Reno Rumble (season 1)

Reno Rumble (season 1)
Country of origin	Australia
No. of episodes	27
Release
Original network	Nine Network
Original release	5 May – 22 June 2015
Season chronology

Reno Rumble is the first season of Australian reality television series Reno Rumble, it aired on the Nine Network. Season one had former contestants from The Block on the Nine Network against former contestants from House Rules on the Seven Network. It was hosted by Scott Cam and judged by Darren Palmer and Romy Alwill. It premiered on May 5, 2015.^[1] The season was won by Ayden & Jess Hogan who received $100,000 with half to charity & a Mazda CX-5.^[2]

Format

Each week each individual team within The Redbacks (The Block) and The Bluetongues (House Rules) are allocated two rooms to deliver, first room is delivered within the first 48 hours, the highest scored individual team will receive immunity from elimination. The teams will then work on their second room the rest of the week, the team with the highest score are safe from elimination, the individual team with the lowest score in the losing team are eliminated.

Contestants

Nine has announced the 8 teams from The Block & House Rules who will compete on Reno Rumble.^[3]

Elimination history

Weekly Results

     The team was on the losing team.

     The team was the winning team

     The team had immunity

     The team was eliminated.

     The team were eliminated as team captains

     Series winner

     Series runner up

Results

Week 1

• Episodes 1 to 5
• Airdate — 5 to 11 May 2015
• Location — Mill Park, VIC

The week is split in two, The first 48 hours of renovation is to renovate their first room and the individual team with the highest score will receive immunity from elimination.

The rest of the week is to renovate the second room, the whole team (red or blue) with the highest score are the weeks winning team and avoid elimination, the lowest scoring individual team in the losing team will be eliminated.

Colour key:

     – Immunity

     – Eliminated

     – Eliminated as Team Captains

     – Winning Team

     – Losing Team

Week 2

• Episodes 6 to 9
• Airdate — 12 to 17 May 2015
• Location — Northcote, VIC

The redbacks had to add a team space to be judged for first room to make up points due to the eliminated team.

Week 3

• Episodes 10 to 13
• Airdate — 18 to 24 May 2015
• Location — Hampton, VIC

Week 4

• Episodes 14 to 16
• Airdate — 25 to 31 May 2015
• Location — Yarraville, VIC

This week, a team member from each side were swapped. Ayden and Jess joined bluetongues and Ben and Jemma joined redbacks

Week 5 (Semi-Finals Week)

• Episodes 17 to 20
• Airdate — 1 to 7 June 2015
• Location — Kingsville, VIC

Due to Ben & Jemma's (Bluetongue) elimination, Carly and Leighton, the last bluetongue team, will have Ayden & Jess stay on as a Bluetongue team. There were no team captains as each couple on each team worked as one. This week has a double elimination & no immunity but an extra $10,000 for their reno. First rooms tied scores and both received $5,000 extra.

Week 6 (Grand Final Week)

• Episodes 21 to 27
• Airdate — 8 to 22 June 2015
• Location — Seddon, VIC

For the second rooms, each team got to receive a helping hand from an eliminated team, bluetongues chose Jemma and Ben and redbacks choose Kyal and Kara.

Ratings

Colour key:

     – Highest rating during the series

     – Lowest rating during the series

     – An elimination was held in this episode

     – Finals week

Notes

• ^a Preliminary ratings – viewers and nightly position.
• ^b Includes Team Space points
• ^c Redback team were swapped to Bluetongues team
• ^d Bluetongue team were swapped to Redbacks team

References