The Gauntlet III
| Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III | |
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| Genre | Reality game show |
| Created by |
Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Presented by | T. J. Lavin |
| Starring | Winners Rookies Team Members Frank Roessler Jillian Zoboroski Johanna Botta Nehemiah Clark Rachel Moyal Tori Hall |
| Opening theme | "15 Minutes" performed by Wired All Wrong |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | January 23 – March 26, 2008 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Inferno 3 |
| Followed by | The Island |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III is the 15th season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge (at the time known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge).
Being the third in The Gauntlet series, The Gauntlet III marked the show's 2nd trilogy (Inferno III is the first), continuing on from The Gauntlet (7th season) and The Gauntlet 2 (11th season). The season was filmed in Riviera Nayarita, Mexico, with former cast members from The Real World and Road Rules competing, along with several cast members from the Fresh Meat challenge. This season was in the format of two teams: Veterans vs. Rookies, with a format similar to The Gauntlet 2. The contestants on the Veterans team had been on at least two prior seasons of the Challenge, and the contestants on the Rookies team had been on fewer than two prior seasons.
Host: T. J. Lavin, BMX rider
The competition consists of a series of team challenges (sometimes called "missions") with an elimination challenge, known as the "Gauntlet", following each of the team challenges except the final. Each team challenge puts the team of Veterans against the team of Rookies. Prior to the challenge, it is announced whether males or females will compete in the Gauntlet following the challenge.
After each team challenge, on a male Gauntlet day, the winning team selects a male member of the losing team to protect from the Gauntlet and another male member to send into the Gauntlet. The losing team then selects one of its own males to go against the person picked by the winners. On a female Gauntlet day, the players protected and sent into the Gauntlet are females.
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