Claim to Fame season 3 finale: Who won: Hud, Adam, Mackenzie?

Who won Claim to Fame season 3? Entering tonight’s big finale, we knew that Hud, Adam, and Mackenzie were squaring off for the title.

So, who ended up actually emerging as the winner? Well, entering the finale, we honestly thought that Adam was the favorite despite being the target for most of the season. The clues about Hud were so obvious over the past couple of weeks, and early on in the finale, Adam figured out that Mackenzie was related to Trace Adkins — something that we’d figured out a little while ago. There aren’t too many 6’6” country singers out there! (By the way, more so than any individual winner, we were rooting here for us to have a good time.)

Of course, the Claim to Fame finale is all about strategy just as much as it is actually knowing who people are. It’s all about studying your competition and knowing a lot about your fellow players. Adam got an advantage over the course of the finale, but he also found himself temporarily at the hospital after busting his head open. He came back and not only that, he took the power into his hands. He was able to guess both Mackenzie and then Hud (son of John Mellencamp) correctly, and from there, he was named the winner! That’s when it was revealed that he was related to Michael Bolton.

Adam clearly deserved the win, though we will also say this about the show: Aren’t they giving a little too much power to the winner of this final challenge? The clues for both Mackenzie and Hud were so blatantly obvious in this moment that we tend to think that almost anyone under the sun could have gotten them — even if he had a pretty good sense of Mackenzie leading up to it.

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Who were you rooting for to win over the Claim to Fame finale?

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