Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons

Battle of the Seasons
Genre	Reality TV – competition
Created by	Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray
Presented by	Mark Long Eric Nies
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	17
Production
Location(s)	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Running time	22 minutes approx. 44 minutes (reunion)
Production company(s)	Bunim/Murray Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Picture format	4:3
Original run	January 28, 2002 (2002-01-28)[1] – May 27, 2002 (2002-05-27)
Chronology
Preceded by	Extreme Challenge
Followed by	Battle of the Sexes

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

Contents 1 Format 2 Cast 3 Elimination order 4 Game Progress 5 Scoreboard by episode 6 Final results 7 Memorable moments 8 References 9 External links

Format

This season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge features a new format. Separated into teams of Real World and Road Rules, each cast member is paired off with a cast mate from their original season. Each mission gave points based on finish. After each mission, the players with the most points cumulative from each team became the "Inner Circle" and voted off whichever pair they wanted. The individual winning pair of each challenge would earn an "additional prize." After five pairs from each team were voted off, the final three Real World teams and final three Road Rules teams would compete against each other in a series of challenges before the final race, which would earn the winning teams $300,000 for themselves, $50,000 per teammate.

Cast

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

Real World team Team Woman Men New York Becky Blasband Norman Korpi Los Angeles Beth Stolarczyk Jon Brennan London Sharon Gitau Mike Johnson Miami Flora Alekseyeun Mike Lambert Boston Elka Walker Sean Duffy Seattle Lindsay Brien Stephen Williams IV New Orleans Kelley Limp Danny Roberts Back to New York Coral Smith Mike Mizanin

Road Rules team Team Women Men USA Second Adventure Emily Bailey Timmy Beggy Europe Belou Den Tex Chris Melling Northern Trail Tara McDaniel Dan Setzler Down Under Piggy Thomas Chadwick Pelletier Latin America Holly Shand Josh Florence Semester At Sea Veronica Portillo Yes Duffy Maximum Velocity Tour Holly Brentson Theo Vonkurnatowski The Quest Jisela Delgado Adam Larson

Elimination order

Real World

1. Los Angeles
2. London
3. Seattle
4. Miami
5. New York

Road Rules

1. Semester At Sea
2. Down Under
3. Europe
4. The Quest
5. Latin America

Game Progress

Episode		Winners			Inner Circle						Voted Off
#	Challenge	Team		Prize Winners	Real World			Road Rules			Real World	Road Rules
1	Hang Man		Road Rules	Theo/Holly B.	Mike M./Coral	Danny/Kelley	Norman/Becky	Theo/Holly B.	Chadwick/Piggy	Timmy/Emily	Jon/Beth	Yes/Veronica
3	Musical Inner-Tube Tango		Real World	Stephen/Lindsay		Sean/Elka	Stephen/Lindsay		Dan/Tara		Mike J./Sharon	Chadwick/Piggy
5	Vertical Limit		Real World	Danny/Kelley			Danny/Kelley				Stephen/Lindsay	Chris/Belou
6	Slam Dunk		Road Rules	Theo/Holly B.							Mike L./Flora	Adam/Jisela
8	Ladder of Doom		Road Rules	Theo/Holly B.							Norman/Becky	Josh/Holly S.
10	Round 'Em Up		Real World	Sean/Elka
11	Rush Hour		Real World	Sean/Elka
12	Hands on Saturn		Road Rules	Dan/Tara
13	Sidekick Showdown		Real World	Mike M./Coral
14	Block Head		Road Rules	Timmy/Emily
15	Siamese Wrestling		Road Rules	Timmy/Emily
16	Handsome Reward		Real World	Final Rankings    Real World: Sean/Elka 1st, Mike M./Coral 2nd, Danny/Kelley 3rd    Road Rules: Theo/Holly B. 1st, Dan/Tara 2nd, Timmy/Emily 3rd

Scoreboard by episode

Teams		Episodes
		1	4	6		8	9	10*	11	13*	14	15	16
	Sean/Elka	10	29	44	55	74	94		114		169	186	WIN
	Mike M./Coral	16	25	43	54	71	87		104		158	174	WIN
	Danny/Kelley	14	23	43	54	70	89		107		154	172	WIN
	Theo/Holly B.	20	34	53	73	93	108		127		178	194	LOSE
	Dan/Tara	15	31	46	57	70	87		103		157	176	LOSE
	Timmy/Emily	18	33	50	61	75	93	93	102		148	168	LOSE
	Norman/Becky	13	23	38	49	64
	Josh/Holly S.	12	25	38	49	68
	Mike L./Flora	6	24	34	45
	Adam/Jisela	11	20	32	43
	Stephen/Lindsay	9	29	41
	Chris/Belou	7	19	29
	Mike J./Sharon	5	21
	Chadwick/Piggy	19	26
	Jon/Beth	8
	Yes/Veronica	17

Teams

     The team is on the Real World team.

     The team is on the Road Rules team.

Competition

Bold indicates the Inner Circle

     The team won the final challenge.

     The team did not win the final challenge.

     The team came in first in the mission and won a prize.

     The team was eliminated by the Inner Circle.

• In episodes 10 and 13, the points were not displayed. However, since Timmy and Emily were disqualified from the mission in episode 10, their score remains unchanged from the previous mission.

Final results

The final teams for Real World were Boston, Back to New York, and New Orleans. The final Road Rules teams were Maximum Velocity Tour, USA Second Adventure, and Northern Trail. Real World ended up winning, but due to a pact that all the finalists made, Coral was the only one to receive her entire cash prize of $50,000.

Memorable moments

• Belou was judged for bringing her infant child along to live in the Challenge household, who in turn, excoriated her fellow Road Rulers for questioning her competence as a mother.
• Jisela confronted Theo, Holly B., 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. Many events had to be thrown together due to the logistical turmoil brought by the storm.
• Veronica & Yes and Beth & Jon were the first people voted off their teams. The former team was voted off because the Inner Circle had decided to knock out stronger teams, while the latter team was out because everyone wanted to get rid of Beth.
• Emily got into a confrontation with Chadwick, Holly B. & Piggy after she had told the other teams about the Inner Circle's alliance. While being confronted by Jisela, Chadwick denied all claims of an alliance and called Emily a liar. Even after being voted off, Chadwick sent Emily a nasty e-mail, blaming her for manipulating the game and having him sent home.
• Although Holly B. and Chadwick had been advocates of the plan to vote off strong teams, when Chadwick and Piggy finished outside the Inner Circle, Holly suddenly decided that they should vote off the weakest team instead of the one that Chadwick (her husband) was on. The rest of the Inner Circle didn't like the hypocrisy and did end up voting out Chadwick and Piggy.
• Coral got into an argument with Stephen on the first day.
• 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 Lindsay & Stephen, mostly because Stephen was driving everyone crazy with his hectoring personality.
• Hookups during the challenge included: Mike M. and Tara, Timmy and Holly, and Theo and Coral.
• The Real World teams and Road Rules teams all decided that whoever won the final challenge would split the money with the opposite team. The teams formulated contracts so each cast member would get a share of the prize money. Holly B. thought that this was stupid and thought that the Road Rules team was 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.
• This challenge would mark the last challenge that Real World ever won the final reward challenge and prizes.
• This challenge also marked the end of the six versus six challenge theme.
• Lori from Back to New York was Mike's original team mate but she dropped out at the last minute and was replaced by Coral. According to Mike's appearance on Bill Simmons' B.S. Report podcast, Lori dropped out due to fear of flying following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

References

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived November 18, 2006)
• MTV's official Road Rules Website
• MTV's official Real World Website

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