The ever-evolving format of The Challenge keeps its fans coming back for more, season after season. While some reality shows begin to feel stale after a few years on the air, MTV makes sure to keep our favorite one fresh. Sometimes the competitors play as teams, other times as partners, and every once in a …
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Over the course of its 37 seasons, The Challenge has found many ways to keep us coming back every season. Of course, its soap opera-like format of having people return season after season is a big draw. But another aspect that breathes new life into the show every season is its rotation of formats. Unlike …
More and more, we hear Challenge contestants denoting their fellow competitors as “Rookie of the Year.” But there is often more than one rookie to be impressed by as we get through December. Let’s take a look at the best Challenge rookies of 2021! Keep in mind that this list is not based solely on …
Some people just don’t get respect, no matter how much they deserve it. Such is the case with some of the people we see on The Challenge season after season. Sure, there are the Laurels and the Sarahs and the Kams – the women who you know are going far if they are standing in …
After over two decades on the air, The Challenge has seen its fair share of contestants who are elite and contestants who are lacking in all areas of the competition. But what about the people in between? Some are seen as lesser competitors because they have never won. Others are seen as lesser competitors because …
Reality TV hosts are a dying breed. As new shows pop up every week, hosts have been replaced by disembodied narrators or by celebrities who are just there for star power. Gone are the days of Reality TV hosts being famous BECAUSE they are hosts. Of course, every host had to start somewhere and they …
We recently counted down the Top 10 Big Brother Contestants We Want on The Challenge! It only seems right that we do the same for its CBS counterpart: Survivor! It took a little longer for The Challenge to start pulling from Survivor than it did Big Brother. We have only had two seasons since the …
During its 31st season, The Challenge did something they should have done a long time ago. They began casting former Big Brother players. It makes sense – both shows cast young, attractive people who want TV time and have no shame. Had MTV started pulling people from other reality shows sooner, we could have had …
The Rivals format of The Challenge is one of the most popular versions of the show. So far, there have been three official iterations. Two of those have included same-sex rivals partnered up, while the third was based on opposite-sex rivals. We think it’s only fair that the show gives us another opposite-sex Challenge Rivals …
When The Challenge: Rivals premiered, it was an incredibly intriguing concept. Part of the appeal of The Challenge is that it is a reality TV soap opera. We get to see how relationships evolve over the course of several seasons. With Rivals, fans got to see people who have hated each other for years forced …