They all agreed to stick with the strategy and headed off to bed for the night. вЂњEverybodyвЂ™s celebrating and screaming, like we did it,вЂќ Michael recalled.

It happened to be the girlsвЂ™ week to choose who they would match up with, so Cassandra Martinez needed to pick either Tyler or Derrick Henry Hannah needed to pick Tyler or Joey Amoia and Shannon Duffy needed to choose between Joey and Derrick. If they werenвЂ™t correct, they would know who to swap around, guaranteeing them a win in the final week. From there, they devised a strategy that would give them a 50/50 chance of winning in the ninth week-one week early. TheyвЂ™d spent hours strategizing and deducing based on previous matchup ceremonies, and had everyoneвЂ™s matches figured out except for the final three couples. It was after the eighth matchup ceremony that contestants claimed they had a breakthrough. However, the nine cast members claimed it went further than that, pointing to one pivotal moment when a producer allegedly pressured a contestant to change her mind about who she would choose in the matchup ceremony, which is said to have caused the entire house to lose the game. Wait until week seven and eight, thatвЂ™s when you want to start trying to do math.вЂ™вЂќДЄdditionally, AYTO? is a reality show, so naturally there are producers interfering to create storylines and ramp up the drama. вЂњSome producers told us, because they were frustrated with us trying to do the math too early, вЂWe need more of a show, some real stuff, conversation. вЂњTruthfully, you can just mathematically figure it out at the end,вЂќ Jaylan explained. With a set number of 11 perfect matches between 22 people, winning becomes a process of elimination through matchup ceremonies, with perfect matches confirmed in the truth booth, and via blackouts. Plus, an additional couple was added this season, bringing the total to 11 couples in the house.ДЄlthough AYTO? is a game show with love as the focal point, itвЂ™s fundamentally a mathematical equation. But in a chance to make back some of the cash, they could forgo learning the results of the truth booth-where contestants can find out if they are a perfect match-and instead pocket $150,000. If contestants вЂњblacked outвЂќ during the matchup ceremony, meaning there were no matches, the prize money would drop by $500,000 rather than the previous $250,000. The first woman to successfully match up with him would get to remain in the house, the other faced being sent home.Д«y the fifth season, production introduced two new elements. For example, in the second season they had 10 men and 11 women, making two women race to figure out who their joint perfect match was. Each season, producers dreamed up new ways of trying to make the game harder.

Up until this point, winners from the four other seasons of the show had walked away with some amount of the $1 million prize money. However, cast members who spoke to The Daily Beast said that they felt the company was on its last legs and was looking for a way to keep the show interesting.

In a statement, Lighthearted Entertainment denied HammerвЂ™s allegations.ДЄYTO? is arguably Lighthearted EntertainmentвЂ™s most successful show, compared to its other programs Dating Naked, Moment of Truth, and 72 Hours. They also claim producers swept under the rug a heated racist incident where a white female contestant repeatedly said the N-word in the face of one of her Black castmates, despite cast members' pleas for her to stop, and was later recast in an MTV spin-off show. WhatвЂ™s more, the contestants allege Lighthearted Entertainment threatened to withhold their small stipend if they didnвЂ™t go along with producersвЂ™ whims. The Daily Beast spoke with nine contestants from the season, which filmed during the fall of 2016, who firmly believe production company Lighthearted Entertainment meddled to ensure they wouldnвЂ™t win in hopes of making the season more dramatic, and to get MTV to sign on for another season. with the prize pot of $1 million in the showвЂ™s eight-season history.

Season 5 of the hit reality-TV competition is the only season where contestants failed to return to the U.S. In fact, they thought the game had been rigged. Moments before 22 young singles, who had spent the past few weeks filming MTVвЂ™s Are You the One?, would find out if theyвЂ™d be leaving the Dominican Republic with fistfuls of cash, there was an awkward silence-not out of sickening nerves or giddy anticipation, but because the contestants already suspected they had lost.

Julia from are you the one