User:Pikalin38/Fictional Ben and Toad's Contest 5

The fifth season of Ben and Toad's Contest (calling the season All-Stars) will premiere September 20, 2014. This season will feature ten contestants from seasons 1-4 competing again for another trophy, and some contestants from seasons 1-4 are replaced with different contestants usually from injuries, bringing up to 60 contestants.

The season started terrible, looking like Fontana in the last week of season 4; expect Alena Zavarzina earned herself a drive through for pit entry violation in lap 80 of 100. Week 1 was a disaster, having Italy stun Germany five times; because of rain at Chicagoland Speedway and event moved to South Korea. Had Germany finish in the top 10 and Italy earn a right-to drive through penalty, Italy should have failed to move on. The favorites to win, Apolo Anton Ohno, Kristi Yamaguchi, Kim Yu-Na, Mao Asada, Shakira, Zendaya, Kellie Pickler, Amber Riley, Emmitt Smith, Donald Driver, Viktor Ahn, Laila Ali, Mel B, Sabrina Bryan and Mýa, all advanced to the second round. The bottom two were between two Croatians, Tomoka Takeuchi and Vita Semerenko.

This season is mostly considered a "group of death" because of it's choice for bringing back most of the Dancing with the Stars winners; unlike the 2014 FIFA World Cup Groups B, D and G. Two winners, Nicole Scherzinger and Jennifer Grey, weren't chosen by the president to come back despite being beaten by Ukraine. Season 12 winner Hines Ward, who competed in Ironman 70.3 Kansas the same weekend as Hélio Castroneves' win in Texas, was originally selected, but suffered an injury and was replaced by 3-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon.

This all-star season will have 48 contestants participate, normally from one of the 32 countries that qualified for 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Two years before this, season 1 extended from 40 to 42 of the Japanese supercentenarian that wanted to participate.

On June 28, 2014, after the Colombian sweep in the Grand Prix of Houston Race 1 and their win over Uruguay, they announced that this season's contestants will extend from 40 to 48, bringing 12 back from each season (6 males and 6 females).

Among the countries that have failed to qualify a contestant for this season were Peru, Poland, Belarus, Slovakia, Spain, Portugal, and Ecuador.

There are going to be four judges: Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, Benjamin Karl and Anke Karstens. Len Goodman will not be a judge on this season after leaving Dancing with the Stars season 18, and four seasons of Ben and Toad's Contest. He will be replaced by Anke Karstens from season 5 to present (her country won the 2014 FIFA World Cup). The show is expected to have four judges from Season 4 to further on.

The day after the closing ceremony of the Sochi Paralympics, the news announced that Sochi Olympic bronze-medalist Alena Zavarzina will be replacing Katherine Heigl from season 2 due to an injury.

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification for Brazil going on from season 13 of DWTS until season 3 week 10 of BATC, contestants announced by the president were referred to have more athletes than others.

There were 50 countries entering BATC qualification. Had Lionel Messi of 🇦🇷 chosen, the cast should have ended up with an all-CONMEBOL (South America), inviting 1 season 1 contestant, 1 season 3 contestant and 2 season 4 contestants. Carlos Huertas, Sebastian Saavedra, Carlos Munoz, and Juan Pablo Montoya would all be part of the cast. After Helio Castroneves' crash in Houston Race 2, they announced that Mission Apolo was changed to Mission 🇦🇷 so that they can match it with Lionel Messi.

It was announced on the game between Ukraine and Belarus on the Mid-Ohio weekend that Channing Tatum suffered an injury. His replacement was named New Zealander Scott Dixon. Season 2's Hines Ward suffered an injury during a BATC event, with his replacement being Lionel Messi of Argentina, who has played with Argentina at Brazil 2014. Those contestants that originally were selected but got replaced include: Leah Remini, Valj Semerenko, Katherine Heigl, Shawn Johnson, Channing Tatum, Hines Ward

Events
Most of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying (expect Asia) end on this season. All of the teams will be known by the time season 19 of DWTS ends.
 * 2014 South American Women's Football Championships - Ecuador - Weeks 1 and 2. Brazil qualified despite win over Argentina, next either Shakira or Messi.
 * 2015 UEFA Women's World Cup Qualifying Round - All over Europe - Season 3 Week 1 to Season 5 Week 1
 * 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championships - Week 5 and Week 6
 * 2014 OFC Women's Championships - Week 5 or Week 6
 * 2014 CAF Women's Championships - Week 4 to Week 6
 * 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup playoff - Week 8 and Week 10
 * UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying - Beginning of season 5 to season 7
 * 2014 Race of Champions Barbados - there were some conversations from choosing either Germany or Italy. If the season 1 winning team participates, Germany will enter, while Italy will participate if Germany does not enter.
 * Ironman World Championships - Germany will participate as the points leader. Recently The Germans took part at a Firestone test, and the result ended to them over 🇮🇹.
 * Germany got 30 bonus points for the Firestone test; five for Gilles Marini's score and twenty for the team with the most design for Asian Games.

Description
Originally it was scheduled for 10 contestants from each season; and season 1 needs their Brazilian back. Season 1's returning contestants were announced before the Streets of St Pete. Unseeded Iran finished better than Germany at Houston Race 1 and 2, so that the season will extend it to 48 contestants. The Fontana season finale saw a shocking win for the other teams over the Number 1 ranked Germany. The qualifying order for Fontana was not looking good for Italy of season 3, as Germany is going last.

Qualification Results
The first ten contestants from each season were announced by the president of BATC, and the other two would have to play in a qualification tournament. The winner will qualify for this season, while the three losers went to the losing bracket. The men's qualification for season 1 was in Ecuador. The season 1 women's qualification was in Colombia before the Grand Prix of Long Beach. This took place in Minsk, Belarus. This was moved from Qatar to Russia. This was in Sao Paulo, Brazil because the announcer said they need to remove the race from the 2014 schedule. This was moved from Austria to Canada. This took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The final qualification of season 5 took place in Uruguay.
 * Season 1 Men
 * Season 1 Women
 * Season 2 Men
 * Season 2 Women
 * Season 3 Men
 * Season 3 Women
 * Season 4 Men
 * Season 4 Women

Team countries
All 48 contestants are split into Vortex (🇪🇸) for men and Infinity ( for women. The contestants will select a country that qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, including three countries that failed: Canada, Thailand and China PR for FIFA Women's World Cup 2015. There is a maximum four contestants per country.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup winners Germany will return as a team, this time having the same ones from season 1: Marini (captain), Ohno, Castroneves and Smith. They were on the Triathlete Magazine, seeing Germany in the September 2014 edition, the same month as the airing of the season. Five new contestants Déborah Anthonioz, Karim Benzema, Edin Džeko, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain were all present for the magazine.

🇵🇾 Paraguay was revealed as a country team for season 5 when Chicagoland Speedway was rained out; and therefore 🇩🇪 of season 1 advances to the fast 12.

There is a maximum two wild cards for each team because Brazil made it to the 2014 FIBA World Cup quarter-finals. Additionally the lower ranked team defeating the higher ranked team at Euro 2016 qualifiers was not the nicest at all for season 5. So many shockers happened on the Euro 2016 qualifying: Cyprus over 2014 World Cup debutants Bosnia and Herzegovina!

Shakira announced that she will not have Valerie Harper on her team, because of her popular picks in the Derby Dead Pool.

Contestants
Rumoured contestants from the Winter Olympics in Sochi before the World Cup in Brazil include: Ekaterina Tudegesheva, Natalia Soboleva, Kwak Yoon-Gy, Lee Jung-Su, Lee Ho-Suk, Kana Nishino, Noh Jin-Kyu, Marion Kreiner and Andrey Sobolev. They are transported to Season 6.

Lee Ho-Suk and Lee Jung-Su are Vortex's captains, as Polina Edmunds (replacement for Lee Eun-Byul) and Arianna Fontana were named Infinity's captains.

User:Pikalin38/Fictional Dancing on Ice 3 was aired before the games in Nanjing.

Leah Remini suffered an injury during trials just like when Wang Meng collided before the games in Sochi. Her replacement is named Adelina Sotnikova.

Justyna Kowalczyk won't be coming back to participate due to the cross country skiing not being in this season. Valj Semerenko suffered a back injury which caused only her sister Vita to compete. Her replacement is named Carina Vogt.

During the filming, Yoshi said "Kim A-Lang, you wanna join us? I am sure you need to. You look nice with the stats that Yoshi wants to take."

Emmitt Smith has confirmed to not come back because American Apolo Ohno did not compete in Sochi (announced retirement). However he was announced as a contestant following the sweep in IndyCar by Colombia.

Fidel Castro and Kirk Douglas are not coming back.

Sin Da-Woon is still rumored to participate. Ladina Jenny, Julie Zogg, Annamari Chundak, Nadya Ochner, Michela Moioli and Valeriya Tsoy are not sure about participating. It was transported to season 6.

Sanna Lüdi is not sure about participating.

Shawn Johnson is participating in the Celebrity Apprentice. Her replacement is named Kim A-Lang. Many people want either Viktor Ahn or Vladimir Grigorev to participate.

Lee Eun-Byul still is in the rumors.

Short track speed skaters Jumpei Yoshizawa from Japan, South Koreans Park Seung-Hi, Cho Ha-Ri and Shim Suk-Hee have been confirmed after Wang Meng's injury causing her not competing in Sochi.

Christina Aguilera and Natalie Gumede are also not coming back.

Butoh and Buyo are not coming back due to Sochi.

Olivia de Havilland has confirmed that she will not be returning. So Corky Ballas is not partnering anyone on this season.

Valerie Harper has confirmed that she is not coming back because she might die before it starts. Misao Okawa has also been confirmed to not come back.

Licata and Madigan have confirmed that they're not coming back.

Adelina Sotnikova is confirmed by the Apprentice news of Shawn Johnson.

Apolo Anton Ohno and Sung Si-Bak decided to switch their professional partners for this season because both of them decided to not compete, and missed out the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Viktor Ahn was a replacement for Jiroemon Kimura from week 13 until week 16.

The last spot was declared a draw, between Vladimir Grigorev and Zan Kosir; after the UEFA qualifying game for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada between Iceland and Denmark also ended in a draw. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the draw ended with Zan Kosir being the winner; therefore Russia was crestfallen again for representing another contestant. Switzerland won UEFA Group 3 for the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada; the only team to qualify between the June 12-July 13 dates of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The other teams will qualify for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after the 2014 IndyCar season ends in Fontana to determine the 2014 winner; mostly Team Penske teammates Will Power, or DWTS Season 5 winner Helio Castroneves. The pole position went to Germany, so many BATC contestants decided to have the German team of season 1 as the winner.

The president announced that there would be both teams dancing to two FIFA World Cup official songs from two editions for the groups. Group 1 will contain of the men, while group 2 will have the women. The order in the fall requires the groups first.

On August 9, 2014, Marta, Christine Sinclair, Lisa De Vanna, Lara Dickenmann, Janica Kostelic, Isabel Clark, Cristiane and Fraenzi Maegert-Kohli were announced as the remaining eight captains for Infinity. The day later, David Villa, Gerard Pique, Tim Cahill, Will Power, Miroslav Klose, Luis Suarez, Robin Van Persie and James Rodriguez were announced for Vortex.

Apprentice:

DWTS:

Week 1 Guests
In week 1, they are allowing contestants to bring guests over for their first dance. Example if Alena Zavarzina brings her husband Vic Wild, and she brings all the Russian alpine snowboarders that competed on home soil.

The Toady Oldies said that Italy is hosting a game show.

In short track speed skating in Sochi, the Yoshi Eggs can't handle winning the men's events due to the fact that Noh Jin-Kyu and Apolo Ohno are not competing.

DeathList 2015 Choices
The Ben and Toad's Contest contestants can now vote on any contestant on any season since Valerie Harper made it to the 2014 List. They cannot vote on anyone under the age of 15 since the BATC rules in the fall and winter meet the Olympic age in both occasions, born before July 1 in their place of birth. They cannot vote on Chloe Kim. Castroneves might be a good choice for this list since Italy tells him to not be on Team Penske, and move to a different team for the 2015 season. They said "Maybe Cloris Leachman.". Unanimous said "Wilko Johnson, Valerie Harper and Sam Simon are all dying in 2014. Apolo Ohno is dying now. Are you crazy?".

Previous seasons
Only the contestants on the first four seasons are included. Most contestants are from countries that qualified for the 2014 World Cup, expect a couple contestants came from countries that failed. 2015 FIFA World Cup hosts Canada failed to qualify for the first time.

Top 5 Predictions
The votes are for Winter Olympians. Even though Zavarzina said they can't vote on the same person, they choose from any of the contestants participating. The contestant with the most votes will be awarded on the finale on January 31.

Apprentice Results

 * Adelina Sotnikova and Zendaya are both too young for the Apprentice, since they need to be born before July 1, 1996 in their place of birth. Adelina Sotnikova was born a few hours into July 1, 1996 in Moscow.
 * Week 6 will switch teams up since there are 42 contestants left. Vortex will contain of Croatia, Slovakia, Russia and Colombia. Infinity contains of Germany, Ukraine, Italy and Brazil.
 * Week 3 is considered a switch ever since only the German team of season 1 is skipping the Arm Melter event. Contestants from different teams are planning to join them, but only the best ones. Group 1 is Vortex and Group 2 is Infinity.
 * There will be no professional switch on season 5 at all due to the Germans' unexpected penalty from Fontana.
 * The next switch will be on the week of Carrera de Estrellas.
 * The contestant was on the losing team.
 * The contestant won the competition and was named the Ben and Toad's Contest champion.
 * The contestant won as project manager on his/her team.
 * The contestant lost as project manager on his/her team.
 * The contestant was fired.
 * The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.

Weekly scores
Dance chart

Ironman World Championship
All 8 nations competed at the Ironman World Championship. Germany's goal was to finish faster than Hines Ward last year, and both Vitor Meira and Tony Kanaan in 2011. Colombia said "Same last name as Antonio Valencia and Enner Valencia".

New York City Marathon
Last year, season 1's contestant Pamela Anderson competed in the marathon with a time of 5 hours and 41 minutes. That was slower than Germany's expectations of 5:00. Adriana Henao, who is cheering from Germany, finished almost an hour faster than Anderson last year.
 * Germany will use Adriana Henao as their runner, since Helio Castroneves is on the national team.
 * The first nation confirmed to participate was defending champs 🇩🇪.
 * Slovakia, Italy and Colombia are not planned to announce their runner until week 6 airing.
 * Caroline Wozniacki will be used by the following teams:, 🇷🇺, 🇺🇦 and 🇧🇷.

Carrera de Estrellas Bogota
Italy needs to beat Germany on this week before the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup draw.

Week 1: Asian Games/Dan Wheldon Challenge

 * Airdate: September 20, 2014
 * Task Scope: All contestants must participate in the 2014 Asian Games opening ceremony in Incheon, South Korea. Vortex will use all 32 nations that qualified for the 2014 World Cup, while Infinity chose the ones that qualified for the FIFA World Cup at least once. There will be also a Dan Wheldon Memorial Go Kart Challenge, for all those contestants that previously competed, but are not participating on this season.
 * Infinity Task Manager: Sabrina Bryan
 * Vortex Task Manager: Gilles Marini
 * Winning team: Vortex
 * Cause of win: They did pretty much well into the Asian Games opening ceremony. They went into an undefeated record for contestants facing against a previous season contestant from a country that qualifies for the 2014 World Cup. Vortex will participate at the Dan Wheldon Memorial Go Karting Challenge as the challenge is also scheduled for week 1.
 * Losing team: Infinity
 * Cause of loss: Infinity did not send the right nation in the AFC. They chose Turkey, but Turkey is a member of the European qualification. Infinity replied "Let's go to Italy. We can have some fun there!".
 * Fired: Vita Semerenko - for having Marta to tell you to stop going to the Dan Wheldon Memorial Go Karting Challenge instead of staying in South Korea, just like the other contestants. She decided to go back to their country of origin, the United States.
 * Notes:
 * All contestants are allowed to bring guests for their Cha-Cha-Cha or Foxtrot. Example if J.R. Celski chose to bring Eddy Alvarez, he would dance to a given song.
 * Ekaterina Tudegesheva will appear this week, despite given some incidents on Zbigniew Brodka.
 * With Lolo Jones eliminated from DWTS, everyone replied "It's time for Vita Semerenko to go.".
 * The NASCAR Sprint Cup series race on the results was extended by a green-white-checker finish. This was one of the times a green white checker happened on the first five weeks of the show.
 * Vita Semerenko is fired, so there are 11 season 1 contestants remaining.
 * The UNOH 175 is also scheduled for BATC 5 airing.
 * VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 is for the third time scheduled for the premiere of BATC.
 * This is the first week in season 5 with the protect managers being both contestants from season 1. Previously 🇩🇪 lost the Fontana finale to.
 * 🇩🇪 said "Get your passports ready for 2015 as we are heading back to Brasil! It's in Brasilia.".
 * The dancing order was determined at 19:00 Korea time: Season 1, season 4, season 3, season 2.
 * Unseeded Turkey will participate in the Dan Wheldon memorial go-karting challenge. The others that are not participating include season 1's 🇩🇪.
 * Justyna Kowalczyk, who failed to qualify, will take part in the challenge.
 * Italian Arianna Fontana was chosen as the captain for Infinity.
 * Juan Pablo Montoya was scheduled to appear on the week. He was in the task, taking part in South Korea on his birthday.
 * Season 5's event in Sochi, will be postponed from September 20 to September 27 due to rain.
 * 🇪🇨 advanced to the Copa America second round.
 * Korean Lee Ho-Suk was chosen as the captain for Vortex.
 * Before this season started, Lee Eun-Byul surprisingly eliminated captain Arianna Fontana for Infinity. In Vortex, American J.R. Martinez was shocked that he knocked leader Lee Ho-Suk off.
 * Supercentenarians are planned not to come to this season, or not compete because the maximum age to compete is 60 by the entrant rules this season.
 * Valentina Semerenko plans to fire Vita Semerenko in this task.
 * Elizaveta Tuktamisheva has planned to help this week.
 * There will be a qualification tournament on September 13.
 * The UEFA qualification will end on the week of this airing., 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇳🇴, 🇪🇸 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 qualified.

Week 2: Sochi Event

 * Air date: September 27, 2014
 * Task Scope: It's Avril Lavigne's birthday and we are going to the Host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia. Originally the Sochi event was scheduled to be in week 1. But rain at Chicagoland Speedway caused the Sochi event to postpone to week 2; and also because of the Asian Games in Incheon.
 * Infinity Project Manager: Melissa Rycroft
 * Vortex Project Manager: Apolo Anton Ohno
 * Winning team: Infinity
 * Cause of win: The women defeated all the unseeded men that did not participate in any season of Ben and Toad's Contest. The team did well, participating in Sochi to do the 2014 Copa América Femenina second round qualification.
 * Losing team: Vortex
 * Cause of loss: Unseeded Russian defeated the season 4 seed of Ivica Kostelić. Decided to go watch NASCAR, but the Germans were on the Team Penske video. Everyone else in the team said "GERMANY!".
 * Fired: Ivica Kostelic - for breaking the rules most of the task and wanted to go back to South Korea to see the 2014 Asian Games.
 * Notes:
 * The 2014 South American Women's Football Championship will end on the results.
 * Season 1 will go last on the dancing order; despite not participating at the Dan Wheldon Memorial Challenge.
 * Contestants that participated on other seasons but not this one will go to South Korea.
 * Italy wanted to see the Firestone test at Indy Motor Speedway so badly before the first week aired. The others needed to ask 🇩🇪 if they wanted to go.
 * Germany participated at the Firestone Test before it aired and replied "We enjoyed it. What is fun?". The other seven refused to enter.
 * The fire in California caused week 4's task planned to postpone to the dates of the CONCACAF-CONMEBOL playoff.
 * Season 1 will be protect managers again, expect different despite Vita getting booted in the first week.
 * Ivica Kostelic was historically shocked by unseeded Russian Aleksandr Kerzhakov.
 * Spanish footballers Natalia Pablos and Sonia Bermudez will participate in the task, starting from this week.
 * In one of the season's big shocks, Unseeded South Korea defeated Italy.
 * Despite Brazil's 6-0 win over Argentina, season 1's Helio Castroneves qualified. They rebounded after their 2-0 loss earlier.
 * Italy, Croatia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Russia, Brazil and Colombia were all confirmed to participate at the Colombian Go Karting Event.

Week 3: Asian Games Closing/Two Early Scores

 * Airdate: October 4, 2014
 * Task Scope: The season 5 all stars will travel to South Korea for the second time, after season 5 week 1. Arm Melter 21 is also happening, but not for the season 1 champs Germany. Project managers are chosen to be either DWTS season 5 or season 8; because Janel Parrish and Bethany Mota both scored one of the earliest perfect scores, in season 19 week 3. The IMSA finale is also happening there; with lots of unseeded nations participating.
 * Infinity Protect Manager: Mel B (South Korea)
 * Vortex Protect Manager: Helio Castroneves
 * Arm Melter Participants (Group 1): Lionel Messi, Ivica Kostelic, Vita Semerenko, Tomoka Takeuchi, Kim A-Lang, Sung Si-Bak, Alena Zavarzina, Patrizia Kummer, Julia Dujmovits, Donny Osmond, J.R. Martinez, J.R. Celski, Liu Rui, Laila Ali, Donald Driver, Mario Lopez, Jacoby Jones, Corbin Bleu, Cody Linley, Jack Osbourne, Brant Daugherty, Ingo Rademacher, Carina Vogt
 * Going to Germany (Group 2): Viktor Ahn, Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves, Apolo Anton Ohno, Emmitt Smith, Gilles Marini, Melissa Rycroft, Kelly Monaco, Sabrina Bryan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Kim Yuna, Mao Asada, Shakira, Zendaya, Kellie Pickler, Brooke Burke Charvet, Mya, William Levy, Amber Riley, Adelina Sotnikova, Alexandra Raisman, Mai Asada, Zan Kosir, Lee Seung-Hoon
 * Winning team: Infinity
 * Cause of win: The women have got a great performance they made at the Asian Games closing; but came in second behind season 1 winners Germany.
 * Losing team: Vortex
 * Cause of loss: The men struggled with the 2014 Asian Games closing ceremony, expect the German players from season 1.
 * Fired: Donny Osmond - for traveling to Japan instead of the usual place the other contestants wanted to go, Arm Melter 21 in Canada. He wanted the unseeded Iranian Allen Ford to participate, but he could not attend; and therefore unseeded Iran wins against Germany.
 * Notes:
 * Despite adding Simon Pagenaud to Team Penske, there are four cars instead of three. Italy predicted Montoya, Pagenaud and Power. Most unseeded teams expect Ecuador want the Penske cars to not have the top seeded Germans.
 * Season 1 won the draw against season 4 to be Vortex project manager.
 * Sung Si-Bak will move from Germany's team to going to the Arm Melter. Scott Dixon will fill in for him.
 * Agnieszka Radwanska, Caroline Wozniacki, and Maria Sharapova are planned to come to South Korea.
 * Unseeded Iran, who has Allen Ford, will attend Road Atlanta, but not the Arm Melter.
 * Closing ceremony will be performed by Germany first; and then all champs from the seasons.
 * Ecuador is planned to be seeded this week.
 * The Japanese Grand Prix was shortened, the same thing with Kei Nishikori leading Milos Raonic 4-1 overall.
 * Most teams expect Germany will attend the Arm Melter 21.
 * The Half of season 5 will go with Germany, and the other half will go to Arm Melter.
 * Germany is the only team that will attend the Asian Games closing ceremony, but not the Arm Melter. The season 1 champs will go to the IMSA at Road Atlanta, to see unseeded nations.
 * Due to Torah Bright's low score, Alena Zavarzina, Patrizia Kummer, Tomoka Takeuchi, Zan Kosir and Julia Dujmovits will all be fired on the same week as Bright's elimination.
 * The IMSA saw a lot of unseeded nations go through the second round. Ecuador's flag were waving because they surprised the Germans in the second round of qualifying.

Week 4: Germany's participation at Ironman

 * Air date: October 11, 2014
 * Task Scope: The season 1 cast won the Germany vs Japan as Japan's Grand Prix was shortened. Germany will go to Hawaii to the Ironman World Championship. All of their members expect Apolo Anton Ohno (replaced by Drew Lachey) will travel to Turkey for an invitation sent by the unseeded Iran. The 2014 African Women's Championship, which serves as a 2015 FIFA World Cup qualification; will start in Namibia, as the Nigerians and the Ghanaians are the favorites to qualify. Equatorial Guinea's failing to qualify would likely have a new African team (either Cameroon, Ivory Coast or 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa).
 * Infinity Protect Manager: Shakira
 * Vortex Protect Manager: Cody Linley
 * Winning team: Vortex
 * Cause of win: The men were well on the task and chose to prepare themselves for the Ironman World Championship. They checked the list, and saw Alex Zanardi as a Paralympian and Apolo Anton Ohno. The Germans are rebounding from their loss in Fontana to finishing the triathlon in the expected time of 12 hours.
 * Losing team: Infinity
 * Cause of loss: The Croatians, Slovaks, Italians and Brazilians did not get their work much done, as they are traveling to the United States in the state of North Carolina instead of the expected Hawaii. Ana Ivanovic had to withdraw from the team due to a hip injury, and was replaced by fellow Serb Jelena Jankovic.
 * Fired: Tomoka Takeuchi - for finishing the Ironman in the unexpected time of 12 hours, one hour ahead of Hines Ward and two hours below two German members, Helio Castroneves and Apolo Ohno. Tomoka chose to go to Hawaii for the Ironman World Championship.
 * Notes:
 * Drew Lachey, who was not chosen, will replace Apolo Anton Ohno.
 * Season 1 will use all 13 season 15 all stars expect Ohno, and Ahn instead.
 * The other teams expect Germany and Italy have confirmed participation at Carrera de Estrellas.
 * A Loso song will be on for the first 30 minutes of the task, and then Germany will put on another Loso song.
 * Season 1 will review the Ironman World Championship: "We say No-Go at the last laps of Fontana. We're Germans and Croatians! We must rebound all the way, beat the Ukrainian time of 13 hours 8 minutes! Let's go!".
 * Natalia Pablos suffered an injury during the German practice, so she is replaced by Sonia Bermudez.
 * Germany will have all of their members expect Apolo Anton Ohno.
 * Nicolien Sauerbreij is making her first appearance on BATC since season 4 week 26.
 * Germany's bike time of 5:07.15 was one of the middle bike times for any team. The swim was at one hour flat.
 * Italy's bike time was one of the slowest.
 * The Ukrainians' time of 13:08 is the time Germany needs to beat.
 * The Sprint Cup series race was slowed many times by more than five cautions.
 * Germany finished the Ironman in 9:52:27, faster than Ukraine's time by three hours.
 * Italy's time was 9:47:14, faster than Germany by five minutes.
 * Ukraine's time was 11:35:58, slower than both Germany and Italy, by almost two hours.
 * Croatia and Russia failed to finish the race and was still on the bike.
 * Slovakia was slower than Ukraine last year, and finished in 16 hours.
 * Colombia's time was the fastest out of all the eight teams.
 * Brazil's time was slower than Germany, Italy and Colombia.

Week 5: 2014 Asian Paralympics

 * Air date: October 18, 2014
 * Task Scope: The Asian Para Games opening ceremony airs on October 18, and will run for this entire week until week 6.
 * Infinity Protect Manager: Amelie Kober
 * Vortex Protect Manager: Lee Sang Hwa
 * Winning team: Infinity
 * Cause of win: The women went on task well and performed "La La La" by Shakira on the opening. Sabrina Bryan was the top performer, with seven points out of eight, followed by another season 1 contestant, Melissa Rycroft, with six out of eight.
 * Losing team: Vortex
 * Cause of loss: The men had an injured professional, Karina Smirnoff, before this week aired. Gilles Marini of France was the top performer, with a perfect eight. The Brazilian had 7 out of eight.
 * Fired: Cody Linley - for looking on Ironman.com and saying that Ohno's time of 9:52:27 is slower than Vitor Meira's 12:24:02. Jelena Jankovic said "That is wrong. Ohno's time is faster than Meira's. That time is faster than Hines Ward last year. But Hines is replaced by another IndyCar driver, Scott Dixon. Very important, Dixon was born on the same year and day as Dirk Kuyt".
 * Quit:
 * J.R. Martinez - for revealing that he beat both Germany members from season 1. His season pulled off a huge upset, defeating season 1 7-6.
 * Notes:
 * Sung Si-Bak, a season 1 contestant, will dance with an eliminated professional.
 * Germany lost five points for an injured professional.
 * Season 1 will use all 13 season 15 contestants.
 * The Germans knew that Apolo Ohno's time (9:52:27) was faster than Hines Ward and Gordon Ramsay last year; and also both Brazilian race car drivers in 2011.
 * Karina Smirnoff was injured on DWTS, so she will not appear this week. She is scheduled to appear next week.
 * Jelena Jankovic reported that both of Linley's answers were wrong. He used Ohno's time to make it slower than Tony Kanaan and Vitor Meira in 2011.
 * Season 1 has 10 contestants left, less than the other three seasons.
 * The top four African women's teams all qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
 * The biggest upset of the week went to the elimination of Jimmie Johnson. Germany expected him and Keselowski to advance.

Week 6: UEFA Play-Offs

 * Air date: October 25, 2014
 * Task Scope: The contestants are off to Ukraine. Season 1 announced that a German member will participate at the New York City Marathon. Season 2, season 3 and season 4 were not sure at the moment.
 * Infinity Protect Manager: Alexandra Raisman
 * Vortex Protect Manager: Lionel Messi
 * Winning team: Infinity
 * Cause of win: The number one ranked Germany from season 1 continued their preparing for the New York City Marathon, running for Adriana Henao because of the team's member. The Germans went well on the task, communicating from their preparing for Carrera de Estrellas. Ukraine, Italy and Brazil were the other ones preparing.
 * Losing team: Vortex
 * Cause of loss: The other four teams that were moved weren't nice to the powerful Germans. Croatia did not have repairs right. The other three struggled to have nice performances by the #1 ranked Germany. Croatia was the lucky winner from the losing team, chosen by Trump after the task is over.
 * Fired:
 * Zan Kosir - for swearing to the Germans a lot, and calling Ina Meschik of team Croatia b*tch.
 * Lee Seung-Hoon - for not approving well while playing against Germany.
 * Liu Rui - broke the rules and earned drive-through for pit safety infraction.
 * Ingo Rademacher - for playing against Italy and therefore earned point. It ended 1-7.
 * Brant Daugherty - took away the points from Germany and said "That is not what you're doing!".
 * Notes:
 * This week will be a five contestant elimination, despite Caroline Wozniacki competing at the New York City Marathon.
 * Nigeria, United States and Costa Rica will possibly qualify for the 2015 Women's World Cup by the time this airs.
 * Unseeded Slovenia pulled off the biggest upset for New York City Marathon, stunning Germany in the round robin 6-2. Slovenia wanted Germany to have Team Penske down from four to three, so that the lucky Germans can be pulled off.
 * Ivory Coast qualified over South Africa.
 * All of the Germans expect Sung Si-Bak advanced.
 * Russia's time zone changes.
 * Europe's time zone changes.
 * Serbia v Albania would have to award Serbia a walkover; but however three points were off.
 * Two red flags at Martinsville Speedway would cause the heartbreaks of Germany competing at the New York City Marathon bad. will replace them the week after the marathon.
 * The season 3's Italians pulled off a big upset, stunning defending champs Germany in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race after two big wrecks and two red flags.

Week 7: New York City Marathon

 * Air date: November 1, 2014
 * Task Scope: Germany received a bye and will be in New York to cheer on for Adriana Henao, while the other seven go to Australia. Germany vs Italy, Croatia vs Russia, Slovakia vs Colombia, Brazil vs Ukraine.
 * Infinity Protect Manager:
 * Vortex Protect Manager:
 * Winning team: Vortex
 * Cause of win: The remaining members of the four selected team did well, and even though Slovakia did not beat Germany in the first round of BATC. Croatia pulled off a big upset, stunning Germany in extra time of NYC Marathon, saying that "Raonic defeated anyone of the Big Four".
 * Losing team: Infinity
 * Cause of loss: The other four did not do well, expect for those Germans. Germany, who routes for Henao, needs to finish faster than Pamela last year. They used all their substitutes to play their association football game.
 * Fired:
 * Sung Si-Bak - was not part of the five man Germany squad.
 * William Levy - sent Germany's #3 Castroneves to Brazil instead of New York.
 * Patrizia Kummer - made an unscheduled flight to Italy.
 * Julia Dujmovits - for having eight pit stops at Fontana instead of 10.
 * Alexandra Raisman - did not have any money for buying anything.
 * Notes:
 * Sung Si-Bak was the first member of the Germany national team eliminated from season 5. Many predicted Ahn or the #3.
 * Germany's New York time was 4:50, the expected time Apolo Ohno needed to finish the Ironman 70.3 Boise on the week after winning Detroit Race 2, but finished 4:59.
 * Colombia was the last national team to finish.
 * The Croatia national team will use all of their seven season 15 contestants; and plus Kim A-Lang for the New York City Marathon.
 * There has been suggestions moving the task from Australia to New Zealand, because it needs to be postponed by rain.
 * The 2015 schedule will be announced for Indy on Thursday. Unseeded Slovenia has heard about it.
 * Ukraine, who defeated Germany the last week, defeated unseeded Slovenia.
 * Venezuela will appear on the show for the first time since Fontana. The last time Venezuela appeared was on the part that everyone shocked Germany.
 * The unseeded nations will face the seeded if they win.
 * Venezuela caused one of the biggest upsets of BATC, stunning 5-man Germany in Detroit.
 * was originally set to face at 3:55, but then the Germans were late by a few minutes.

Week 8

 * Airdate: November 8, 2014
 * Task Scope: The original Vortex will be with Infinity in the Czech Republic.
 * Infinity Protect Manager:
 * Vortex Protect Manager:
 * Winning team:
 * Cause of win:
 * Losing team:
 * Cause of loss:
 * Fired:
 * Notes:
 * The first leg of the CONCACAF-CONMEBOL playoff will be hosted by Ecuador.
 * Season 1 is set to play season 2, while season 3 plays season 4.
 * Notes:
 * The first leg of the CONCACAF-CONMEBOL playoff will be hosted by Ecuador.
 * Season 1 is set to play season 2, while season 3 plays season 4.