Things have been going too well in Bonanza City, so the Pioneer Journal tells the Council to change up the Districts. Because they do everything the Journal tells them to, Zach takes Blaine into Yellow, Anjay takes Emilie for Blue, Guylan takes Nathan for Red, and Laurel takes -- no one. Everyone promptly freaks out, no one more so than Greg at the loss of his boyfriend. The Showdown is a race to haul a sled full of rocks through an obstacle course. The catch is that the teams have to haul a total of a ton of rocks in order to get the reward, so they each have to find a balance between pulling their weight (an average of 500 pounds per team), and getting there first. Blue comes in first, having pulled 480 pounds. Yellow finishes second, with 460. Green is third, and came through with 420. And Red only has 485, which means no reward. And Guylan pisses everyone off afterward by accusing them of worrying about their own status, and ends up regretting even being on the Council after Sophia humiliates him in front of the whole town. The Gold Star is looking like a tossup between hardworking Hunter and Yellow"s new MVP, Blaine. There"s a lot of bitching at the Town Hall meeting. Twelve-year-old Randi from the Yellow team decides to bail out despite a portentous rainstorm, and Blaine"s emergence from Greg"s shadow is made official when he wins the Gold Star. But the town is pissed off enough at the Council that Jonathan calls an election on the spot. The challengers? Blaine for Yellow, DK for Red, and Greg for Blue. And on the Green team, Laurel is challenged by...Michael. I know! But we"ll have to wait until next week to see who wins, because this is to be continued.


