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100 Contestants, Five Traps, and a $100,000 Gold Trophy: How Baylee Outlasted the Field

MrBeast ミスタービースト · ▶ 30:40 · 12 min read
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Overview

One hundred contestants face five escalating traps: a collapsing spiked ceiling, a paintball warzone, a rope-bridge void, a giant spinning machine, and a final cannon showdown. The last person standing wins a one-of-a-kind trophy that the host says is made of $100,000 of real gold. The traps start as tests of speed and nerve. By the end the game is shaped more by alliances, grudges, and who is willing to target whom. In the description the host says the traps "got crazier and crazier" and that they did not expect how it ended.

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Trap 1: The Collapsing Spiked Ceiling

The contestants remove their blindfolds and find themselves in a room whose ceiling is being lowered. The host says the spikes are not real but tells everyone to act as if they are. To survive, each contestant must unhook themselves and leave the room before the ceiling collapses. Anyone still inside is eliminated.

The trap is a scramble, with people shouting at each other to get through as time runs out. When it ends, 49 contestants are out and 51 move on.

Trap 2: The Paintball Warzone

The second trap is a paintball arena patrolled by guards with paintball guns. The first 20 contestants to cross the finish line and stand on a tile advance. A single hit means instant elimination. The host adds one detail and tells everyone to remember it: when a green light turns on, the guards stop shooting.

Some contestants are confident before the start. One says the guards "ain't got enough paint balls up there" for him, and another plans to run right behind him. A contestant used to playing paintball says he doesn't like being unable to shoot back.

When the round starts, the guards hit people almost immediately, and many contestants take cover and wait for green. They improvise as they go. One tries to use a door as a shield and still gets pelted. Others notice a contestant sheltering safely behind a van and copy him. One group finds a blanket and uses it as cover while others draw the shooters' attention. The host calls the blanket idea "genius."

Early on, two people make a run for the finish; one gets through and the second is eliminated. The host notes that once one person made it, the others found the courage to go. After ten people finish, the host warns those still hiding that they need to move. At one point 13 people remain, most of them pinned behind the van, competing for five spots. They rush during the green windows and the last spots fill one by one.

When the top 20 are set, the host tells them to look at the color of the tile they chose. It is "very important," the host says, but the explanation comes later.

Trap 3: The Bridge Over the Void

The tile colors turn out to be teams of five: Pink, Blue, Green, and Orange. They face a void crossed by ropes, with a center platform in the middle. The host says only one of the 20 will win the gold trophy.

Each team picks a captain, and the other four handcuff themselves to a podium behind them. Steven becomes Pink's captain, with teammates praising his toughness and loyalty. Tomer leads Green, T. Ruffin (called "Señor Ruffin" by a teammate) leads Orange, and Kinsley leads Blue. One captain says the team first chose on height but settled on "performance under pressure."

The center platform has 12 handcuff spots, and anyone locked into one is guaranteed to advance. Each captain has only five boards to build a bridge, and a dropped board is gone for good. Once across, a captain can lock in or take one of 12 keys, cross back, and free a teammate. When 12 people are cuffed in the middle, everyone else is eliminated. The host stresses the math: 20 people, 12 spots, 12 keys. It is the captains, the host says, who decide who on their team goes and who stays.

The teams split on strategy. Tomer turns boards sideways and pushes them into place, then reaches the center first. He grabs a key, goes back, and unlocks his whole team before any of them starts crossing. The host explains that this keeps Green's bridge clear, so Tomer can fetch keys faster without anyone in his way. Pink shows the risk of the alternative. Austin, the first Pink teammate unlocked, crossed while the captain still needed the bridge. The host describes this as creating a roadblock, "exactly what Tomer's strategy is avoiding." Pink is still the first team to get a teammate across and claims the first spot. Blue gets its first spot soon after, with Kinsley returning to the middle and a teammate close behind her.

Orange struggles from the start. The host notes that Orange had not placed a single board while others were already climbing. The captain later says "the boards are far," and the host questions whether he can still use his bridge at all. At one point the host remarks that he "doesn't look like a guy who plans on coming back."

Near the end, with spots running out, one contestant is urged to take a running jump across a gap. She protests that she can't make it, there are screams, and she is caught with "We got you." Later in the video, Tomer reminds Baylee that he "literally pulled you out of a void," which suggests she was the one caught.

The result is lopsided. Green gets all five members to the center, Blue and Pink get three each, and only Orange's captain makes it. Ruffin says he needs to redeem himself and take out Green's captain, whom he now calls a threat. Green's members celebrate Tomer.

Trap 4: The Spinning Machine

The fourth trap is a giant machine with rotating arms. In each round, three contestants must duck under and jump over the arms, and anyone who falls off is eliminated. There are four rounds, and the last person standing in each one advances, so four people reach the final.

Before it starts, the host calls up a contestant named Lallo. He isn't medically able to take part, so he receives $5,000 and leaves the competition.

The format hands power to the captain. Each round's captain picks a game (endurance, skill, or strength) and then picks the two opponents. The winner chooses the next captain.

Round 1. The group votes Tomer captain by majority; one voter says he would try to keep the competition fair. Tomer picks strength, which means his opponents wear weighted vests. He chooses Byan and Steven, saying he wants a challenge and that beating them now keeps them out of his next one. One of the opponents says he knows he will win, and the other says Tomer shouldn't have picked him. The machine speeds up and the host says the vest makes things "incredibly difficult." Steven tires and falls first, then Byan, and Tomer reaches the final four.

Round 2. Tomer chooses Baylee as captain. She picks skill: each player holds a bowl of 75 ping pong balls while surviving the machine. Whoever has the most balls after two minutes, or is the last one standing, wins. She picks T. Ruffin and Julian. The host notes that Ruffin is her friend's enemy (he had vowed to take out Green's captain) and that Julian was her former teammate. Ruffin goes out almost at once, and Baylee wins.

Round 3. Baylee chooses Austin, who picks strength and faces Joseph and Matt. Asked why he didn't pick others, Austin says that early on he and others had agreed there would be two women in the finale, and he intends to "stay true to my word." Austin lasts about five seconds. Matt then struggles, and Joseph advances.

Round 4. The last round's captain is chosen by a contestant who says Kinsley captained their Blue team and got them across the bridge. Kinsley faces Abby and calls endurance "an easy choice." Both stay silent and focused, Abby finds a rhythm and nearly falls, and Kinsley wins the fourth spot.

The final four are Tomer, Baylee, Joseph, and Kinsley.

The Final Trap: Glass Hearts and a Cannon

In the final trap, each finalist stands in a cage with three glass hearts in front of them. One at a time, each player fires a cannon at any other player's hearts. Losing all three means elimination, and the last one remaining wins the trophy. The host puts it as: "It's you or them."

The finalists object, saying they all like each other. Tomer won the first spinning round, so he shoots first. He says he only wanted to have fun and now has to hurt people. Asked about strategy, he says they "just need to slaughter each other," and the host jokes that "Mr. Nice Guy" is going on the attack. Kinsley says she will retaliate if targeted, adding that she hunts and the cannon looks like a rifle.

That comment makes her Tomer's first target. He calls her a threat because she's a hunter. Kinsley pleads that she isn't really a good shot and that she helped vote him captain. Tomer fires and breaks one of her hearts.

Baylee's first turn. Baylee says she feels fear, being last in the lineup and already down a heart. Before shooting she explains why she called Joseph out: he wouldn't commit to her plan, which was for everyone to gang up on Tomer. Joseph answers that his "word is my bond." She aims at Joseph and misses. She first claims she was aiming at the ground, then admits she was trying to hit him.

Joseph and Kinsley. The host calls Joseph the wild card no one can read. He fires back at Baylee and breaks a heart, saying afterward that she had called him out. Kinsley says shooting Joseph feels like a betrayal but she needs to be more strategic, and she hits one of his hearts. After the first round everyone except Tomer has lost a heart, and one finalist says that wasn't the best strategy because Tomer will "destroy us all."

Round two. Tomer says he has to look out for himself. Baylee's shot hits one of Joseph's hearts that was already broken, which wastes her turn. Joseph then aims at Tomer and hits, so every finalist has now lost at least one heart. Kinsley goes for Joseph's last heart, but the shot ricochets and nearly hits a camera operator. On the next turn Tomer breaks Joseph's final heart, and Joseph is dropped through the floor of his cage.

Pleas, Bribes, and Tomer's Fall

With three left, the players start lobbying. Before Baylee shoots, Tomer argues that if she eliminates him, Kinsley is next. He reminds her that he got her where she's standing and pulled her out of the void, and he offers to dye his hair red. She misses again, and someone says it will be embarrassing when the video comes out. Kinsley says her only plan is counting on Baylee being a bad shot.

Tomer keeps hitting. The host calls him "crushin'," and Kinsley, now down to one heart, says she might lose $100,000 because she's a bad shot. When Baylee has the chance to eliminate Kinsley, Kinsley argues that facing Tomer one-on-one "isn't gonna be good." Tomer counters by promising to dye his whole beard as red as Baylee's shirt if she shoots Kinsley. The host doubts she's there to see his beard dyed. Tomer's hearts start falling, and one of his rivals explains, "we're in the finals. I have to do what's best for me." The host says Tomer looks angry.

Tomer then misses a shot, which draws loud reactions. Kinsley tells Baylee they should both shoot at Tomer. Baylee does, and the host calls it her "first hit." It breaks Tomer's last heart. Both women apologize and call him "a gem." His last words are "Live long and prosper," and he is dropped.

The Last Two Shots

Baylee has two hearts and Kinsley has one, and it's Kinsley's turn. She tells Baylee "all love" and that it's a game, then hits Baylee directly, tying them at one heart each. Baylee says her heart is racing and she just wants a chance. Kinsley warns that if Baylee misses, she will take her out.

Baylee's last shot hits. She wins the gold trophy and shouts, "Momma and Daddy! I shot something," which lands after how often she missed earlier. Before she is dropped, Kinsley tells her, "I'm proud of you, Baylee. You earned that. You deserve that."

Tomer won the first spinning round and led Green to a clean sweep on the bridge, but he lost the final after the other two turned on him. Baylee missed repeatedly and was described as the worst shot, yet she won with her final shot.

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