[PJamo]

In the original series they occasionally shuffled the order in which an event was played to allow an injured contender maximum rest time (it pretty much always usually went pink female / yellow female / red male / blue male but on a rare occasion they would reshuffle that for injury time).

There was at least one instance in the original series where somebody had to withdraw after 5 events but prior to the Eliminator; they didn't replace anyone at that stage (unlike where, as previously mentioned, they would replace somebody mid-episode) so the opposing contender automatically qualified for progression in the competition.

However there was also a prize for fastest eliminator time across the whole series so, despite having already qualified by default, the contender had to run the eliminator anyway!