Beast Games controversy: Contestant claims she was kicked in the head and got a concussion

MrBeast's Beast Games premiered on December 19 and controversy has already started stirring up about the Prime Video game show after a contestant claimed she was kicked in the head and got a concussion on set. YouTuber Amanda Rose, who goes by the username Eat Like a Bear, uploaded a video on December 19, 2024, titled I was kicked in the head at Beast Games hours after the show was released.

Rose also went on an interview with Rosanna Pansino, who has claimed that contestants of the game show have suffered severe injuries in the past. Regardless, Amanda Rose has claimed that she got injured during the Briefcase Challenge at the Beast Games and is currently in the middle of a one-year recovery from the brain injury sustained at the show.

Rose also claims that she reported the case to the Las Vegas police department and was under an NDA in her opening statements in her video:

"I was kicked in the head as a contestant on Beast games I'm in a year-long recovery from a traumatic brain injury should I recover fully in the 5 months since the injury I've been under a non-disclosure agreement and have not been able to speak out. My story is both the best and the worst of YouTube all wrapped into one."

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Amanda Rose recalls her brain injury from getting kicked during the Beast Games

Readers should note that Amanda Rose was not in the 1,000 who participated in the Prime Video episode of Beast Games but was part of the 2,000 people who showed up for MrBeast's YouTube video for the game show's qualifier titled 2,000 People Fight For $5,000,000.

At the end of MrBeast's YouTube video, only half of the people qualified for episode 1. Amanda has claimed that she got eliminated during the Briefcase Challenge part of the show, which was the second game in the video. The structure of the challenge was essentially a memory game.

The whole stadium was full of briefcases with either a green or red card inside. Before each round, the stadium's jumbotron would show the locations of the red cards in the briefcases on the field for a brief second. After that, participants are supposed to run and grab a briefcase, with the aim being to grab one with a green card. Choosing a briefcase with a red card meant elimination.

.At the 31:05 mark of her video, Amanda Rose recalled how there was a collision that knocked her to the ground:

"I run, I mean just with gusto, and I'm just focused. And I run when I feel it right from the side. I never saw him, um, I just felt the collision. I don't remember it visually but I remember being on the ground and I remember feet. I remember knowing, like with everything I had, I could be trampled to death. I managed to get up."

Later on in the video at the 40-minute mark, the Beast Games contestant claimed that she was not referred to any medical care on the set of the show despite having talked to Karl Jacobs:

"This might even be on camera, me speaking to Karl and saying, 'Hey look what happened.' That's a whole other story I will try to get to as its own segment. But, um, they knew and can you guess how many people referred me to the nurse's station or like to the medical crew? They had ambulances waiting. How many, how many of those people referred me to a medical person? Yeah, zero. Zero!"

Amanda Rose also opened up that she would not start getting symptoms of a concussion till the day after she participated in the Beast Games.

This isn't the first time that accusations have been leveled against MrBeast and the production team of Beast Games. Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit was filed by a few contestants of Beast Games complaining about unsafe working conditions and lack of adequate nutrition and medical care on the set.