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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode ofThe Challenge: USA.
“It was hard to watch,” Awasum tells EW.
Melvin ‘Cinco’ Holland Jr. and Azah Awasum on ‘The Challenge: USA’.Laura Barisonzi/Paramount
“And I do feel responsible, because I can’t swim.
Now I know I need to learn how to swim.”
“It stings,” Holland agrees.
We had a great partnership, and there’s nobody I’d rather go out with.
I appreciated the whole experience."
Below, Awasum and Holland talk about their exit, if they have any regrets, and more.
Who were you hoping to go against?
AZAH AWASUM:We had a slight warning earlier in the day that that might happen.
But that never came, so things were still in the air.
We really didn’t know for sure.
And we thought we would be a good match against them.
That’s who we wanted to go in, but we were just ready to compete against anybody.
What was it like competing in that elimination?
AWASUM:I didn’t know what to kind of expect.
But with it just being something I had never even seen before, that did frazzle me a bit.
But I still felt confident in that time.
It was a bit more difficult than you think, being tied to the same person.
There’s so many times in the game where you forget that you’re connected to the other person.
You go off to do something just to be held back.
What’s interesting is both my eliminations I was tethered to the other person.
That’s the hardest thing, you’re forced to truly make every thought process together.
And if you’re not in sync, then it could end up working against you.
At what point did you realize you were going to lose?
HOLLAND:We still had faith.
We didn’t start off in the best way.
We had a plan.
And by that time, we gave up a lot of time.
But we’re still fighting.
We’re still digging.
We’re still trying to figure out these puzzle pieces.
It was like, dang, we were still in it to win it.
We were still trying to win.
There was no point where we were just like, we’re going to lose.
AWASUM:I wasn’t looking at them.
I wasn’t looking at how far behind we were.
It wasn’t over until I heard that buzzer.
When I heard that buzzer, I wanted to immediately be able to be a good sport about it.
HOLLAND:It always sucks losing.
Sarah and Leo did the thing, they came to compete.
And as far as strategy, they stuck by it.
So you’d want to come back toThe Challengein the future if you got the chance?
AWASUM:I would love to.
I would definitely come back.
HOLLAND:Not at all.
That decision was for the long run of the game.
I felt fine competing against anybody.
We would have rather competed against David and Alyssa, only solely because the money situation.
I’m like, since we feel so confident, let’s not name anybody.
What’s your relationship with Cashay like now that you went through this experience together?
HOLLAND:It’s cool.
Now we’re just both on our own terms.
We’re in our separate lates.
There’s no bad blood between us.
There’s no animosity or anything.
We’re just doing our own thing.
Cinco, it also looked like you and Tiffany were hitting it off this season before her exit.
Was something going on there away from cameras, or even after filming ended?
HOLLAND:No, me and Tiffany are really just friends.
We met before the show, actually at Azah’s event.
She’s really cool people.
We hit it off, it was cool.
On the show, it was just a familiar face.
What is your relationship with them all like now?
AWASUM:I was kind of oblivious to some things while I was in the house.
I was oblivious to the background on Xavier.
I did know about Tiffany and I warned her beforehand.
It’s just interesting.
That’s all I can say.
You don’t really see me doing the backstabs or things like that.
I kind of sit in the back, cook food, and just maintain my social relationships.
That’s what I’m doing in this situation.
I’ve expressed my feelings on wanting revenge on the Cookout.
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