Cutthroat 3

Cutthroat 3

Genre	Reality Competition
Winner	Ethan000 dragotistic mysterygame2
Runners-Up	Lalisa YoundAndReckless
No. of Episodes	12
No. of Players	30
Chronology
Previous Season	Are You The One?
Next Season	The Island

Cutthroat 3 is the forty-second season of the RSF Franchise, and is based off of the Cutthroat format of the reality television series The Challenge (formerly known as the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. It is also the 12th season of Generation 3. The season followed Are You The One?.

The cast was made up of 30 players. This season saw the players divided into 3 teams of 10 via a draft with each team being made up of 2 classes of competitors: Top Dogs and Underdogs based on previous RSF Experience with Top Dogs classified as former RSF Champions, Finalists or previous competitors who participated in more than 6 seasons. In the Gulag, Top Dogs could only go against Top Dogs and Underdogs could only go against Underdogs.

This season incorporated 2 twists: Defection and Hidden Targets. The Defection twist allowed players who won multiple Gulags (every 2nd Gulag win) the ability to defect from their team and join the team of the player they just eliminated. The Hidden Targets twist gave each individual a Hidden Target assignment of a player on their team with which they had to target with the goal to get them off their team either via defection or elimination. Throughout the game they would earn Hidden Target points based on sending their target into the Gulag and their performance in it. These points would play a part in the penultimate round where it secured 6 people a guaranteed spot in the Final while forcing the remaining 6 competitors into the Final Gulag Bloodbath where only 2 survived.

In the end, the Red Team (Ethan000, dragotistic, mysterygame2) defeated the Gray Team (Lalisa, YoundAndReckless) and the Blue Team (Jaxon, Gaiaphagee, Leonine_Divine) in the Final Challenge in order to earn the title of RSF Champion.

Production

Applications for Cutthroat 3 opened on July 5, 2017 and were open for roughly a week. This season had all players apply via mail and in secret in order to keep all players in the dark about who would be competing. This season was initially advertised as The Challenge with the format not being revealed until the cast was finalized and had accepted their place on the season. 41 people applied for the season and 30 were initially cast based on those applications.

The season occurred from mid-July 2017 to late August 2017.

Notable Snubs

The following players applied for the season but were not cast and would either make a future appearance in the RSF Franchise or had previously been a competitor on a former RSF Season:

Player	Original Season
doubledarefan01	Fresh Meat 2
Halloween	The Amazing Race
KingGeek	Bachelor Pad

Cast

Top Dogs
Players	Original Season	Finish
Ethan000	Endurance Bora Bora	Winner
mysterygame2	Free Agents	Winner
Gaiaphagee	The Castle	3rd Place
Leonine_Divine	The Castle	3rd Place
rawr121	Endurance Bora Bora	Episode 11
Christian_	The Mole 3: Vengeance is Sweet	Episode 10
IceIceBaby	The Mole 3: Vengeance is Sweet	Episode 9
obscurity	Solitary	Episode 8
coltsfan876	The Ruins	Episode 7
LaFierceBrittany2	Moolah Beach	Episode 6
awwsum11	The Gauntlet 2	Episode 5
Jkjkjk15	Free Agents	Episode 4
Absol	The Duel	Episode 3
BBlover96	Survivor East vs West	Episode 2
Jordonk	Cutthroat	Episode 1

Underdogs
Players	Original Season	Finish
dragotistic	None	Winner
Lalisa	Battle of the Seasons 2	Runner-Up
YoundAndReckless	None	Runner-Up
Jaxon	The Duel 2	3rd Place
ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	The Mole: Return of the Traitor	Episode 11
MoooHades	Cutthroat 2	Episode 10
Neme91	Are You The One?	Episode 9
rodrigueseve	None	Episode 8
kevin121302	The Castle 2	Episode 7
Kgamer2218	None	Episode 6
nikw98	Are You The One?	Episode 5
DrG2	None	Episode 4
Emmett4	None	Episode 3
PoohSnap	None	Episode 2
epicwafflez23	None	Episode 1

Draft

Round
Captain	rodrigueseve	YoundAndReckless	Jaxon
1	Ethan000	Christian_	obscurity
2	Lalisa	MoooHades	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS
3	Absol	coltsfan876	Gaiaphagee
4	dragotistic	nikw98	Kgamer2218
5	rawr121	awwsum11	IceIceBaby
6	PoohSnap	epicwafflez23	Emmett4
7	Jkjkjk15	BBlover96	Leonine_Divine
8	Neme91	kevin121302	DrG2
9	mysterygame2	Jordonk	LaFierceBrittany2

Game Progress

Elimination chart

Episode	Challenge	Winner		Gulag Vote						Gulag	Gulag
#	Challenge	Winner		Red		Gray		Blue		Gulag	Winner		Loser
1	The Weakest Link		Blue Team		dragotistic		epicwafflez23	N/A		The Scales of Justice		dragotistic		epicwafflez23
1	The Weakest Link		Blue Team		mysterygame2		Jordonk	N/A		The Scales of Justice		mysterygame2		Jordonk
2	Land Dispute		Blue Team		PoohSnap		kevin121302	N/A		Rainbow Connection		kevin121302		PoohSnap
2	Land Dispute		Blue Team		Absol		BBlover96	N/A		Rainbow Connection		Absol		BBlover96
3	Code Breakers		Gray Team		rodrigueseve	N/A			Emmett4	Back Up Off Me		rodrigueseve		Emmett4
3	Code Breakers		Gray Team		Absol	N/A			obscurity	Back Up Off Me		obscurity		Absol
4	Bottleneck Stampede		Gray Team		rodrigueseve	N/A			DrG2	Connect Four		rodrigueseve		DrG2
4	Bottleneck Stampede		Gray Team		Jkjkjk15	N/A			IceIceBaby	Connect Four		IceIceBaby		Jkjkjk15
5	Sky Hook		Red Team	N/A			nikw98		Kgamer2218	Pole Me Over		Kgamer2218		nikw98
5	Sky Hook		Red Team	N/A			awwsum11		obscurity	Pole Me Over		obscurity*		awwsum11
6	High Ball		Gray Team		Neme91	N/A			Kgamer2218	Handcuffs		Neme91		Kgamer2218
6	High Ball		Gray Team		mysterygame2	N/A			LaFierceBrittany2	Handcuffs		mysterygame2		LaFierceBrittany2
7	Selfish or Selfless		Blue Team		Lalisa		kevin121302	N/A		Die Hard		Lalisa*		kevin121302
7	Selfish or Selfless		Blue Team		Ethan000		coltsfan876	N/A		Die Hard		Ethan000		coltsfan876
8	Gimme A Hand		Blue Team		rodrigueseve		YoundAndReckless	N/A		Swat		YoundAndReckless		rodrigueseve
8	Gimme A Hand		Blue Team		rawr121		obscurity	N/A		Swat		rawr121		obscurity
9	Riot Act		Gray Team		Neme91	N/A			ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	Blokus		ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS		Neme91
9	Riot Act		Gray Team		mysterygame2	N/A			IceIceBaby	Blokus		mysterygame2		IceIceBaby
10/11	Hidden Target Points		YoundAndReckless		MoooHades		Jaxon		ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	Connect Four		Jaxon		MoooHades
			dragotistic							Connect Four		ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS		MoooHades
			Lalisa							Pole Me Over		mysterygame2		Christian_
			Ethan000		rawr121		Christian_		mysterygame2	Pole Me Over		rawr121		Christian_
			Leonine_Divine							The Scales of Justice		Jaxon		ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS
			Gaiaphagee							The Scales of Justice		mysterygame2		rawr121
12	Escape the Gulag		Red Team	2nd Place: Gray Team; 3rd Place: Blue Team

After winning his second Gulag in Episode 5, obscurity chose to defect from the Blue Team and thus joined the Gray Team.
After earning a Gulag win as a temptation during the Selfish or Selfless challenge in Episode 7, Lalisa chose to defect from the Red Team after gaining another Gulag win that same episode and thus joined the Gray Team.
The Red Team contestants in the final challenge were Ethan000, mysterygame2 and dragotistic.
The Blue Team contestants in the final challenge were Leonine_Divine, Gaiaphagee and Jaxon.
The Gray Team contestants in the final challenge were YoundAndReckless and Lalisa.

Cutthroat progress

Top Dogs		Challenges
Top Dogs		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Finale
	Ethan000	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WINNER
	mysterygame2	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	GULAG	GULAG	GULAG	WINNER
	Gaiaphagee	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	THIRD - DQ
	Leonine_Divine	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	THIRD - DQ
	rawr121	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	GULAG	SAFE	GULAG	OUT
	Christian_	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	OUT
	IceIceBaby	WIN	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	OUT
	obscurity	WIN	WIN	GULAG	SAFE	GULAG	WIN	SAFE	OUT
	obscurity	WIN	WIN	GULAG	SAFE	GULAG	WIN	SAFE	OUT
	coltsfan876	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	OUT
	LaFierceBrittany2	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
	awwsum11	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	OUT
	Jkjkjk15	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
	Absol	SAFE	GULAG	OUT
	BBlover96	SAFE	OUT
	Jordonk	OUT

Underdogs		Challenges
Underdogs		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Finale
	dragotistic	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WINNER
	Lalisa	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	RUNNER-UP
	Lalisa	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	RUNNER-UP
	YoundAndReckless	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	RUNNER-UP
	Jaxon	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	GULAG	GULAG	THIRD - DQ
	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	GULAG	GULAG	OUT
	MoooHades	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	OUT
	Neme91	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	GULAG	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
	rodrigueseve	SAFE	SAFE	GULAG	GULAG	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
	kevin121302	SAFE	GULAG	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	OUT
	Kgamer2218	WIN	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	GULAG	OUT
	nikw98	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	OUT
	DrG2	WIN	WIN	SAFE	OUT
	Emmett4	WIN	WIN	OUT
	PoohSnap	SAFE	OUT
	epicwafflez23	OUT

Twists

Defections

Round		Decision	New Team
4	rodrigueseve	DECLINE	N/A
5	obscurity	ACCEPT	Gray Team
6	mysterygame2	DECLINE	N/A
7	Lalisa	ACCEPT	Gray Team

Hidden Targets

At the beginning of the season the players sent in lists ranking all players from strongest to weakest. The strongest player was given the weakest player as their Hidden Target. The rest of the players got the person that was 1 spot ahead of them in the rankings thus having a majority of the team targeting the next strongest competitor as decided by the cast. When players were eliminated or defected they were taken out of their team's cycle and placed in their new team's cycle in the case of defection.

The order of strongest to weakest on each team was:

Rank
1	Ethan000	Christian_	Gaiaphagee
2	Absol	BBlover96	obscurity*
3	rawr121	coltsfan876	IceIceBaby
4	Jkjkjk15	awwsum11	LaFierceBrittany2
5	mysterygame2	Jordonk	Leonine_Divine
6	dragotistic	YoundAndReckless	Jaxon
7	Lalisa*	MoooHades	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS
8	PoohSnap	epicwafflez23	DrG2
9	Neme91	nikw98	Emmett4
10	rodrigueseve	kevin121302	Kgamer2218

After defecting, obscurity and Lalisa were placed in the Hidden Target cycle of Gray Team. obscurity was placed between BBlover96 and coltsfan876 while Lalisa was placed between MoooHades and epicwafflez23

Voting History

Gray Team		Episodes									Total Votes Received
Gray Team		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total Votes Received
	Lalisa	N/A							YoundAndReckless	N/A	4
	Lalisa	N/A							obscurity	N/A	4
	YoundAndReckless	epicwafflez23	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	nikw98	N/A	kevin121302	MoooHades	N/A	6
	YoundAndReckless	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11	N/A	coltsfan876	obscurity	N/A	6
	Christian_	kevin121302	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	nikw98	N/A	kevin121302	YoundAndReckless	N/A	2
	Christian_	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11	N/A	coltsfan876	obscurity	N/A	2
	MoooHades	epicwafflez23	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	nikw98	N/A	kevin121302	YoundAndReckless	N/A	3
	MoooHades	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11	N/A	coltsfan876	obscurity	N/A	3
	obscurity	N/A					N/A	kevin121302	MoooHades		17
	obscurity	N/A					N/A	coltsfan876	obscurity		17
	coltsfan876	epicwafflez23	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	nikw98	N/A	YoundAndReckless			4
	coltsfan876	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11	N/A	Christian_			4
	kevin121302	nikw98	nikw98	N/A	N/A	nikw98	N/A	MoooHades			12
	kevin121302	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11	N/A	---			12
	awwsum11	epicwafflez23	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	YoundAndReckless					7
	awwsum11	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11					7
	nikw98	epicwafflez23	kevin121302	N/A	N/A	YoundAndReckless					7
	nikw98	Jordonk	BBlover96	N/A	N/A	awwsum11					7
	BBlover96	epicwafflez23	kevin121302								7
	BBlover96	Jordonk	Christian_								7
	Jordonk	epicwafflez23									10
	Jordonk	Jordonk									10
	epicwafflez23	epicwafflez23									8
	epicwafflez23	Jordonk									8

Red Team		Episodes									Total Votes Received
Red Team		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total Votes Received
	Ethan000	dragotistic	PoohSnap	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Neme91	rodrigueseve	Neme91	6
	Ethan000	mysterygame2	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	mysterygame2	rawr121	mysterygame2	6
	dragotistic	SELF VOTE	PoohSnap	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Lalisa	rodrigueseve	Neme91	13
	dragotistic	SELF VOTE	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	Ethan000	rawr121	mysterygame2	13
	mysterygame2	dragotistic	PoohSnap	SELF VOTE	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Lalisa	rodrigueseve	Neme91	21
	mysterygame2	mysterygame2	Absol	SELF VOTE	Jkjkjk15	N/A	Ethan000	Ethan000	rawr121	rawr121	21
	rawr121	dragotistic	PoohSnap	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Neme91	rodrigueseve	Neme91	7
	rawr121	Absol	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	mysterygame2	rawr121	mysterygame2	7
	Neme91	dragotistic	dragotistic	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve	N/A	rodrigueseve	Lalisa	rodrigueseve	dragotistic	17
	Neme91	Jkjkjk15	Ethan000	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	Ethan000	rawr121	mysterygame2	17
	rodrigueseve	dragotistic	PoohSnap	Neme91	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Lalisa	Neme91		21
	rodrigueseve	mysterygame2	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	Ethan000	rawr121		21
	Lalisa	dragotistic	PoohSnap	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve	N/A	Neme91	Neme91			4
	Lalisa	mysterygame2	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15	N/A	mysterygame2	mysterygame2			4
	Jkjkjk15	dragotistic	Neme91	rodrigueseve	rodrigueseve						9
	Jkjkjk15	mysterygame2	Absol	Absol	Jkjkjk15						9
	Absol	dragotistic	PoohSnap	rodrigueseve							19
	Absol	mysterygame2	Absol	Absol							19
	PoohSnap	dragotistic	Neme91								7
	PoohSnap	Absol	Absol								7

Blue Team		Episodes									Total Votes Received
Blue Team		1	2	3*	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total Votes Received
	Jaxon	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	DrG2	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	5
	Jaxon	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	IceIceBaby	obscurity	IceIceBaby	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	5
	Gaiaphagee	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	DrG2	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	1
	Gaiaphagee	N/A	N/A	obscurity	IceIceBaby	obscurity	LaFierceBrittany2	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	1
	Leonine_Divine	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	DrG2	Kgamer2218	Jaxon	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	0
	Leonine_Divine	N/A	N/A	obscurity	IceIceBaby	LaFierceBrittany2	LaFierceBrittany2	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	0
	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218	N/A	N/A	Jaxon	8
	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	LaFierceBrittany2	LaFierceBrittany2	IceIceBaby	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	8
	IceIceBaby	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	Kgamer2218	SELF VOTE	Jaxon	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	18
	IceIceBaby	N/A	N/A	obscurity	LaFierceBrittany2	SELF VOTE	LaFierceBrittany2	N/A	N/A	Gaiaphagee	18
	LaFierceBrittany2	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	DrG2	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218				10
	LaFierceBrittany2	N/A	N/A	obscurity	IceIceBaby	obscurity	IceIceBaby				10
	Kgamer2218	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	DrG2	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS	Jaxon				14
	Kgamer2218	N/A	N/A	obscurity	IceIceBaby	obscurity	LaFierceBrittany2				14
	obscurity	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	Kgamer2218	Kgamer2218					12
	obscurity	N/A	N/A	IceIceBaby	LaFierceBrittany2	obscurity					12
	DrG2	N/A	N/A	Emmett4	Kgamer2218						5
	DrG2	N/A	N/A	obscurity	LaFierceBrittany2						5
	Emmett4	N/A	N/A	ILOVETHEBUCCANEERS							8
	Emmett4	N/A	N/A	obscurity							8

Due to Emmett4 not completing the list assignment before teams were decided, he received a penalty vote for every Gulag vote until he faced the Gulag. As he was voted to face the Gulag in Episode 3, he only received the penalty for that episode's vote.

Subsequent Seasons

Cast Member	RSF Seasons	Seasons Won	Total Money Earned
dragotistic	Cutthroat 3	Cutthroat 3	$46,666
DrG2	Cutthroat 3, Big Brother International	None	$0
Emmett4	Cutthroat 3	None	$0
epicwafflez23	Cutthroat 3	None	$0
Kgamer2218	Cutthroat 3, The Island, Redneck Island 2, Society Game, Moolah Beach 2: Back to the Beach	None	$0
PoohSnap	Cutthroat 3	None	$0
rodrigueseve	Cutthroat 3, The Island, American Grit 2, Society Game, Clash of the Champions	The Island	$75,000
YoundAndReckless	Cutthroat 3, Redneck Island 2	None	$40,000

Bold indicates the contestant was a finalist on this RSF Season.

RSF Season Directory
Moolah Beach • The Mole • Survivor East vs West • Big Brother Mystery Room • I Love Money • Survivor Atlantis: The Lost Empire • Fresh Meat • The Mole: Return of the Traitor • Cutthroat • The Castle • The Gauntlet • Survivor Worldwide • Battle of the Seasons • Big Brother: The Mystery Room 2 • The Ruins • The Amazing Race • The Duel • The Mole 3: Vengeance is Sweet • Fresh Meat 2 • A Coach's Game • Pirate Master • Cutthroat 2 • Solitary • Big Brother: The Mystery Room 3 • Endurance Bora Bora • Free Agents • The Inferno • Fresh Meat 3 • Opposite Worlds • The Quest: All Stars • The Genius • The Gauntlet 2 • Redneck Island • American Grit • The Castle 2 • Bachelor Pad • The Duel 2 • Battle of the Seasons 2 • Solitary 2.0 • Rise of the Underdogs • Are You The One? • Cutthroat 3 • The Island • Redneck Island 2 • American Grit 2 • Society Game • Big Brother International • Free Agents 2 • Moolah Beach 2: Back to the Beach • Clash of the Champions

Player Statistics
Hall of Fame • RSF Series Points