[5][6] On July 29, 2016, Fox renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on Sunday, June 11, 2017.
In the finale, the remaining competitors take part in an elimination challenge that concludes with a winner being named and receiving a $250,000 cash prize.
Filmed at the foothills of Mount Rainier in Eatonville, Washington, the first season focuses on "pushing teams to the brink" and features 16 contestants with a variety of fitness backgrounds.
The competition eventually becomes contestant-based, with all remaining competitors ultimately competing against each other and only one winner being named.
Once on the other side, the teams must get a paddle back across the lake, either by opening a locked box, or by bringing the 100-pound lockbox.
The teams must show survival skills by setting up a tent, purifying water, and making fire tall enough to ignite two flares.
The Evolution involves the teams using supplies to build bridges across various obstacles strewn across a 60-foot long field without their feet touching the ground.
The endurance portion involves squatting to fit inside of a three-foot by five-foot frame while balancing a small cylinder on a plank.
The endurance challenge involves carrying sandbags uphill and over a set of steps, and they must move at a constant pace.
The Evolution involves one team member building a barricade with various materials in thirty minutes around a bunker with flags inside it.
After thirty minutes, another team member must attempt to breach an opponent's bunker with a pair of pliers and retrieve their flag.
The endurance challenge involves stilts held together at the top with chains and three sets of increasingly smaller footholds on them.
The contestants must climb the stilts and switch to the higher and narrower footholds at Cena's signal.
Jim is forced to go to the Circus, while Noah sends Mark and Rorke sends Mario, which means by default that Clare and Haze are automatically in the finals, while Mark and Goldie are also automatically in due to being exempt from the Circus this week.
In a rain-soaked Circus, Mario finishes the course first, but after over 71 rotations, he forgets to hit the button and is eliminated, ringing out and going home.
Cena explains that the final Circus has been expanded, and he spends some time thanking the remaining contestants before bringing in their family members for a visit.
After over 30 minutes of the players being repeatedly dunked in the lake, no one gives up, and Cena ends the contest with no one eliminated.
In addition, when a gate is reached, one of the team members must complete a task of either putting on a shock collar, drinking a liquefied alligator tail, or stripping naked.
Team Burk wins the race, but Cena tells them they will not be immune unless the fourth member who did not complete a task has their head shaved.
The Elimination Challenge has the contestants hold a bar while standing inside a frame suspended over the lake.
The Team Challenge has the members tethered together at the waist by a rope and they must complete a muddy race through a swamp.
This challenge has the contestants balance on a platform while holding a ball over their heads suspended over the lake.
The Team Challenge has the members releasing triangle-shaped puzzle pieces that must be placed on stakes to spell out the words love, money, or power.
The competitors must repeatedly cross a balance beam and refill the sand using either a small bag or a larger bucket with holes in it.
For this week's Team Challenge there is a rotating set of four basketball hoops on one end of a court, a pile of colored balls on another, and large bungee cords in the middle.
The contestants must run with the bungee attached to them to grab a ball then shoot it into an opponent's colored basket.
For the Team Challenge, Cena quizzes the contestants about details of his story, and they must slide down a ramp into a mud pit to grab a tile with the correct answer, then return it to the start.
Cena tells the remaining contestants that they are now competing as individuals and their Cadre can no longer assist them.
After over two hours, Cena runs out of trivia questions and forces the two contestants to hold on with one hand for the remainder.
Michael loses his grip and is eliminated, making Gigi the winner of season two of American Grit and the $250,000 prize.