The season featured contestants competing as teams of four, as with the previous season, but split by age and gender, with Shannan training the under 30 males, The Commando the over 30 males, Tiffiny the under 30 females and Michelle the over 30 females.
Trainers: Shannan Ponton, Michelle Bridges, Steve Willis ("The Commando") and Tiffiny Hall all trained in the 2011 season have returned in this year (2012)[5] There is slated to be four teams of four, totaling up to 16 contestants.
"[6] Originally, there was controversy that they had made a series with part of the focus being on fixing up some couples together.
There was also controversy after James, a 22-year-old who works at a service station, took $30 000 over his position in the game and immunity.
Luke is allowed to return for the finale, but is ineligible to win the end money or prize and is also not able to win the eliminated contestants award, leaving 20-year-old Hamish as the last remaining blue team member.<[5] This season, ratings have dropped considerably low compared to other seasons, with viewers averaging 750,000, and having not being able to score about one million viewers.