22 artists step into the ring at Gleason's Gym where they had six hours to create a tattoo in their choice subject while incorporating a style each coach is known for. Either Christian's specialty black and gray or Cleen's specialty new school. Afterwards, the judges and the coaches will judge each tattoo in a blind critique without knowing who did what. The top 14 artists will then pick who they want to be one. Team Christian got Angel, Chris, Oba, Jess, Gonzo, Tim, Teej and Amanda who were ranked first, third, eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth respectively. Team Clean on the other hand got second ranked artist Tiffer, followed by fourth ranked artist Tony, fifth ranked artist Tiara, sixth ranked artist Kyle, seventh ranked artist Jamie, and tenth ranked artist Turk. The remaining 8 artists face off one last time as one high ranked and their respective low ranked artist artist had five hours to tattoo against each other. The lower ranked artist will get to choose the style they must tattoo. The winner of each knockout round will pick the team of their choice. Jennifer and JP tattooed a traditional Japanese koi fish. Matt and Jimmy tried to create an American traditional female head. Desi and Austin bring a color illustrated female head to life. And Stacy and DeVonne try to do the same style as Jennifer and JP. JP completed Team Christian and because of this, the final three spots automatically go to Team Cleen with Jimmy, Austin and Stacy rounding out the team.

• Skill of the Week: Fundamentals

• Flash Challenge: For their first challenge, Team Cleen and Team Christian put their art fundamentals to the test by transforming shipping containers into graffiti masterpieces.

• Winner: Team Cleen

• Elimination Tattoo: It's a race against time in the first Elimination Tattoo as both teams must use their fundamentals by tattooing a clock.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Tony Medellin
• Bottom: Gonzo, JP Roldan, and Austin Rose
• Eliminated: Gonzo

• Skill of the Week: Ingenuity

• Flash Challenge: Using multicolored domino tiles, the two teams had six hours to create a piece of art that can impress the judges both upright and toppled over. The sibling argument between Kyle and Jimmy plus Austin's arrogance cause Team Cleen's piece to fall apart with only a few dominoes standing.

• Winner: Team Christian

• Elimination Tattoo: The artists have six hours to design a tattoo that uses individual objects to create a collective image.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Kyle Mackenzie
• Bottom: Oba Jackson, Tiara Gordon, and JP Roldan
• Eliminated: Tiara Gordon

• Skill of the Week: Consistency

• Grudge Match: Cleen and Christian face off as they create a tattoo in the style and subject of their choice. Each round consisted a total of two hours. Since his team won the last elimination tattoo, Cleen picked a new school hot rod while Christian picked black-and-gray bats. The winner of the first grudge match will not only give the team an immunity from the elimination tattoo but will also form the jury of peers and put one artist from the opposing team up for elimination.

• Winner: Christian Buckingham

• Elimination Tattoo: Team Cleen wrap their consistency around the wrist by creating wristband tattoos. Christian assigned all the human canvases especially giving Turk and Jamie difficult canvases. Although Team Cleen is about to lose one member while the tattooing was happening, Team Christian lost their own after Oba informed his team that he must withdrew from the competition as advised by his doctor due to the high blood pressure he was suffering which could've lead to a heart attack.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Tiffer Wright
• Bottom: Jamie Lee Parker, Stacy Smith and Turk
• Elimination: Jamie Lee Parker

• Skill of the Week: Creativity

• Flash Challenge: On a 10 foot by 24 foot canvas, the two teams must use electric tape to create a piece of art in only six hours.

• Winner: Team Christian

• Elimination Tattoo: The teams tried to coverup a canvas' design that's placed on a spot that is difficult to tattoo.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Tiffer Wright
• Bottom: JP Roldan, Teej Poole and Turk
• Elimination: JP Roldan

• Skill of the Week: Adaptability
• Tag Team Tattoo: Two artists must tag team their respective partner every hour while tattooing an epic battle onto a human canvas at the same time. In addition, one team will be safe and the other will be put up for elimination.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Team Christian

Following the critique, Cleen tries to weed out the weak on his own by choosing the two weakest links. Team Cleen got into an intense argument that caused Tiffer to leave for a little bit. Amanda and Tim convinced Cleen to put up Stacy and Austin because they have been the big problem on his team ever since he got stuck with them. Cleen ultimately chose Stacy and Austin as his two weakest links.

• Face Off Tattoo: The next day, Stacy and Austin fight to save themselves when they had six hours to tattoo a full-colored biomechanical skull, chosen by Christian.

• Eliminated: Stacy Smith

• Skill of the Week: Technical Application
• Grudge Match: In the second grudge match, the coaches competed in a head-to-head marathon by doing four tattoos with each round consisting of one hour. Both teams picked what the coaches must tattoo; with Team Christian picking a color-realistic strawberry and geometric wolf head and Team Cleen picking a traditional panther head and graffiti lettering. Whichever coach won their respective tattoo, they could pick one artist from their team to be safe from elimination. In the end, Tiffer, Tony and Turk were safe on Team Cleen, and Amanda was safe on Team Christian.
• Elimination Tattoo: The teams tried to create a galaxy themed tattoo out of an everyday object. Tiffer, Tony, Turk and Amanda assigned all the human canvases.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Chris Shockley
• Bottom: Kyle Mackenzie, Austin Rose and Jess Cavazos
• Eliminated: Austin Rose

• Skill of the Week: Dimension

• Flash Challenge: The teams had six hours draw a 3D sidewalk design using only chalk.

• Winner: Team Cleen

• Elimination Tattoo: The remaining artists try to create a naturescape tattoo which proved to be too difficult for some. Cleen picked Jimmy and Tony to assign the human canvases.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Tiffer Wright
• Bottom: Angel Rose, Jimmy Snaz and Amanda Boone
• Eliminated: Angel Rose

• Skill of the Week: Artistry

• Grudge Match: The coaches each tattoo each other's designs only using a stencil provided by each other. Christian provides a female face and Cleen a demonic face. They each win their own tattoo designs. Jess Cavazos is safe from Team Christian and Tiffer Wright from Team Cleen.
• Elimination Tattoo: The artists tattoo mermaids. Jess and Tiffer assign the canvases as the safe artists.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Turk
• Bottom: Tony Medellin, Jimmy Snaz and Amanda Boone
• Eliminated: Jimmy Snaz

• Skill of the Week: Finesse

• Elimination Tattoo: Each team had to tattoo a design created by the opposing coach and attempt to match or surpass the coach. Christian designed a demonic woman with horns and dictated that the tattoo be done in black and grey and that no liner be used, only a mag needle. Cleen designed a tattoo machine, with needles, and a skull and asked that the tattoo be done in full color in his style. None of the artists managed to surpass the coaches tattoos and no one was safe from elimination.
• Face Off Tattoo: Each artist had to tattoo a freehand design to save themselves from elimination.

• Eliminated: Jess Cavazos

• Skill of the Week: Composition

• Flash Challenge: The artists had five hours to compose an incredible work of art by stenciling the design on a concrete board before using invisible water repellent paint. They will then reveal their masterpiece after wetting it. Nuñez was not present to co-judge this flash challenge.

• Winner: Team Christian

• Elimination Tattoo: The teams try to compose a Japanese temples by getting every little detail they can. Christian, in addition to picking Teej and Tim to assign the human canvases, targets Kyle once again and tries to pull out all the stops to manipulate Team Cleen.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Teej Poole
• Bottom: Amanda Boone, Kyle Mackenzie and Tim Stafford
• Eliminated: Kyle Mackenzie

• Skill of the Week: Detail

• Flash Challenge: Each team had six hours to burn a design on to a large sheet of wood.

• Winner: Team Cleen

• Elimination Tattoo: The final seven must capture a ton of detail in their reflection tattoo. Cleen picked Tiffer and Turk to assign the human canvases.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Teej Poole
• Bottom: Turk, Tim Stafford and Amanda Boone
• Eliminated: Turk

• Tag Team Tattoo: Tattooing the same canvas at the same time, the coaches and their respective teammates tag team every hour by creating a tattoo that represents power. Chris' argument with his teammates caused Team Christian to blackout.

• Winner: Team Cleen

• Grudge Match Face Off: Team Cleen earned more power from winning the tag team tattoo. Each member picked the artist from Team Christian in addition to the style and subject for their respective head to head grudge match. Cleen will pick the style and subject for the artists who were not chosen by his teammates. Tiffer chose Amanda to tattoo illustrative cat heads in a motorcycle head, and Tony and Tim tattoo an American traditional cobra with a dagger while Teej and Chris tattooed a photo realistic full-colored full-bodied copperhead snake.
• Knock Out Tattoo: Amanda, Chris and Tim must bring their A-game as they square off against each other for six hours. Cleen assigned all three of them to tattoo a color realistic bouquet of flowers.

• Eliminated: Chris Shockley

• Skill of the Week: Precision

• Flash Challenge: The teams had seven hours to create a design an image by stacking 200,000 crayons.

• Winner: Team Christian

• Elimination Tattoo: The final five tattoo animal portraits. Christian picked Amanda and Teej to assign the human canvases.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Tim Stafford
• Bottom: Tony Medellin, Amanda Boone and Tiffer Wright
• Eliminated: Amanda Boone

• First Round: Before Cleen and Christian fight one last time, the final sabotage each other with a spot in the finale on the line. One artist will call the shots by creating a six-hour line-work tattoo while the artist who was called out must tattoo the design. Teej picked one skull that revealed the X on the bottom and called out his teammate Tim who calls out Tony. Tony then calls out his fellow Team Cleen member Tiffer who designed Teej's tattoo.

• Winner: Tiffer Wright

• Second Round: In the second round for a spot in the finale, the artists have to tattoo their own line-drawing.

• Winner: Teej Poole

• Third Round: To win the last spot, the artists have to endure a tattoo marathon: three 90 minutes tattoos, every single one in a different style called by the finalists and the judges.

• Winner: Tony Medellin
• Eliminated: Tim Stafford

• Jury of Peers' Pick: Teej Poole
• Judges' Pick: Tony Medellin
• 3rd Place: Tiffer Wright
• Winner: Tony Medellin
• Grudge Match Winner: Cleen Rock One