Behind the Screen: Favorite Challenge Format?

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All this challenge talk is killing me. I still can't believe we have one week LOL...

— Anonymous

ColiesMom;56188 wrote:I3 and the Island...

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Discussion thread about Favorite Challenge Format? with 30 replies from the Vevmo community.

Favorite Challenge Format?

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So what Challenge Format/Formats did you like the most? For Me I liked Battle of the Seasons, Inferno, and The Duel. How about you all?

30 Comments
Anonymous#2
All this challenge talk is killing me. I still can't believe we have one week LOL. I like the battle of the seasons format, and I wish they would do it again.
jhl182#3
Battle Of The Sexes 1. =D
blanky667#4
The First Gauntlet...
ColiesMom#5
I3 and the Island...DAH!
V1man#6
ColiesMom;56188 wrote:
I3 and the Island...DAH!
Clearly any challenge which included your daughter would naturally be your favorite, assuming she did not exhibit any of the frequently seen outrageous and gratuitous cast behavior.
ColiesMom#7
V1man;56192 wrote:
Clearly any challenge which included your daughter would naturally be your favorite, assuming she did not exhibit any of the frequently seen outrageous and gratuitous cast behavior.
Not my kid! Other peoples children but never ever would mine do anything outrageous. By the way I have changed my address, I know live on a river in Africa!
V1man#8
ColiesMom;56193 wrote:
Not my kid! Other peoples children but never ever would mine do anything outrageous. By the way I have changed my address, I know live on a river in Africa!
Welcome to the neighborhood. Lots of empty nesters live here.
ColiesMom#9
V1man;56194 wrote:
Welcome to the neighborhood. Lots of empty nesters live here.
In De Nile?
OtherPplsDrama#10
ColiesMom;56199 wrote:
In De Nile?
Bahahahaha.....nice. :laugh1:
Buck05#11
Battle of the Seasons because it forced more than the recent seasons to be cast on the show. I know the majority of the older cast members have moved on, but it'd be amazing to see people from the first ten seasons decide to be on a challenge.
Jayden#12
Battle of The Seasons. It's the only way we are going to get people from earlier challenges and not just 927789298 people from Fresh Meat, Key West, Denver, Sydney, and Hollywood. With that said I highly doubt they will ever do another BOTSeasons cause there doesn't seem to be enough interest on the castmember's of the earlier season's parts.
RW561015#13
I also loved the Battle of the Seasons format for the casting reasons and the camaraderie of the partnerships. I also liked how there were a few missions with the remaining six partnerships before the final mission. They all really seemed to enjoy hanging out together as well. Holly even seemed to have fun in a couple of moments. The Inferno is the other format I like. I like that they have a chance to save themselves. I also like that it involves strategy as who to vote in, and that you don't vote for your own teammates (except when the person who was supposed to go in wins the lifeshield). You can justify voting for almost anyone in that challenge as well, and it could be seen as strategy. You don't owe anything to the other team, so you can vote for them however you'd like.
ColiesMom#14
Jayden;56251 wrote:
Battle of The Seasons. It's the only way we are going to get people from earlier challenges and not just 927789298 people from Fresh Meat, Key West, Denver, Sydney, and Hollywood. With that said I highly doubt they will ever do another BOTSeasons cause there doesn't seem to be enough interest on the castmember's of the earlier season's parts.
Your not on any of my favorite Vevmo members list.
jhl182#15
In The Gauntlet 1 the road rulers did a sketchy voting procedure by doing a 1,2,3 secret ballot. You wouldn't know who voted for you. 3 was the person you wanted in the most in the gauntlet (own team) and 1 was the least. Then the team would vote again for the top 3 people with the highest points. Sarah was voted in like 5 times. It broke the team apart but it was very entertaining to watch. Especially when Katie randomly got voted in and she flipped out. The whole thing was really shady especially Veronica, who went back to the ballots to try and find out who voted for her. (Theo and Sarah mentioned it). A lot of people (secretly) voted 3's for Veronica and Rachel got pissed and yelled at the team then immediately stopped..lol!
Jayden#16
ColiesMom;56277 wrote:
Your not on any of my favorite Vevmo members list.
Different strokes for different folks. It's nothing personal but whatever, you are entitled to your opinion as a I am entitled to mine. :)
msstock87#17
My personal favorite was the Inferno formats. However, I also did enjoy the battle of the seasons and the Gauntlet formats quite a bit as well.
Lotus#18
gauntlet and the duels
blanky667#19
gauntlet
Binary Solo#20
Battle of the Seasons pretty much for reasons already stated: get to see people we haven't seen in a while, commarderie of partnerships, it seemed like there were more fun missions (like the newlywed game one), and I liked the inner circle concept
Debut Album#21
Jayden;56251 wrote:
Battle of The Seasons. It's the only way we are going to get people from earlier challenges and not just 927789298 people from Fresh Meat, Key West, Denver, Sydney, and Hollywood. With that said I highly doubt they will ever do another BOTSeasons cause there doesn't seem to be enough interest on the castmember's of the earlier season's parts.
How?
molds13#22
Debut Album;56422 wrote:
How?
If you do Battle of the Seasons, you're only going to have 2 people from each season...not the crazy amount that Jayden said there would be :)
Debut Album#23
molds13;56426 wrote:
If you do Battle of the Seasons, you're only going to have 2 people from each season...not the crazy amount that Jayden said there would be :)
Yeah But I doubt we will see people from Earlier Challenges though.
molds13#24
Debut Album;56434 wrote:
Yeah But I doubt we will see people from Earlier Challenges though.
Oh highly doubted...but it would be interesting to see how far back they could get people! There's been 13 seasons since 2000, 14 including Cancun...which would be 26 (28) people. More than enough to make a challenge. And who wouldn't love to see Ruthie and Teck back?!?
Debut Album#25
molds13;56437 wrote:
Oh highly doubted...but it would be interesting to see how far back they could get people! There's been 13 seasons since 2000, 14 including Cancun...which would be 26 (28) people. More than enough to make a challenge. And who wouldn't love to see Ruthie and Teck back?!?
I think that Teck is done with MTV.
molds13#26
Debut Album;56459 wrote:
I think that Teck is done with MTV.
Yeah, but you can't deny his entertainment level was amazing...I would love to see him back for Hawaii (if they did Battle of the Seasons) since all the other guys were kinda lame :)
SkylarGuy23#27
I think Battle of the Seasons wouldn't have anyone before Las Vegas 1, if that season. California - [Beth S, Jon?] London - [I really wanna see Sharon back, but that prob won't happen] Seattle - [David?] Boston - [Montana, Syrus, Elka?, Genesis?] Nola1 - ? B2NY - [Coral?] Chicago - no guys LV1 - Trishelle and Alton? [Maybe Irulan] Paris - No girls available. [CT, Adam] San Diego - Randy & Robin Philly - No Girls [Landon, MJ] Austin - Nehemiah & Melinda? [Danny, Johanna, Wes] FM 1 - Kenny & Casey (to ensure they lose) [Ev, Evan, Ryan] Key West - Tyler & Paula Denver - Davis & Jenn [Brooke, Ty] Sydney - Cohutta & Kelly Anne [Issac, Shavoun] Hollywood - No guys interested Brooklyn - Chet & Sarah [Scott, Katelynn] Cancun - CJ & Jonna [Bronne, Jasmine, Aiiya (please no)] DC - Ty & Emily (sorry Em) [Joey?] Nola - I think BMP skipped this season. LV2 - Leroy & Naomi [Dustin?, Heather, Cooke, Nany, Mike] RR VR - [Angel if you beg, Susie? (since no one from her season does them), Dan, Derek] Xtreme - Derrick & Jillian South Pacific - Abram & Tina? [Cara *very small maybe*] Campus Crawl - Darrell & Kendal? [Shane?] Quest - Adam & Katie (PLEASE!) Not listed I believe are done with challenges for the most part, unless I forgot a few people.
gamer73#28
The Duel,Rivals,Gauntlet
mcteng2010#29
Mine would be the team challenges like Cutthroat, Rivals, the Gauntlets, the Ruins, Fresh Meat I and II, and the Infernos.
ILoveRW#30
Ruins, loved the whole personal bank accounts thing, shame we haven't seen it since.
blackinwhite#31
ILoveRW;283953 wrote:
Ruins, loved the whole personal bank accounts thing, shame we haven't seen it since.
The Ruins is the best format simply because if you go into elimination you can take the other person's bank by winning. I like the Duel 1 because there was only one male and female winner which made it very competitive.

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