History Main / EliminatedFromTheRace

* On the short lived late 70s revival of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', the contestant with the lowest amount of money at the end of the first game was eliminated and only the other two went on to the "Double Jeopardy" round.

* ''Series/Gladiators2024'': The final challenge in each episode is the aptly named Eliminator, a head-to-head race between two competitors with no Gladiators involved. Points from previous challenges convert into a time advantage. The first contestant across the line goes through to the next round. The fastest runner-up from the first round episodes also gets a place in the quarter finals. The other losers are eliminated.

->''"The last team to check in may be eliminated."''

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-->-- ''Series/TheAmazingRace''

Contrast VotedOffTheIsland, where contestants are eliminated by their fellow contestants, a judging panel or the audience in a vote.

** Instant run-off systems. Here, the candidates are ranked by voters in order of their personal preference before being submitted and tallied. In the first round, every ballot's first choice is tallied. If a candidate gains over 50% of the votes, that candidate is the winner; if not (very likely if there are more than two serious contenders in the race), the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated and the next round begins, except now the ballots who had put the now-eliminated candidate as their first choice move on to their second choice listed. Lather, rinse, repeat for each successive round until one candidate has the majority of votes, going down each ballot's preference list as needed until it is exhausted (at that point it is assumed the voter is indifferent to all remaining candidates). This method requires only one round of actual voting by the electorate.

* The two-round system (the most common method used to elect national Presidents by popular vote, with around 66 countries using it, most prominently [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem France]], UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} and UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}) works like this – a candidate needs over 50% of the votes to win, and if that doesn't hapen, the top two performers face each other off in a second vote two or three weeks later.

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* The two-round system (the most common method used to elect national Presidents by popular vote, with around 66 countries using it, most prominently [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem France]], UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} and UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}) works like this – a candidate needs over 50% of the votes to win, and if that doesn't hapen, the top two performers face each other off in a second vote two or three weeks later.

* The two-round system (the most common method used to elect national Presidents by popular vot, with around 66 countries using it, most prominently [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem France]], UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} and UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}) works like this – a cndidate needs over 50% of the votes to win, and if that doesn't hapen, the top two performers face each other off in a second vote two or three weeks later.

* The two-round system (the most common method used to elect national Presidents by popular vot, with around 66 countries using it, most prominently [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem France]], UsefulNotes{{Brazil}} and UsefulNotes{{Indonesia}}) works like this – a cndidate needs over 50% of the votes to win, and if that doesn't hapen, the top two performers face each other off in a second vote two or three weeks later.

* ''Series/{{Raven}}'' has the second through fourth day of each week[[Note: second through fifth day in some final weeks and the first through fourth day in Series 7's final week/note]] end with The Way of The Warrior, an assault course that lives up to it's reputation as the hardest challenge in the show. The warrior in last place will find themself forced to take this challenge, with the prize being to avert this trope (This happened only four times within over a hundred attempts), upon which the next lowest placed warrior must take the task. Failure means that said warrior must leave the quest, ending their run on the show.

* ''Series/{{Raven}}'' has the second through fourth day of each week (second through fifth day in some final weeks and the first through fourth data in Series 7's final week) end with The Way of The Warrior, an assault course that lives up to it's reputation as the hardest challenge in the show. The warrior in last place will find themself forced to take this challenge, with the prize being to avert this trope (This happened only four times within over a hundred attempts), upon which the next lowest placed warrior must take the task. Failure means that said warrior must leave the quest, ending their run on the show.

* ''Series/{{Raven}}'' has the second through fourth day of each week end with The Way of The Warrior, an assault course that lives up to it's reputation as the hardest challenge in the show. The warrior in last place will find themself forced to take this challenge, with the prize being to avert this trope(This happened only four times within over a hundred attempts), upon which the next lowest placed warrior must take the task. Failure means that said warrior must leave the quest, ending their run on the show.

->''[[Series/TheAmazingRace The last team to check in may be eliminated.]]''

Sometimes a round is announced as a surprise "non-elimination," in which the losing contestant remains in play, but is given a new handicap. Often that handicap results in their elimination at the next opportunity-- but sometimes, they overcome the handicap and return to a competitive position in the pack. And that's the kind of drama that reality show producers just love.

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* ''Webcomic/TalesFromThePit'' uses it for [[http://tumblr.com/xfd2ohuzty a one-off gag]].
** A one-off gag for the Webcomic, but Mark Rosewater's been cataloging [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr186 Core Set Survivor since 2005]], with updates appearing with each new Core Set.
*** The [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/718 last survivor]] was Giant Spider, which made every core set up to ''Magic 2012''.

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[[caption-width-right:338:A team getting Eliminated From the Race.]]

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Contrast VotedOffTheIsland, where you are eliminated by your fellow contestants in a vote.

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[[caption-width-right:338:A team getting Eliminated From the Race, from the Trope Namer Series, ''The Amazing Race'']]

* The ''highest'' scoring pair in the first two rounds of Series/{{Pointless}} is eliminated - although this is because of how scoring works in the game, which is essentially reverse Series/FamilyFortunes.