The Challenge: World Championship: Difference between revisions

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Reality competition series

TV series or program

The Challenge: World Championship is a spin-off of the reality competition series The Challenge. The series features notable veterans from the MTV flagship series competing alongside the winners and select contestants from four spin-off seasons: The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío, The Challenge: Australia, The Challenge: USA and The Challenge UK.^[2]

The series is hosted by the hosts of the four spin-off seasons: Brihony Dawson, Mark Wright, Marley and T.J. Lavin, and premiered on Paramount+ on 8 March 2023.^[3]^[4]

Background[edit]

In February 2022, a new series of international seasons of The Challenge was announced to air later in the year. The series comprises four new editions of The Challenge, which includes The Challenge: USA, The Challenge: Australia, The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío and The Challenge UK.^[5] These local renditions are followed by The Challenge: World Championship in which winners and select contestants of each series (known as “Global MVPs”) compete again alongside cast members from the flagship MTV series (known as “Challenge legends”).^[4]

In addition to the title of The Challenge: World Championship champions, the winners of the season also receive US$500,000 (also displayed as ARG$89,475,607, A$726,638 and GBP£413,390).^[6]

Contestants[edit]

^ ^a ^b In episode 8, Ben was medically removed from the competition due to illness. Kaycee was initially disqualified as a result of being Ben’s partner. However, after this announcement, Amber withdrew from the competition due to illness (later learning that she was pregnant) and offered to swap places with Kaycee. Therefore, Kaycee and Troy (Amber’s partner) formed a new team ahead of the “Ripcord Roulette” challenge.^[9]
^ ^a ^b Grant was medically disqualified from the competition after suffering a knee injury during the “Rocketman” challenge; Jonna was disqualified as a result of being Grant’s partner.
^ At the episode 1 nominations, it was announced Nathan was medically disqualified from the competition; his departure was not shown on screen. As a result of uneven numbers, the “Pole Wrestle” elimination was played as a female elimination round.

Draft selections[edit]

After the first elimination, each Global MVP drafted their partner for the season from the Challenge Legends in the order they finished the “Qualifier” challenge.

Pick #	Global MVP	Challenge Legend	Team
1	Grant Crapp	Jonna Stephens	Grant & Jonna
2	Zara Zoffany	Wes Bergmann	Wes & Zara
3	Ben Driebergen	Kaycee Clark	Ben & Kaycee
4	Kaz Crossley	Jordan Wiseley	Jordan & Kaz
5	Danny McCray	Tori Deal	Danny & Tori
6	Justine Ndiba	Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio	Bananas & Justine
7	Benjamin “Benja” Alfonso	Jodi Weatherton	Benja & Jodi
8	Kiki Morris	Darrell Taylor	Darrell & Kiki
9	Rodrigo “Rodri” Cascón	Nia Moore	Nia & Rodrigo
10	Emily Seebohm	Yes Duffy	Emily & Yes
11	Troy Cullen	Amber Borzotra	Amber & Troy
12	Sarah Lacina	Theo Campbell	Sarah & Theo
13	Tristan Phipps	KellyAnne Judd	KellyAnne & Tristan
14	Sofia “Jujuy” Jiménez	Nelson Thomas	Jujuy & Nelson

Each pair was also given team names of Team Argentina, Team Australia, Team UK or Team USA based on the nationality of the Global MVP:

Team Argentina

Team Australia

Team UK

Team USA

World Championship consists of a daily challenge, nomination process, winner’s selection and an elimination round. The first episode had only the “MVPs” (contestants from the spin-off seasons) competing individually. After the first elimination, each MVP picked their “Legend” partner (players from the flagship series) based on the order they completed the “Qualifier” challenge. The individual and paired format of the game is as follows:

Daily Challenge: Teams compete in a daily challenge where the last-place team is automatically sent to the elimination round. The winning team is immune and earns the ability to select a second team to compete in the elimination round between the two teams later selected at nominations.
Nominations: Teams, besides the winners and losers of the daily challenge, vote for two teams to compete in the elimination round. The two teams that receive the most votes are nominated for elimination.
Eliminations (“The Arena”): At the…

[AmberBen-10] In episode 8, Ben was medically removed from the competition due to illness. Kaycee was initially disqualified as a result of being Ben’s partner. However, after this announcement, Amber withdrew from the competition due to illness (later learning that she was pregnant) and offered to swap places with Kaycee. Therefore, Kaycee and Troy (Amber’s partner) formed a new team ahead of the “Ripcord Roulette” challenge.^[9]

[GrantJonna-11] Grant was medically disqualified from the competition after suffering a knee injury during the “Rocketman” challenge; Jonna was disqualified as a result of being Grant’s partner.

[Nathan-12] At the episode 1 nominations, it was announced Nathan was medically disqualified from the competition; his departure was not shown on screen. As a result of uneven numbers, the “Pole Wrestle” elimination was played as a female elimination round.

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