Ah that seems pretty bad. Though I'm not sure about the challenge part though. It is of course big exhaustion, but I mean, the whole show is about it. It's risky as any sport competition and is about going beyond the limit. Lifting after the previous challenge doesn't seem pleasant but they knew what they signed up for? And I'm not saying it to defend the producers or anything, it's just that, there were much more savage things in the show in my opinion (like for example holding a boulder for 2 hours and saying how red their neck and shoulder area looked like).

I was kinda sad that we didn't get enough of Eud dum actually! Not sure if spelled the name correctly but it was a fragile girl with pink hair who won the challenge 2.5 as well. The winner as well, like you say, not much of a build up. I also noticed him like I said, only after mythological challenges.

On a side note: Who's the guy in your avatar? Looks very hot

I've noticed the winner even before the mythological challenges, cos he's cute and his hair doesn't move haha. Euddum is living her best life because in one of her YT videos where she had JeongYun and the two other big boys, she said that she had gotten 100 thousand new IG followers.
 
There are some. If we go to Reddit, they explain things better there.

The biggest one relates to the show's credibility. So, Jung Hae Min (the cyclist & runner up) was the actual winner of the show. But the production team forced the finalists do the match 3 times, because of technical issues (if I'm not mistaken, something wrong with the audio recording). Basically he already won the first 2, but the show said "nah", until the match fell to Woo Jin Yong's favor. News came around, especially Hae Min's social media distances himself with the show, and other contestants like the car dealer guy and Yun Sung Bin's coach also said it. The production team eventually denied that the competition is rigged, but recently Hae Min decided to do an interview to confirm everything. Not sure if it's against NDA, but according to his words, he doesn't exactly want any compensation, just wants to tell the truth. Overall, they didn't necessarily seem to intend on making Jin Yong the winner from the start, but it's more about being very unprofessional.

The other controversies are more about contestants' past. I don't think they should affect the program's future, but we're talking about South Korea, everyone's reputation is somehow involved in the brand image. So Kim Da Yong (the stuntwoman) was involved in bullying and assault when she was younger. The victims decided to speak up and Da Yong actually admitted (half of) it. And then Jang Seong Min (one of the rugby players in the show), assaulted his girlfriend with a weapon (that's all I know).

thats quite sad to know, I was rooting for Hae Min and Seong Min
 
I love that high fashion photoshoot they did. It made the other guys look their best. Hot!
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