The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons
| The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons | |
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| Genre | Reality game show |
| Created by |
Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Presented by | T. J. Lavin |
| Starring | Winners Team San Diego Members Ashley Kelsey Frank Sweeney Sam McGinn Zach Nichols |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 23 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (Reunion Included) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Bodrum, Turkey, Namibia |
| Running time | Episode 1: 90 minutes (including commercials); All other episodes: 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | September 19 – December 19, 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Battle of the Exes |
| Followed by | Rivals II |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons is the 23rd season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. Although sharing the same name as the show's 5th season, Battle of the Seasons, unlike other sequel seasons is not distinguished as part "II" as the Season has a completely different format as well as different rules. The season took place in Bodrum, Turkey and Swakopmund, Namibia.
Former casts from select seasons of MTV's The Real World competed with the hopes of winning a piece of the $250,000 grand prize, with cast members from the Fresh Meat, Fresh Meat II, and Spring Break challenges brought in prior to any challenges taking place. This is the first season since season 12 that does not include any cast members from The Real World: Key West.
The season premiered on September 19, 2012, and concluded on December 19, 2012, with the reunion episode.
Host: T. J. Lavin, BMX rider
During each Challenge, teams will compete in order to become the Power Team, who will have the ability to place one team of their decision into the Arena. The other couple going into the Arena will be that day's Challenge losers. Once in the Arena, a team must decide one male-female pair to compete, and have the potential to go home with no money. The losing pair in the Arena will go home, and leave their team short two players. Teams can compete with only two players, and have potential to make a greater share of the final's $250,000.
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