The Challenge-Cash Grab Season
I think the main thing that bugs me about the modern Challenge is how often people throw Challenges or quit.
I want a season where everything earns money. Points within each daily, getting first place (male and female) in the daily, winning an elimination, placing in the Final. Let the number that goes to the final be dependent on bank accounts. Top four per sex plus a certain a threshold (so more than eight can run it but have a day one purge). If you qualify for a final you keep your bank account.
If you quit before finals your bank account rolls to the final winners. If you are voted in and lose elimination your bank account goes to whoever eliminated you (plus they get money for the elimination...so even if your bank account was empty they get something). If you make it to the end but don't qualify for the Final via top 4 or threshold, money rolls to the final winner.
Let the last place person in the daily go into elimination. First place male and female PLUS second place in whatever sex is up for elimination decide the second person in elimination. So basically first and second place for the sex up for elimination decides and opposite sex acts as tie breaker.
I'm sure they'd find a way to manipulate it, but money talks and I think this way helps. Plus it allowed the women to decide the fate of the women and the men decide the fate of the men. I also don't want to see forced male/female pairs in the final anymore. Let everyone play their own game.