Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons

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[edit] Season 5: Battle of the Seasons

The Battle of the Seasons premiered in early 2002. The show took place in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In each episode, the cast competed in a challenge where the top 3 teams on Real World and Road Rules would become the "Inner Circle" had the power to vote off teams. The "Inner Circle" was determined by a cumulative score that would be tallied on a leaderboard. The final six teams would compete for a final prize worth $300,000.

Hosts: Eric Nies: Real World: New York and Mark Long: Road Rules: USA First Adventure

REAL WORLD ROAD RULES
Norman Korpi/Rebecca Blasbland: Real World: New York
 Tim Beggy/Emily Bailey: Road Rules: USA Second Adventure
Jon Brennan/Beth Stolarczyk: Real World: Los Angeles
 Chris Melling/Belou Den Tex: Road Rules: Europe
Mike Johnson/Sharon Gitau: Real World: London
 Dan Setzler/Tara McDaniel: Road Rules: Northern Trail
Mike Lambert/Flora Alekseyeun: Real World: Miami
 Chadwick Pelletier/Piggy Thomas: Road Rules: Australia
Sean Duffy/Elka Walker: Real World: Boston
 Josh Florence/Holly Shand: Road Rules: Latin America
Stephen Williams/Lindsay Brien: Real World: Seattle
 Yes Duffy/Veronica Portillo: Road Rules: Semester At Sea
Danny Roberts/Kelley Wolfe: Real World: New Orleans
 Theo Vonkurnatowski/Holly Brentson: Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour
Mike Mizanin/Coral Smith: Real World: Back to New York
 Adam Larson/Jisela Delgado: Road Rules: The Quest

End Status: The last remaining Real World teams were Team Back to New York, Team New Orleans and Team Boston. The last remaining Road Rules teams were Team USA Second Adventure, Team Northern Trail and Team Maximum Velocity Tour. All the finalists, except Holly, received a portion of the prize.

Memorable moments:

  • Belou, who had brought her infant child along to live in the Challenge house, excoriated fellow Road Rulers Holly and Chadwick for questioning her competence as a mother.
  • Jisela confronting Theo, Holly, Piggy and Chadwick on their alliance in the inner circle.
  • A hurricane stopped production and the cast had to be relocated to a hotel where they threw the toga party.
  • Veronica/Yes and Jon/Beth were the first people voted off their teams.
  • Coral got into an argument with Stephen on the first day. Coral was mostly frustrated with Stephen's personality.
  • Team Real World devised a contract stipulating that the teams would be voted off according to the point system that was given to them. They followed this contract, except in the case where the team decided to vote off Stephen and Lindsay, mostly because Stephen was a big source of tension in the team.
  • The Real Worlders and Road Rulers all decided that whoever won the final challenge would split the money with the opposite team. The teams formulated contracts so each castmember would get a share of the prize money. Holly thought that this was stupid and thought that the Road Rulers were going to win, and indicated that she would not split her money with Coral. Consequently, when they lost Coral decided to keep her money and gloated over it.
  • Coral walked away with the most money.

Trivia:

  • Lori Trespicio from the Real World: Back to New York was originally intended to be Mike M's teammate. Due to travel restrictions in place from the September 11th terrorist attacks, Lori could not travel to Mexico. Coral was sent as her replacement.
  • After this season of the Challenge, a stipulation in the castmembers' contracts was put in preventing any sharing of the prize.
  • This was the first challenge that the challenge took place in one area as opposed to the way where the castmembers kept on traveling around during the last four seasons.
  • To promote this season, Playboy published a pictorial on the Girls of Real World/Road Rules (Though it was entitled Girls of MTV, only girls from this show appeared in the pictorial). The models for the nude pictorial were Veronica, Beth, Jisela and Flora.
Preceded by:
Extreme Challenge		 Real World/Road Rules Challenge
2002		 Succeeded by:
Battle of the Sexes
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