Real World/Road Rules Challenge 2000

Real World/Road Rules Challenge 2000
Genre	Reality TV - Competition
Created by	Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray
Presented by	Gladys Sanabria
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Original run	January 17, 2000 (2000-01-17) – April 3, 2000 (2000-04-03)
Chronology
Preceded by	All Stars II
Followed by	Extreme Challenge

Challenge 2000 is the second six-on-six The Challenge in the series. The teams traveled via tour bus starting in Las Vegas, Nevada then moving to the eastern U.S., ending in Miami, Florida after competing in different individual challenges. Each time a team won an individual challenge, they won $10,000. After each mission won, the winning team would invest those 10K in the product of their choice through E-Trade. At the end, the winning team also won any money won in the stock market. The last mission would be for the right to keep the money collected in the pot, an additional cash prize and a car. This season also featured an additional challenge where the two teams had to give up smoking for the duration of filming. If any cast member on either team were caught smoking, their cast would lose the additional challenge.

Cast

Ms. Big: Gladys Sanabria from Road Rules: Latin America

Real World team Player Original season Amaya Brecher Hawaii David Burns Seattle Heather Gardner New York Kat Ogden London Mike Lambert Miami Tecumseh "Teck" Holmes III Hawaii

Road Rules team Player Original season Dan Setzler Northern Trail Holly Shand Latin America Carlos "Los" Jackson USA - The First Adventure Piggy Thomas Down Under Veronica Portillo Semester at Sea Yes Duffy Semester at Sea

Game progress

Episode		Mission Results				Bank Account
#	Challenge	Winners		Losers		Real World	Road Rules
1	Stratos-Fear	Completed 1				$10,000	$10,000
2	Demolition Derby		Real World		Road Rules	$20,000	$10,000
3	Wheel of Wrestling		Real World		Road Rules	$30,000	$10,000
4	Snake Wrangling		Road Rules		Real World	$30,000	$20,000
5	Redneck Games		Road Rules		Real World	$30,000	$30,000
7	Swamp Buggy Racing		Road Rules		Real World	$30,000	$40,000
9	Homemade Swimsuit Contest		Real World		Road Rules	$40,000	$40,000
10	Stir Crazy		Road Rules		Real World	$40,000	$50,000
11	Handsome Reward		Road Rules		Real World	None	New SUVs
	Tobacco Free	None 2

^{^1} There was no official winner for this mission as both teams completed the task.

^{^2} No team was declared the winner of the addition "Tobacco Free" challenge as Piggy and David were caught smoking.

     Real World

     Road Rules

Final results

• Team Road Rules won their second challenge in a row. Both teams lost the additional challenge as Piggy and David were both caught smoking. Heather brought a camera man to the girls' bathroom at an RV park to catch Piggy smoking and David fully admitted to smoking during the challenge.

Memorable moments

• The first challenge was a bungee jump off the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada. The cast members had the decision to use a short-range bungee cord or use a mid-range bungee cord or use a long-range bungee cord that would purportedly break the world record for the "World Longest Bungee Jump". While David, Yes and Kat all attempted to break the world record, only Kat succeeded in doing so. Her feat, however, was never listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. All the other cast members jumped as well.
• Dan and Holly were in an unofficial relationship throughout filming. Although the two expressed a fond sentiment for each other, they never "hooked up". Dan later interviewed that while he was friends with Holly, the "pining romantic" angle was manufactured by the show, and in fact Holly spent part of the season trying to hook up with David.
• Amaya and Veronica developed a season-long fight that would culminate during a football game where Amaya took down Veronica. To the astonishment of fans who remembered their hatred here, they later became good friends, to the point where Veronica said she wouldn't vote Amaya out of a later Challenge when given the opportunity.
• Los and Piggy were constantly at each others throats throughout the entire season, culminating in a challenge in Key West that would cost their team the individual challenge.
• The Real World team organized a fake mission to trick the Road Rules team while they were in Miami. They created a scavenger hunt, asked someone to present it, and convinced a reluctant Road Rules team to complete the mission; items on the list were to get buried in the sand, polish an old man's toes, and give someone a makeover at Sephora. Meanwhile, the Real Worlders partied in South Beach. The next morning, the Real Worlders revealed the truth, and presented the prize, a "box of suckers" ('cause they're suckers).^[1] One critic commented: "It takes them a while, in their exhausted stupor, to understand they've been had, but I think Teck's hee-hawing like a drunken donkey helped."^[2]

Notes

1. ^ http://www.tv.com/the-real-world--road-rules-challenge/sweet-revenge/episode/169171/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary
2. ^ http://www.bigempire.com/mrsfilthy/030600.html

External links

• Official MTV website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 12, 2001)
• Official Bunim-Murray website at the Wayback Machine (archived August 18, 2000)
• The Real World/Road Rules Challenge 2000 cast information and other show data at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode list at TV.com
• MTV's official Road Rules website
• MTV's official Real World website