Each team made a signature dessert. The Pomegranate Pinups created a pomegranate-molasses tart with edible flowers. Beautiful. Complex. The Bananahotties made a simple grilled banana split with coconut caramel and sea salt. The crowd of food judges wept. “It tastes like home ,” one judge whispered. Point: Bananahotties.

The music dropped—a remix of “Peel It Back” by DJ Plantain—and the Bananahotties moved as one. Lina spun a banana like a baton. Maya did a backflip over a smoothie blender. Sam’s crop top glittered under the sun. And Tess… Tess juggled six ripe bananas while breakdancing on one hand.

Pom-Pom Pam attempted a pomegranate-themed moonwalk, but her shoe squeaked, she tripped over a discarded peel (irony, thy name is fruit), and landed in the lap of a very unimpressed golden retriever.