Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons

*Battle of the Seasons*
Battle of the Seasons
Season 5
Presented by	Mark Long; Eric Nies;
No. of contestants	32
Winners	Sean Duffy; Elka Walker; Mike Mizanin; Coral Smith; Danny Roberts; Kelley Limp;
Location	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
No. of episodes	17 (including the Reunion special)
Release
Original network	MTV
Original release	January 28 –; May 27, 2002
Season chronology
	← Previous; Extreme Challenge Next →; Battle of the Sexes

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons is the fifth season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge (at the time known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge).

Battle of the Seasons 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.

This is the first edition of Battle of the Seasons series, with the second Battle of the Seasons, following in 2012 with a completely different format.

Format

Separated into teams of Real World and Road Rules, each cast member is paired off with a castmate from their original season and they gain points after each daily mission based on their performances. The pairs with the most points cumulative from each team form the "Inner Circle" and vote off another pair from their own team. The individual winning pair of each challenge also earn additional prizes. After five pairs from each team are voted off, the final three Real World teams and final three Road Rules teams compete against each other in a series of challenges before the final race, that earns the winning teams $300,000.

Contestants

*Real World* team
Male partner	Female partner	Original season	Finish
Sean Duffy	Elka Walker	The Real World: Boston	Winners
Mike Mizanin	Coral Smith	The Real World: Back to New York	Winners
Danny Roberts	Kelley Limp	The Real World: New Orleans	Winners
Norman Korpi	Becky Blasband	The Real World: New York	Episode 8
Mike Lambert	Flora Alekseyeun	The Real World: Miami	Episode 6
Stephen Williams IV	Lindsay Brien	The Real World: Seattle	Episode 5
Mike Johnson	Sharon Gitau	The Real World: London	Episode 4
Jon Brennan	Beth Stolarczyk	The Real World: Los Angeles	Episode 1

*Road Rules* team
Male partner	Female partner	Original season	Finish
Theo Vonkurnatowski	Holly Brenston	Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour	Runners-up
Dan Setzler	Tara McDaniel	Road Rules: Northern Trail	Runners-up
Timmy Beggy	Emily Bailey	Road Rules: USA – The Second Adventure	Runners-up
Josh Florence	Holly Shand	Road Rules: Latin America	Episode 8
Adam Larson	Jisela Delgado	Road Rules: The Quest	Episode 6
Chris Melling	Belou Den Tex	Road Rules: Europe	Episode 5
Chadwick Pelletier	Piggy Thomas	Road Rules: Down Under	Episode 4
Yes Duffy	Veronica Portillo	Road Rules: Semester at Sea	Episode 1

Gameplay

Challenge games

Hang Man: Teams must hang on a pole as long as they can. The contraption is made so after one team member falls, the other team member will fall immediately.
- Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
Musical Inner-Tube Tango: In a game similar to musical chairs, teams will dance around a pool. Once the music stops, they must get an inner tube around their head. After each round, there will be two less inner-tubes. If one person from a team does not get an inner-tube, the whole team is eliminated.
- Winners: Stephen & Lindsay (Team Real World)
Vertical Limit: Each member of the team will climb as high as they can on a rope with buoys on it in three minutes. They will gain a point for every buoy they pass. If they fall off the rope, they cannot get back on, and the number they ended on will be their final number.
- Winners: Danny & Kelley (Team Real World)
Slam Dunk - Teams will bungee jump together back to back and try to score into hoops valued at 5, 10, and 15 points.
- Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
Ladder of Doom: A relay race where each member needs to climb down a ladder over a 50-foot basin and retrieve a flag and bring it back to the top of the ladder.
- Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
Round 'Em Up: Teams will enter a ring on horses and have a maximum of 15 minutes to round up at least one cow and get it into the pen.
- Winners: Sean & Elka (Team Real World)
Rush Hour: Teams will have to move one car out of the puzzle by moving other cars within the puzzle forward and backwards. The cars are not allowed to make any turns. Cars are also not allowed to hit any other cars; if this does happen, the team will be disqualified, and receive a score of 0. Teams will be sequestered for fairness.
- Winners: Sean & Elka (Team Real World)
Hands on the Saturn: Teams must have at least one whole hand on an ice sculpture of a Saturn sedan at all times. After two, three, and four hours, competitors must place another extremity (hand or feet) until all four are on the ice. Five minute breaks are allotted every three hours.
- Winners: Dan & Tara (Team Road Rules)
Sidekick Showdown: Similar to the game show, The Newlywed Game, team members must match answers to their team member's responses to personal questions.
- Winners: Mike M. & Coral (Team Real World)
Blockhead: Each member of the team has a responsibility: a swimmer and a builder. The swimmer must go into the ocean and retrieve cubes. The builder then must build a tower at least 4 cubes high with all the same color face of each cube facing outwards. Afterwards, one player must stand on the structure and blow a whistle.
- Winners: Timmy & Emily (Team Road Rules)
Siamese Wrestling: Team members will be bound together back to back wrestling another team. The teams need to pin down (a shoulder touching the mat) the other team for three seconds. It will be broken into two rounds: the first round will be two minutes and the second round will be a sudden death.
- Winners: Timmy & Emily (Team Road Rules)

Final challenge

For the final mission, the Ultimate Teams (Sean & Elka for Real World and Theo & Holly B. for Road Rules) must delegate tasks for each team members to accomplish. The finale is divided in a relay race to collect fish. Once the teams collect their fish and solve their puzzle, they must climb a rope ladder to the top of a cliff and cross the finish line.

Kayaking: Two teams will race on their kayaks to a buoy with a pair of fish hooked to a carabiner. After unhooking their fish, they must kayak to the yacht.
Free Dive: The two next teams will deep sea dive into the ocean and to retrieve their next set of fish and allow the next team to pass.
Longboard: The final two teams will swim in tandem on a longboard, unhook their last set of fish from a buoy, and swim out to the beach shore.
Fishticks Puzzle: After retrieving all of their fish, the teams will then stack them from the smallest fish to the largest fish and transfer them from one end of a stick to another. Once completed, the team may advanced to the rope ladder and cross the finish line.
- Winners: Team Real World (Sean & Elka, Mike M. & Coral, and Danny & Kelley)

Game summary

Elimination chart

Episode		Winners			Inner Circle		Eliminated
#	Challenge	Team		Prize Winners	Inner Circle		Eliminated
1	Hang Man		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Danny & Kelley, Mike M. & Coral, Norman & Becky		Jon & Beth
1	Hang Man		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Chadwick & Piggy, Theo & Holly B., Timmy & Emily		Yes & Veronica
3/4	Musical Inner-Tube Tango		Real World	Stephen & Lindsay		Dan & Tara, Theo & Holly B., Timmy & Emily		Chadwick & Piggy
3/4	Musical Inner-Tube Tango		Real World	Stephen & Lindsay		Mike M. & Coral, Sean & Elka, Stephen & Lindsay		Mike J. & Sharon
5/6	Vertical Limit		Real World	Danny & Kelley		Danny & Kelley, Mike M. & Coral, Sean & Elka		Stephen & Lindsay
5/6	Vertical Limit		Real World	Danny & Kelley		Dan & Tara, Theo & Holly B., Timmy & Emily		Chris & Belou
6	Slam Dunk		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Danny & Kelley, Mike M. & Coral, Sean & Elka		Mike L. & Flora
6	Slam Dunk		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Dan & Tara, Theo & Holly B., Timmy & Emily		Adam & Jisela
8	Ladder of Doom		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Dan & Tara, Theo & Holly B., Timmy & Emily		Josh & Holly S.
8	Ladder of Doom		Road Rules	Theo & Holly B.		Danny & Kelley, Mike M. & Coral, Sean & Elka		Norman & Becky
9	Round 'Em Up		Real World	Sean & Elka	—
10	Rush Hour		Real World	Sean & Elka
11	Hands on Saturn		Road Rules	Dan & Tara
12	Sidekick Showdown		Real World	Mike M. & Coral
13	Block Head		Road Rules	Timmy & Emily
14	Siamese Wrestling		Road Rules	Timmy & Emily
15	Handsome Reward		Real World	Sean & Elka

Scoreboard progress

Teams		Episode
Teams		1	3/4	5/6	6	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Sean & Elka	10	29	44	55	74	94	114	131	150	169	186	WINNER
	Mike M. & Coral	16	25	43	54	71	87	104	123	143	158	174	WINNER
	Danny & Kelley	14	23	43	54	70	89	107	122	138	154	172	WINNER
	Theo & Holly B.	20	34	53	73	93	108	127	143	161	178	194	LOSER
	Dan & Tara	15	31	46	57	70	87	103	123	139	157	176	LOSER
	Timmy & Emily	18	33	50	61	75	93	93	111	128	148	168	LOSER
	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
	Chris & Belou	7	19	29
	Stephen & Lindsay	9	29	41
	Mike J. & Sharon	5	21
	Chadwick & Piggy	19	26
	Yes & Veronica	17
	Jon & Beth	8

Teams: The contestant is on the Real World team; The contestant 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 safe from elimination; The team was eliminated by the Inner Circle

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date
40	1	"Hang Man"	February 4, 2002 (2002-02-04)
41	2	"Hurricane Juliette"	February 11, 2002 (2002-02-11)
42	3	"Who To Vote Off?"	February 18, 2002 (2002-02-18)
43	4	"Musical Inner-Tube Tango"	February 25, 2002 (2002-02-25)
44	5	"Vertical Limit"	March 4, 2002 (2002-03-04)
45	6	"Slam Dunk"	March 11, 2002 (2002-03-11)
46	7	"Montezuma's Revenge"	March 25, 2002 (2002-03-25)
47	8	"Ladder of Doom"	April 1, 2002 (2002-04-01)
48	9	"Round 'Em Up"	April 8, 2002 (2002-04-08)
49	10	"Rush Hour"	April 15, 2002 (2002-04-15)
50	11	"Hands of Saturn"	April 22, 2002 (2002-04-22)
51	12	"Sidekick Showdown"	April 29, 2002 (2002-04-29)
52	13	"Blockhead"	May 6, 2002 (2002-05-06)
53	14	"Siamese Wrestling"	May 13, 2002 (2002-05-13)
54	15	"Handsome Reward"	May 20, 2002 (2002-05-20)

Reunion special

The reunion special, Real World/Road Rules Challenge Battle of the Seasons: Inside the Inner Circle, was aired live on May 27, 2002 and was attended by the contestants who were in the Inner Circle until the season finale. The special was hosted by Lindsay Brien from The Real World: Seattle and Mark Long from Road Rules: USA – The First Adventure.

References

^ Amatangelo, Amy (January 28, 2002). "MTV casts prepare for 'Battle'". Boston Herald (All ed.). p. 034. ISSN 0738-5854.

External links

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

[1] Amatangelo, Amy (January 28, 2002). "MTV casts prepare for 'Battle'". Boston Herald (All ed.). p. 034. ISSN 0738-5854.

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