The Challenge USA’s Alyssa Lopez Calls ‘Survivor’ Alums ‘Sketchy’

The Challenge: USA’s Alyssa Lopez thinks that folks have the flawed impression of Big Brother alums corresponding to herself.

“Everyone has this stigma of ‘Big Brother is the worst’, but Survivor is far more sketchy,” Alyssa, 27, completely instructed Us Weekly on Friday, August 25, sooner or later after she was eradicated from season 2 of The Challenge: USA, which options alums from Big Brother, Survivor, The Challenge and The Amazing Race.

She continued: “We just say it to your face. Survivor gets [cast] for being good at the game, being able to maneuver and strategize. We get [cast] for our big personalities, so it’s easy for Survivor [alums] to hide behind that.”

Alyssa’s feedback come after Survivor: Edge of Extinction winner Chris Underwood referred to as out Big Brother alums Monte Taylor and Tyler Crispen for his or her gameplay ways through the Thursday, August 24, episode of The Challenge: USA.

“This is not Big Brother … you playing like it [is],” Chris, 30, stated after Monte, 28, and Tyler, 28, helped facilitate a plan to ship him into the elimination spherical, which he survived. Chris additionally referred to as the pair “little bitches.”

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Alyssa proved that she had no downside with confrontation whereas standing as much as her fellow Blue Team member Tori Deal through the third spherical of nominations. After Tori, 30, expressed frustration together with her teammates for placing her sport in jeopardy by voting for Jonna Stephens (née Mannion) to enter the world together with her, Alyssa replied: “Maybe you need to not think about it as so direct and think more strategically of, ‘Maybe people wanted Jonna out.’ Maybe it’s not always about you.”

Despite the tense second with Tori, Alyssa instructed Us that there was no private beef together with her and the Challenge veteran. “I slept right next to her, so I don’t think there was [bad blood] unless she was saying things behind my back,” she stated. “I don’t take the game personally, so I’m still going to be the nice person I am and still talk with people, still have conversations and hang out.”

It was finally Tori’s secret vote that led to Alyssa’s elimination. During Thursday’s episode, Challenge vets Tori, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, Cory Wharton, Faysal Shafaat and Josh Martinez determined to make use of “Operation Hat Trick” by placing 5 names in a hat and randomly selecting which particular person they’d every vote to ship into elimination. The concept was to disguise the truth that they’re working collectively within the sport and trigger “organized chaos,” as Tori put it.

Although Alyssa acquired just one vote from Tori, the hopper randomly chosen her to compete in opposition to Cassidy Clark and Alyssa was eradicated after shedding the “Block Heads” problem.

Alyssa instructed Us that she doesn’t assume “Operation Hat Trick” is one of the best strategic transfer however admitted that it did work within the vets’ favor.

“It got me out and I was one of the main people vocalizing to get them out,” she stated. “At the same time though, I know my strengths and weaknesses and I know any challenge I go into, I’m going to be the smallest girl, so me leaving doesn’t really benefit Tori that much in the long run because now you still have people like a Desi [Williams] or Michaela [Bradshaw] that could make the final.”

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Alyssa seemed to be main the cost to get veterans out of the sport, however she instructed Us that “everyone was wanting that” final result “at least a little bit.” She defined that she was compelled to be outspoken as considered one of solely two members of the Secret Garden alliance on the Blue Team together with fellow Big Brother alum Alyssa Snider.

“I’m just a very direct person and I don’t sugarcoat things. … Alyssa S. kind of would just agree with what I’m saying. She was never one to stand up and say it first,” she stated. “So, I had to be that main voice to make sure the vets were going in [for elimination].”

The Challenge: USA airs on CBS Thursdays and Sundays at 10 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, respectively.