By Any Means Necessary

Battle Dig (also known as Water Slaughter) is physical race challenge that originated in, and has subsequently appeared in. An water-based version of the challenge was also used in.

Rules
For each tribe, a designated number of contestants will race out to a marked location and dig up a bag. The castaways then compete to return the bag to their tribe's mat. The first person to touch the tribe mat, with a hand on the bag, scores a point for their team. The first tribe to win a given number of rounds will win the challenge.

History
The challenge debuted in as a tribal immunity challenge, with the entire tribe competing simultaneously. The first tribe to score three bags won the challenge. Casaya won immunity.

The challenge was used as the first reward challenge in, with pairs for each tribe competing for the bag. The Heroes tribe won the challenge, and flint.

In, a variation of this challenge was again used as the first reward challenge of the season. Adapted to an aquatic playing field, two members of each tribe would race to retrieve a buoy from one end of the course and return it to their tribe's pole. The Favorites tribe Bikal won the challenge, receiving flint and 20 pounds of beans.

Trivia

 * Cirie Fields is the only person to complete in this challenge twice.
 * Both times, her tribe has won the challenge.
 * This is the first - and only - challenge that returning player Francesca Hogi has won.
 * Both seasons in which the challenge was used for reward, the winning tribe lost the subsequent immunity challenge.