The Challenge

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"Ketchup is legitimately my biggest fear."
-- Jemmye, Rivals II

Remember when this show used to be called Real World/Road Rules Challenge?  Since this reality competition began in 1998, there have been over 1,000 contestants across those shows plus Big Brother, Survivor, Amazing Race, Love Island, Are You the One? and more. 

I think host TJ Lavin delights in watching these competitors suffer, and I delight in watching him mock the quitters. 

Each season has a mix of veterans, rookies and double-crossers facing off in an exotic location for big bucks. The challenges look impossible and disgusting, but my fave is when everyone is suspended in the air answering trivia questions.  Hilarious and proof that brains AND brawn is a rare combination.  The best players have big personalities, are challenge beasts, and are probably busy drinking (or smooching) when they aren't out killing each other.

Here are the best of the badasses...

MY dirty (two) dozen

ALTON
from RW Las Vegas
4 Challenges / 3 finals / 1 win

ANEESA
from RW Chicago
13 Challenges / 2 finals

CHET
from RW Brooklyn
4 Challenges / 1 final

COHUTTA
from RW Sydney
4 Challenges / 0 finals

CORY
from RW Ex-plosion
5 Challenges / 2 finals

CT
from RW Paris
14 Challenges / 7 finals / 2 wins

DANNY
from RW Austin
6 Challenges / 0 finals

DEVIN
from AYTO Season 3
2 Challenges / 1 final

DEVYN
from RW Brooklyn
2 Challenges / 2 finals

DIEM
from C Fresh Meat
8 Challenges / 2 finals

JENNA
from RW Ex-plosion
6 Challenges / 3 finals

JOHNNY BANANAS
from RW Key West
16 Challenges / 8 finals / 6 wins

LANDON
from RW Philadelphia
4 Challenges / 3 finals / 3 wins

LEROY
from RW Las Vegas (2011)
8 Challenges / 2 finals

NANY
from RW Las Vegas (2011)
6 Challenges / 2 finals

NICOLE
from RW Skeletons
1 Challenge / 1 final

THOMAS
from RW Ex-plosion
3 Challenges / 0 finals

TORI
from AYTO Season 4
1 Challenge / 1 final

TRISHELLE
from RW Las Vegas (2002)
4 Challenges / 1 final

WES
from RW Austin
11 Challenges / 4 finals / 2 wins

ZACH
from RW San Diego (2011)
6 Challenges / 2 finals / 1 win

FESSY

KYLE

BIG T

Note: AYTO = Are You The One?, C = Challenge, RR = Road Rules, RW = Real World, BB = Big Brother

tags: mtv, reality