Cody Jones picks his dad as partner for Dude Perfect's Survivor Games

Steve Jones joins an overnight wasteland contest where layups, grocery-shelf archery and balloon-popping Raiders stand between four teams and a vault.

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Who Can Survive the Night? | Survivor Games

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"Who Can Survive the Night? | Survivor Games" drops four Dude Perfect teams into a staged urban wasteland at dusk and gives them until sunrise to reach a vault. Cody Jones arrives with the episode's surprise: his partner on Team Red Flare is his father, Steve Jones.

The other teams are made up of faces regular viewers know. Tyler Toney teams up with Jackson as Green Ivy, Garrett Hilbert with Sparky as Yellow Voltage, and the Cotton twins, Cory and Coby, form Blue Steel. Brother Nate, dressed for the end of the world, runs the night. The video was made in partnership with Best Buy, whose supply caches the teams hunt for, and filmed at South Side Studios. It drew nearly a million views in its first 13 hours.

Family warmth stays inside Team Red Flare. Early on, Cody tips over a huge barrel of water to block Tyler and Jackson's collecting. Tyler later offers his own reading of the night's politics: "How do you take a machine down like Tyler? You gang up on him."

The challenges move the group's sports roots onto a stranger set. "Apocalypse Ball" offers basketball shots of different values, and Cody's plan is refreshingly modest: "I think we just go four layups." Yellow Voltage go out there, though not before Garrett tells the host, "I'm not going to lie to you, Brother Nate. I don't like you." "Aisle Archery" turns supermarket shelves into targets, and the round's winners are driven off for steak and dessert while the others go back to hauling water by e-bike and wagon. Then comes "Midnight Raid": jugs carried across an open lot, balloons to protect, and Raiders led by Insane Shayne, with an eliminated Garrett signing up to join them.

In the comments, the father-son pairing is the main subject, and some viewers recall seeing Steve in an earlier dad-themed video. Others ask for a new Mystery Detective battle or hockey stereotypes, and a busy thread questions the AI-made thumbnail. Before one late push, Cody tells his partner: "Dad, this is for you and Mom."

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For a channel of nearly 63 million subscribers, a strong first night is part of the routine; here is how this one began.

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62,900,000

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total views

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views per day

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the video

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978,260

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17,238

comments

791

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1

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