| Battle for a New Champion | |
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| Season 39 | |
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| Presented by | T. J. Lavin |
| No. of contestants | 24 |
| Location | Pula, Croatia |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | October 25, 2023 – present |
| Season chronology | |
The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion is the thirty-ninth season of the MTV reality competition series The Challenge, featuring alumni from The Challenge, Are You the One? (U S.), Big Brother (UK and U.S.), Ex on the Beach (UK and U.S.), Survivor (Romania, Turkey and U.S.), Love Island (U.S.), So You Think You Can Dance, The Mole Germany, Exatlon (U.S.), Ibiza Weekender, The Bachelor & The Bachelorette (Australia), 12 Dates of Christmas, The Circle (U.S.), The Only Way Is Essex, Shipwrecked, and The Royal World competing for a share at up to a $500,000 prize. It is the first season without a full-time contestant from The Real World and the first flagship season without a first-time contestant; the season also features no prior winners.[1]
The season premiered on October 25, 2023 with a simulcast on MTV2,[2][3] preceded by a launch special titled "Countdown Begins" which aired on October 18, 2023.[4]
Format
Battle for a New Champion features 24 contestants who have previously competed on The Challenge but have not won a season. The season's prize pot starts at $300,000, however, money can be earned or lost based on the outcomes of certain challenges and eliminations throughout the season.
The season has three formats called Control, Chaos, and Conquest.[5]
- Control (episodes 1-4): Players all compete together as one group to complete a challenge; if they are successful, $50,000 is added to the prize pot. Afterwards, the contestants vote for one player (of either gender for the first three weeks and male for the fourth week due to uneven numbers) to compete in the elimination round in the Arena. The player who receives the most votes must then call out any player of the same gender as their opponent for the elimination round. The winner remains in the game while the loser is eliminated.
- Chaos (episodes 5-14): Players compete in challenges in pairs or in teams. The winners are immune and earn the power to nominate one player of the designated gender to potentially compete in the Arena. The house, besides the winners, then vote to nominate a second player of the same gender to potentially compete in the Arena. At the Arena, a former champion of The Challenge enters to compete against one of the nominated contestants, or a contestant of their choice, depending on the outcome of the Draw they partake in. If the selected contestant defeats the Champion, they remain in the competition, however, they are eliminated if they are defeated.
- Conquest: Players compete as individuals for the final portion of the season. Throughout this portion, they can also earn more money for the prize pot.
- Twists
- Champions: During the "Chaos" format, ten former champions of The Challenge appear to compete against contestants in a one-off elimination round. If the champions win their elimination, they are awarded $10,000 from the season's prize pot.
- The Draw: During the "Chaos" format, the entering Champion partakes in the Draw by randomly choosing between three covered poles to determine their opponent for the elimination round: one pole with the name of each nominated player and a third "Chaos" pole which allows them to choose any non-immune contestant as their opponent.
Contestants
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Champions
Although not in contention to win the season, ten former champions of The Challenge appeared during the season to compete in elimination rounds against contestants.[6][7]
| Champions[1] | Original season |
|---|---|
| Brad Fiorenza[upper-alpha 1] | The Real World: San Diego (2004) |
| Cara Maria Sorbello[upper-alpha 2][upper-alpha 3] | The Challenge: Fresh Meat II |
| Chris "CT" Tamburello[upper-alpha 4][upper-alpha 5][upper-alpha 6][upper-alpha 7][upper-alpha 8] | The Real World: Paris |
| Darrell Taylor[upper-alpha 9][upper-alpha 10][upper-alpha 11][upper-alpha 12] | Road Rules: Campus Crawl |
| Devin Walker-Molaghan[upper-alpha 13] | Are You the One? 3 |
| Jordan Wiseley[upper-alpha 14][upper-alpha 15][upper-alpha 6][upper-alpha 16] | The Real World: Portland |
| Kaz Crossley[upper-alpha 17][upper-alpha 16] | Love Island UK 4 |
| Kaycee Clark[upper-alpha 8] | Big Brother 20 |
| Laurel Stucky[upper-alpha 18] | The Challenge: Fresh Meat II |
| Tori Deal[upper-alpha 13] | Are You the One? 4 |
- Champion of
- ↑ Cutthroat
- ↑ Battle of the Bloodlines
- ↑ Vendettas
- ↑ Rivals II
- ↑ Invasion of the Champions
- 1 2 War of the Worlds 2
- ↑ Double Agents
- 1 2 Spies, Lies & Allies
- ↑ The Gauntlet
- ↑ The Inferno
- ↑ The Inferno II
- ↑ Fresh Meat
- 1 2 Ride or Dies
- ↑ Battle of the Exes II
- ↑ XXX: Dirty 30
- 1 2 The Challenge: World Championship
- ↑ The Challenge UK
- ↑ Free Agents
Gameplay
The Challengers are first brought to the Arena where they must figure out that they must team up to complete a series of puzzles in order to unlock cots, food, and alcohol for an overnight stay in the Arena.
Challenge games
- Hole Control: The group must enter a deep mud pit, scale a wall to get out with 24 large poles and arrange them to depict a Challenge logo within 10 minutes. If they are successful, $50,000 is added to the prize pot.
- Result: Failed
- Ball Control: The group has 23 minutes to collect 23 balls in the water, with the names of each remaining contestant on them, and drop them into a chute at the top of a tall platform. To reach the chute, they must climb and clip their life jackets to hanging ropes to form two human ladders. Additionally, each ball can only be placed in the chute by the player assigned to it. Each deposited ball is worth $2,000, and a bonus $4,000 awarded if all 23 balls are in the chute at the end of the challenge.
- Result: Failed ($6,000 earned)
- Control Tower: Sixteen group members divide themselves among eight numbered buggies, each with one driver and one passenger. The remaining six group members must solve a math equation, then, from a control tower, direct the buggy drivers to their correct positions to replicate the equation. To fully replicate the equation, the passengers must also arrange large plus and minus signs into their correct position. The group then repeat this process, attempting to solve and replicate as many of the four equations as possible within 30 minutes. For each equation solved and replicated within 30 minutes, $10,000 is added to the pot, and a bonus $10,000 is awarded if all four equations are completed.
- Result: Passed ($50,000 earned)
- Under Control: The group must swim to 25 buoys in the water, collect puzzle pieces submerged below, and use them to solve five puzzles located on floating pontoons. Each group member must collect at least one puzzle piece, or wait for help from someone who has collected their first piece, before they can help solve the puzzles. They must then swim each completed puzzle to a final platform. For each puzzle brought to the platform within 15 minutes, $5,000 is added to the pot, and a bonus $25,000 is awarded if all five puzzles are at the final platform.
- Result: Passed ($50,000 earned)
- Upside Down Whirled: Played in male-female teams of two. Teams begin strapped to a propeller which is mounted to the side of a truck. As the truck speeds down a runway, thereby spinning the propeller, team members attempt to collect rings at the top of the truck and land them on targets and poles along the runway. Landing a ring on a target is worth 5 points while landing one on a pole is worth 10 points. The team with the most points wins.
- Winners: Corey & Ravyn
- Bingo Bango: Played in two teams of six and one team of seven. Each team begins with a five-by-five bingo board. One at a time, host T.J. Lavin drops numbered balls into a mud pit and one member of the assigned gender from each team enters the mud pit attempting to collect the balls and slot them in their board. The first team to line up five balls either vertically, horizontally or diagonally wins.
- Winners: Berna, Colleen, Emanuel, Horacio, Kyland and Zara
- Working the Angles: Played in five teams of three and one team of four, with one team competing at a time. Teams begin on a large pyramid suspended over water which has a puzzle key on one of the faces. They must work together to recreate the key using puzzle pieces at a second pyramid, swinging on a rope to get there. The team with the fastest time wins.
- Winners: Big T, Horacio and Kyland
- Tower of Power: Played in two teams of nine. Each team has a tower surrounded by two gates, and have 30 minutes to use provided items to barricade the gates as much as they can. After the 30 minutes are up, teams switch positions and attempt to break into their opponent's tower. The first team to break into their opponent's tower and lower the flag at the top wins.
- Winners: Berna, Corey, Emanuel, James, Jay, Moriah, Nurys, Ravyn and Zara
- Doom Sticks: Played in male-female pairs and one team of three, teams compete in up to three events. For the first two events, the last place team is eliminated from the challenge while the winners must then eliminate another two teams. Afterwards, the team that wins the third and final event wins the challenge.
- Event 1 (Speed Sticks): Teams begin with five sticks which they must transfer to a rack at the other end of a field, one at a time. After depositing each stick, teams can bring another team's stick back to the start to slow them down.
- Event 2 (Power Sticks): Teams must pull a sled between two ends of a field, loading one heavy stick onto the sled each time they reach an end, continuing until they collect five sticks and cross the finish line.
- Event 3 (Pick Up Sticks): Teams must use a pole to hook and transfer seven three-dimensional puzzle pieces to the end of a field, one at a time, before using them to solve a puzzle.
- Winners: Asaf, Ravyn and Zara
- Sky Ball: Played in two teams of eight. Four team members begin inside a suspended sphere filled with 130 balls, while the remaining four members remain on the ground. The team members on the ground solve a puzzle to reveal a code which the team members in the sphere use to unlock two small openings before dropping all the balls through the openings. The team members on the ground must then collect the dropped balls and place them in their team's pyramid structure. The first team to place all 130 balls in their pyramid wins.
- Winners: Asaf, Colleen, Emanuel, Horacio, Jay, Moriah, Ravyn and Zara
- Banquet of Champions: Played in four teams of four. Teams must transfer three numbered boxes from a field to their team's table to form a code which unlocks four dishes: brain soup, skin and colon stew, boar snout and ear, and a "spicy surprise" drink. Before picking up each box, teams answer a trivia question; if they answer correctly, they can take the lighter version of the box, however, if they answer incorrectly, they must carry the heavier version. Afterwards, the first team to consume their four dishes wins.
- Winners: Colleen, Corey, James and Moriah
- We All Fall Down: Played in four teams of four in a tournament format where the two teams that win their first matchup compete against each other in a final round. For each matchup, two teams begin on a platform above water with a hanging wall between them, and attempt to push the wall into their opponents to make them fall into the water. The team that pushes all members of the opposing team into the water wins the matchup. The team that wins the final round wins the challenge.
- Winners: Berna, Ed, Horacio and Zara
- Getting Tanked: Played in four teams of four, with one team competing at a time. Three team members enter a water tank on the back of a tank truck, which is filled with dozens of floating letter tiles, while the fourth team member remains on top of the tank. As the truck swerves down a runway, the team members in the tank must search for letter tiles needed to spell the phrase "Challenge Champion" and hand them to the team member on top of the trailer, who slots the letters into a board to form the phrase. The team with the fastest time wins.
- Winners: Berna, Corey, Ed and Olivia
- Off in the Distance: Played in four teams of four. Teams carry a pole and race down a trail to three checkpoints, and complete each checkpoint to obtain bags of puzzle pieces. After completing a checkpoint, teams must bring the puzzle pieces back to the starting point (using the pole) before continuing to the next checkpoint. The first team to complete all three checkpoints, collect all their puzzle pieces and solve the puzzle wins.
- Checkpoint 1: Each team member must swing a rope against an overhead saw to cut the rope and release a bag of puzzle pieces.
- Checkpoint 2: Each team member must maneuver one bag of puzzle pieces to the end of a rope to release it.
- Checkpoint 3: Teams must count the number of squares in an image and multiply the total by 39 to form the combination required to unlock their bags of puzzle pieces.
- Winners: James, Kyland, Michele and Moriah
Arena games
- Fall Out: Players begin in suspended in a glass-bottom cube. They must remove tiles from the cube before pulling a rope to retrieve a hammer and using it to smash through the glass floor. The first player to finish wins.
- Played by: Big T vs. Jessica
- Might Light: Played in three rounds. Each round, players collect illuminated cylinders from the boundary of the Arena and place them into slots of a wall in the center, attempting to line up as many rows of three as possible. The player with the most rows of three at the end of the three rounds wins.
- Played by: Chauncey vs. James
- Dirty Deeds: Played in three rounds. Each round, players search through a pile of dirt containing three items, and attempt to bring them into their basket at the boundary of a circle. Physical contact is allowed between players within the circle to steal items, however items cannot be stolen once deposited. The first player to deposit two of the three items into their basket wins the round. The first player to win two rounds wins.
- Played by: Jujuy vs. Ravyn
- How I Roll: Each player has a rotatable track and nine balls. They must align the track with nine baskets, and roll the balls down the track to have them land in each basket. The first player to land all nine balls wins.
- Played by: Hughie vs. Kyland
- King of the Hills: Played in three rounds. In the Arena are two ramps, each with three lights at the top. One at a time, a random light illuminates and the first player to press the button at that light wins a point. The player with the most points after one minute wins the round. The first player to win two rounds wins.
- Played by: Ciarran vs. Jordan
- Loaded Barrel: Players begin inside a barrel and must roll themselves to collect five bags of puzzle pieces around the Arena before using them to solve a puzzle. The first player to solve the puzzle wins.
- Played by: Big T vs. Kaz
- Totally Mental: Players must place ten crates of miscellaneous items in a line, then count the contents of each crate and arrange the crates in numerical order based on the counts. The first player to correctly order all ten crates wins.
- Played by: Callum vs. Devin
- Pole in the Storm: Players begin in the center of the Arena with both hands on a pole. The first player to wrestle the pole out of their opponent's hands two out of three times wins.
- Played by: Big T vs. Kaycee
- Going Under: Players must collect puzzle pieces submerged in a water tank and arrange them to match an answer key, which can only be accessed by pulling a rope to lower the board into the tank. The first player to finish wins.
- Played by: Melissa vs. Tori
- Fire Walker: Players begin suspended on a hexagonal platform which has one fire bowl branching from each corner. They must rotate and maneuver the platform using their bodyweight to ignite each bowl at nearby flamethrower. The first player to light all six bowls wins.
- Played by: Darrell vs. Kyland
- Chain Reaction: Players must pull a multicolored chain through a pyramid to retrieve a code at the end and use it to unlock a box of 100 colored pegs. They must then arrange the pegs on a board to recreate the ten color sequences on the chain they pulled. The first player to finish wins.
- Played by: Laurel vs. Ravyn
- Block Head: Players must transfer nine large cubic puzzle pieces from the boundary of the Arena to their respective platform in the center and use the pieces to solve a puzzle. The first player to solve the puzzle wins.
- Played by: Cara Maria vs. Michele
- What's Going Down: Each player begins at the top of a five-level tower with ten numbered balls at the bottom. They must slide the planks that make of the floor of each level out so they can descend to the bottom of the tower, collect all ten balls and place them in a chute at the top in numerical order. The first player to finish wins.
- Played by: Brad vs. Kyland
- Mind Grind: Players must push a 250-pound wheel around a circle and into a hole at the end to raise a partially-completed math equation. They must search a box of number tiles for the missing numbers and place them in their correct positions to solve the equation. The first player to finish wins.
- Played by: Asaf vs. CT
Game summary
| Control Phase | ||||||||||||
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| Episode | Gender | Challenge type | Result | Arena contestants | Arena game | Arena outcome | Prize Pot | |||||
| # | Challenge | Voted in | Called out | N/A | Winner | Eliminated | ||||||
| 1 | Hole Control | N/A | Collective | Failed | Jessica | Big T | Fall Out | Big T | Jessica | $300,000 | ||
| 2 | Ball Control | Failed | Chauncey | James | Might Light | James | Chauncey | $306,000 | ||||
| 3 | Control Tower | Passed | Ravyn | Jujuy | Dirty Deeds | Ravyn | Jujuy | $356,000 | ||||
| 4 | Under Control | Male | Passed | Hughie | Kyland | How I Roll | Kyland | Hughie | $406,000 | |||
| Chaos Phase | ||||||||||||
| # | Challenge | Gender | Challenge type | Winners | Winners' pick | Voted in | Champion | Called out | Arena game | Winner | Loser | Prize Pot |
| 5 | Upside Down Whirled | Male | Male/Female pairs | Corey & Ravyn | Asaf | Ciarran | Jordan | N/A | King of the Hills | Jordan | Ciarran | $396,000 |
| 6 | Bingo Bango | Female | 2 teams of 6 & 1 team of 7 | Red Team | Melissa | Big T | Kaz | Loaded Barrel | Big T | Kaz | $396,000 | |
| 7 | Working the Angles | Male | 5 teams of 3 & 1 team of 4 | Team 5 | Emanuel | Corey | Devin | Callum | Totally Mental | Devin | Callum | $386,000 |
| 8 | Tower of Power | Female | 2 teams of 9 | Orange Team | Melissa | Big T | Kaycee | N/A | Pole in the Storm | Kaycee | Big T | $376,000 |
| 9 | Doom Sticks | Female | Male/Female pairs & 1 team of 3 | Asaf, Ravyn & Zara | Melissa | Colleen | Tori | Going Under | Tori | Melissa | $366,000 | |
| 10 | Sky Ball | Male | 2 teams of 8 | Orange Team | Kyland | James | Darrell | Fire Walker | Kyland | Darrell | $366,000 | |
| 11 | Banquet of Champions | Female | 4 teams of 4 | Team 1 | Ravyn | Zara | Laurel | Chain Reaction | Ravyn | Laurel | $366,000 | |
| 12 | We All Fall Down | Female | 4 teams of 4 | Team 4 | Colleen | Ravyn | Cara Maria | Michele | Block Head | Michele | Cara Maria | $366,000 |
| 13 | Getting Tanked | Male | 4 teams of 4 | Team 4 | Horacio | Kyland | Brad | N/A | What's Going Down | Kyland | Brad | $366,000 |
| 14 | Off in the Distance | Male | 4 teams of 4 | Orange Team | Horacio | —[lower-alpha 1] | CT | Asaf | Mind Grind | CT | Asaf | $356,000 |
| Conquest Phase | ||||||||||||
Bold indicates the contestant was selected in the Draw to compete against a champion in the Arena.
Episode progress
| Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |
| Berna | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | |
| Colleen | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | NOM | WIN | WIN | NOM | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Corey | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | NOM | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | |
| Ed | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | |
| Emanuel | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | NOM | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Horacio | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | NOM | NOM | |
| James | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | NOM | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | |
| Jay | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Kyland | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | WIN | |
| Michele | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | WIN | |
| Moriah | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | |
| Nurys | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Olivia | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | |
| Ravyn | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | ELIM | NOM | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Zara | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | NOM | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | |
| Asaf | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | NOM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |
| Melissa | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | NOM | SAFE | NOM | OUT | ||||||
| Big T | ELIM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | WIN | OUT | |||||||
| Callum | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
| Ciarran | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||
| Hughie | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| Jujuy | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||
| Chauncey | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||
| Jessica | OUT | ||||||||||||||
Color key:
- The contestant won the daily challenge and was immune from elimination
- The contestant was nominated for the Arena and saved by not being chosen to compete
- The contestant was not selected for the Arena
- The contestant won the elimination in the Arena
- The contestant lost in the Arena and was eliminated
Team progress
Episodes 5-14: Round 2: Chaos
Prior to each challenge, it is announced whether the challenge game is played in pairs or in teams. For paired challenges, teams are randomly selected. For team challenges, teams are randomly selected or determined based on where contestants are standing.
| Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||
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| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
| Berna | Emanuel | Red | Team 6 | Orange | Emanuel | Blue | Team 2 | Team 4 | Team 4 | Turquoise | |
| Colleen | Callum | Red | Team 1 | Blue | Ed | Orange | Team 1 | Team 1 | Team 2 | Yellow | |
| Corey | Ravyn | Turquoise | Team 6 | Orange | Olivia | Blue | Team 1 | Team 3 | Team 4 | Turquoise | |
| Ed | Olivia | Blue | Team 4 | Blue | Colleen | Blue | Team 4 | Team 4 | Team 4 | Yellow | |
| Emanuel | Berna | Red | Team 2 | Orange | Berna | Orange | Team 2 | Team 3 | Team 1 | Turquoise | |
| Horacio | Big T | Red | Team 5 | Blue | Nurys | Orange | Team 2 | Team 4 | Team 2 | Blue | |
| James | Nurys | Turquoise | Team 2 | Orange | Melissa | Blue | Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 3 | Orange | |
| Jay | Melissa | Turquoise | Team 1 | Orange | Moriah | Orange | Team 3 | Team 1 | Team 3 | Yellow | |
| Kyland | Moriah | Red | Team 5 | Blue | Michele | Blue | Team 4 | Team 2 | Team 1 | Orange | |
| Michele | Asaf | Blue | Team 3 | Blue | Kyland | Blue | Team 4 | Team 2 | Team 2 | Orange | |
| Moriah | Kyland | Turquoise | Team 4 | Orange | Jay | Orange | Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 1 | Orange | |
| Nurys | James | Blue | Team 4 | Orange | Horacio | Blue | Team 4 | Team 3 | Team 3 | Yellow | |
| Olivia | Ed | Turquoise | Team 1 | Blue | Corey | Blue | Team 3 | Team 3 | Team 4 | Blue | |
| Ravyn | Corey | Blue | Team 6 | Orange | Asaf | Zara | Orange | Team 3 | Team 1 | Team 3 | Turquoise |
| Zara | Ciarran | Red | Team 3 | Orange | Asaf | Ravyn | Orange | Team 2 | Team 4 | Team 1 | Blue |
| Asaf | Michele | Blue | Team 4 | Blue | Ravyn | Zara | Orange | Team 3 | Team 1 | Team 2 | Blue |
| Melissa | Jay | Turquoise | Team 2 | Blue | James | ||||||
| Big T | Horacio | Turquoise | Team 5 | Blue | |||||||
| Callum | Colleen | Blue | Team 3 | ||||||||
| Ciarran | Zara | ||||||||||
Voting progress
| Winners' pick | — | Asaf 2 of 2 votes |
Melissa 5 of 6 votes |
Emanuel 3 of 3 votes |
Melissa 9 of 9 votes |
Melissa 3 of 3 votes |
Kyland 7 of 8 votes |
Ravyn 3 of 4 votes |
Colleen 3 of 4 votes |
Horacio 3 of 4 votes |
Horacio 3 of 4 votes |
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| House vote | Jessica 23 of 24 votes |
Chauncey 18 of 23 votes |
Ravyn 12 of 22 votes |
Hughie 15 of 21 votes |
Ciarran 10 of 18 votes |
Big T 12 of 13 votes |
Corey 16 of 16 votes |
Big T 9 of 9 votes |
Colleen 6 of 14 votes |
James 6 of 8 votes |
Zara 12 of 12 votes |
Ravyn 11 of 12 votes |
Kyland 7 of 12 votes |
Stalemate[lower-alpha 1] | |||
| Champion | — | Jordan | Kaz | Devin | Kaycee | Tori | Darrell | Laurel | Cara Maria | Brad | CT | ||||||
| Called out | Big T Jessica's choice |
James Chauncey's choice |
Jujuy Ravyn's choice |
Kyland Hughie's choice |
— | Callum Devin's choice |
— | Michele Cara Maria's choice |
— | Asaf CT's choice |
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| Draw pick | — | Ciarran | Big T | — | Big T | Melissa | Kyland | Ravyn | — | Kyland | — | ||||||
| Voter | Episodes | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |||
| Berna | Jessica | Chauncey | Asaf | Hughie | Ciarran | Melissa | Corey | Melissa | Colleen | James | Zara | Ravyn | Horacio | Ed | Ed | ||
| Colleen | Jessica | Chauncey | Emanuel | Hughie | Ciarran | Melissa | Corey | Big T | Kyland | Ravyn | Ravyn | Kyland | Ed | Ed | |||
| Corey | Jessica | Chauncey | Ravyn | Asaf | Asaf | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Colleen | James | Ravyn | Ravyn | Horacio | Ed | Corey | ||
| Ed | Jessica | Chauncey | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | Big T | Corey | Big T | James | Zara | Colleen | Horacio | Emanuel | Jay | |||
| Emanuel | Jessica | Ravyn | Hughie | Melissa | Corey | Melissa | Moriah | Kyland | Zara | Ravyn | Kyland | Ed | Ed | ||||
| Horacio | Big T | Chauncey | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | Melissa | Emanuel | Big T | Colleen | Zara | Colleen | Jay | Emanuel | Emanuel | |||
| James | Jessica | Ciarran | Ravyn | Callum | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Colleen | Ed | Ravyn | Ravyn | Kyland | Horacio | ||||
| Jay | Jessica | Chauncey | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Colleen | Kyland | Zara | Ravyn | Kyland | Ed | Ed | ||
| Kyland | Jessica | Hughie | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | Ravyn | Emanuel | Big T | Ed | Zara | Moriah | Jay | |||||
| Michele | Jessica | Chauncey | Callum | Hughie | Big T | Corey | Big T | Colleen | James | Zara | Ravyn | Kyland | Horacio | ||||
| Moriah | Jessica | Chauncey | James | Hughie | Emanuel | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Kyland | Berna | Ravyn | Kyland | Horacio | ||||
| Nurys | Jessica | Jay | Hughie | Ciarran | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Berna | James | Zara | Ravyn | Emanuel | Emanuel | Emanuel | |||
| Olivia | Jessica | Chauncey | Ed | Hughie | Ciarran | Big T | Corey | Big T | James | Zara | Ravyn | Emanuel | Emanuel | ||||
| Ravyn | Jessica | Hughie | Ravyn | Hughie | Asaf | Big T | Corey | Melissa | Melissa | Kyland | Zara | Ravyn | Jay | Emanuel | Emanuel | ||
| Zara | Jessica | Chauncey | Ciarran | Corey | Emanuel | Melissa | Corey | Melissa | Melissa | Kyland | Zara | Colleen | Jay | Emanuel | Emanuel | ||
| Asaf | Jessica | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | Big T | Corey | Big T | Melissa | Kyland | Zara | Ravyn | Kyland | Ed | Ed | |||
| Melissa | Jessica | Kyland | Emanuel | Emanuel | Big T | Corey | Big T | ||||||||||
| Big T | Jessica | Corey | Horacio | Emanuel | Ravyn | Emanuel | Big T | ||||||||||
| Callum | Jessica | Chauncey | Ravyn | Hughie | Big T | Corey | |||||||||||
| Ciarran | Jessica | James | Ravyn | Hughie | Ciarran | ||||||||||||
| Hughie | Jessica | Ravyn | Kyland | ||||||||||||||
| Jujuy | Jessica | Horacio | |||||||||||||||
| Chauncey | Jessica | Chauncey | |||||||||||||||
| Jessica | Jessica | ||||||||||||||||
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [8] | Original air date [8] | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 527 | 1 | "Teamwork Makes The Perfect Work" | October 25, 2023 | 0.34[lower-alpha 2][9] |
| 528 | 2 | "Two Lungs, One Heart, Can't Lose" | November 1, 2023 | 0.31[10] |
| 529 | 3 | "It's a Matter of Semantics" | November 8, 2023 | 0.29[11] |
| 530 | 4 | "I'm Coming Out" | November 8, 2023 | 0.19[11] |
| 531 | 5 | "Countdown to Chaos" | November 15, 2023 | 0.39[12] |
| 532 | 6 | "The Big Mistake" | November 22, 2023 | 0.38[13] |
| 533 | 7 | "So Flip Floppy" | November 29, 2023 | 0.41[14] |
| 534 | 8 | "Struggling to Hold It Together" | December 6, 2023 | 0.42[15] |
| 535 | 9 | "A Banana Split" | December 13, 2023 | 0.39[16] |
| 536 | 10 | "Feeling Used" | December 20, 2023 | 0.36[17] |
| 537 | 11 | "My Own Worst Frenemy" | December 27, 2023 | 0.45[18] |
| 538 | 12 | "A Legend Returns" | January 3, 2024 | 0.50[19] |
| 539 | 13 | "El Saboteur" | January 10, 2024 | 0.53[20] |
| 540 | 14 | "Don't Let TJ Decide" | January 17, 2024 | TBD |
| 541 | 15 | "Welcome to Conquest" | January 24, 2024 | TBD |
| 542 | 16 | "Family Knows Best" | January 31, 2024 | TBD |
Notes
- 1 2 The episode 14 house vote was tied between Emanuel and Ed. After a revote, the vote continued to stalemate. As a result, the Champion, CT, did not have to partake in The Draw and was automatically given the "Chaos" choice to select any non-immune contestant as his opponent for the elimination round.
- ↑ MTV2 simulcast ratings not included.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Falcone, Dana Rose (September 12, 2023). "CT Tamburello, Cara Maria Sorbello and More Vets Return for 'The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion'". People. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
- ↑ Caruso, Nick (September 12, 2023). "The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion Cast Includes Cara Maria and CT, Plus One Major Twist — Get Premiere Date". TVLine. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ↑ "Shows A-Z The Challenge". The Futon Critic. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
- ↑ Bucksbaum, Sydney (September 12, 2023). "Watch first teaser for The Challenge season 39, featuring an entire cast with no previous winners". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
- ↑ Weiler, Lauren (October 25, 2023). "MTV's 'The Challenge' Season 39 Format and Twist, Explained". Showbiz Cheat Sheet. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
- ↑ Longretta, Emily (September 12, 2023). "'The Challenge' 39 Cast: Cara Maria, CT and More Legends Return to Help Crown a New Champion". Variety. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
- ↑ Bucksbaum, Sydney (September 18, 2023). "The Challenge showrunner addresses concerns over season 39's cast of no champions". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
- 1 2 "The Challenge Season 39 Episode Guide". Zap2it. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
- ↑ V (October 27, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 25th October 2023 - Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ V (November 3, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 1st November 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
- 1 2 V (November 9, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 8th November 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
- ↑ V (November 17, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 15th November 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
- ↑ V (November 29, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 22nd November 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ↑ V (December 2, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 29th November 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ↑ V (December 8, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 6th December 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
- ↑ V (December 15, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 13th December 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
- ↑ V (December 22, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 20th December 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ↑ V (December 30, 2023). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 27th December 2023 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
- ↑ V (January 6, 2024). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 3rd January 2024 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
- ↑ V (January 13, 2024). "TV Ratings for Wednesday 10th January 2024 - Network Prelims, Finals and Select Cable Numbers *Updated* Posted". SpoilerTV. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
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