The Challenge: Optical Delusion

Optical Delusion is the third season of RealityMist. This season follows twenty returning alumni competing alongside fifteen fresh meat in a Aurora Borealis-themed game for $1,000,000. The season was filmed in Tromsø, Norway from 26th August to 19th September.

Description
This August, RealityMist returns for it’s third season. New faces and alumni cross dimensions, disperse boundaries and make or break records, whilst testing friendship, showing determination and with the desire of selfishness: who will arise amongst the others and who will be a diamond in the rough?

Format
Each team will compete in numerous challenges followed by elimination rounds known as "The Cavern", with participants competing in two 1v1 elimination rounds determined by The Mine. The winning team will nominate an MVP, and the MVP will choose any individual colour to be save from the house vote. The losing teams will deliberate in front of the MVP and vote in one player of their team as the LVP. Prior to the Cavern, the four LVPs will participate in the Mine, in which the first participant to claim the crystal will have the opportunity to choose their opponent for elimination. The two winners stay in the game, whilst the losers are eliminated. The winner will be granted the choice to "look through the looking glass" and choose to either refract and switch with any other colour or another team or reflect and remain on their current team, but will be granted safety from the following house vote.

In the Final Challenge, three teams will compete. The prize money splits as follows:


 * Winners: $600,000
 * Runner-Ups: $300,000
 * Third Place: $100,000

Twists

 * The Mine: The four LVPs will compete in the Mine and the first participant to claim the crystal will have the opportunity to choose their opponent for elimination.
 * Diffraction: Prior to the final challenge, teams with only one player remaining will enter the Diffraction Zone, in which they must join any team of their liking that does not have a remaining member of their colour.
 * Purge Challenges: In some challenges, the last-place contestant will be automatically eliminated from the game.
 * Reflect or Refract: The winners of the elimination have the choice to remain on their current team and gain immunity for the next episode or switch with any other remaining player of their colour on another team.

Cavern Progress

 * Key
 * The contestant won the final challenge.
 * The contestant lost the final challenge.
 * The contestant won the daily challenge.
 * The contestant was the MVP for their team.
 * The contestant's colour was made transparent.
 * The contestant was safe from the Cavern.
 * The contestant was put into the Cavern and won.
 * The contestant was put into the Cavern and lost.
 * The contestant was eliminated during a purge.
 * The contestant withdrew from the competition.