The Challenge (TV series)

The Challenge
Genre	Reality game show
Created by	Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray
Presented by	T. J. Lavin
Starring	Various alumni of: Real World Road Rules Fresh Meat Fresh Meat II Spring Break Challenge Are You the One? Battle of the Bloodlines
Narrated by	not
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	28
Production
Running time	30 minutes (1998-2007) 1 hour (2008-present)
Production company(s)	Bunim/Murray Productions
Distributor	Viacom Media Networks
Release
Original release	June 1, 1998 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Real World Road Rules
External links
Website
Production website

The Challenge (originally known as Road Rules: All Stars, followed by Real World/Road Rules Challenge) is a reality game show on MTV that is spun off from the network's two reality shows, Real World and Road Rules. It features alumni from these two shows, in addition to first-time cast members called 'Fresh Meat', alumni from Are You the One?, and relatives of these cast members called 'Bloodlines', competing against one another for a cash prize.^[1][2] The Challenge is currently hosted by T. J. Lavin.

The series premiered on June 1, 1998. The title of the show was originally Road Rules: All Stars before it was renamed Real World/Road Rules Challenge by the show's 2nd season, then later abridged to simply The Challenge by the show's 19th season. The series initially used no hosts but instead a former cast member who had been kicked off his or her season, providing assignments as "Mr." or "Ms. Big" (David "Puck" Rainey, David Edwards, and Gladys Sanabria served this role). Later on, however, the series began using hosts: Eric Nies and Mark Long co-hosted a season, and Jonny Moseley and Dave Mirra hosted various seasons before T. J. Lavin became the show's regular host by the 11th season.

Since the 4th season, each season has supplied the show with a unique subtitle, such as "Rivals." Each season consists of a format and theme whereby the subtitle is derived. Of each season's format and theme, 8 have been repeated or revamped through sequel seasons with shared subtitles. In chronological order, these include: Battle of the Sexes (tied to Battle of the Sexes II, the show's first sequel season); The Inferno (tied to The Inferno II and The Inferno III, the show's first trilogy); The Gauntlet (tied to The Gauntlet II and The Gauntlet III); The Duel (tied to The Duel II); Fresh Meat (tied to Fresh Meat II), Battle of the Seasons (tied to the second Battle of the Seasons); Rivals (tied to Rivals II and Rivals III); and Battle of the Exes (tied to Battle of the Exes II).

The 28th and most recent season, entitled Rivals III, premiered on May 4, 2016, and concluded on August 3, 2016.^[3]

Structure

Overview

The Challenge casts are season specific as the cast varies from season to season. The casts can only be made up of A.) contestants originating from one of The Challenge's related TV programs or B.) contestants originating from one of the few Challenge seasons that have allowed previously unknown contestants. These shows and seasons are: The Challenge's two precursor programs, The Real World and Road Rules, the reality show Are You the One?, The Challenge's spin-off television program, Spring Break Challenge, The Challenge's own Fresh Meat seasons (Fresh Meat, and Fresh Meat II) and The Challenge's own Bloodline season (Battle of the Bloodlines).

A season's typical multitude of cast members are usually divided up into separate teams according to a certain criteria, which varies from season to season. The criteria that teams have been arranged by over the show's history have ranged all across the board, from gender of the contestants and original show of contestants to bad guy/good guy status of contestants and ex-romantic partners of contestants. Each of the opposing teams compete in numerous missions in order to win prizes and advance in the overall game. Following each mission, a team or a cast member is voted into an elimination round to take on the least successful team from the previous mission. In elimination rounds, they must compete against one another to determine which one is eliminated from the season. Each season has its own, very distinct elimination round, distinguished from those of other seasons in title, design, and general atmosphere. Determining which two teams or two cast members are sent into the episode's elimination round frequently leads to drama and contestants playing the game dirty; this is due to the show's contestants being in charge of who is thrown into elimination rounds.^[4] Like that of The Real World, sporadically throughout the course of each episode, various contestants are seen privately expressing themselves through reality TV confessionals about the events taking place on the show.

Some seasons, however, have used entirely different formats from the typical: The Island is one Challenge in particular that adopted many features atypical to Real World/Road Rules Challenge, instead taking concepts like that of another reality television game show Survivor; as another example, the first season (Road Rules: All Stars) ironically only included contestants from The Real World and consisted of a much smaller cast before the show was completely reconstructed by its second season. Except for season one, a monetary prize has always been the award for winning the final mission.

Theme and format by season title

Each distinct season title has indicated the general gameplay format used:

• Original Real World/Road Rules Challenge (including RW/RR Challenge 2000 and RW/RR Extreme Challenge): Real World vs. Road Rules groupings, six players per team, no eliminations, missions in number of previous challenges (though the original Gauntlet and Inferno were Real World vs. Road Rules).
• Battle of the Seasons (2002) and Battle of the Seasons (2012): On the first Battle of the Seasons, players were separated into teams of Real World and Road Rules, each cast member is paired off with a cast mate from their original season. Each mission gave points based on finish. After each mission, the players with the most points cumulative from each team became the "Inner Circle" and voted off whichever pair they wanted. The individual winning pair of each challenge would earn an "additional prize." After five pairs from each team were voted off, the final three Real World teams and final three Road Rules teams would compete against each other in a series of challenges before the final race. The 2012 Battle of the Seasons had a completely different format from the original. Each team consists of two men and two women from select seasons. After each challenge, there is a winning team and a losing team. The losing team is automatically sent to "The Arena," and faces possible elimination. The winning team become the Power Team, and selects one team to battle against the last-place team in the Arena. The teams entering the Arena must select one player of each gender from their own team to compete in the elimination. If the teams entering the Arena cannot decide which players will compete in the elimination, the Power Team chooses for them. The winning pair in the elimination rounds return to their season and stay in the game, while the losing pair is eliminated, reducing their season to two players.
• Battle of the Sexes and Battle of the Sexes 2: As the title implies, players are divided by gender. Each mission gave points based on finish, either with a partner or individually. After each mission, the players with the most points cumulative from each team became the "Inner Circle" and voted off whoever they wanted to. The winner of each challenge would earn a "lifesaver" which could be given to a member of either team; the recipient of the "lifesaver" would enjoy total immunity from being voted out, which created many interesting situations. No life-shields were used in the second installment. The final three players of each gender would compete against each other in a final race.
• Inferno, Inferno II and Inferno 3: The first Inferno consisted of Team Real World vs. Team Road Rules. The 2nd and 3rd installment consisted of Team Bad Asses vs. Team Good Guys. Teams nominate two of their own players for each elimination round and vote one of the opponents' two nominations into the "Inferno" round. The players going into the "Inferno" then have the opportunity to save themselves from going in by winning a "life saver" in the challenge before the "Inferno."
• Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2 and Gauntlet III: The first gauntlet consisted of Team Real World vs. Team Road Rules. The 2nd and 3rd installment consisted of Team Veterans vs. Team Rookies. In the 2nd and 3rd particular installment, "Veterans" are considered players who have participated in a minimum of two challenges, while "Rookies" had either participated in one challenge or none at all. In the first two installments, team captains are assigned on a pre-challenge mission. The losing team's captains would alternate between male and female to go into the "Gauntlet," in which they would face off against someone from their own team as voted by the remaining team members. In the third installment, no team captains are assigned, and the winning team also protects one player from the losing team from being chosen for the Gauntlet, but cannot protect the same player on two consecutive opportunities.
• Fresh Meat and Fresh Meat II: These seasons introduce new people to Challenges without appearing on The Real World or Road Rules. These new players are "drafted" by "alumni" of the opposite gender (those who come from RW, RR, or previous 'FM', some of whom have not been on a Challenge before) to create pairings which are the teams for these Challenges. The winning team chooses one team for an elimination round called an "Exile," while the other team is selected by a vote.
• The Duel and The Duel II: Promoted as "every man for himself" as there are no permanent teams (though some individual challenges require teams to be formed). All players compete individually, leading to just one champion of each gender.
• The Island: A challenge with no missions, just elimination rounds where the competitors are put on an island with limited supplies. In each episode, the competitors select three people (not necessarily by gender) to go into an elimination round to win safety and a key to the prize money chest at the final challenge. The two non-winning players have a chance to plead their case to all the other competitors at the vote-off, where one player wins a key and the other is eliminated.
• The Ruins: Two teams of "Challengers" and "Champions" based on whether players have won a previous season's final challenge. Prior to each challenge, each team nominates a group of three players of each gender within the team for elimination; after that challenge, the winning team's nominated group picks the match-ups for the "Ruins," which consist of a male Challenger against a male Champion, and a female Challenger against a female Champion.
• Cutthroat: Teams are not initially set. There is a race in the beginning, and while the top three players are announced, the bottom three are named as captains of the three teams; the three teams are then drafted by the captains (while maintaining equal numbers of players of each gender). Each challenge involves all three teams; the winning team is safe from the elimination round — the "Gulag," while the losing teams go against each other in the Gulag. Voting is done within one's own team by secret ballot to choose one player of each gender to go into the Gulag.
• Rivals, Rivals II and Rivals III: The first two installments feature two-player teams of the same gender consist of players who are paired against their "worst enemies," whom they have engaged in bitter feuds, fights and rivalries with in previous Real World and/or Challenge seasons. The challenge winner is safe from elimination – "The Jungle," while the last-place finisher and a non-winning team of the same gender battle it out in "The Jungle." Each challenge alternates between a male and a female Jungle elimination in the first two installments. The third installment features male/female pairs. The third installment also has 3 teams going into the elimination; the losing team, and 2 teams picked by the winning team. At the Jungle, the 2 teams picked for elimination by the winning team go back and forth picking skulls out of a box. There are 3 white skulls and 1 black skull. Whoever picks the black skull, them and their partner go into the Jungle against the last place team, and the other team is safe from the Jungle. Also, in the finale, teammates would go head to head in challenges, whoever finishes first the most in the challenges would decide if they would keep the money they earned for their respective placing, or split it with their partner. If the cast member chose to keep it for themselves, then their teammate would leave empty handed.
• Battle of the Exes and Battle of the Exes II: Thirteen teams of ex couples compete in a challenge where the winner is safe from elimination and will be known as "The Power Couple," and they are responsible for choosing one team to go into the elimination round called "The Dome," along with the team that came in last-place in the challenge. A twist was added on Battle of the Exes II: Eliminated teams would compete in "Battle of the Ex-iled," which no one in the house knows about. The eliminated team will compete against the last "Ex-ile" winner and the loser would be permanently eliminated. This lasts until only four teams remain in the house, and the last team standing from Ex-ile will go back to the house for two more challenges before the final, which they are eligible for as long as they are not eliminated again.
• Free Agents: Each challenge is declared as either an individual, pair, or team challenge. For pair and team challenges, names are drawn out of a bag — one of each gender, or more for multi-team or pair challenges — that will be designated as captains. For team challenges, the captains will select players that will be split evenly amongst gender. For pair challenges, the captains will either select players of the opposite gender for challenges that are designated as male/female pairs, or the same gender for challenges that are designated as same-gender pairs. The winning team/pair/players are safe from elimination, and choose one player of each gender for elimination. The remaining non-winning players then participate in "The Draw," where the one player of each gender that draws a "kill card" faces the previously voted players in the elimination round.
• Battle of the Bloodlines: The season starts with 14 pairs of two, each consisting of an The Real World, The Challenge or Are You The One? alumni and their relatives. The winning pair of the mission sends in one pair to face the losing team of the mission into The Pit, depending on gender. However, after the second elimination, pairs are separated into two teams, each consisting of 12. The losing team has to send one player from the losing team into The Pit, while the winning team has to send another player from the losing team into The Pit. If a player loses in The Pit, that player is not only eliminated, but so is their bloodline. The final five teams reverted to their pairs of two. The Pit consisted of both teammates competing instead of one representative competing for both teams for one elimination, then reverted to one representative for each team for the last elimination.

TV show's conception

During the filming of The Real World: Boston and Road Rules: Islands, the two casts met while the Real World cast was vacationing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Producers set up a face-off where both teams would compete for a cash prize. The intensely competitive challenge brought in high ratings and this set ideas in motion to produce yet another spin-off series. After another face-off called AquaGames, hosted by Kit Hoover and Mark Long, between The Real World: Seattle and Road Rules: Down Under in 1997, the Challenge series was born in 1998 with Road Rules: All Stars, and featured cast members from five different seasons of The Real World.

After All Stars, producers decided to include former castmembers of Road Rules in the series as well. In the next season, two six-member teams were sent around the world in a competition to see which show could best the other in head-to-head competition. The series followed the format for three years and brought in hugely successful ratings.

Following the hugely successful boom of reality television in the new millennium, producers decided to add new elements to the series. In 2001, production began on Battle of the Seasons. This season, the first to depart from the previous six-member structure, brought in a large group of former cast members to compete in one location. Beginning with the first Battle of the Seasons, MTV added a fantasy challenge game to their website. Players "draft" cast members, a la fantasy baseball and cast members are given points for performing certain tasks, such as cursing or "hooking up."

After switching to the "vote off" format, the series would alternate between "Battle" seasons, including two seasons of Battle of the Sexes and themed Challenges which included the Gauntlet and Inferno seasons. Both the Gauntlet and Inferno seasons contained "showdown" matches between members of the two opposing teams. The cast member who lost the showdown would be sent home. The Gauntlet seasons featured an intra-cast dynamic as teams were forced to vote off cast members within their own groups into the showdown, while the Inferno seasons featured an inter-cast dynamic as teams were forced to vote off cast members from the other group into the showdown.

In 2005, Bunim-Murray Productions decided to invite new people to the Challenges who were never a part of either Real World or Road Rules and called them 'Fresh Meat.' This decision was forced, in part, because of the status of Road Rules at the time. While Road Rules had stopped production until further notice after its thirteenth season, Real World had just finished wrapping its sixteenth season in Austin, Texas. Road Rules had a fourteenth, and final, season in 2007. One additional 'Fresh Meat' season has followed with cast also being integrated in The Challenge from the 2010 Spring Break Challenge miniseries and Are You the One?^[5]

External episodes

While internal episodes are the usual and feature an original mission, voting process, elimination round, and surrounding social lives between the season's contestants, external episodes feature the season's contestants reviewing themselves in internal episodes and adding feedback. This is typically combined with video clips from the internal episodes in question. The Challenge has three types of these external episodes, an aftershow that takes place sporadically in the form of a series throughout the entire season, a post-show reunion of notable cast members from that season, and a bonus footage special.

The Challenge lingo

Veterans and rookies

Two commonly used terms on the show are "veterans" (or vets) and "rookies." Veterans are particularly thought of as players that have won at least one Challenge season, but the term has also been applied to players who have appeared on several seasons of the show, or have appeared in the final stages of a challenge. Rookies are thought of as players that have done none of the above. The most vulnerable rookies are those who have just recently completed their season on The Real World, Road Rules or Are You the One? and are participating in the game for their very first time; often they are the first to be singled out and targeted by everyone else due to their lack of bonds with existing cast. However, at least one rookie has reached the final challenge on every season, for the exceptions of Fresh Meat II and Battle of the Exes.

Alliance

Another commonly used term on the show is "alliance." The term is used to refer to challengers working together. These contestants have colluded together so as to increase their overall chances of winning the season game. But for safety in numbers offered by the collusion, the show's contestants would run the risk of victimization to the game's politics and popularity factors. Politics plays a role due to the show's formats in which options of who is thrown into elimination rounds and other determining factors are left up to challengers themselves. Alliances are typically formed through pacts and negotiations made among certain contestants early on in the game. Alliance operations can range from saving alliance members, throwing missions for the purposes of advancing the alliance, picking and choosing based upon alliance involvement as opposed to levels of performance, etc.

In early seasons of the show, alliances were heavily frowned upon by most of the contestants. As such, alliances used to be carried out with much more secrecy, craft, and deviousness. In fact, many of the earliest alliances on the show were formed to sabotage members of one's own team who were perceived as weak. Once exposed, alliances typically came as offensive and shocking to those not involved. Since the later seasons, however, alliances have become a norm among the show's contestants, so much so that most contestants are expected to join an alliance upon beginning out a season. Despite its use among most, there are still a minority of contestants who elect to play the game straightforwardly, feeling as though alliance tactics are a sign of weakness and a lack of competitive spirit. Those who reject alliances, however, are seen as not playing the game strategically. Although the widespread and overt practice of alliance construction has expelled its original devious reputation, its effectiveness and capacity to surprise attack has waned.

Layup

Coined in Rivals II, a "layup" is a metaphorical usage referring to efforts made to ensure that a season's weakest contestant or team or at least highly weakest contestant or team makes it to the final mission. In this sense, a weak contestant/team is given a free ticket to the final mission by most or all of a season's cast. The logic behind this method is that competing against a weaker contestant/team in the final mission creates for a more sure-fire win with least amount of effort as possible. The move is performed by contestants/teams refraining from voting weak links into elimination rounds.

Spring Break Challenge

In March 2010, prior to the airing of the 19th season, MTV aired a special spring break spin-off of The Challenge in Acapulco, Mexico.^[6] Challenge alum coached teams of college-aged friends in various challenges of old and new, while Fresh Meat alumnus Evan Starkman and The Real World: Key West alumna Paula Meronek served as broadcasters, with T. J. Lavin as the host. Camila Nakagawa, a contestant of the winning team, went on to appear on future challenges, with her debut Challenge being Cutthroat. As of 2016, Camila is the only player to appear on the challenges.

Seasons

Order	Title	Format	Original Release	Location of the residence	Winners
1	All Stars	1 team of 5	June 1, 1998 - June 29, 1998	Road trip: Montreal→Lake Placid →Wellington→Auckland→Los Angeles	Cynthia, Eric, Jon, Rachel & Sean
2	Real World vs. Road Rules	2 teams of 6	November 9, 1999 - December 14, 1999	Road trip: San Francisco→Los Angeles →Las Vegas→Los Angeles	Road Rules (Anne, Kalle, Kefla, Mark, Noah & Roni)
3	Challenge 2000	2 teams of 6	January 17, 2000 - April 3, 2000	Road trip: Las Vegas→Nashville→Miami	Road Rules (Carlos, Dan, Holly, Piggy, Veronica & Yes)
4	Extreme Challenge	2 teams of 6	January 9, 2001 - May 22, 2001	Road trip: Portland, ME→Montreal →Boston→London→Hamburg→Prague →London→New York→Los Angeles	Real World (Dan, Jamie, Julie, Kameelah, Rebecca & Syrus)
5	Battle of the Seasons	2 teams of 8 pairs of 2	January 28, 2002 - May 27, 2002	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico	Real World (Mike & Coral, Sean & Elka, Danny & Kelley)
6	Battle of the Sexes	2 teams of 18	December 30, 2002 - May 12, 2003	Montego Bay, Jamaica	Guys (Mark Long, Colin Mortensen, Jamie Murray)
7	The Gauntlet	2 teams of 14	September 29, 2003 - January 26, 2004	Telluride, Colorado	Road Rules (Adam, Cara, Dave, Darrell, Rachel, Roni, Sarah, Theo & Veronica)
8	The Inferno	2 teams of 10	February 2, 2004 - May 31, 2004	Acapulco, Mexico	Road Rules (Abram, Christena, Darrell, Holly, Katie, Kendal, Timmy & Veronica)
9	Battle of the Sexes 2	2 teams of 18	October 4, 2004 - January 31, 2005	Santa Fe, New Mexico	Guys (Dan, Eric & Theo)
10	The Inferno II	2 teams of 10	March 7, 2005 - June 20, 2005	Manzanillo, Mexico	Good Guys (Darrell, Jamie, Landon & Mike)
11	The Gauntlet 2	2 teams of 16	December 5, 2005 - March 27, 2006	Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago	Rookies (Alton, Ibis, Jamie, Jodi, Kina, Landon, MJ, Randy & Susie)
12	Fresh Meat	12 pairs of 2 (male/female)	May 29, 2006 - September 11, 2006	Myocum, Australia	Darrell & Aviv
13	The Duel	Individual	October 12, 2006 - January 18, 2007	Armação dos Búzios, Brazil	Wes
					Jodi
14	The Inferno 3	2 teams of 10	April 10, 2007 - July 3, 2007	Somerset West, South Africa	Bad Asses (Abram, Derrick, Evelyn, Janelle, Kenny & Tonya)
15	The Gauntlet III	2 teams of 16	January 23, 2008 - March 26, 2008	Riviera Nayarit, Mexico	Rookies (Frank, Jillian, Johanna, Nehemiah, Rachel & Tori)
16	The Island	Individual →2 teams of 4	September 10, 2008 - October 29, 2008	Colón Island, Panama	Red Boat (Derrick, Evelyn, Kenny & Johnny)
17	The Duel II	Individual	April 8, 2009 - June 17, 2009	Queenstown, New Zealand	Evan
					Rachel
18	The Ruins	2 teams of 14	September 30, 2009 - December 23, 2009	Phuket, Thailand	Champions (Derrick, Evan, Johnny, Kenny & Susie)
19	Fresh Meat II	13 pairs of 2 (male/female)	April 7, 2010 - June 9, 2010	Whistler, British Columbia, Canada	Landon & Carley
20	Cutthroat	3 teams of 10	October 6, 2010 - December 22, 2010	Prague, Czech Republic	Red Team (Brad, Dunbar, Tori & Tyler)
21	Rivals	14 pairs of 2 (same gender)	June 22, 2011 - September 7, 2011	Dominical, Costa Rica →Buenos Aires & Bariloche, Argentina	Johnny & Tyler
					Evelyn & Paula
22	Battle of the Exes	13 pairs of 2 (12 male/female & 1 female/female)	January 25, 2012 - April 4, 2012	Sosúa, Dominican Republic →Reykjavík, Iceland	Johnny & Camila
23	Battle of the Seasons	8 teams of 4	September 19, 2012 - December 19, 2012	Bodrum, Turkey →Swakopmund, Namibia	Team San Diego (Ashley, Frank, Sam & Zach)
24	Rivals II	16 pairs of 2 (same gender)	July 10, 2013 - September 25, 2013	Phuket, Thailand	CT & Wes
					Emily & Paula
25	Free Agents	Individual Pairs Teams	April 10, 2014 - June 26, 2014	Punta del Este, Uruguay →Pucón, Chile	03  Bananas
					24  Laurel
26	Battle of the Exes II	13 pairs of 2 (male/female)	January 6, 2015 - March 24, 2015	Pedasí, Panama →Ørsta, Norway	Jordan & Sarah
27	Battle of the Bloodlines	14 pairs of 2 →2 teams of 12 →5 pairs of 2	December 2, 2015 - February 17, 2016	Bodrum, Turkey →Berlin, Germany	Cara Maria & Jamie
28	Rivals III[3]	13 pairs of 2 (male/female)	May 4, 2016 - August 3, 2016	Huatulco, Mexico → Mendoza, Argentina	Bananas & Sarah
29	Season 29 TBD		2017	Krabi, Thailand

5 Timers Club

As of Season 29
#	Cast member	Original season	Challenge seasons	Challenge seasons won	# of challenge wins	Total Money Made
14	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	RW: Key West	The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Ruins, Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, Battle of the Bloodlines, Rivals III, Season 29 TBD	The Island, The Ruins, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Free Agents, Rivals III	6	$685,543
12	Chris "CT" Tamburello	RW: Paris	The Inferno, The Inferno II, The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, Season 29 TBD	Rivals II	1	$136,500
11	Aneesa Ferreira	RW: Chicago	Battle of the Sexes, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet 2, The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Duel II, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Bloodlines		0	$23,571
10	Paula Meronek	RW: Key West	The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Duel II, Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II	Rivals, Rivals II	2	$126,000
10	Wes Bergmann	RW: Austin	Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Battle of the Exes II, Rivals III	The Duel, Rivals II	2	$248,000
9	Abram Boise	RR: South Pacific	The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Inferno 3, The Island, Cutthroat, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Bloodlines	The Inferno, The Inferno 3	2	$102,500
9	Camila Nakagawa	Spring Break Challenge	Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Bloodlines, Rivals III, Season 29 TBD	Battle of the Exes	1	$83,750
9	Cara Maria Sorbello	Fresh Meat II	Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Bloodlines, Season 29 TBD	Battle of the Bloodlines	1	$188,500
9	Derrick Kosinski	RR: X-Treme	Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Gauntlet 2, Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Island, The Ruins, Cutthroat	The Inferno 3, The Island, The Ruins	3	$176,293
9	Katie Doyle	RR: The Quest	The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet 2, Fresh Meat, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Cutthroat	The Inferno	1	$41,071
9	Robin Hibbard	RW: San Diego	Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Gauntlet 2, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Duel II, Rivals, Battle of the Exes		0	$8,571
9	Sarah Patterson	RW: Brooklyn	The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Battle of the Exes II, Rivals III	Battle of the Exes II, Rivals III	2	$173,739
8	Brad Fiorenza	RW: San Diego	Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Gauntlet 2, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Cutthroat	Cutthroat	1	$75,000
8	Diem Brown	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Battle of the Exes II		0	$55,000
8	Kenny Santucci	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Rivals	The Inferno 3, The Island, The Ruins	3	$236,293
8	Tonya Cooley	RW: Chicago	Battle of the Sexes, The Gauntlet, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, Fresh Meat, The Inferno 3, The Island, The Ruins	The Inferno 3	1	$50,000
8	Veronica Portillo	RR: Semester at Sea	Challenge 2000, Battle of the Seasons (2002), Battle of the Sexes, The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Ruins	Challenge 2000, The Gauntlet, The Inferno	3	$79,309
7	Beth Stolarczyk	RW: Los Angeles	RW/RR Challenge, Battle of the Seasons (2002), Battle of the Sexes, The Inferno II, The Gauntlet 2, The Duel, The Gauntlet III		0	$2,206
7	Darrell Taylor	RR: Campus Crawl	The Gauntlet, The Inferno, The Inferno II, Fresh Meat, The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Season 29 TBD	The Gauntlet, The Inferno, The Inferno II, Fresh Meat	4	$240,555
7	Evelyn Smith	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Rivals	The Inferno 3, The Island, Rivals	3	$167,000
7	Leroy Garrett	RW: Las Vegas (2011)	Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, Battle of the Bloodlines, Rivals III		0	$36,500
7	Rachel Robinson	RR: Campus Crawl	Battle of the Sexes, The Gauntlet, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Island, The Duel 2, Battle of the Exes	The Gauntlet, The Duel II	2	$135,555
6	Adam King	RW: Paris	Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet 2, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Rivals		0	$1,000
6	Coral Smith	RW: Back to New York	Battle of the Seasons (2002), The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, Fresh Meat, The Gauntlet III	Battle of the Seasons (2002)	1	$72,000
6	Danny Jamieson	RW: Austin	Fresh Meat, The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Ruins, Fresh Meat II, Battle of the Seasons (2012)		0	$0
6	Dunbar Flinn	RW: Sydney	The Island, The Duel II, The Ruins, Cutthroat, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II	Cutthroat	1	$40,000
6	Eric Banks	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, Cutthroat, Battle of the Seasons (2012)		0	$0
6	Evan Starkman	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Rivals	The Duel II, The Ruins	2	$151,293
6	Jenn Grijalva	RW: Denver	The Inferno 3, The Island, The Duel II, Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals		0	$20,000
6	Mark Long	RR: First Adventure	RW/RR Challenge, Battle of the Sexes, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet 2, The Duel II, Battle of the Exes	RW/RR Challenge, Battle of the Sexes	2	$80,184
6	Nany González	RW: Las Vegas (2011)	Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, Battle of the Bloodlines, Rivals III		0	$35,000
6	Theresa González	Fresh Meat II	Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II		0	$35,500
6	Tyrie Ballard	RW: Denver	The Inferno 3, The Gauntlet III, The Island, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Rivals II		0	$0
5	Brandon Nelson	Fresh Meat II	Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Free Agents		0	$0
5	Jasmine Reynaud	RW: Cancun	Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents		0	$500
5	Jonna Mannion	RW: Cancun	Rivals, Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II		0	$0
5	Julie Stoffer	RW: New Orleans	Extreme Challenge, Battle of the Sexes, The Inferno, The Inferno II, The Gauntlet 2	Extreme Challenge	1	$27,904
5	Laurel Stucky	Fresh Meat II	Fresh Meat II, Cutthroat, Rivals, Free Agents, Season 29 TBD	Free Agents	1	$201,000
5	Mike Mizanin	RW: Back to New York	Battle of the Seasons (2002), The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II	Battle of the Seasons (2002), The Inferno II	2	$104,500
5	Ryan Kehoe	Fresh Meat	Fresh Meat, The Gauntlet III, The Island, The Duel II, Fresh Meat II		0	$0
5	Syrus Yarbrough	RW: Boston	Extreme Challenge, Battle of the Sexes, The Inferno, The Gauntlet 2, The Ruins	Extreme Challenge	1	$28,333
5	Shane Landrum	RR: Campus Crawl	Battle of the Sexes, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, Fresh Meat, Season 29 TBD		0	$0
5	Tina Barta	RR: South Pacific	The Gauntlet, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, Fresh Meat, The Duel		0	$25,000
5	Zach Nichols	RW: San Diego (2011)	Battle of the Seasons (2012), Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, Season 29 TBD	Battle of the Seasons (2012)	1	$78,000
Note: Challenge names in bold indicate those that the cast member competed in the final challenge, but lost the final race.

Cast members

Every cast member who has competed on The Challenge.
Cast Member		Original Season	Seasons (W=Winner; F=Finalist)
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
	Abram Boise	RR: South Pacific								W		F				W						F
	Ace Amerson	RW: Paris														F
	Adam King	RW: Paris															F
	Adam Kuhn	AYTO? 1
	Adam Larson	RR: The Quest							W
	Adam Royer	RW: Las Vegas (2011)
	Alex Smith	RW: Denver
	Alton Williams	RW: Las Vegas (2002)							F				W			F
	Amanda Garcia	AYTO? 3
	Amaya Brecher	RW: Hawaii
	Anastasia Miller	RW: Portland
	Aneesa Ferreira	RW: Chicago											F						F
	Angel Turlington	RR: Viewers' Revenge
	Angela Trimbur	RR: X-Treme
	Anika Rashaun	RW: Seattle - Bad Blood
	Anne Wharton	RR: Northern Trail		W
	Anthony Bartolotte	AYTO? 2
	Anthony Cuomo	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Antoine de Bouverie	RR: Europe
	Arissa Hill	RW: Las Vegas (2002)									F
	Ashley Kelsey	RW: San Diego (2011)																							W
	Ashley Mitchell	RW: Ex-Plosion
	Ashli Robson	RW: Sydney
	Averey Tressler	RW: Portland
	Aviv Melmed	Fresh Meat												W
	Ayanna Mackins	RR: Semester at Sea
	Ayiiia Elizarraras	RW: Cancun
	Becky Blasband	RW: New York
	Belou Den Tex	RR: Europe
	Beth Stolarcyk	RW: Los Angeles
	Blair Herter	RR: The Quest
	Brad Fiorenza	RW: San Diego (2004)													F		F		F			W
	Brandon Nelson	Fresh Meat II
	Brandon Swift	RW: St. Thomas
	Brandon Tindel	AYTO? 2
	Briana LaCuesta	AYTO? 2
	Brianna Julig	Battle of the Bloodlines																											F
	Brianna Taylor	RW: Hollywood
	Brittany Baldassari	AYTO? 1
	Brittini Sherrod	RW: Hollywood																	F
	Brooke LaBarbera	RW: Denver
	Bruno Bettencourt	RW: Skeletons
	Cameran Eubanks	RW: San Diego (2004)
	Camila Nakagawa	Spring Break Challenge																						W		F
	Candice Fowler	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Cara Zavaleta	RR: South Pacific							W							F
	Cara Maria Sorbello	Fresh Meat II																				F	F			F			W
	Carley Johnson	Fresh Meat II																			W
	Carlos Jackson	RR: USA 1			W
	Casey Cooper	Fresh Meat												F
	Chadwick Pelletier	RR: Down Under
	Chanda Sneed	Fresh Meat
	Chet Cannon	RW: Brooklyn																							F
	Cheyenne Floyd	AYTO? 3																												F
	Chris Graebe	RR: South Pacific
	Chris Melling	RR: Europe
	Chris "CT" Tamburello	RW: Paris								F		F					F							F		W
	Christian Breivik	RR: USA 2
	Christian "CJ" Koegel	RW: Cancun
	Christina LeBlanc	AYTO? 2
	Christina Pazsitzky	RR: Down Under
	Christena Pyle	RR: South Pacific								W
	Cohutta Grindstaff	RW: Sydney
	Colie Edison	RW: Denver
	Colin Mortensen	RW: Hawaii						W
	Coral Smith	RW: Back to New York					W		F	F	F
	Cory Wharton	RW: Ex-Plosion																											F
	Cynthia Roberts	RW: Miami	W
	Dan Renzi	RW: Miami				W
	Dan Setzler	RR: Northern Trail			W		F				W
	Dan Walsh	RR: Viewers' Revenge
	Danny Dias	RR: X-Treme
	Danny Jamieson	RW: Austin
	Danny Roberts	RW: New Orleans (2000)					W
	Dario Medrano	AYTO? 2
	Darrell Taylor	RR: Campus Crawl							W	W		W		W
	Dave Giuntoli	RR: South Pacific							W
	David "Puck" Rainey	RW: San Francisco
	David Broom	RW: New Orleans (2000)
	David Burns	RW: Seattle											F
	David Edwards	RW: Los Angeles
	David Malinosky	RW: Hollywood
	Davis Mallory	RW: Denver
	Derek Chavez	RW: Cancun
	Derek McCray	RR: Viewers' Revenge
	Derrick Kosinski	RR: X-Treme										F				W		W		W
	Devin Walker-Molaghan	AYTO? 3																												F
	Devyn Simone	RW: Brooklyn																							F		F
	Diem Brown	Fresh Meat															F							F
	Dunbar Flinn	RW: Sydney																				W
	Dustin Zito	RW: Las Vegas (2011)																							F
	Elka Walker	RW: Boston					W
	Ellen Cho	RR: The Quest						F
	Emilee Fitzpatrick	RW: Cancun
	Emily Baily	RR: USA 2					F
	Emily Reese	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Emily Schromm	RW: DC																				F		F		W
	Eric Banks	Fresh Meat															F
	Eric Jones	RR: Campus Crawl
	Eric Nies	RW: New York	W								W
	Evan Starkman	Fresh Meat															F		W	W
	Evelyn Smith	Fresh Meat														W	F	W					W
	Flora Alekseyeun	RW: Miami
	Frank Roessler	RW: Las Vegas (2002)															W
	Frank Sweeney	RW: San Diego (2011)																							W	F
	Genesis Moss	RW: Boston
	Gladys Sanabria	RR: Latin America
	Hailey Chivers	RW: Ex-Plosion
	Heather Cooke	RW: Las Vegas (2011)																								F
	Heather Gardner	RW: New York
	Heather Marter	RW: Las Vegas (2011)
	Holly Brentson	RR: Maximum Velocity Tour					F
	Holly Shand	RR: Latin America			W					W
	Hunter Barfield	AYTO? 3
	Ibis Nieves	RR: X-Treme											W
	Irulan Wilson	RW: Las Vegas (2002)
	Isaac Stout	RW: Sydney
	Jacquese Smith	RW: San Diego (2004)
	Jake Bronstein	RR: Islands
	James Orlando	RR: Max Velocity Tour
	Jamie Banks	Battle of the Bloodlines																											W
	Jamie Chung	RW: San Diego (2004)										W
	Jamie Murray	RW: New Orleans (2000)				W		W					W
	Janelle Casanave	RW: Key West														W
	Janet Choi	RW: Seattle
	Jasmine Reynaud	RW: Cancun
	Jason Cornwell	RW: Boston
	Jay Gotti	RW: Ex-Plosion																										F
	JD Ordoñez	RW: Brooklyn																							F
	Jeff Barr	Fresh Meat II
	Jemmye Carroll	RW: New Orleans (2010)																								F
	Jenn Grijalva	RW: Denver																F			F	F	F
	Jenna Compono	RW: Ex-Plosion																										F	F	F
	Jeremy Blossom	RR: South Pacific
	Jesse Stark	Fresh Meat
	Jessica McCain	RW: Portland
	Jill Tuttle	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Jillian Zoboroski	RR: X-Treme															W				F
	Jisela Delgado	RR: The Quest
	Jo Rhodes	RW: San Francisco
	Jodi Weatherton	RR: X-Treme											W		W
	Johanna Botta	RW: Austin															W
	John "JJ" Jacobs	AYTO? 1
	Johnnie McBride	Fresh Meat
	Johnny Devenanzio	RW: Key West														F		W		W			W	W		F	W			W
	Johnny Reilly	RW: Portland																									F
	Jon Brennan	RW: Los Angeles	W
	Jonna Mannion	RW: Cancun
	Jordan Wiseley	RW: Portland																								F		W
	Josh Florence	RR: Latin America
	Julie Stoffer	RW: New Orleans (2000)				W							F
	Kailah Casillas	RW: Go Big Or Go Home
	Kalle Dedolph	RR: Islands		W
	Kameelah Phillips	RW: Boston				W
	Karamo Brown	RW: Philadelphia
	Kat Ogden	RW: London			W
	Katelynn Cusanelli	RW: Brooklyn
	Katie Doyle	RR: The Quest								W			F
	Kefla Hare	RR: Down Under		W
	Kelley Limp	RW: New Orleans (2000)					W
	KellyAnne Judd	RW: Sydney																		F
	Kendal Sheppard	RR: Campus Crawl								W
	Kenny Santucci	Fresh Meat												F		W	F	W		W	F		F
	Kimberly Alexander	RW: Hollywood
	Kina Dean	RR: X-Treme											W
	Lacey Buehler	RW: Austin
	Landon Lueck	RW: Philadelphia										W	W								W
	Larissa Nakagawa	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Latterian Wallace	RR: Maximum Velocity Tour
	LaToya Jackson	RW: St. Thomas
	Laura Waller	RW: St. Thomas
	Laurel Stucky	Fresh Meat II																			F	F	F				W
	Leah Gillingwater	RW: Paris
	Leroy Garrett	RW: Las Vegas (2011)																					F					F
	Lindsay Brien	RW: Seattle
	Linette Gallo	Fresh Meat
	Lori Trespicio	RW: Back to New York						F
	Luke Wolfe	Fresh Meat II																				F
	McKenzie Coburn	RW: New Orleans (2010)
	Mallory Snyder	RW: Paris
	Mandi Moyer	Fresh Meat II																					F
	Marie Roda	RW: St. Thomas
	Mark Long	RR: USA 1		W				W					F						F
	Marlon Williams	RW: Portland																								F
	Matt Smith	RW: New Orleans (2000)
	Melinda Stolp	RW: Austin
	Melissa Howard	RW: New Orleans (2000)
	Michael Ross	RW: Las Vegas (2011)																					F
	Michelle Parma	RR: Europe
	Mike Boise	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Mike Johnson	RW: London
	Mike Lambert	RW: Miami
	Mike Mizanin	RW: Back to New York					W		F	F		W
	Mitch Reid	Battle of the Bloodlines																											F
	MJ Garrett	RW: Philadelphia											W
	Montana McGlynn	RW: Boston
	Naomi Defensor	RW: Las Vegas (2011)
	Nany González	RW: Las Vegas (2011)																									F
	Nate Stodghill	RW: San Diego (2011)
	Nathan Blackburn	RW: Seattle							F
	Nathan "Nate" Siebenmark	AYTO? 2
	Nehemiah Clark	RW: Austin															W
	Neil Forrester	RW: London
	Nelson Thomas	AYTO? 3
	Nia Moore	RW: Portland
	Nick Brown	RW: Hollywood
	Nick Haggart	RR: X-Treme
	Nicole Ramos	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Nicole Zanatta	RW: Skeletons
	Noah Rickun	RR: Northern Trail		W
	Noor Jehangir	Fresh Meat II																			F
	Norman Korpi	RW: New York							F
	Paula Meronek	RW: Key West														F	F	F					W			W
	Pete Connolly	Fresh Meat II																			F
	Piggy Thomas	RR: Down Under			W
	Preston Charles	RW: New Orleans (2010)
	Priscilla Mendez	RW: San Diego (2011)
	Rachel Braband	RW: Back to New York
	Rachel Campos	RW: San Francisco	W
	Rachel Moyal	RW: Austin															W
	Rachel Robinson	RR: Campus Crawl							W			F							W
	Randy Barry	RW: San Diego (2004)											W
	Raphy Medrano	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Rebecca Lord	RW: Seattle				W
	Rianna Polin	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Robb Schreiber	RW: St. Thomas
	Robin Hibbard	RW: San Diego (2004)											F				F	F
	Roni Martin	RR: Northern Trail		W					W
	Ruthie Alcaide	RW: Hawaii						F
	Ryan Kehoe	Fresh Meat																F
	Ryan Knight	RW: New Orleans (2010)
	Sam McGinn	RW: San Diego (2011)																							W
	Sandy Kang	Fresh Meat II
	Sarah Greyson	RR: Campus Crawl							W
	Sarah Rice	RW: Brooklyn																		F		F			F			W		W
	Sean Duffy	RW: Boston	W				W
	Shane Landrum	RR: Campus Crawl
	Shane Raines	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Sharon Gitau	RW: London
	Shauvon Torres	RW: Sydney
	Shavonda Bilingslea	RW: Philadelphia
	Shawn Sealy	RR: Semester at Sea
	Simone Kelly	AYTO? 1
	Sophia Pasquis	RR: The Quest									F
	Stephen Buell	Battle of the Bloodlines
	Stephen Williams	RW: Seattle
	Steve Meinke	RR: The Quest
	Steven Hill	RW: Las Vegas (2002)
	Susie Meister	RR: Down Under											W			F				W
	Svetlana Shusterman	RW: Key West													F
	Sydney Walker	Fresh Meat II
	Sylvia Elsrode	RW: Skeletons
	Syrus Yarbrough	RW: Boston				W				F
	Tara McDaniel	RR: Northern Trail					F
	Teck Holmes	RW: Hawaii
	Theo Bradely	RW: Seattle - Bad Blood
	Theo Gantt	RW: Chicago
	Theo Vonkurnatowski	RR: Maximum Velocity Tour					F		W		W
	Theresa González	Fresh Meat II																										F
	Thomas Buell	RW: Ex-Plosion
	Timmy Beggy	RR: USA 2					F			W			F
	Tina Barta	RR: South Pacific										F		F
	Tony Raines	RW: Skeletons
	Tonya Cooley	RW: Chicago										F				W
	Tori Fiorenza	RR: Viewers' Revenge															W					W
	Trey Weatherholtz	RW: St. Thomas
	Trishelle Cannatella	RW: Las Vegas (2002)																							F
	Ty Ruff	RW: DC																						F
	Tyler Duckworth	RW: Key West																				W	W
	Tyrie Ballard	RW: Denver
	Veronica Portillo	RR: Semester at Sea			W				W	W		F
	Vince Gliatta	Battle of the Bloodlines																												F
	Vinny Foti	Fresh Meat II
	Wes Bergmann	RW: Austin												F	W								F			W
	Yes Duffy	RR: Semester at Sea			W
	Zach Mann	RW: Key West
	Zach Nichols	RW: San Diego (2011)																							W		F

Players with the most final challenge prize money

Note: This list includes players who have won a minimum of $100,000, and is updated as of Rivals III.

Place	Cast member		Original season	Challenge wins/# of Challenges	Total money made
1		Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	RW: Key West	6/13	$685,543
2		Wes Bergmann	RW: Austin	2/10	$248,000
3		Darrell Taylor	RR: Campus Crawl	4/7	$240,555
4		Kenny Santucci	Fresh Meat	3/8	$236,293
5		Laurel Stucky	Fresh Meat II	1/5	$201,000
6		Cara Maria Sorbello	Fresh Meat II	1/9	$188,500
7		Landon Lueck	RW: Philadelphia	3/4	$184,166
8		Jodi Weatherton	RR: X-Treme	2/3	$176,666
9		Derrick Kosinski	RR: X-Treme	3/9	$176,293
10		Sarah Patterson	RW: Brooklyn	2/9	$173,739
11		Evelyn Smith	Fresh Meat	3/7	$167,000
12		Evan Starkman	Fresh Meat	2/6	$151,293
13		Chris "CT" Tamburello	RW: Paris	1/12	$136,500
14		Rachel Robinson	RR: Campus Crawl	2/7	$135,555
15		Jordan Wiseley	RW: Portland	1/3	$133,000
16		Mike Mizanin	RW: Back to New York	2/5	$129,500
17		Paula Meronek	RW: Key West	2/10	$126,000
18		Aviv Melmed	Fresh Meat	1/1	$125,000
19		Jamie Banks	Battle of the Bloodlines	1/2	$125,000
20		Emily Schromm	RW: DC	1/3	$104,000
21		Abram Boise	RR: South Pacific	2/9	$102,500
22		Susie Meister	RR: Down Under	2/4	$100,173
23		Carley Johnson	Fresh Meat II	1/1	$100,000

Challenge records

Feat	Male Cast Members	Record	Female Cast Members	Record
Most Season Appearances	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	14[lower-alpha 1]	Aneesa Ferreira	11
Most Seasons Won	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	6	Evelyn Smith Veronica Portillo	3
Most Consecutive Seasons Won	Darrell Taylor	4	Jodi Weatherton Roni Martin Sarah Rice Veronica Portillo	2
Most Consecutive Seasons	Derrick Kosinski Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	6[lower-alpha 1]	Cara Maria Sorbello Sarah Rice	7
Most Seasons Between Challenges	Shane Landrum	16[lower-alpha 1]	Trishelle Cannatella	14
Longest Span of Seasons	Shane Landrum	24[lower-alpha 1]	Aneesa Ferreira	22
Multiple Wins in the Same Format	Abram Boise	Inferno/Inferno III	Paula Meronek	Rivals/Rivals II
	Darrell Taylor	Inferno/Inferno II
	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	Rivals/Rivals III
Most Seasons Before Winning	Chris "CT" Tamburello	9	Cara Maria Sorbello Paula Meronek Sarah Rice	8
Most Appearances in a Final	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	8	Paula Meronek Sarah Rice	5
Most Consecutive Appearances in a Final	Kenny Santucci	6	Coral Smith Laurel Stucky	4
Most Appearances in a Final Without Winning One	Leroy Garrett	2	Jenn Grijalva	4
Most Challenges Without Appearing in a Final	Danny Jamieson Tyrie Ballard	6	Jasmine Reynaud Jonna Mannion	5
Most Challenges Without Winning a Final	Leroy Garrett	7	Aneesa Ferreira	11
Most Seasons in Challenge History Without Being Sent Home	Dan Setzler Jamie Murray	3	Laurel Stucky Susie Meister	4
Most Elimination Wins in a Single Season	Wes Bergmann	5	Casey Cooper Sarah Greyson	5
Most Consecutive Eliminations in a Single Season	Wes Bergmann	4	Casey Cooper	4
Most Elimination Rounds in a Single Season	Derrick Kosinski Wes Bergmann	5	Casey Cooper Sarah Greyson	5
Most Elimination Wins in Challenge History	Wes Bergmann	13	Cara Maria Sorbello	11
Most Elimination Rounds in Challenge History	Wes Bergmann	19	Aneesa Ferreira Cara Maria Sorbello	15
Most Consecutive Elimination Wins in Challenge History	Wes Bergmann	8	Laurel Stucky	8
Most Challenges Without Winning an Elimination Round	Danny Jamieson Tyrie Ballard	6	Melinda Stolp	4
Most Finals Without Participating in an Elimination Round	Chris "CT" Tamburello	4	Rachel Robinson	3
Most Seasons in Challenge History Sent Home Without Formally Losing a Elimination Round	Chris "CT" Tamburello	3	Camila Nakagawa	3
Most Money Won From a Single Season	Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio	$275,000	Jodi Weatherton	$150,000
1 2 3 4 Updated as of Season 29; all other feats are updated as of Rivals III.

Locations

The Challenge has been shot in many different countries around the world, as well as some taking place in the United States.
During seasons 1, 4, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, and 28, the cast traveled between several different countries.

Rank	Location	Seasons visited
1	United States	6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9)
2	Mexico	5 (5, 8, 10, 15, 28)
3	Canada	3 (1, 4, 19)
	Thailand	3 (18, 24, 29)
5	New Zealand	2 (1, 17)
	Czech Republic	2 (4, 20)
	Panama	2 (16, 26)
	Turkey	2 (23, 27)
	Germany	2 (4, 27)
	Argentina	2 (21, 28)
11	United Kingdom	1 (4)
	Jamaica	1 (6)
	Trinidad and Tobago	1 (11)
	Australia	1 (12)
	Brazil	1 (13)
	South Africa	1 (14)
	Costa Rica	1 (21)
	Dominican Republic	1 (22)
	Iceland	1 (22)
	Namibia	1 (23)
	Uruguay	1 (25)
	Chile	1 (25)
	Norway	1 (26)

References

External links

• MTV's Official The Challenge website
• MTV.ca's Official The Challenge website
• TV.com series reference page
• TVGuide.com series reference page
• The Challenge at TV.com