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TIE BREAKER PAINTBALL CHALLENGE | Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse

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A tied leaderboard finally gets settled with paintballs.

Season five of Smosh Summer Games hit its post-apocalyptic stride with episode seven, and for once the cameras weren’t chasing a joke — they were chasing a tiebreaker. With the overall score dead even heading into the back half of the tournament, producers sent both squads into an obstacle-heavy outdoor arena and handed everybody a paintball marker. Whoever got wiped out first would hand the other team the lead going into the final events.

• The Tie Breaker Paintball Challenge was called specifically to break a dead-even score between ToxiciTea and Mushroom Clout.
• The elimination format required each team to wipe out every opposing player using paintballs in an obstacle-filled arena.
• ToxiciTea won the challenge, taking the leaderboard lead heading into the belly flop challenge that follows.

The Setup Behind the Tiebreaker

Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse leaned into its wasteland theme for episode seven, staging the paintball showdown in a scrappy, cover-heavy arena built for close-quarters chaos rather than open-field sniping. The cast, including Courtney Miller, Ian Hecox, Shayne Topp, Damien Haas, Olivia Sui, Keith Leak II, Noah Grossman, Mari Takahashi, David “Lasercorn” Moss, and Wesley Johnson, split across ToxiciTea and Mushroom Clout for a straight elimination format: last team standing wins the tiebreaker outright.

There was no scoring by hits or time limits padding the drama — one team had to be completely eliminated for the match to end. That rule turned every barrier and blind corner into a genuine threat, and it meant a single reckless push could cost a team the whole challenge in seconds.

Teams Execute Strategic Arena Attack

Both squads leaned on cover and ambush tactics rather than running straight at each other, using the wasteland set pieces to bait opponents out of position. The margin for error was thin given the five-a-side format on each roster, and a couple of early eliminations on either side were enough to tip momentum for good.

The competitive tenor of the challenge fits the same appetite that’s made stunt-driven Smosh Games content a staple of the channel’s slate, in the same vein as stunts like World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room!, where the format itself is the entertainment as much as who wins it.

One team had to be wiped out completely — no points, no clock, just survival.

ToxiciTea Breaks the Tie

ToxiciTea closed out the challenge as the last team standing, snapping the deadlock and moving ahead of Mushroom Clout on the season’s overall leaderboard. For a competition built around cumulative scoring across episodes, that shift matters — it put ToxiciTea in the driver’s seat with the tournament’s biggest remaining event still to come.

The stakes of that leaderboard swing echo the format Smosh Games has leaned on in other large-scale physical challenges, including World’s Largest Challenge!, where a single result can flip who’s actually in control heading into the finish.

Victory Implications for Future Rounds

With ToxiciTea now ahead, the season’s next move is the belly flop challenge — the event teed up directly after the paintball tiebreaker concluded. Mushroom Clout goes in needing a result just to get back level, while ToxiciTea gets to play the belly flop with a cushion already banked from episode seven.