The Greatest Male Players in Challenge History: #16- Leroy Garrett
13 Seasons: Rivals (3rd place), Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II (2nd place), Battle of the Bloodlines, Rivals III, Dirty 30, Vendettas (5th place), War of the Worlds, War of the Worlds 2 (Final), Double Agents (3rd place), All Stars 4 (7th place)
Final Efficiency: 6/11 (Excluding Bloodlines and Rivals III) (54.5%)
Win Efficiency: 0/11 (0%)
25 Mission Wins, 10–6 Elimination Record
Individual Missions: 1/18 (0%)
Partner Missions: 9/57 (15.8%)
Combined: 11/77 (14.3%)
Average Times Voted In Per Season: .64
Seasons Making Final Going Into Minimum Amount of Elims: 3.
With six finals appearances, only five men in Challenge history have made more finals than Leroy (Bananas, CT, Kenny, Wes and Darrell).
In terms of pure physicality, Leroy is one of the best competitors in Challenge history.
A beast in one-on-one headbangers, Leroy has used his brawn and under the radar political game to make four finals.
But of course, the biggest stain on Leroy’s career is his lack of a championship.
There’s no one reason that Leroy continually fell short. In his rookie season on Rivals, he and Mike were kept around as a layup team until the end, when Leroy had arguably his best performance in a daily challenge in his entire career, winning the Bomb’s Away mission.
Leroy and Mike Mike came up short in the final, quitting at the beginning of the second day.
Leroy had an excellent season on Battle of the Exes II, where he won four eliminations — taking out Bananas/Nany (twice), Johnny/Averey and Wes/Theresa.
After Nia got ejected, Leroy got a better partner in Theresa before the final, but Leroy’s ineptitude in swimming and puzzles prevented them from beating Jordan and Sarah in the final.
He made his third final appearance on Vendettas, skating for most of the game until the end, where he took out Brad in the elimination Head Banger. He wasn’t able to make it to the second phase of the final, finishing behind Zach and Kyle.
His best shot to win a final came on War of the Worlds 2. Leroy aligned with Paulie and Cara’s alliance after Bananas went out, riding with them all the way until the final. After beasting the first day of the final for Team US, he couldn’t solve the puzzle and didn’t make it to the second portion.
He and Kaycee dominated Double Agents, winning five daily challenges together, while no other duo won more than twice.
It was really the first time Leroy had ever done well in daily challenges, as he only had five total wins in individual/partner missions before Double Agents.
He also had a dominant elimination performance against Jay in Fire Escape. As TJ said, there might not be another human on Earth who could beat Leroy in that elimination.
Unfortunately for Leroy, Kaycee was stolen from him by Fessy right at the end, and him and Nany just couldn’t keep up with CT and Amber B in the final.
Leroy made his third final in a row on All Stars 4, but came up short on the second purge.
Politically, Leroy mostly played the role of a lackey for Bananas, riding behind him and other veterans. But he also showed an ability to change up his game without Johnny, teaming up with Wes on Exes II and switching to the Cult of Cara on War of the Worlds 2.
And on Double Agents and All Stars 4, he and Kam were power players and had tremendous influence in the game.
When you look at Leroy’s career, he was consistently solid the whole way through. He really doesn’t have a bad elimination loss to his name — Ty/Emily on Exes, Jordan/Marlon on Rivals II, CT on Free Agents, Hunter on Dirty 30 and Bear/Da’Vonne on War of the Worlds, when he was paired with the legendary Shaleen.
He hasn’t been a good daily challenge competitor other than on Double Agents, and his lack of puzzle and swimming ability made him not that well suited for finals.
Leroy’s legacy is as a very good, but not great challenger, who just ultimately hasn’t gotten the victory he so desperately has sought.
Rankings
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29. Rogan O’Connor
