Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II

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MTV Official Site The Gauntlet II aired in late 2005 and into 2006 with 32 contestants and took place in Trinidad and Tobago. The teams were designated Old School (Veterans) and New School (Rookies), based on the number of challenges each cast member has been on. Those on the Veterans' team had been on at least two challenges, and those on the Rookies' team have been on fewer than two challenges prior to The Gauntlet 2. For this challenge, a male and female captain were determined at the beginning of the show based on physical prowess, although one team chose to use rock-paper-scissors to decide. After each team challenge, the losing team captain would be sent to the Gauntlet, with each match alternating between male and females. Each Gauntlet participant’s team would choose an opponent.

Host: TJ Lavin, BMX Rider

VETERANS TEAM	ROOKIES TEAM
Ace Amerson: Real World 13: Paris	Adam King: Real World 13: Paris
Adam Larson: Road Rules 10: The Quest	Alton Williams: Real World 12: Las Vegas
Aneesa Ferreira: Real World 11: Chicago	Cameran Eubanks: Real World 14: San Diego
Beth Stolarcyzk: Real World 2: Los Angeles	Cara Zavaleta: Road Rules 12: South Pacific
Brad Fiorenza: Real World 14: San Diego	Danny Dias: Road Rules 13: Xtreme
David Burns: Real World 7: Seattle	Ibis Nieves: Road Rules 13: Xtreme
Derrick Kosinski: Road Rules 13: Xtreme	Jamie Murray: Real World 9: New Orleans
Jisela Delgado: Road Rules 10: The Quest	Jeremy Blossom: Road Rules 12: South Pacific
Julie Stoffer: Real World 9: New Orleans	Jo Rhodes: Real World 3: San Francisco
Katie Doyle: Road Rules 10: The Quest	Jodi Weatherton: Road Rules 13: Xtreme
Mark Long: Road Rules 1: USA First Adventure	Jillian Zoboroski: Road Rules 13: Xtreme
Montana McGlynn: Real World 6: Boston	Kina Dean: Road Rules 13: Xtreme
Robin Hibbard: Real World 14: San Diego	Landon Lueck: Real World 15: Philadelphia
Ruthie Alcaide: Real World 8: Hawaii	MJ Garrett: Real World 15: Philadelphia
Syrus Yarbrough: Real World 6: Boston	Randy Barry: Real World 14: San Diego
Timmy Beggy: Road Rules 2: USA Second Adventure	Susie Meister: Road Rules 6: Australia

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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Elimination Order

	Team which lost mission	Gender in Gauntlet	Captain of losing team	Voted to Gauntlet	Gauntlet challenge	Gauntlet Winner	Going Home
1	Rookies	Female	Jo is going home!
2	Veterans	Male	Adam	Derrick	Name That Coconut	Derrick	Adam
3	Rookies	Female	Kina	Cameran	Capture The Flag	Cameran is going home!
4	Rookies	Male	Alton	Danny	Beach Brawl	Alton	Danny
5	Veterans	Female	Ruthie	Jisela	Reverse Tug-O-War	Ruthie	Jisela
6	Rookies	Male	Alton	Adam	Capture The Flag	Alton	Adam
7	Veterans	Female	Ruthie	Beth	Reverse Tug-O-War	Beth	Ruthie
8	Veterans	Male	Derrick	Ace	Beach Brawl	Derrick	Ace
9	Veterans	Female	Beth	Montana	Reverse Tug-O-War	Beth	Montana
10	Veterans	Male	Derrick	Syrus	Beach Brawl	Derrick	Syrus
11	Rookies	Female	Kina	Cara	Name That Coconut	Kina	Cara
12	Rookies	Male	Alton	Jeremy	Capture The Flag	Alton	Jeremy
13	Veterans	Female	Beth	Aneesa	Beach Brawl	Beth is going home!
14	Veterans	Male	Derrick	Brad	Name That Coconut	Derrick	Brad
15	Rookies	Female	Kina	Jillian	Sticky Situation	Kina	Jillian
16	Veterans	Male	Derrick	Timmy	Reverse Tug-O-War	Timmy	Derrick

End Result: The remaining Veterans were Aneesa, David, Julie, Katie, Mark, Robin and Timmy. The remaining Rookies in the final mission composed of Alton, Ibis, Jamie, Jodi, Kina, Landon, MJ, Randy and Susie. The final captains were Alton, Aneesa, Kina and Timmy. The rookies won the final mission.

Gauntlets

Name That Coconut-Find the coconut with the name of the person that is the answer to a RR/RW triva question.
Beach Brawl-Wrestle your opponent out of a ring.
Capture The Flag-Climb up a 20 foot rope net to get a flag.
Reverse Tug-O-War-Opponents are tied to each other, facing away from each other. First to get their flag wins.
Sticky Situation-Stick balls to a board as your opponent tries to stop you.
Knock Off-Never done.

Other Options

Spin Again-If a Gauntlet was done 3 times, the next time there is a Gauntlet, that Gauntlet is taken off the wheel for that instance and is replaced by Spin Again.
Captain's Choice-The captain of the team going into the Gauntlet will choose which Gauntlet he or she will be doing.
Challenger's Choice-The person the team chose to fight the captain in the Gauntlet will choose which Gauntlet he or she will be doing.

Memorable Moments

Jo made her first appearance in a Challenge, her first such appearance on MTV in nearly a decade and quickly caused controversy in the first episode. She called the police to escort her out because she found being in the house with 32 cast members intolerable.
Derrick and Jo were attracted to each other before she left, and Derrick was bummed that he didn't get a chance to get to know her better.
Derrick blew up at his team for choosing a secret ballot method for voting into the Gauntlet rather than openly stating their votes.
After the Rookies lost the second challenge, Cameran chose to quit the competition instead of fighting team captain, Kina in the Gauntlet. The Veterans were outraged at this, especially after Derrick and Adam L. fought so hard in the previous Gauntlet. This led to a hilarious argument between Cara and Aneesa.
Danny exploded in anger at Jodi after the Rookie team lost a mission. (He still harbored a tremendous amount of anger at Jodi after their season of Road Rules when he was voted off; he believed that Jodi used her sexual charms unfairly to get him sent home.) Danny saw Jodi conferring with other Rookie team members talking about Danny's shortcomings in the previous mission and took offense, berating her loudly and openly. When Jodi tried to explain herself, Danny quickly turned around, slapped his buttocks and yelled "Kiss my ass, bitch!" Jodi then said "Do you know how stupid you look right now?" and told Danny that she hoped Danny got sent home. Cara then began to mock Danny, saying in a mocking voice "Good-bye, Danny." Danny responded by calling Cara a "slut" and then yelled to Jodi to "go s<bleep> another d<bleep>!" (Jodi had been linked to Mark, Adam, and Alton. There were allegations that Jodi had performed oral sex on Adam at a party that the cast threw the first night of the Challenge.) Alton, the team captain of the Rookies, chose Danny to go into the Gauntlet. Danny lost and was sent home.
Jisela volunteered to go into the Gauntlet and lost to Ruthie. Host TJ Lavin commented that Jisela pretty much quit the game.
In a Veterans team meeting Ace took fault for the failure during a mission and volunteered to go to the Gauntlet. He and Derrick went head-to-head in a wrestling beach brawl. Derrick stayed low and powered his way through Ace to keep his role at Veteran captain.
While strategizing for a mission in which a team member had to pull other team members around a track in a large rickshaw, Beth decided that she should be the one teammate who would sit out, due to her being the biggest woman on the team (both teams had to pick one person to sit out). Montana, along with several other members, believed that Beth was manipulating Ruthie so that she wouldn't have to pull the rickshaw and would get immunity from the Gauntlet. The team sided with Montana and let her sit out. Beth performed well in the mission, but the team lost. Beth was voted into the Gauntlet against Ruthie, but stunned the team by beating her at the Reverse Tug-of-War, thus becoming the new female team captain.
Jillian tells Kina that Susie and Cara approached her for an alliance with the other team, starting a rivalry between Cara and Kina.
Alton was hailed by one player as a “freak of nature” for his repeated success at physical challenges. TV Guide critic Rochell D. Thomas, commenting on Alton's ability to climb twenty feet up a cargo net in mere seconds, opined, “If Alton’s still in the game when this comes out, his teammates ought to call his mother and thank her for his winning gene pool.”
Jodi broke down and cried when she saw Mark and Robin together kissing in a club because Mark had told her that he loved her after a sexual encounter.
After losing a mission, Beth quit the Beach Brawl wrestling challenge against Aneesa, claiming it was "against her moral values," thus leading to a segue in which host TJ Lavin stated, "I thought I told you to quit a long time ago." The other cast members speculated that she was afraid of losing to Aneesa, who was praying for the Beach Brawl challenge.
Landon has now won back-to-back challenges, which are the only ones he's been on, The Inferno 2 and The Gauntlet 2.
This was Julie's first challenge she did not get voted off in.
Derrick ties Sarah for the most Gauntlets/Infernos. They both had been sent to the Gauntlet five times. (Sarah participated in the Gauntlet I and won all her Gauntlets.) In the five that Derrick was in, he beat Adam L., Ace, Syrus, Brad and lost to Timmy in the very last Gauntlet.
On the reunion show, Mark announced his retirement from the challenges. He gave his bandana to Derrick saying, "From the first Road Ruler to the last Road Ruler, I give you my bandana." Mark joins Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin, Eric Nies and Wes Bergmann as the only cast members to officially issue a "retirement" from the Challenges.
MTV mistakenly cast Jamie as a Rookie when he had previously been on two challenges.