In variety shows, games are like this: win or lose, if you admit defeat, you have to accept punishment.
Everyone hands over their budget, but of course, Samuel Harsch and Alyssa Taylor don't have a single penny in their hands because what everyone is handing over is the remaining budget from the previous two episodes. They are newcomers in this episode, so they don't need to hand anything over.
However, when the director suddenly announced that they were going to issue the official budget for the third episode, everyone was collectively shocked when they heard the amount allotted for each team.