After Tony Raines made a shocking call that caused his elimination on episode three of The Challenge Season 40, fans are calling the reality star out for his "stupid" decision. During the Battle of the Eras, Era III teammates Tony and Averey Tressler, who called season 40 the toughest yet , forced themselves into the elimination game after they couldn’t come to an agreement on who to nominate of the duos from other teams. When Raines wouldn't budge on his decision, Tressler even accused him of "wanting to leave" the competition, knowing that host T.

J. Lavin would bitterly force the two to compete in the arena for the challenge. The Challenge Season 40 sees major clash between stars ahead of episode 3 The Challenge Season 40 blasted by fans for 'unfair' nominations format After battling with Raines' stubborn attitude, an angry Tressler, 33, defeated Jodi Weatherton in the arena on the MTV show.

Raines lost to Darrell Taylor during the challenge and was eliminated from the competition, which could have been avoided along with the clash between the two co-stars. Fans of the longtime show took to Reddit and Twitter to discuss the events of the August 28 episode and defend Averey, who spilled behind the scenes details about season 40 . One fan wrote: "Tony played stupid.

He could’ve just went with Averey, it’s early. Darrell blew him out." "At first I thought Avery was off when she said that Tony didn’t want to be here but he ending up showing us that was exactly the case.

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