Battle of the Seasons | |
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Season 23 | |
Presented by | T. J. Lavin |
No. of contestants | 32 |
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No. of episodes | 13 (Reunion Included) |
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Original network | MTV |
Original release | September 19 – December 19, 2012 |
Season chronology |
The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons is the 23rd season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge . Although the season shares the same name as the show's fifth season, Battle of the Seasons , unlike other sequel seasons, the season is not distinguished as part "II" as it has a completely different format. The season took place in Bodrum, Turkey and Swakopmund & Windhoek, Namibia.
Former casts from select seasons of MTV's The Real World and The Challenge competed with the hopes of winning a piece of the $250,000 grand prize. [1] This is the first season since season 12 that does not include any cast members from The Real World: Key West .
The season premiered with a special 90 minutes episode on September 19, 2012, and concluded its run on December 19, 2012, with the reunion episode. [2]
During each Challenge, teams compete in order to become the Power Team, who have the ability to place one team of their decision into the Arena. The other couple going into the Arena is the last placing team of the daily Challenge. Once in the Arena, a team must decide one male-female pair to compete. The losing pair in the Arena go home, and leave their team short two players. Teams can compete with only two players, and have potential to make a greater share of the final's $250,000. [1] [2]
First place wins $250,000, second-place wins $50,000 and third-place wins $40,000. [1]
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8 teams of 4 competed in this season of The Challenge. Most teams were formed from Housemates from the same season of The Real World. In a minor twist, the Las Vegas team was composed of two Housemates each from the two Las Vegas-based seasons of The Real World. Additionally (due to the pre-production disqualification of a Real World: Sydney team [lower-alpha 2] ), an 8th team consisted solely of Fresh Meat (contestants who debuted on The Challenge) was introduced at the First Challenge.
Team Austin | Team Brooklyn | Team Cancun | Team Fresh Meat [lower-alpha 2] | Team Las Vegas | Team New Orleans | Team San Diego | Team St. Thomas |
Danny | Chet | CJ | Brandon | Alton | Jemmye | Ashley | Laura |
Lacey | Devyn | Derek | Camila | Dustin | Knight | Frank | Marie |
Melinda | JD | Jasmine | Cara Maria | Nany | McKenzie | Sam | Robb |
Wes | Sarah | Jonna | Eric | Trishelle | Preston | Zach | Trey |
There are four games in the Arena: Physical, Mental, Strategy, and Endurance. This game is selected by the Power Team after they reveal their choice to go into the Arena. However, the same game cannot be used more than once until each of the other games have been used. [1]
The first phase of the final challenge begins with players from each team parachuting from a plane to ground level on the Namibian desert. Each team then sprints through the desert to their first checkpoint, "Mind Field," in which each team has a 20-minute time limit to align nine numbers on a 3x3 grid to where each number equals 15 in each direction. After a team has correctly aligned the numbers, they can push a red button, which will detonate the designated "mine field" and enable a team to hop aboard a helicopter, which will take them over the mountains to the next checkpoint, "Rung Out." Players from each team must swing a ring roped to a hook toward a pole until one player successfully hooks the ring to the pole. If a player misses, he/she has to take a drink of warm camel milk. The next checkpoint is "Get Tired," in which each team must use multiple poles and ropes in order to carry a series of tires through the desert — for the four-player teams, it is eight tires; for the only two-player team, it is four tires. A helicopter takes each team to the last checkpoint of the first phase, "Camel Nap," in which all but one player from each team must stand within a small designated rectangle in the sand, and supervise a camel overnight in a tent, while one team member gets to sleep by a nearby campfire. A team is assessed a one-minute penalty to begin the second phase of the final challenge if one team member steps out of the rectangle for any reason while supervising the camel. The first team to arrive the "Camel Nap" checkpoint earns a 10-minute headstart, the second-place team earns a five-minute headstart, while the third-place team does not earn a headstart. The teams ride on camels throughout the second phase of the final challenge. After racing through numerous sand dunes on camelback, the first checkpoint of the second phase is "Hallucination Station," in which each team must locate words from a large chart from a distance of 15 feet in order to match an answer key needed to unlock wooden crates that each team will use at the "Sand Shift" checkpoint, in which each team must use the crates to transfer sand into their designated containers several feet away. Once the containers have been filled with sand, the final section is a camel race to the top of a sand dune, with a flag at the end, in which the first-place team wins $250,000, the second-place team wins $50,000, and the third-place team wins $40,000. [17]
Episode | Winners | Arena contestants | Arena game | Arena outcome | ||||||||||||
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# | Challenge | Last-place | Winners' pick | Last-place pair | Selected pair | Winners | Eliminated | |||||||||
1 | Don't Cross Me | Team Cancun | Team Fresh Meat | Team Austin | Cara Maria & Eric | Lacey & Wes | Hall Brawl | Cara Maria & Eric | Lacey & Wes | |||||||
2 | Oil Change | Team San Diego | Team Austin | Team Fresh Meat | Danny & Melinda | Camila & Eric [lower-alpha 3] | Balls Out | Camila & Eric | Danny & Melinda | |||||||
3 | Hook, Line & Sinker | Team Las Vegas | Team Fresh Meat | Team Brooklyn | Brandon & Cara Maria [lower-alpha 3] | Chet & Sarah | Knot So Fast | Chet & Sarah | Brandon & Cara Maria | |||||||
4/5 | Don't Weigh Me Down | Team Cancun | Team Brooklyn | Team Fresh Meat | Devyn & JD [lower-alpha 1] | Camila & Eric | Water Torture | Devyn & JD | Camila & Eric [lower-alpha 1] | |||||||
5 | Chairman of the Board | Team San Diego | Team New Orleans | Team Brooklyn | McKenzie & Preston | Chet & Sarah | Balls Out | Chet & Sarah | McKenzie & Preston | |||||||
6 | Insane Games | Team New Orleans | Team St. Thomas | Team Las Vegas | Laura & Trey | Dustin & Nany | Knot So Fast | Dustin & Nany | Laura & Trey | |||||||
7 | Logged Out | Team Brooklyn | Team New Orleans | Team San Diego | Jemmye & Knight | Sam & Zach [lower-alpha 3] | Water Torture | Sam & Zach | Jemmye & Knight | |||||||
8 | Hunger Games | Team Brooklyn | Team San Diego | Team Cancun | Sam & Zach | CJ & Jasmine | Hall Brawl | Sam & Zach | CJ & Jasmine | |||||||
9 | Abandon Ship | Team San Diego | Team St. Thomas | Team Las Vegas | Marie & Robb | Alton & Nany | Balls Out | Marie & Robb | Alton & Nany | |||||||
10 | Force Field | Team San Diego | Team Las Vegas | Team St. Thomas | Dustin & Trishelle | Marie & Robb | Water Torture | Dustin & Trishelle | Marie & Robb | |||||||
11 | Sling Shot | Team Las Vegas | Team Cancun | Team San Diego | Derek & Jonna | Ashley & Frank | Knot So Fast | Ashley & Frank | Derek & Jonna | |||||||
12 | Final Challenge | Team San Diego | 2nd place: Team Las Vegas; 3rd place: Team Brooklyn |
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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281 | 1 | "Tis the Season" | September 19, 2012 | 1.15 |
282 | 2 | "The Perks of Being a Rookie" | September 26, 2012 | 1.23 |
283 | 3 | "What Happens in Vegas..." | October 3, 2012 | 1.11 |
284 | 4 | "The Dark Knight" | October 10, 2012 | 1.06 |
285 | 5 | "N-A-R-C-I-S-S-I-S-T-I-C" | October 17, 2012 | 0.91 |
286 | 6 | "Going Insane" | October 24, 2012 | 1.16 |
287 | 7 | "I Do Not Like You Sam I Am" | November 7, 2012 | 1.10 |
288 | 8 | "Honey, I'm Homeless" | November 14, 2012 | 1.07 |
289 | 9 | "The Chronicles of Nanyia" | November 28, 2012 | 1.34 [18] |
290 | 10 | "A Woman Scorned" | December 5, 2012 | 0.98 [19] |
291 | 11 | "I Like to Move it, Move it" | December 12, 2012 | 0.96 [20] |
292 | 12 | "Operation Desert Scorn" | December 19, 2012 | 1.01 [21] |
The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons Reunion was aired on December 19, 2012, after the season finale. The episode featured Jonny Moseley, one of previous sporadic presenters of the series, who had not previously appeared on The Challenge since its 9th season. The cast members who attended the reunion were: Ashley, Frank, Sam, Zach, Alton, Dustin, Nany, Trishelle, Chet, Devyn, JD, Sarah, Derek, Jonna, Marie & Robb. [22]
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