Behind the Screen: The Challenge: What Ifs

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What if cutthroat had the mutiny twist like wotw2 or usa2. I know camila switches but who else do you guys see changing teams...

— Challenge 17

Brandon, Camila, Katie, and Laurel are the only people I see swapping teams. But Laurel might avoid elimination if people are switching teams...

— GoldenRing

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Discussion thread about The Challenge: What Ifs with 30 replies from the Vevmo community.

The Challenge: What Ifs

Challenge 17 ·

What if cutthroat had the mutiny twist like wotw2 or usa2? I know camila switches but who else do you guys see changing teams?

Brandon for sure. Maybe Laurel and Katie.

Katie switching to gray after beating ayiiia would be hilarious they'd be so mad to have her lol

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Challenge 17#2612

What if cutthroat had the mutiny twist like wotw2 or usa2? I know camila switches but who else do you guys see changing teams?

Brandon for sure. Maybe Laurel and Katie.

Katie switching to gray after beating ayiiia would be hilarious they'd be so mad to have her lol

GoldenRing#2613

Brandon, Camila, Katie, and Laurel are the only people I see swapping teams.

But Laurel might avoid elimination if people are switching teams. Katie goes to Grey and gets sent back in to leave anyway.

Brandon wouldn't switch until he beat JD, and idk beat Easy?

Camila might've made the final switching consistently or leaves at the end.

CosmicDiva#2614

What if the Inferno trilogy would've had 10 eliminations each season instead of 8? I always thought it was weird that more than half the cast would make the final lol. 20-people cast, 12 finalists.

Chicken_breast#2615

If they could run any season again, same format, same cast which one would you want to see redone?

Free Agents and/or the 2nd BOTS 

AshtonMartin#2616

What if Devin & Cheyenne never returned on Rivals 3? Do her and Cory not get as close? Does Cory not have his first kid and continue his player persona? Does he meet Taylor and have kids with her or will he find someone else being single and childless?

Anon23432534534...#2617

What if Devin & Cheyenne never returned on Rivals 3? Do her and Cory not get as close? Does Cory not have his first kid and continue his player persona? Does he meet Taylor and have kids with her or will he find someone else being single and childless?

cory has babies with either kailah or Jenna Lmao 

CosmicDiva#2618

What if Devin & Cheyenne never returned on Rivals 3? Do her and Cory not get as close? Does Cory not have his first kid and continue his player persona? Does he meet Taylor and have kids with her or will he find someone else being single and childless?

cory has babies with either kailah or Jenna Lmao 

That would be a response to 'what if Kailah hadn't pissed her bed on invasion'

AshtonMartin#2619

What if Bananas and Nany won ROD?

Would Tori and Devin have been on 39 with its current cast or would they have put more vets vets on like Kailah, Kam, Cory etc

entrepreneur#2620

They still would've had an international scramble of a cast, as if other countries watch this bullshit...

GoldenRing#2621

If Tori and Devin lost, I could see them opening 39 up to more long-time vets. I think a lot of the good ones were busy anyway (Kam is pregnant, and I don't think Cory would've done a three-month season right after finishing USA 2. Does Kailah want to do another season?).

I could see the USA 2 cast being shifted a bit. Like Amanda and Josh being saved for 39 instead.

JustQR#2622

What if big brother never re-entered the game after the first redemption on Final Reckoning. What if paulie/nat/day/jozea just vanished after episode 2.

Would the next big brother gen josh, fessy, kaycee that keep haunting the game have ever been given a chance?

Cosmic Castaway#2623

What if Jamie from RW New Orleans had not been in the Rookies team in Gauntlet 2?  Either get somebody who does fit the description for the Rookies and maybe invite someone else for the Veterans who did compete in less than two challenges.

Coralfan#2624

What if Jamie from RW New Orleans had not been in the Rookies team in Gauntlet 2?  Either get somebody who does fit the description for the Rookies and maybe invite someone else for the Veterans who did compete in less than two challenges.

Who knows!!! I just remember that season being very hard to cast bc ppl kept saying no or dropped out. Haha. I think Jamie was asked bc they had noone else. Lol.

CosmicDiva#2625

Jamie was so out of place on gauntlet 2 and practically invisible. Jo had more screen time than him in her 1 episode

Coralfan#2626

Lol what if the entire RW philly cast had yes for that challenge. They were all asked.

entrepreneur#2627

Lol what if the entire RW philly cast had yes for that challenge. They were all asked.

I think Austin had just finished filming too and they declined because they just got back home.

Tvandcoffee#2628

What if they cast Johnny Middlebrooks on season 39? Would this season be more entertaining?

rhetorical question; of course it wouldve been

Cosmic Castaway#2629

Last legit chance for a Coral vs Julie elimination was Coral appearing in the Bad ***** in Inferno 2 or Veterans in Gauntlet 2.

Challengefan134#2630

What if Svetlana was on the Gauntlet 3? Do we think the Vets would keep her around as she was friends with a lot of them? Or do we think she would of been the whipping girl instead of Jillian

CosmicDiva#2631

What if Svetlana was on the Gauntlet 3? Do we think the Vets would keep her around as she was friends with a lot of them? Or do we think she would of been the whipping girl instead of Jillian

The second one and she would've thrown down with Tori as well; probably *****slap ha

Hauserman#2632

Svetlana would have flung that white racist homophobic country bumpkin trailer park demon Tori Hall.

Coralfan#2633

Last legit chance for a Coral vs Julie elimination was Coral appearing in the Bad ***** in Inferno 2 or Veterans in Gauntlet 2.

Also Freshmeat. Julie said yes to freshmeat then changed her mind. She talked about it in her interview on challengemania.

TheKonquerer#2634

Svetlana would've never lived up to her debut season had she returned and really was not all that to deserve to be on the call list for 15 years. Meanwhile others get ONE time to say no, and mtv moves on. Tbh if svetlana got calls for all them years why didn't Marlon? Cause he def brought more imo.  

Svetlana is also lucky that Beth got disqualified in that janky elimination. 

Coralfan#2635

Not sure svetlana would have lived up to her debut. I know she has a lot of love on here but she probably would have had to fight in a few eliminations. Gameplay wise she would have been in an alliance with Tori and Janelle who didnt like Jillian for personal reasons. And we know jill took svet's spot last minute. I dont think she would have peformed better than Tori and Janelle or maybe Melinda, but she would have been better than Johanna, Rachel, Angel, and Brooke.

GoldenRing#2636

Considering who Jillian beat in G3 I think Svet would've won those same eliminations. Janelle in Ball Brawl is the only one she might struggle with and even then Jillian won 3 to 1.

TheKonquerer#2637

Svetlana knew she wasn't shit and only made the finals due to a fluke. She did the right thing, one and done. Keep the reputation. 

Challenge 17#2638

Svetlana would've never lived up to her debut season had she returned and really was not all that to deserve to be on the call list for 15 years. Meanwhile others get ONE time to say no, and mtv moves on. Tbh if svetlana got calls for all them years why didn't Marlon? Cause he def brought more imo.  

Svetlana is also lucky that Beth got disqualified in that janky elimination. 

Didn't Marlon get at least a few calls but turned them down?

Hauserman#2639

Right, isn't it said Marlon wanted to focus on his "career" hence why he never came back despite getting calls?

TheKonquerer#2640

I've spoken to Marlon. He declined 2 seasons and they stopped offering. Even then compare that to the 15 years of no's they've gotten from svetlana. Marlon was just a simple example, there's others. 

GoldenRing#2641

I thought Marlon only declined FA?

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