"Here we are! After six challenges involving several kinds of mess with the three best teams of each Mansion, the results to know which teams will get to the final are now!" Charles and all the others were there to announce the results. During the afternoon, Rachel and I made many predictions about the results. Both today's challenge results were not really excellent for our team but we thought we had made an average performance. At least, we were hoping to continue the adventure. "First, I want to thank all of you for your state of mind and involvement during each challenge, you are the best and you were beyond our expectations... However, there should be winners and losers! Let's recount the actual result, before this day, the UK was first with 7 points, the US was second with 6 and finally Australia last with 4.There was a complicated result for Australia which was far from the two other teams... Let's see if today's result would impact their ranking. We will start with the second challenge first, you have been aroused in this one and I hope you will be pleased with the results too. The results were tight, with only 5 points between the first and last team. Let's congratulate the team who won this challenge and two points..."The calculation was easy, if we managed to get two points, we were sure to be among the two finalists."And the winner of this challenge is... Australia! Congratulations!" Jane and Melissa were over-excited, they still had a chance to stay in the game even if they were still behind the US team and ours. "Now, the second team is... US team! Congratulations too! Unfortunately, UK team, you realize that you will not earn any points for this challenge which has a major impact on what could happen with the last challenge!The UK and US are now equal while the Australian team is just one point behind!"We were so stressed about the results, whatever our ranking was on the escape game challenge, we had to score at least one point to continue the adventure. "Let's stop the wait... For the escape game challenge, only one team succeeded in escaping... This team is of course the first one." We heard some happy reactions next to us. "Congratulations. Jane and Melissa, you managed to earn two more points and you are sure to be a finalist!"

That was an incredible scenario, Jane and Melissa had very few chances to be finalists but they managed to win both challenges... It was now an important time, Taylor and Maria had the same amount of points as us... The ones who would be second would also be finalists. "Then, the two other teams managed to reach the last room in more or less the same time, both of them also failed to touch all targets and there is only one target more for a team. This was extremely tight. The team who arrived second at the challenge and would also continue the adventure as finalists are..."Rachel held my hand firmly, on my side my heart was beating so fast... "The US team! Congratulations Taylor and Maria!"No... It was a horrible scenario... We finished both challenges today in third place! "Unfortunately, Rachel and Emma, even if you were first at the end of the third day, both other teams made a better day than yours today. You will not continue to play with the other girls for the Messy Tournament title." "We are of course very sad but congratulations to all of you, you have been very competitive opponents.""Indeed Emma, you are right. However, you will not leave us right now." "Really?" reacted Rachel. "Of course not! You may forget that the losers of a challenge have to have a forfeit! As you have lost both challenges, the whole team will have a forfeit and we will use that to decide which team between the US and Australia will start tomorrow as they have 8 points each.

Stacy, Lila, Peter... Could you please bring what we need for the forfeit? "
They came back with several buckets.
"Here is the challenge, the finalists will have to cover one of you with the content of the buckets in front of you. The first team who will cover every inch of their unfortunate loser will start the challenges tomorrow. There are two types of buckets, the blue ones and the red ones. First, Rachel and Emma pick a ball in this bag, it will decide if you will join the blue or red team for this challenge."
Rachel put her hand in the bag and took the red ball.
"Good, now, we will let the Australian team who did an amazing job today pick a ball too to decide if they will be the red or blue team."
Jane drew the red ball too.
"OK, then Emma will be with Taylor and Maria in the blue team.
Please open the buckets."
Each girl opened her bucket, I saw that the red buckets were filled with a very thick white paste while the blue ones were filled with brown stuff.
"Red team will have to completely cover Rachel in marshmallow stuff and the blue team will cover Emma in peanut butter. I hope you like this stuff UK team because there is a large quantity of it! Remember, not a single hair should be clean, she should only see marshmallow or peanut butter. We have warmed up both stuff differently to get the same sticky paste consistency. Emma, Rachel, please strip to your underwear."
Rachel and I were there, in underwear, in the middle of girls who had only one objective: engulf us as fast as possible.
They were waiting for one thing, Charles' signal.
As soon as he gave them the signal, each girl dipped their hand in their bucket to resurface it with a huge amount of mess. Rachel and I were in front of each other, I was able to see her disappear below a thick coating of white and sticky stuff.
The Australian team decided to start with Rachel's head. This was not a bad choice as the marshmallow would melt a bit and drop on the rest of her body.
Only a few seconds after the signal, Rachel's red hair had already turned into a giant candy. She was attacked from all sides and they were working fast at least until I was able to see her...
On my side, Taylor was supervising my bottom part and Maria my top and head.

Being covered in peanut butter was not a bad forfeit. In the beginning, the smearing was in fact relaxing. Any part was forgotten and the girls were doing that cautiously.
The filling was different when Maria moved to my head, my face was the first to be splashed with the butter. Starting from this point, I was just able to feel hands working on me. My peanut butter shampoo was of course time-consuming. I was feeling big drops of butter falling on the top of my head before my hair was straightened with the messy balm. The sensation was remembering my grease punishment in the Mansion. A messy massage, multiple hands working on me and nothing to do except wait for the messy result. This was exactly what I was expecting from the Messy Mansion when I applied for it a few months ago: I wanted to live messy situations I would never have been able to do myself.
Even if my ears were also covered, I heard that both teams asked a referee to check their work. On the red team side, it seems that Rachel's legs and arms had some clean spots to cover but my status was interesting to me a lot more.
"Her body is fine but there are still a lot of clean spots on her head. See... I still can't see that she has brown hair!"
The next second was a deluge of peanut butter on my head. I don't know how much weight of mess they added there but I was clearly feeling the amount of mess accumulated on my head.

To be sure to hide any remaining clean spots, they made a messy mound on the top of my head with my hair and then applied layer after layer of peanut butter. Each new handful was followed by a circular motion around my head to create a thick coating of mess.
In the end, my head was surely looking like a crash helmet as the coating was so heavy and on every part of my head.
"I think we have a winner here!"
Stacy checked my coating and validated the fact no more clean part was remaining.

"Congratulations to the US team, you have won this challenge."
We were allowed to remove the mess from our eyes. The coating was extremely thick. I think that just cleaning my eyes removed enough mess to fill at least half a jar of peanut butter. Taylor and Maria had peanut butter up to their elbows and Jane and Melissa were in a similar state with the white stuff.
Then, I discovered my partner hidden below a shapeless mass of marshmallow stuff. Her coating has been massive too and the other team was surely not far from winning as it was hard to discern any part of Rachel below that stuff.
"Now, we are going to have a little celebration party with the finalists... Lila, Stacy, could you please take care of Emma and Rachel?"
Both girls arrived with ropes. Rachel and I were seated in the grass, side by side before being handcuffed and tied.
"Don't worry, it should not be longer than an hour, just the time to have a drink or two!"

Peter arrived with a trolley where the champagne glasses had been prepared.
"However, we will adapt a bit your actual messy look, it's a celebration party, bring on the colours!"

Lila and Stacy were standing in our back and, before we noticed they were planning something, a rainbow shower fell on both of us. Buckets of multicolour sprinkles were emptied on both of us. Of course, our sticky coatings were perfectly helping these sprinkles to glue on us.
Now ridiculously covered, all the others had some drinks in front of us, enjoying their victory.

Rachel and I were looking at each other, laughing about our actual state.
"Not too disappointed Emma?" asked Rachel
"Well... I was really hoping to be among the finalists!"
"Yeah, I know, same for me! Do you think we will still have time to do messy stuff here? I hope that these girls will not keep all the mess for themselves!"
"I hope not! Knowing this is the finale between the two best messy teams, I can't wait to see what they will have to do!"
"Same here! I'm a fan of the messy destruction of cute girls! That's why I really enjoy the view right now!" she laughed.
When the glasses were empty, Charles came back to us with everybody else.
"So, tomorrow will be the beginning of the finale which will be split into three challenges. After each challenge, we, the referees, will attribute some points to each team based on several criteria.
After the third challenge, the team who would have more points than the other team will win this edition of the Messy Tournament.
We had some discussion during the party tonight with all the girls except you two."

Charles was aiming at us.
"You have lost and will not be able to play for the finale, however, you will still play with the other!"

"Really? That's great!" answered Rachel.
"To be honest, I would say it will mainly be the other who will play with you... Starting now, both of you will join either the US or Australian team, we thought we would keep the same team as tonight.
The next three challenges will judge the ability of a team to create great messy scenarios and, of course, ladies, you will be their main target.
You will not know what the topics are for each challenge until the challenge will start. Each team has total freedom about what and how they will do their challenge. I hope you like extremely messy situations girls because final challenges are usually the best ones!"
Rachel's request will be fulfilled, we will indeed see more extreme messy challenges here... Except we didn't plan to be the ones who would live them!