The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II
| The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II | |
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| Genre | Reality game show |
| Created by |
Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Presented by | T. J. Lavin |
| Starring |
Winners and teammates Jordan Wiseley Sarah Rice |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 26 |
| No. of episodes | 16 (Reunion & 3 Specials included) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Pedasí, Panama and Ørsta, Norway |
| Running time | Episode 1: 90 minutes (including commercials); All other episodes: 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | January 6 – March 24, 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Free Agents |
| Followed by | Battle of the Bloodlines |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II is the 26th season of MTV's reality game show, The Challenge, and the sequel to the show's 22nd season, Battle of the Exes. Filming occurred in Pedasí, Panama and Ørsta, Norway in August and September 2014, with former cast members from MTV's The Real World, Fresh Meat, Fresh Meat II, and Are You the One? competing. With Are You the One?, this season marks the first to feature cast members from a show not produced by Bunim-Murray Productions.
The season was dedicated to cast members Diem Brown and Ryan Knight, both of whom died in November 2014, two months after filming ended. Brown was featured in an MTV special titled "We Heart Diem" that aired on December 9, 2014.
A launch special, "EX-tra Baggage," hosted by T. J. Lavin and Battle of the Exes champion Camila Nakagawa, aired on December 30, 2014. The season premiered on January 6, 2015, and concluded on March 24, 2015, with the Reunion and "The S... They Should've Shown" specials.
Host: T. J. Lavin, BMX rider
Battle of the Exes II follows the same format as the original Battle of the Exes challenge (click here for further information), with the following differences:
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The Final Challenge is a two-day race from a Norwegian fjord to the top of Mount Slogen. Prior to the start of the race, host T. J. Lavin explains that a team must complete the Final Challenge in order to get paid. To start, each team takes a helicopter ride, then will be dropped into the water, where they will have to swim to the shore to their first checkpoint, "Kayak The Fjord." Each team must kayak their way through the fjord, where they will change into their team uniforms, then sprint to the third checkpoint, "Mind Games." Each team has 30 minutes to unscramble a five-word sentence with a pile of rocks marked with letters. (The five-word sentence is "You will respect the trolls.") The third checkpoint is "Don't Flip Your Lid," where each team has to flip a series of six cards with the Flag of Norway from the edge of a table into a series of six glasses filled with liquid fish eggs. Each team must consume one glass prior to flipping the cards. A team is required to consume a full glass for each time that they fail to flip a card into the glass after three attempts. (Note: Jay & Jenna were disqualified at this checkpoint, after Jay was unable to consume the liquid, leaving Jordan & Sarah and Leroy & Theresa as the only teams competing in the final.) Each team then sprints to the fourth checkpoint, "Get Your Rocks Off," in which teams have 30 minutes to grab five rocks from a rockpile, and then toss the rocks from a distance into a bucket. Prior to this checkpoint, each team is required to consume a tube of liquid caviar. If players from each team misses, they must sprint back and continue the process of collecting rocks from the rockpile until they toss a total of five rocks into the bucket. The fifth checkpoint is a bicycle ride to the Slogen trailhead. The sixth checkpoint is a "Rest Stop," where teams must take their place either within their designated zone next to a campfire, or on top of their beds. On day two, the final race is a grueling climb to the top of Slogen, in which the first-place team wins $250,000 and the second-place team wins $70,000. Since Jordan & Sarah made it to the rest stop first, they earned a five-minute headstart before Leroy & Theresa.
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