Real World/Road Rules Challenge (season)
| Real World/Road Rules Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality game show |
| Created by |
Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Presented by | David Edwards |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | November 9 – December 14, 1999 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | All Stars |
| Followed by | Challenge 2000 |
Real World/Road Rules Challenge is the 2nd season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the show's 1st season).
The season marked the first time in which "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" would be used as the show's main title (by the 19th season, however, the program would be renamed yet again simply to The Challenge). In addition, it's one of two seasons absent of a subtitle (though the other, season 3, did have the year of its production as part of its title), a trend that wouldn't truly emerge until the show's 4th season.
It is the first six-on-six Challenge in the series. The teams traveled via tour bus and RV starting in San Francisco, ending in Universal City, California, competing in different individual challenges. The winning team had the right to travel in a tour bus, while the losing team had to travel in an RV. Each time a team won an individual challenge, they won the right to spend time in a "money machine". The "money machine", set up outside Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California was a huge wind chamber that contained up to $50,000. Whatever the casts could keep on them, they were guaranteed to keep. This season also featured an additional challenge where the two teams competed over possession of a teddy bear. Whichever team had the teddy bear in their possession at an unknown, predetermined point in the challenge, would win the additional challenge.
Cast
Mr. Big: David Edwards, aka Mr. Big, from The Real World: Los Angeles
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Game progress
| Episode | Mission Outcome | ||||
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| # | Challenge | Winners | Losers | ||
| 1 | Roller Derby | Road Rules | Real World | ||
| 2 | Bed Race | Road Rules | Real World | ||
| 3 | Bungee Jump | Road Rules | Real World | ||
| 4 | Las Vegas Talent Show | Real World | Road Rules | ||
| 5 | Boot Camp | Road Rules | Real World | ||
| 6 | Handsome Reward | Road Rules | Real World | ||
| Teddy Bear Steal | Real World | Road Rules | |||
- Real World
- Road Rules
Episodes
| No. in season |
No. in series |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | "Money Changes Everything" | November 9, 1999 |
| Six cast members from The Real World and Road Rules each are brought in to compete in 6-on-6 challenges for money; Beth sustains an injury; Janet and Jason begin a flirtatious relationship. | |||
| 2 | 7 | "Bed Sores" | November 16, 1999 |
| Beth's ankle injury handicaps the Real World team; Janet and Jason continue to get closer; the Road Rules team annihilates the Real World team in the next challenge. | |||
| 3 | 8 | "Getting Drunk" | November 23, 1999 |
| Janet's fear of heights threaten the Real World team another challenge; Roni and Kefla spark their relationship more when they hit the club alone. | |||
| 4 | 9 | "The Joint is Jumping" | November 30, 1999 |
| Janet takes the leap; the Real World team is desperate for a win; Beth gets aggravated when the team pardons Montana, but excoriated Beth for not completing the mission; Montana and Noah begin a cross-team flirtatious relationship. | |||
| 5 | 10 | "Shall We Play A Game?" | December 7, 1999 |
| Montana's and Noah's flirtation causes controversy; the teams face a difficult military-based challenge. | |||
| 6 | 11 | "Handsome Reward" | December 14, 1999 |
| The final challenge for the money chamber looms; Montana gets jealous when she catches Noah talking to a playmate at the Playboy mansion; Anne hurts herself in a trampoline accident; Janet and Jason's relationship heats up, causing production to step in. The Road Rules team won the final mission, with a $39,680 bank account — $6,613 per player, while the Real World team finished with a $10,240 bank account — $1,706 for each player. The teams competed in an additional challenge called "Teddy Bear Steal" — won by the Real World team. | |||
Final results
Team Road Rules wins the "money chamber" challenge walking away with the most money. Team Real World wins the teddy bear challenge, which ended in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.