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Full Metal Jousting is an American reality television show that debuted on the History Channel on February 12, 2012. The show features 16 contestants, split into two teams of eight, competing in various types of jousting challenges. One by one, the contestants are eliminated until only one remains. That contestant receives a $? grand prize. Shane Adams is the host.

Gameplay
The teams are given separate chances to practice with the weapons to be used in a team challenge, under the guidance of an experienced trainer, after which the challenge itself is played the following day. Everyone on the winning team is safe for the day, while the losing team must nominate two members for elimination after a two-hour break. A group of targets is set up for this purpose, each marked with one player's name. One by one, the team members must shoot the target of the person they want to nominate. No one is allowed to vote for himself/herself. If two or more players tie for one nomination, Donaldson typically draws one team member's name at random from an ammunition box to cast a tiebreaking vote. The tied players, and any who have already clinched a nomination, are not eligible to be chosen. (There have been exceptions to this practice, as noted under the episode entries for each season.)

The morning after this decision, the two players who receive the most votes take a practice session with the weapons to be used in an elimination challenge, which is held later in the day with the rest of the team watching. Whoever wins the challenge remains in the game, while the loser is immediately dismissed.

Whenever the teams are of unequal size, enough players on the larger one must sit out the team challenge to even out the two groups. The smaller team decides who will be benched, with the condition that no player may sit out two challenges in a row. Benched players are eligible to be nominated for elimination.

Season 1 (2010)

 * ''First aired June 6 – August 15, 2010

Season 1 of Top Shot was filmed over a period of 33 days in the spring of 2010 in Santa Clarita, California.

In episodes 7 and 8, the larger team (Blue) decided for itself who would participate or be benched. The teams were dissolved in episode 9, with all players competing directly against each other from this point on and one or more players being eliminated after every challenge.

Every time a player was eliminated, the remaining group hung one of that player's shirts, marked with his/her name, from the railing of the staircase in the house where they were living.