User blog comment:Mughees J. Simpson/Rating the challenges of Total Drama./@comment-26704228-20160912142423

I actually think Paintball deer hunter deserves a lower rating. I know we're talking about technical flaws in challenges, but despite the great idea of the challenge, I found it pretty boring. I wanted to see people actually try in the challenge, some sneaky moves with hunting the others and, well, a real exciting paintball war between the two teams. What I got was barely focus on the challenge. Except Owen and DJ, no one even bothered to win. Gwen, Trent, and Sadie were not seen from the beggining of the challenge, Duncan and Courtney were also pretty invisible until their horns got stuck but even that's not about the challenge. Cody also was on his own. Heather, Beth, Lindsay and Leshawna were deep in their own drama, and the only thing Harold, Bridgette, and Geoff did was finding the Gophers and shooting them in the near-end of the challenge.

So basically, what the contestants did in this challenge (except Owen and DJ who are the only ones to actually do something with the challenge) is walking in the woods or being involved in Heather's alliance drama, which wasn't totally boring, but was not related to the challenge at all.

Even Heather who sat around without moving for a long time wasn't caught, and members between different teams barely faced each other. Seriously, you could take out the challenge and the episode will remain pretty much the same, which is sad because it has a chance to be a really good one and filled with drama.

These reasons are why I think the challenge execution in this episode was really poor and also why Paintball Deer Hunter is easily my least favorite TDI episode.