MTV The Challenge: Rivals [Trailer]

Check out the trailer above for the new Challenge season on MTV. This one will be titled Rivals, and as you're going to see, cast members will be paired up with their worst enemies from previous shows. This may be the best concept yet for one of these challenges, I hope it doesn't disappoint.

"Are you done? Now it's my turn." That's going to be a classic.

RW/RR Challenge: Tonya Vs. Veronica

The footage that actually aired last night on the MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins of the fight between veterans Tonya and Veronica was just a little piece of what happened that night. We only got to see the best part, which was when Tonya slapped and dragged Veronica to the floor by her hair. But we didn't really get to see the entire argument that lead to the fight which would cause Tonya her place on the challenge. Check out above a video that surfaced on YouTube of the fight between those two. Too bad the actual hitting/slapping/hair-pulling isn't included on this one. Veronica seems to love to cause quite some trouble everytime she's on a challenge. We remember her fight with Katie on The Inferno 1? Classic! I love these challenges.
Katie vs. Veronica (The Inferno 1)

RW/RR Challenge: The Ruins - Official Trailer

RW/RR Challenge: The Ruins - MTV Shows - Real World Cancun

The Real Word/Road Rules Challenge is coming back this fall! The eighteenth season of the series casts twenty eight contestants - fourteen of whom have won past challenges and fourteen of those who have never won a challenge, thus this season is Champions Vs. Challengers. Check out the trailer above for this season which looks like another one full of good ol' drama, and that's why I love it. Click here to read who is on this season. Glad to see some old faces back!

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel 2

26 original cast members of MTV's The Real World and Road Rules head to New Zealand to compete in a new season of The Challenge! Premiering April 8th on MTV at 10pm is The Duel 2. Above is the official trailer for that. Blood, sex, drama... looks very interesting. That's one trailer you do not want to miss.

Video of the Week: Julie Tries to Kill Veronica

It doesn't always have to be a music video to be the video of the week, in the end, this isn't an all-music blog. So I decided to mix it up a little and use a clip from a TV show as this week's video. We're going back to the good ol' challenge days, way before the Fresh Meat kids invaded the show. Back to 2003 when MTV aired the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno. During the first episode, the players had to cross from one building to the other, while being held up 18 stories off the ground. Those who fell would have a time penalty added to their slowest time. In the clip you're about to watch, you will see Julie from the Real World team try to kill Road Rules' Veronica by trying to pull off her safety harness in order to have her team win the mision. That's as good as reality TV gets! Trying to kill somebody for just $10,000. Crazy! The clip is one of today's most memorable challenge moments. Check it out, if you haven't seen it, you'll be shocked. Enjoy!

The Gauntlet 3 - The Rookies Fall Apart

What a couple of episodes we had tonight! To nobody's surprise, the Veterans pull another two wins in a row... heck, they've won nine missions total to the Rookies' two victories. Let's skip ahead of the mission and go right into the gauntlet. The veterans decide to throw Melinda into the Gauntlet, and of course Danny gets extremely upset and shuts everyone out. Melinda's pick is Jillian, but the Rookies team oppose to send Jillian in again, except Johanna, Rachel, and Nehemiah - her Real World season roomates. In the end, Tori is thrown in and for a short moment she decided to quit until Brad talks her out of it. Tori makes it clear that she wants nothing to do with the Rookies team because she hates the things work out in the team. Tori takes out Melinda and returns to a team that she hates. Melinda's elimination cause an argument between Danny and Johanna (Melinda's fiancé and best friend) - Danny calls Johanna a backstabber and you know the drama that follows. What Danny doesn't know is that Johanna was one of the few who were watching Melinda's back. Anyway, the next episode airs and the Rookies loose again... Frank is sent into the Gauntlet for the third and eliminated MJ. it was Hell of a match that I thought MJ would win... but again, strength is not everything and Frank out-smarted MJ during Ankle-Braker. What a short ride MJ had. The Rookies team now stands with 7 people while the vets are strong at 14. This season is almost over and the biggest drama is yet to come... watch and see. Let me just say that next episode, we see Coral spit fire out her mouth as she is sent into the Gauntlet by her team to fight against Evelyn.

Gauntlet 3: Coral Vs. Beth - Match of the Decade

Yes! The Real World/Road Rules Challenges have been going on for over a decade and not once have I seen a more intence elimination battle. But before I get into that, let me start from the beginning.

The Veterans team decided to finally throw a mission to send one of their girls home. CT made a comment around the girls saying that it was time to start "cutting the fat" from the team - to which the lovely Katie replied in anger. I have not seen Miss Katie flip out at someone since the great topless fight she had with Veronica in the Inferno 1... it was about damn time! Katie flipped out at CT and said things I won't repit haha. Anyway, Katie's freak-out didn't help the girls because the Veteran males still lost the mission in purpose and handed the win over to the struggling Rookies team. As a result, the Rookies get to choose one girl to send into the Gauntlet. The girl happened to be Coral - one of their strongest girl. Coral was pissed and warned her team not to send Beth in against her 'cuz she was scared to go against her. Coral knows Beth could easily eliminate her knowing she's a lot older and heavier. The Vet team didn't listen and still sent Beth in, their oldest and weaker team player. This is when it got good, the two players with the most challenge history are now in trying to take each other out in Ball Brawl.. it's a long and intense match where Beth had the right techniques to take Coral down but didn't know how to take the ball away from her. Coral's face got slammed into the sand a whole lot but in the end pulled off a win. Beth is now eliminated and the Veterans couldn't be happier. Again, it was the best elimination match I've seen since Sarah eliminated Irulan in The Gauntlet 1.

The next episode wasn't nearly as good... the Veterans win again... it's a male gauntlet day.. Derek and Ryan are sent in.. they play the dumb puzzle game I extremely hate and in the end Derek got eliminated. The Rookies team have now lost seven players total and looking at previews, Jillian goes into the Gauntlet next week for the fourth time in a row.. this time against Melinda - can she pull off yet another win? Can't wait to see this.

RW/RR Challenge: The Gauntlet 3 Major Update

Four episodes into the season we've seen the Rookies get their butts beat in every single mission by what seems to be the stronger and wiser Veterans. We've also seen three Rookies go home after losing a Gauntlet match against a teammate.

Here's the rundown.
The rookies considered Alex from the Real World Denver cast a weak player and was sent in to fight against the Veterans' Gauntlet pick, Nehemiah (RW Austin). Alex eventually gave up and was sent home after he decided he could not pull Nehemiah's weight through the sand on the Guantlet game of selection Force Field.

On the Rookies' second lost mission, it was a female Gauntlet day, therefore, the Vets considered sending Jillian (Road Rules Xtreme) to the Gauntlet because she is indeed one their strongest female player. The Rookies deliberated and voted Angel (RR Viewer's Revenge) to go in. Both were thrown in to battle it out for a chance to continue on the competition. It was a close game of Ram It Home, where Jillian managed to push Angel all the way to the other side after both struggled for quite a while. Angel was eliminated.

The third mission came around and the veterans celebrated as they had won their third mission in a row. This time the Vets (or actually just Johnny) decided to pick RW Key West's Tyler to go into the Gauntlet and the Rookies, after a long voting procedure, chose Frank (RW Las Vegas) to go in. The game to play was Force Field, where Frank came out victorious as he managed to pull Tyler's weight with no problem. This is where we're standing so far.

~Spoiler Alert!~ - Tonight's episodes recap -

.don't read below if you don't want to know what happens.

With no surprise at this point, the Veterans win their fourth mission in a row on tonight's first episode. The rookies are now angry and wondering what they're doing wrong. During the Gauntlet, Jillian is once again picked by the Vets to go in, while the Rookies team send in their weakest (and weirdest) player Brooke (RW Denver). The game the girls play is called Ball Brawl, where Jillian wins for a second time eliminating Brook. Then miz Brooke takes her anger out on Johanna (RW Austin). Again, this goes down on tonight's first episode.

During the second episode airing tonight, the Rookies blindfolded and lead by Johanna's voice finally win a mission! It's about damn time. They're extatic, except Tyrie (RW Denver) who gets a call about his sister having open heart surgery and decided to go home in the aftermath. The rookies loose a player although they had won the day's mission and were all saved from elimination. The gauntlet must go on and the Rookies choose to send one of the vets strongest males in, Evan (Fresh Meat). Johnny Bananas (RW Key West) is then sent in by his Vets team to face Evan. This causes Johnny to blow up at his team especially CT (RW Paris) who threw his name out in deliberation. The game they play is sliders where they have to solve a puzzle. Evan pulls off a win sending Johnny home. But what's to happen with the empty spot Tyrie left in the Rookies' team? Well, MJ from the Real World Philadelphia is flown in to take his place. Interesting.

Real World/Road Rules: The Gauntlet 3 - Tonight!

There's nothing I love more than a whole season of drama, fights, more drama, make outs, fun, and more drama! I've been watching the Real World/Road Rules Challenges since 2001's Battle of the Seasons and I definitely miss a lot of the old kids that were on earlier challenges (like Veronica, Julie, Rachel, the Miz and many more). Now, for the third time, The Gauntlet comes around using a Rookies Vs. Veterans method... like it was seen on The Gauntlet 2. Talking about Gauntlets and challenges over all, I still say that Sarah (Road Rules Campus Crawl) is the ultimate queen of these things. The girl was on a team that did not want her, therefore sent her to five total Gauntlets in 2003 hoping she would loose.. turns out Sarah won all five gauntlets eliminating two boys and three girls from the Real World team including Las Vegas' own Irulan and Trishelle. And in the end, with her Road Rules Team, Sarah crossed the finish line for the final mission and took home a brand new car and a ridiculous amount of cash. Now, on The Gauntlet 3 it's said that Jillian (Road Rules XTREME) does something similar... hmm, we'll have to wait and see. Don't forget to catch the season premiere of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet 3, tonight at 10PM. To get you in the mood, here's a video of Sarah re-caping all her Gauntlet 1 moments. Enjoy, it's crazy.

Challenge: The Gauntlet III - Low Quality Trailer

Check out the trailer for all the drama, action and hook-ups going down as the Real World/Road Rules Challenge heads to Mexico for the Gauntlet III. Don't miss the one-hour season premiere of the Gauntlet III on Wednesday January 23rd at 10 pm ET/PT on MTV! This challenges never fail to dissapoint me, I can't wait for this one! - I will replace for a better quality video as soon as possible. :)

The Inferno 3: Susie vs. Jenn

Let's recap last night's Inferno 3 in a paragraph. It's a female's inferno day and lifeshields are up for grabs. Cara and Susie have been best friends since the Gauntlet 2. So in order for Cara to save Susie from the Inferno she decides to throw the mission, she even falls on purpose and talk to Kenny about her plan in order to make up time. Cara's plan did not work, as Paula beats Susie's time for about 10 seconds. Paula wins the lifeshield, and Janelle wins the shield from the Bad Asses team. The day's mission winners were the Good Guys, even though Alton got a DQ. Now the team banks are Bad Asses $60,000 and Good Guys $60,000. It's a tie. The Inferno comes up, Susie and Jenn are sent in. Susie beats Jenn easily. Jenn is sent home, Susie returns to her team. Back at home, Ace is angry with Johnny because Cara made him think that Johnny kept "key information" from Ace during the mission because John wanted to win the prize. Johnny then calls the Susie/Cara alliance a "cancer" on their team and wants to get rid of them before the final mission.

The Challenge: The Inferno 3

So today aired one more episode of MTV's show The Inferno 3. The Bad Ass team ended up winning the mission, now they have $60,000 to the Good Guys' $40,000. Ironically, the worst team players and the guys nominated for the Inferno win the Life Shield. Ace and Kenny win, they had to choose two players to take their place in the Inferno. Abram takes Kenny's place, and Timmy takes Ace's place. The Inferno game was probably the best I've seen in any challenge. They had to sit in glass boxes held in the air, and they had to break all the glasses surrouding them before breaking the floor's glass. Timmy wins the Inferno, but gets disqualified for one unbroken glass. [Flashback to when Beth won against Svetlana and CT won against Brad in The Duel but were sent home due to DQs]. So unfortunetly, Timmy is eliminated, and he announced he was retiring from the Challenges. It was somewhat of an emotional elimination for the cast.