It's been a pretty tumultuous week on The Biggest Loser--a given, because it's time to let go of the original pairings and form Jillian's black team and Bob's blue teams.  No pressure, right?  But here comes Alison again, giving everyone a chance to control who goes to what team.

It's another temptation, but it's actually harder now that we've seen it.  Whoever decides that they're up for it will face surprise under silver platters.  It's either there's food inside, or a thousand bucks, or that ever-so-elusive golden ticket.  Four players took a chance and got those calorie-rich foods.  And then there's Tracey, the person we should've expected to take that chance.  She picks a platter and gets the golden ticket.

In a playful ruse with foreshadowing, her teammate, Mo, thought "a magical wind was blowing" when she came to the plates, and when she got the ticket, he thought the circumstances were "supernatural".  Of course, everybody else was scared for what she would do--would she split all the current couples?

Well, not exactly.  She kept Daniel and Shay together.  But, with the exception of her partnership with Mo, she split everybody else up: Allen, Liz, Rudy and Rebecca join the old purple team to form the blue team, while Abby, Danny, Amanda and Dina join the old orange team to form the black team.  To add insult to injury, Tracey chose Bob to train her team, which disappointed Jillian--simply because she's just so freaking annoyed at Tracey.

But nobody was more disappointed than Liz, who found herself away from former teammate Danny, and to make things worse, she has to live with Tracey!  Never mind if the supernatural witch from the purple team claimed that she made her decisions from the heart.  "I am puttin' her ass home in the most evil way possible," Liz eventually said, and in an instant, we have a rivalry.  Seems that she's out to defeat Tracey in her own game, even if it means she takes her workouts too hard.

You can say it's because Liz felt so bad about splitting with Danny.  At the end of the challenge--teams must carry a teammate on a platform in exchange for videos from home; it was an easy win for the blues--she gave up her video so she can give him a chance to see his videos.  It's touching, yes, but when you think of how bad she wants to smack Tracey down, well...

In the end, though, it was the black team which lost the most weight, although it was Liz who held immunity.  (Shay losing 16 pounds is a surprise.)  She wanted to kick Tracey out, but it was Mo who was eliminated, after he felt he should go home since he wasn't losing a lot of weight.  Personally, it might be another one of those magical winds blowing.  After leaving the ranch, he's no weighing a much lighter 279 pounds.

But the world still hates Tracey.  I don't know what'll happen next.  The scoreboard, then:

Abby: 208 pounds (-5)
Allen: 278 pounds (-7)
Amanda: 224 pounds (-6)
Daniel: 276 pounds (-11)
Danny: 372 pounds (-10)
Dina: 223 pounds (-6)
Liz: 232 pounds (-6) (immunity)
Mo: 312 pounds (-6) (eliminated)
Rebecca: 237 pounds (-7)
Rudy: 369 pounds (-8)
Shay: 416 pounds (-16)
Tracey: 206 pounds (-7)





- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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