Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno

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MTV Official Site The Inferno aired in 2004, composed of twenty cast members and took place in Acapulco, Mexico. In this challenge, the winning teams would receive a prize at the end of each mission. They would then nominate two players from their team to the Inferno elimination challenge. Unlike on the Gauntlet, there would be another challenge with an immunity life-saver up for grabs before the Inferno. Each team then got to select one out of the two nominees from the opposing team into the Inferno.

Host: Dave Mirra, BMX Rider

REAL WORLD	ROAD RULES
Ace Amerson: Real World 13: Paris	Abram Boise: Road Rules 12: South Pacific
Coral Smith: Real World 10: Back to New York	Christena Pyle: Road Rules 12: South Pacific*
Chris "CT" Tamburello: Real World 13: Paris	Darrell Taylor: Road Rules 11: Campus Crawl
David Burns: Real World 7: Seattle	Holly Shand: Road Rules 7: Latin America
Julie Stoffer: Real World 9: New Orleans	Jeremy Blossom: Road Rules 12: South Pacific
Leah Gillingwater: Real World 13: Paris	Katie Doyle: Road Rules 10: The Quest
Mallory Snyder: Real World 13: Paris	Kendal Sheppard: Road Rules 11: Campus Crawl
Mike Mizanin: Real World 10: Back to New York	Shane Landrum: Road Rules 11: Campus Crawl
Syrus Yarborough: Real World 6: Boston	Tim Beggy: Road Rules 2: USA Second Adventure
Trishelle Cannatella: Real World 12: Las Vegas	Veronica Portillo: Road Rules 8: Semester at Sea

Piggy arrived to compete in the Inferno and can be seen in both footage and photos from the cast's arrival. Soon after arriving, she left to go home and was consequently never mentioned. Christena was flown in to replace her. The title credits reflect this, as they were filmed when Piggy was there and Christena's scenes were shot later. The official reason for her departure has been cited as "family reasons".

End Result: The final team Real World consisted of Coral, CT, Mike and Syrus. The final team Road Rules consisted of Abram, Christena, Darrell, Holly, Katie, Kendal, Tim and Veronica. The Road Rules team ended up winning the final mission.

Memorable Moments:

Katie went into two Infernos and won both.
Katie had a huge fight with Veronica, in which Katie called Veronica a "bitch" and a "short, ugly, acne-faced SLUT!!!" In an aside moment, Katie said about Veronica "Go sleep with some more castmembers, whore!"
During a challenge in which competitors were suspended high atop two skyscrapers, Julie tried to pull Veronica off the rig to disqualify her while they were 150 feet above the ground, Veronica later freaked out claiming Julie was trying to undo her harness. Julie's technique trying to knock Veronica off was a legal move in the challenge.
During a fight with Coral, Julie challenged her to a wrestling match and Coral dismissed her, saying, “I don’t wrestle. I f<bleep>ing beat bitches up!”
CT and David knew each other before their appearance on the Real World. David even coached CT before going in for his final interviews.
CT used his life-saver to save his friend David, then sent Shane home in the Inferno.
This season marked the beginning of the tactic of "throwing the mission" in which the Road Rules team would sabotage their own performance in order ensure that the life-shield would go to their hand-picked recipient, and perfect teammate Katie would go into the Inferno.
- The first time it worked, sending Katie into the Inferno, though Katie beat Julie.
- The second time the team used the tactic, they failed to tell team member Kendal, who ended up winning the life-saver. Wracked with guilt, Kendal threw herself into the Inferno so that stronger male Timmy would not have to risk himself. Her then-boyfriend Mike was so angry by her own team's manipulation and use of her guilt that during the Inferno, he drunkenly shouted profanities and insults. At the same time, the Real World team had used the Road Rules tactic and threw teammate Leah into the Inferno. CT, the proponent of the plan, was arguing with Leah during the Inferno as well, as if to break her concentration. In the end, Kendal won.
- The last Inferno, which was the last time this tactic was used, resulted in a tie, leading to a sudden death match, which Katie again won.
Leah had to be taken to a hospital because she hyperventilated during a mission.
Coral was automatically chosen to compete in the last Inferno because she was the only woman on the Real World team left. Coral, in typical "bitch" fashion, proceeded to complain that she wasn't given special treatment on whom she would go up against in the Inferno, even though she was merciless towards Julie for precisely the same reason. And then, also in typical "bitch" fashion, she cried and threatened to "get" the other members of her team. She ended up winning the life-saver and sending David in, who lost to Katie.
David and Katie ended up dating after this show.