Crowning a champ: Who won season 1 of Battle Camp on Netflix?

The new hit Netflix reality series Battle Camp has come to an end. (And yes...there are spoiler alerts ahead!)

The streaming giant released all ten episodes at once, an infrequent occurrence that left fans. This reality writer is scrambling to catch up on all the drama and backstories behind the lineup of reality stars from half a dozen Netflix shows, including Too Hot to Handle, The Mole, Love is Blind, Squid Game: The Challenge, The Circle, and Perfect Match.

The premise for Battle Camp was pretty simple. Take one part MTV's The Challenge, two parts Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, add a dash of Fear Factor, and a $250,000 prize, and you have yourself a new show. The twist? While campers do nominate their competitors for elimination, the final choice is up to the spin of the wheel of doom by host Taylor Lewan.

The superior six of Battle Camp

In the season finale, the last six competitors standing are Squid Game: The Challenge's Trey "the snake" Plutnicki and Lorenzo Nobilio; The Circle's Quori-Tyler Bullock aka QT, Shubham "Shooby" Goel, Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match's Georgia Hassarati and Chase DeMoor, and underdog Selling the OC's Polly Brindle.

The finalists are put through a series of prior punishments to now earn positive spots on the wheel, as it changes from the wheel of doom to the wheel of...fate? Fortune? Internet infamy? Whatever you want to call it, now the wheel will decide the one winner of the cash prize. The more your name appears on the wheel, the better your odds of winning.

Georgia Hassarati

I can't decide if bringing back challenges the competitors just survived is genius or lazy. Still, either way, it gave those on the receiving end of punishments, which became clear when Georgia earned the most spots on the wheel, tied with fellow show alum Chase. I think he's maybe an athlete or something? It wasn't clear from his thousands of speeches and confessionals.

This isn't about you, though, Chase.

Georgia was a strong performer and popular among her campmates. She had some of the fewest votes throughout the season and took a back seat in the camp drama. It's nice to see most of the dating game cast in a different environment.

While some of them couldn't seem to get their heads in the game (I'm looking at you, Bri and Louis), Georgia's bond with lucky Lorenzo was a fun watch compared to the manipulation and mind games the other competitors were delivering in the name of friendship.

Shockingly, in the finale, when Georgia refused to drop during their final punishment alongside Chase and QT, instead of any real consequences, she was just disqualified from that particular competition. She had already lost, though.

Listen, Georgia is a rock star. She was my favorite to win. If TJ Lavin had been up on that platform, though, I'm sure Georgia would have had at least one less potentially winning spot on the wheel.

Chase DeMoor

There's a lot of things I can say about Chase. While they're not all great, I'll start with the positives. The man has earned his spot in the fictional reality TV hall of fame for most appearances on a variety of reality shows.

We were first introduced to Chase on Too Hot to Handle, and shortly after, he graced our screens on another "we're here to find love but only for the summer" show, Perfect Match. He and Georgia even had a brief fling, crush, or something like a situationship, which is pretty standard in the Netflix reality universe. It's like Bachelor Nation, but more wholesome.

If you weren't sick of Chase yet, you might have also watched him on Pop the Balloon Live getting absolutely dunked on alongside The Challenge vet and eternal bachelor Johnny Bananas. Chase lasted a hair longer than Bananas, but neither one were impressing the panel of ladies.

That's a whole different train wreck, though. The show has a generous 1.9/10 rating on IMDb since it moved from YouTube to Netflix. In comparison, Battle Camp has a strong 6.8.

Chase also appeared in the cast of House of Heat, a Tubi reality series about influencers influencing. Exciting stuff. Despite his low standards for show associations, Chase was a strong competitor as a late arrival to captain one of the two newly formed teams in the camp's first major plot twist.

He was a bit of a figurehead for his campmates, setting the tone and strategy for who would end up on the wheel.

At least his bravado isn't all talk, as intolerable as it may be. If I never hear the a-word ever again, it will be too soon. I will say he was eons more tolerable than fellow bros Tony "the intolerable" Castellanos from The Mole, and even Kyle Fuller from The Circle.

I actually like Kyle, but his obsession with strategizing and Chase, of course, was difficult to watch. And I will give it to Chase for sticking to his guns and not throwing his bromance under the bus.

Quori-Tyler "QT" Bullock

QT played an excellent game all season. Her Circle experience helped her stick it out from beginning to end. She also had one of the more interesting storylines of the season when her feud with The Mole's Avori Strib almost cost her the game. Thank goodness for random games of chance deciding your fate.

I can genuinely relate to QT's terror when her team thought she was throwing the competition. Her fear of heights is not nearly as great as my fear of any eating challenge on any competition show in the history of humankind. I don't care if it's a milkshake; I don't trust reality TV producers, and I never will.

QT's loyalty to her former castmates was also pretty admirable. Even when her Circle bro Kyle lost the plot and his mind, she still didn't get her hands dirty. She may not have played along with him, but at least she didn't stab him in the back. Her alliance with Shooby was also a fun watch.

For a show that's supposed to have a summer camp feel, their giggling under the covers in their cabins provided some light-hearted moments after watching half the cast gag their way through several challenges and punishments.

Trey Plutnicki

I couldn't get into Squid Game: The Challenge, no matter how hard I tried. I was a fan of the Squid Game series, and even bumbled my way through Beast Games, but for whatever reason, I couldn't root for any of the SQTC cast enough to follow along.

Which makes sense when you find out that Trey eliminated his own mother on the show?! On one hand, I can see why, if your goal is to win a handful of cash, why you would throw a friend you've known for less than a month under the bus when it's you or them.

I find it very hard to believe that the cast, on their high horses, would not have done the same. Why do you think you're on this show, exactly? It's not called Friendship Bracelet Camp. But your mom, Trey?! That one is hard to defend.

I was impressed with Trey's ability to remain in the game despite being the most hated camper in the cabins. While part of it was left to chance, a lot of it was his ability to play the game and think on his feet. I mean, it worked.

Footnote: What did Trey do behind the scenes that he's the only cast member without an IG feature pic?! Even Lexi has one, and she barely unpacked her bags.

Polly Brindle

Polly surprised me as a competitor, and I know I'm not the only one. You don't expect a high-heeled, fur-coat-collecting real estate diva to get down and dirty with the top athletes in the competition, like Gabi and Kyle. She held her own, though.

With 9,000,000 real estate reality shows out there, I'm not sure Selling the OC is a necessary contribution to the reality tv realm, but if it gives us more gems like Polly, I'm all for it. She not only managed to compete towards the top of each challenge, she even got Lorenzo to gift her a vote by shockingly not switching to a safe platform during the final punishment.

She also didn't compete in the 'hanging by a thread' challenge due to an injury, and still managed to get two spaces on the winning wheel.

Props to Polly for maintaining a low profile, competing like a champ, and maintaining enough influence to get her a few spots on the wheel.

Lorenzo Nobilio

The way Lorenzo went from being one of my least favorite cast members to capturing my heart and the cash was the roller coaster I didn't know I wanted out of Battle Camp. If you made it this far, congrats, you finally made it to the big secret - the winner of $250,000 was indeed Lorenzo. In case you missed it, he just barely escaped with the money as the wheel hovered momentarily towards a respin.

Lorenzo was the highlight of the season. His hilarious one-liners and strong performance kept him out of the firing line. While he earned a few spots on the wheel early on, putting his game at risk, he managed to turn the tide by keeping a low profile when campers like Kyle and Trey spun out and took over the spotlight.

His quirky sense of humor, kind demeanor and sparkling finale fit were deserving of the win, even if it was ultimately up to chance.

I went from wanting Lorenzo out immediately (sorry, bud) to cheering like it was my own bestie when he won the game. Would anyone else absolutely love to see Lorenzo and Georgia in some Real World-style buddy story line?

Congrats to Lorenzo on winning Battle Camp season 1!

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