explained (she missed the initial challenge, too), so the black team had to sit out two people. For the blue team, Ron was doing the initial leg -- moving the medicine balls through the pool two at a time, and the team never really recovered from how behind they got, though Aubrey almost caught them up. So blue lost its umpteenth challenge in a row and the black team celebrated inappropriately yet again.

Speaking of inappropriate celebrations, the luxury itself was 24 hours at a spa, at which the black team went bananas. You can't fault them for the massages or mani-pedis (can you imagine how sore they are after all these insane workouts?), but at dinner, they went off the rails and never came back. First, shrimp cocktail, which didn't seem that bad, but then Kobe beef sliders, mashed potatoes, filet mignon, etc. OK, one bad meal, you might be thinking, but then out came the double-shots of tequila. Then they went to the bar, and the drinking continued, and Felipe got fries and chicken fingers, and Helen smoked a cigarette. Hedonism everywhere!

Meanwhile, virtuous blue worked out like crazy and made themselves a lovely healthy dinner.

Upon the black team's return to the ranch, Jillian, having been tipped off about all the bad behavior, let everyone have it -- and hard. She had pretty much everyone in tears after getting them all to admit their actions. So then Filipe, who had felt ignored at his last workout on the ranch, waiting for Jillian to work one-on-one with him, but never saying anything to her, lost it. He very bizarrely screamed at her about how she had treated him so badly, but he wouldn't look at her. (You might recall that two weeks ago, when the teams got shuffled, everyone acted like they were being murdered when they switched teams, including when Sione and Filipe moved from Bob's team to Jillian's.) Filipe and Sione then stomped out the door and asked Bob if they could work out with him. He let them, for some reason, and didn't tell them to try to work things out with Jillian, for some reason.

So that made the last chance workout pretty strange -- two black team members working out with their competitors on the blue team.

Then it was time for the weigh-in, and the hits just kept coming. Tara, who wasn't facing off with anyone, lost 0 pounds and cried. Laura gained two pounds, losing her team a point, and cried. Mike, who was too young to partake in the tequila action, lost 8 pounds (which was more than Cathy's loss) and won his team a point. Helen somehow managed to lose more than Ron, which was another point for black. Kristin lost more than Sione, and it was tied. So it was down to Mandi, who had been busting tail all week, working so hard, and Filipe, who had made some bad, bad decisions. Mandi only had to lose four pounds to beat him, but, strangely, and possibly due to all the stress, she gained two pounds. So black team won anyway. Sigh.

You would think this would be the end of the drama, but things got even crazier. Due to the challenge from the week before, Kristin had immunity, and Laura had a vote. Had Laura not had a vote, it was a slam dunk. Kristin, Cathy and Ron have been allies since the beginning, and they decided that Mandi would go home because Aubrey had had to go home at the start of the season. But because Laura got a vote, a tie was possible, which would mean that the entire black team would decide who was going home. They had already decided that they would choose Aubrey, and between Mandi and Aubrey, they decided that it was OK if Aubrey left. So they talked with Laura and agreed to split the vote, so it would be three votes for Cathy and three for Mandi. And indeed, that's what it appeared would happen, but at the last minute, Mandi decided that she didn't think Aubrey was ready to go home, that she needed to be on the ranch, and cast her vote for Ron, meaning that Mandi herself was out. Whew. That was complicated.

What did you think about all the crazy drama and the yelling? It all made me want to root harder for the blue team. I wish Ron would go home so blue would have a chance. I know that's not nice, but he really can't compete at the same level. But I understand why the original Bob team members are sticking together, too.

Hopefully, next week, Filipe and Jillian will hash things out, or else it's going to just be awkward forever.