Tornado Run

Objective: In this event, the track had many different obstacles that the players had to navigate around, including running on top of a "river" (a simulated pond with stepping stones), then over a "rocking earthquake" (pieces of faux pavement that tilted up and down), after that scampering through and then climbing jungle vines and racing through a "swamp fog" on the final ramp. A wind also blew leaves onto the players during the race to make it more challenging. The more common version of this game had all three players run around the track, with the one crossing the finish line first being the winner. Alternate playings of this event had the players run through the course one at a time, with the winner being determined by the fastest time. NOTE: This is the only event where an injury occurred to a player that actually kept them out of the remainder of the competition. This happened in a Global GUTS episode, where all three players fell after crossing the river, but one of them, CIS contestant Katya "The Asteroid" Afansjeva in blue sprained her ankle and was unable to continue on in the competition; she was then replaced by fellow Ukrainian, Stepan "The Serpent" Serdyuk. From that point on, players competed individually in Tornado Run. Also, players now must crawl through the vines rather than jump off of them.