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Old 04-07-23, 12:30 PM
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The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

Departure Day for Season 2 is today. I'll post the cast when the full list is available. It looks like MTV Challengers will be on this season.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Here's the early list for season 2:
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Host: TJ Lavin
Filming time: 6-7 weeks
Departure: Friday April 7th

Cast & Alternates

Women
Alyssa Lopez (Big Brother)
Alyssa Snider (Big Brother)
Amanda Garcia (Are You The One?)
Ameerah Jones (Big Brother)
Cassidy Clark (Survivor)
Cayla Platt (The Amazing Race)
Chanelle Howell (Survivor)
Desiree J. "Desi" Williams (Survivor)
Hannah Chaddha (Big Brother)
Jonna Mannion (Endurance & The Real World: Cancun)
Kellyanne Judd (The Real World: Sydney)
Lulu Gonzalez (Amazing Race)
Michaela Bradshaw (Survivor)
Michele Fitzgerald (Survivor)
Tiffany Mitchell (Big Brother)
Victoria "Tori Deal" Dehel (Are You The One?)

Men
Cinco Holland (Love Island)
Chris Underwood (Survivor)
Cory Wharton (The Real World: Explosion & Teen Mom )
Dusty Harris (The Amazing Race)
Faysal Shawn "Fessy" Shafaat (Big Brother)
John Amadeus "Johnny Bananas" Devenanzio (The Real World: Key West)
Joseph Abdin (Big Brother)
Josh Martinez (Big Brother)
Luis Colon (Amazing Race)
Kyland Young (Big Brother)
Monte Taylor (Big Brother)
Paul Calafiore (Big Brother)
Tyler Crispen (Big Brother)
Weston Bergmann (The Real World: Austin)

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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

So is this a continuation of the previous Challenge USA (won by Danny and Sarah) with the winners going to the next season of Challenge World Championship?

Or is this essentially the next normal Challenge season?

I ask because season 1 had no past Challenge participants on it, and this season is loaded with them. Sure resembles a standard Challenge season other than it will be on CBS and have USA cast members only.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Interesting list.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

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So is this a continuation of the previous Challenge USA (won by Danny and Sarah) with the winners going to the next season of Challenge World Championship?

Or is this essentially the next normal Challenge season?

I ask because season 1 had no past Challenge participants on it, and this season is loaded with them. Sure resembles a standard Challenge season other than it will be on CBS and have USA cast members only.
As far as I know this is a continuation of The Challenge USA with the winners moving on to the World Championship. It’s either going to be teams of two with one Vet and one rookie or Vets vs Rookies teams Cutthroat style. We’ll find out more as filming continues. They just left and will be quarantined for a bit before they actually start production.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Also, season 39 of the MTV Challenge will film shortly after The Challenge USA season 2 wraps. I’m interested to see how many vets will do two seasons back to back. Wes and his wife just announced that they’re having a baby. I’m expecting him to take a long break or retire soon.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Update
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Darrell was added. Cayla, Hannah, Lulu, Kyland, Cisco and Joseph are alternates.

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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

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As far as I know this is a continuation of The Challenge USA with the winners moving on to the World Championship. It’s either going to be teams of two with one Vet and one rookie or Vets vs Rookies teams Cutthroat style. We’ll find out more as filming continues. They just left and will be quarantined for a bit before they actually start production.
Just seems odd that a bunch of the "legends" from S1 of the CWC could show up as plain old contestants on S2 of CWC.

I do understand why they would want to get people like Wes and Bananas on the CBS show though. It was strange watching S1 of Challenge USA and (outside of TJ hosting) having it connected to the Challenge franchise in name only.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

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Just seems odd that a bunch of the "legends" from S1 of the CWC could show up as plain old contestants on S2 of CWC.

I do understand why they would want to get people like Wes and Bananas on the CBS show though. It was strange watching S1 of Challenge USA and (outside of TJ hosting) having it connected to the Challenge franchise in name only.
The ratings for season one weren't great. They probably started casting MTV vets to see if it might help ratings.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22


Trailer and full official cast reveal is out now.

https://tvline.com/lists/challenge-u...lie-calafiore/
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Man...they decided to bring several of the most obnoxious people back on this season.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

Tori and Amanda are going at it on social media. Tori threw shade at Amanda and Amanda dug up a bunch of dirt on Tori.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - premieres 7/6/22

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Tori and Amanda are going at it on social media. Tori threw shade at Amanda and Amanda dug up a bunch of dirt on Tori.
For those interested: https://www.monstersandcritics.com/t...2-photo-shade/
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

Ugh. How old are the people? Are we still in high school?

And Amanda was one of the people I was alluding to in my prior post. She has been annoying since her debut. I never have cared for her and found her always hot tempered and shrill.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

I vaguely remember being it mentioned but forgot they are airing this as two episodes a week until the end of August (then one a week). Thursday and Sunday.

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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

Looking at the Survivor names not picked from recent season makes me think Survivor has some kind of rule that if you appear on the challenge you are ineligable for a future returnee season. Several people who were big charecters and strong challenge performers from the post Winners at War 40's seasons are not at all part of the Survivors picked.
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Xander from 41,Jonathan,Hai ,Tori or Lindsay from 42,Noelle,Ryan or Cody from 43 Danny from 44. Xander in particular seems like he would have been a top recruit from Challenge Producers




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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

Originally Posted by AaronHernandez
Looking at the Survivor names not picked from recent season makes me think Survivor has some kind of rule that if you appear on the challenge you are ineligable for a future returnee season. Several people who were big charecters and strong challenge performers from the post Winners at War 40's seasons are not at all part of the Survivors picked.
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Xander from 41,Jonathan,Hai ,Tori or Lindsay from 42,Noelle,Ryan or Cody from 43 Danny from 44. Xander in particular seems like he would have been a top recruit from Challenge Producers


I don't think that's true. I think some people didn't want to do it after a lot of the Survivor castmates from season 1 trashed production. I think some of them were in the running, but they were dropped last minute. The Challenge casting process is something else.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

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I vaguely remember being it mentioned but forgot they are airing this as two episodes week until August (then one a week). Thursday and Sunday.
Did you mean until September?

I had no idea they were airing two per week. Hope the DVR is smarter than me.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

Originally Posted by Bill Needle
Did you mean until September?

I had no idea they were airing two per week. Hope the DVR is smarter than me.
I think I meant to write the end of August… which would mean September. Yea.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

So, if I understand this correctly... I can go on to Paramount+ at air time and the whole episode will be available to stream?
on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*.

*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream live, but will have access to on-demand the day after the episode airs.
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So, if I understand this correctly... I can go on to Paramount+ at air time and the whole episode will be available to stream?
Last season they didn't show up until after midnight central time for me. The Paramount+ episodes were uncensored last year and they were censored on CBS. I paid for the highest tier. I guess we'll find out on Thursday.
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Yeah, you should be able to watch it "live" by watching the live stream of your local CBS station on P+. Otherwise they don't put up episodes of prime time shows until some time after they've aired on the west coast.
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Re: The Challenge: USA (CBS) - Season 2 - premieres 8/10/23

I just noticed that Inferno 3 is on Paramount Plus now. It didn’t used to be on there.
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I just noticed that Inferno 3 is on Paramount Plus now. It didn’t used to be on there.
Since February I think.


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