Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes

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MTV Official Site In 2003, Battle of the Sexes I aired. It took place in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In this show, each mission gave points based on finish, either with a partner or alone. The top 3 from each team became the "Inner Circle" and voted off whoever they wanted to. A "lifesaver" could be given to a member of either team, with which the recipient would enjoy total immunity from being voted out, which created many interesting situations.

Host: Olympic Skier and Nagano Gold-Medal Winner Jonny Moseley.

FEMALES	MALES
Beth Stolarczyk: Real World: Los Angeles	Eric Nies: Real World: New York
Genesis Moss: Real World: Boston	David Edwards: Real World: Los Angeles
Amaya Brecher: Real World: Hawaii	David "Puck" Rainey: Real World: San Francisco
Ruthie Alcaide: Real World: Hawaii	Dan Renzi: Real World: Miami
Julie Stoffer: Real World: New Orleans	Syrus Yarbrough: Real World: Boston
Melissa Howard: Real World: New Orleans	Colin Mortensen: Real World: Hawaii
Lori Trespicio: Real World: Back to New York	David Broom: Real World: New Orleans
Aneesa Ferreira: Real World: Chicago	Jamie Murray: Real World: New Orleans
Tonya Cooley: Real World: Chicago	Theo Gantt: Real World: Chicago
Emily Bailey: Road Rules: USA Second Adventure	Mark Long: Road Rules: USA First Adventure
Anne Wharton: Road Rules: Northern Trail	Antoine de Bouverie: Road Rules: Europe
Christina Pazsitzky: Road Rules: Australia	Jake Bronstein: Road Rules: Islands
Gladys Sanabria: Road Rules: Latin America	Yes Duffy: Road Rules: Semester At Sea
Ayanna Mackins: Road Rules: Semester At Sea	James Orlando: Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour
Veronica Portillo: Road Rules: Semester At Sea	Laterrian Wallace: Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour
Ellen Cho: Road Rules: The Quest	Blair Herter: Road Rules: The Quest
Jisela Delgado: Road Rules: The Quest	Eric Jones: Road Rules: Campus Crawl
Rachel Robinson: Road Rules: Campus Crawl	Shane Landrum: Road Rules: Campus Crawl

End Result: The last remaining men were Colin, Mark and Jamie. The last remaining women were Ellen, Ruthie and Lori. The men beat the women in the final challenge.

Memorable Moments:

• Before the show even began, Puck and David Edwards, both of whom were kicked out of their house by their roommates during their respective seasons, got into a verbal squabble. This squabble ended with Puck spitting in David's face. David demanded Puck ejected, but producer Jon Murray negotiated an end to the squabble without resorting to Puck's ejection. Half of the cast rallied to keep Puck on the show, while half of the cast did not care if he went home.
• Rachel was voted off by the inner circle, and proceeded to deliver a rant in which she declared, "This game is uhg-lay, the inner circle is uhg-lay!"
• Puck and Ellen were constantly arguing during the show.
• A feud erupted between Veronica and Emily because Veronica allegedly slept with Emily's current boyfriend James while he was helping her move into her apartment.
• Emily's manipulation and lies caused both Veronica and Rachel to be voted off, which upset the women's team very much so.
• Puck married his girlfriend, Betty, and mother of his infant son, Bogart, during the show. A special episode was aired that depicted the wedding, without any challenges or eliminations. Ellen, Tonya, Melissa, and Amaya were the only remaining players who did not attend the wedding, abstaining out of protest after Ellen claimed that Puck threatened her.
• There was controversy in the final mission caused when the men completed their puzzle by observing the one the women were working on, but this was not considered cheating under the rules, and was therefore not disallowed.
• Melissa had developed a deep animosity toward her former roommate Julie over speaking arrangements that the cast performed outside the series. Melissa claimed that Julie misrepresented her services to schools and thereby prevented her from being booked. Upon arriving to the show, Melissa made it clear that they were no longer friends. This argument continued onto MTV's website for the show and their own respective websites, where each aired their side of the story.
• Puck left after trashing the residence when his wife was detained at departure from Jamaica for not having her green card. Because the teams had to be symmetrical, the previously voted off male, Dan, was put back in the game.
• David Edwards, Jake, Puck and Emily were not voted off. David left because of Puck, Jake got tired of the challenge and quit, Puck left as described above, and Emily left when James was voted off.
• In the final mission, titled "It Takes Three", the men had an early lead until they got to the second part of the challenge: a puzzle. Their difficulty with it led to the women catching up and figuring it out quickly. The men went over to the women's puzzle and took it apart piece by piece, since it was still intact and put theirs together using the portions of theirs that had already been completed. Once finished, the men caught up with the women and won by an hour.

Trivia:

• The Round Hill Hotel and Villas, the hotel where the Challenge took place is also the site of a pit stop in the seventh season of CBS's The Amazing Race.

Preceded by: Battle of the Seasons

Real World/Road Rules Challenge 2003

Succeeded by: The Gauntlet