One of the players from the winning team reveals everything you didn’t see in that shocking finale.
Warning: this story contains spoilers about who wonThe Challenge: War of the Worlds 2.
So much for that numbers alliance!
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Plus, he got engaged to his teammate Tori Deal.
Talk about a great season!
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JORDAN WISELEY:It does feel very nice.
When was the first moment you realized that Team U.K. was going to win the final?
Before I knew that we had it in the bag, I was very scared going into the final.
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Everyone really kicked ass.
We went through all of that and it was worth it.
I really couldn’t tell while watching if it was close or not.
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No, we didn’t know at all.
That made it scarier.
The jungle was so thick that someone could be pretty close and you couldn’t hear them.
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The path was so winding that it cut the sound down.
We didn’t know if they were five minutes behind or an hour and a half behind.
It gave us a little boost and everyone kept their heads down and kept going.
The worst part of the season, by far.
That was the most heartbreaking.
I felt like I lost in that moment as well.
So go win this thing."
After that, there was no way that I was going to let those other three fail.
We were rewarded for it.
It makes it all way more bitter and way sweeter.
We talked about this, and we wouldn’t change it at all.
As soon as someone did something shady, they would end up going home.
Wes made a deal with the Brits, he went home.
Bananas and Laurel started making deals and doing shady stuff, and they went home.
Tori and I were playing fair so we couldn’t lose.
We didn’t really see what you were all talking about for those hours.
We were getting bits and pieces about how Paulie fell out and how their gurney broke.
There was a lot of weird talk that happens because everyone’s so out of it.
And we all became professional snake wranglers after thatthese snakes were walking right over these little plexiglass walls.
We kept having to pick these snakes up and put them back in the beds all night long.
People want to know if it’s fake for TV, but here’s some insight for you.
As we’re moving from stage 1 to the boats, we had this second to debrief.
I asked for a bandaid from the medic.
Rogan was like, “Yeah, can I get some cream for my leg?”
That’s on you."
So we were like, okay, no cream, no bandaid, let’s go!
Each one of us probably got like 2-3 hours of sleep that night.
And then in the morning, they were like, “Y’all ready?
Here’s CamelBaks.”
So it essentially started a full night before it really began?
The hours on the ground, no breakfast, it absolutely goes into how you perform.
Just keep repeating “this too shall pass.
This too shall pass!
Eventually, it will be over and hopefully, you get to hold up a big check.
If you don’t have a big check at the end of it, it was all for nothing.
What are you doing this for?
You’re out here for a reason.
This final looked brutal, but how does it rank among all the finals you’ve been in before?
To have to continue the rest of the day after that, it was very difficult.
It was hard to breathe.
Physically it was tough.
The six miles in the sand, it was long and slow.
What lessons did you learn from this season that you’re taking with you for future seasons?
We could win every challenge for them and still never have any power.
This was the perfect storm for a big alliance.
What I really took away is you’re able to’t promise everyone everything and expect to deliver.
If you say that to a bunch of people, how are you all going to get there?
You had to cannibalize the right people at the right time to make your team more efficient.
I did learn that I should probably be a little bit nicer [of a] team player.
Did anyone’s talking head confessionals surprise you?
I do not read into people’s confessionals, I don’t take things personally.
I know I’m going to ruffle feathers so I can’t get ruffled about every little thing either.
But I don’t know if I’m surprised.
This is how she’s been.
For me, it was not a surprise.
We didn’t take offense to it.
We’re here for Tori and me, we’re not here for everybody else, including Cara.
It was stressful but looking back, we feel very satisfied with everything.
We always say it worked out like 98.7 percent the way it was supposed.
If we could have just got Tori in there too, that would have been the perfect season.
