Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno
Genre	Reality TV - Competition
Created by	Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray
Starring	Dave Mirra (Host)
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	19
Production
Location(s)	Acapulco, Mexico
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Original run	February 2, 2004 – May 31, 2004
Chronology
Preceded by	The Gauntlet
Followed by	Battle of the Sexes 2
External links
Website

The Inferno is the eighth season of Real World/Road Rules Challenge. It aired in 2004 on MTV, 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 selected one of the two nominees from the opposing team to go into the Inferno.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Game summary 3 Infernos 4 Final results 5 Memorable moments 6 External links

Cast

Host: Dave Mirra

Real World team Player Original season Ace Amerson Paris Coral Smith Back to New York Chris "CT" Tamburello Paris David Burns Seattle Julie Stoffer New Orleans Leah Gillingwater Paris Mallory Snyder Paris Mike Mizanin Back to New York Syrus Yarbrough Boston Trishelle Cannatella Las Vegas

Road Rules team Player Original season Abram Boise South Pacific Christena Pyle South Pacific Darrell Taylor Campus Crawl Holly Shand Latin America Jeremy Blossom South Pacific Katie Doyle The Quest Kendal Sheppard Campus Crawl Shane Landrum Campus Crawl Timmy Beggy USA - The Second Adventure Veronica Portillo Semester at Sea

Game summary

Episode		Challenge Winner		Selections For The Inferno		Aztec Life Saver Winners		Inferno Outcome
#	Challenge			Real World	Road Rules	Real World	Road Rules	Winner		Loser
1	Grope the Rope		Road Rules	Ace/Syrus	Jeremy/Timmy
2	Bird Feeder		Real World	Syrus	Jeremy	Syrus	Darrell		Jeremy		Ace
3	Wreck N' Roll		Road Rules	Leah/Trishelle	Holly/Katie
4	Climbing Wall		Road Rules	Trishelle	Holly	CT	Timmy		Holly		Trishelle
5	Disco Domino Derby		Real World	David/Mike	Abram/Jeremy
6	Balls Out		Real World	Mike	Jeremy	CT	Veronica		Mike		Jeremy
7	Ultimate Saturn Road Trip		Road Rules	Coral/Mallory	Christena/Katie
8	Don't Yank My Chain		Road Rules	Mallory	Christena	Mike	Veronica		Christena		Mallory
9	Come Sail Away		Road Rules	CT/David	Abram/Shane
10	Bungee Bound		Road Rules	David	Shane	CT	Holly		CT		Shane
11	Twist And Shoot		Road Rules	Julie/Leah	Katie/Veronica
12	Balcony Swing		Real World	Julie	Veronica	CT	Veronica		Katie		Julie
13	Fallen Angels		Road Rules	David/Syrus	Darrell/Timmy
14	Saturn Valet Ballet		Road Rules	David	Timmy	David	Kendal		Kendal		Leah
15	Window Washing		Road Rules	Coral	Veronica	Coral	Veronica		Katie		David
16	Final Burn		Road Rules

     Real World won the challenge.

     Road Rules won the challenge.

     The contestant won the Life Saver and saved themselves.

     The contestant was placed in the Inferno by the Life Saver winner.

     The contestant won the Life Saver and put themselves in the Inferno.

     The contestant was saved by another contestant with a Life Saver.

Infernos

• Ace and Jeremy: Bug Helmet
  The contestants put their heads into glass boxes filled with hundreds of cockroaches with syrup covering their face. The player who stays in their box the longest wins.

• Holly and Trishelle: Chili Counter
  The player who eats the most chili's in a one hour sitting wins.

• Jeremy and Mike: Human Candelabra
  The two players have a candle in each hand while holding their arm's out straight, the player who holds that position the longest wins.

• Christena and Mallory: Noise Pollution
  Each player must wear a set of headphones while standing on a two-foot high platform for two hours. If there is a tie, then the players must stand on a four inch block with one leg, the last person standing wins.

• CT and Shane: Don't Toss Your Cookies
  The players must eat cookies and drink milk, then get onto a spinning platform for 10 minutes, they continue this until one of the players vomits. The player who does not vomit wins the Inferno.

• Julie and Katie: Scratchathon
  Each player is covered in itching powder and must walk on a treadmill for three hours, whoever outlasts there opponent wins. In the event of a tie, each contestant must jump rope, whoever jump ropes the longest wins the Inferno.

• Kendal and Leah: Brick by Brick
  The players must transfer their bricks one at a time from one pile to the next, while walking across a plank. Players are disqualified if they drop a brick, break one, or fall off the plank. Whoever has transferred the most bricks at the end of three and a half hours wins.

• David and Katie: Smell You Later
  The contestants are each placed into their own plexiglass coffins, after every half hour for the first hour and a half, another layer of bad smelling substances are added to the coffins. At the end of four hours, if both players are still in their coffins, each player must hold their breath in the water, whoever holds it the longest wins the Inferno.

Final results

• The final Real World team consisted of Coral, CT, Mike, and Syrus.
• The final Road Rules team consisted of Abram, Christena, Darrell, Holly, Katie, Kendal, Timmy and Veronica.
• The Road Rules team won the final challenge.

Bank Accounts

• Real World - $40,000
  • $10,000 each
• Road Rules - $260,000
  • $32,500 each

Memorable moments

• Piggy from Road Rules: Down Under 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".
• Katie went into two Infernos and won both, eliminating a male player (David) in the process. She crowned herself "Inferno Queen".
• CT used his life-saver to save his friend David, then sent Shane home in the Inferno.
• Leah had to be taken to a hospital because she hyperventilated during a challenge.
• The Road Rules team won every female Inferno and all five females made it to the final.
• A feud broke out between Katie and Veronica, and there was tension between the two throughout the entire show. The rivalry culminated in a very heated shouting match the night before the final mission, and the two almost came to blows.
• Being fed up with what she perceived as bullying, Julie lashed out at Coral and challenged her to a wrestling match, to which Coral remarked, "I don't wrestle, I f*cking beat bitches up!"
• During the Kendal and Leah Inferno, Mike openly berated Kendal, sparking an argument between Katie and Veronica. CT then denounced Leah as weak, and David jumped in the Inferno nude.
• The first mission had the challengers on a zipline. In an attempt to secure a Real World win, Julie began to yank on Veronica's safety harness, sending Veronica and the rest of the challengers into a panic.
• After Trishelle claimed she would physically assault them in a jealous tirade, Coral and Mike voted her into the Inferno, which would result in an argument between Coral and Trishelle later that night.
• Coral became infuriated with her team when they forced her to pick Veronica for the final Inferno.
• The "Bird Feeder" mission saw challengers dress up in chicken suits.
• Julie accused Coral of throwing Mallory under the bus following an Inferno deliberation.
• The Real World called Katie their mascot after she performed poorly in the "Balls Out" mission.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived November 30, 2006)
• MTV's official Real World website
• MTV's official Road Rules website

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