The Challenge: Rivals

***Rivals*** is the 2nd season of *The Challenge*. This season features alumni from *The Real World*, *Road Rules*, *Big Brother* and *Survivor* teaming up with their worst enemy for a share of $200,000. This season was filmed in Costa Rica, and Argentina for the Final Challenge, from April to May, Year 3. This season marked the first time in which there was a change of location during the competition.

## Description

Can you trust your worst enemy? That is the question that twenty-eight vicious competitors will be asking themselves this season as they travel to the lush jungles of Costa Rica to compete in a thrilling new Challenge: Rivals. These fan favorites will receive the shock of their lives when they learn that their one and only teammate will be their biggest rival! In order to win, these arch-enemies must figure out how to overcome their rocky pasts and compete together for a jaw-dropping grand prize. Over $300,000 is at stake, and these bitter rivals will fight tooth and nail in order to get their hands on a cut of the cash!
However, not every rival pair will make it to the end to fight for a share of the wealth. Teams will live in fear of "The Jungle" -- a mentally and physically exhausting elimination round. Avoiding the dreaded "Jungle" will mean that these bitter enemies must learn to work together, despite their ugly pasts, in order to win challenges.

With $200,000 on the line, these players must quickly learn to bury the hatchet with their rival or risk losing a shot at the cash. Old tensions will arise and new feuds will form. Partnerships will be tested, romances will blossom, hearts will be broken, and punches will be thrown, as battles rage both on and off the playing field. And in a shocking, mid-season twist, players will be sent over 3,000 miles away to a new location! Those who manage to survive until the end will compete in what is undeniably the biggest, baddest, most treacherous finale in Challenge history -- where one male team and one female team will win it all and be crowned champions of Rivals.

## Format

In the beginning of the game, pairs will split, and the game would become a team competition. Each pair will be split up into four teams, red, black, purple and blue. Each team will participate in numerous challenges followed by an elimination round known as the "Jungle". The winning team will be safe from elimination. The rest of the house will secretly vote one person into elimination. The selected player will be revealed in the Jungle, and the votes for that team will then be revealed. The selected player will then choose out of those teams who they would want to go against. The two teams will then compete in the elimination round. The winner of the elimination returns to the game, while the losers are eliminated. However, if their partner remained in the game, the eliminated players will have the chance to re-enter the game.

Pairs then reunited, Each pair would participate in numerous challenges. Similarly to the team format, The winners of the challenge will be safe from elimination. One pair will be voted into elimination via secret ballot. The challenge winners will receive the Power Vote which will give them two votes. The selected team will be revealed in Armageddon, and the votes for that team will then be revealed. The selected team will then choose out of those teams who they would want to go against. The two teams will then compete in the elimination round. The winners stay in the game, while the losers are eliminated.

### Twists

* **Team Draft:** The cast initially thought they were voting for someone to go into a day 1 elimination but instead chose the captains for the season. They chose Female Rookie, Jenny, Male Rookie & Don as teams captains to form the Red, Blue, Purple and Black teams, respectively.
* **Re-entry Competition:** The eliminated players during the team phase will remain in exile while their Rival still competes. If their Rival survives, they will have the chance to re-enter the game.
* **Purge Challenges:** In some challenges, the last-place teams will be automatically eliminated from the game.

## Game Summary

### Episode Progress

Competition
     The team won the competition.
     The team did not win the final challenge.
     The team could not complete the final challenge and was disqualified.
     The team won the mission and was safe from the Jungle.
     The team was not selected for the Jungle.
     The team was revealed to be one of the Armageddon votes but were not chosen to compete.
     The team won in the Jungle.
     The contestant/team lost in the Jungle and was eliminated.
     The team was eliminated at the Challenge.
     The contestant/team was disqualified from the competition.