User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/LTDI Update & Call for Ideas/@comment-3350823-20131103071426

Well I'm sad about the rescheduling but completely understand. And I can't really be mad, it's almost always come out on time and the fact that it is on a schedule is impressive as it is.

And I'd be happy to contribute ideas, though I don't know if I have anything good. For the extreme sports challenge, perhaps something that has more than one person competing. When I saw the canon episode I did always question why it was one on one. But I figured if more than one person competed it would be too similar to the team building, which maybe a reason for you not to do it.

Perhaps a water themed sport to go with it. Of course TDI has had a lot of water sports though, and the mud skiing is kinda a water sport, just not in traditional water.

How about a game of chicken. Unless I'm thinking of something else, it's when two cars drive towards each other to see who will pull away first to avoid crashing. It could be in a car, or maybe a boat [A train would be pretty crazy itself].

If you had it be a game of chicken in either planes or helicopters you could say it was an alternate version of the canon parachuting, because If both planes crash, then they'd have to parachute from that height [or die in the plane] and both teams lose. Loosely tied together but kind of.

Or instead of a member from each team crashing into one another, they would crash into a wall or something on their own, to see who would and who wouldn't.

Also, land mines come to mind. I have no idea what land mines would do or be about, but explosives seem extreme.

Another idea that just flew into my head would be to have another player shoot a gun at you. You'd be wearing a bullet proof jacket, but you could still die and if these jackets are from Chris who knows if they work. Maybe former contestants could be firing guns, either the dumbest and craziest ones, or enemies of the participant. Though that does sound like a team building one.

Bungee jumping is extreme too. Maybe over the shark pit while trying to grab a totem or something. Or maybe at Boney Island. Or maybe a winter type sport. Since the skiing isn't water the snow themed challenge wouldn't have to be in snow.

Or maybe turning something very benign [staring contest, horse shows, etc.] into something dangerous and extreme.

As for the labors, I love the idea! That's really creative, but fits perfectly with LTDI. Here are some ideas I guess; 1st Labor: Perhaps a different kind of big cat than a lion, like a mountain lion. Or maybe a contestant who is rather catty? It was in the myth [or in some versions] that the lion disguised itself as a woman, so heroes would get close to it to recuse 'the woman'. Then 'the woman' would become a lion and kill them.

So maybe somehow related to a woman. It could be like that story whether for sport men have to choose a door, one has a beautiful woman behind and the other a tiger that will kill them. Campers could choose from two doors to see if they face a big animal or meet a 'beautiful woman' For some humor, perhaps the 'beautiful woman' could be Chef in drag who you'd have to fight instead.

The lion also had a very thick hide that arrows could not penetrate [although some myths say it was weak in the mouth]

Or perhaps something brave since lions represent courage.

4th Labor: Perhaps trying to catch a pig but that's been coated in something slippery. [I know people who actually do that for fun]. There is also the tale about Heracles fighting centaurs around here but it's not one of the myths and the closest thing to a centaur would be a person on a horse.

I think this labor was in winter too, so maybe on some frozen pond try to catch slippery pig or wild boar?

5th Labor: The first thing that comes to mind is cleaning the stalls, but that is similar to Geoff going into the septic tank in the key challenge [by the way, the key challenge reminds me kind of both Heracles getting the golden apple and jason and Argonaunts getting the guarded golden fleece for some reason].

This is probably too on the nose, but maybe one task is to divert two rivers together and someone uses their brains to do it [perhaps through sewage]. Or maybe it's extreme river rafting from one river to another.

7th Labor: A mechanical bull comes to mind first, but that's too similar to the moose I think. Perhaps a running of the bulls? The bull was said to uproot crops too, so maybe a fight against some kind of crop plowing machince or something. Or simiplier, a bull dozer. Perhaps it is to see if you'll finch when a bulldozer 'charges' at you.

8th Labor: Perhaps roping horses, maybe wild horses. That doesn't make too much since though. They were said to spit fire so something along that lines. Also, I think the owner was fed to them, so maybe solving the challenge ironically does this?

10th Labor: Roping cattle works here I guess. Maybe instead of cattle, the challenge somehow involves interns [or are like cattle to Chris].

11th Labor: Not really sure. Perhaps the golden apples [or whatever the equivilent is] are on Boney Island?

12th Labor: Perhaps this relates to Chris, since Chris sends contestants to 'hell' [as far as they know, though quite the opposite in reality] or is rather hellish. Or perhaps deal with Chef Hatchet, since he is 'Chris' pet' in a sense. I know part of the myth is to do this without any weapons. I remember in one story, Heracles did this by playing music to control it or put it to sleep.

Hope any of that can help! As for rewards, visiting or seeing family, or reading letters from them is something commonly done on Survivor. I remember in one episode of Survivor the contestants saw a movie before it aired as a reward.

Another thing that would fit is a challenge with a sadistic choice. In Survivor, some challenges often have it that the winner or one of the winners can give up their prize to get something that could benefit someone else or let everyone else experience the prize but them.