The Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Seasons

The "Battle of the Seasons" premiered in early 2002. It was the fifth season of the "Real World/Road Rules Challenge." The show took place in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In each episode, the cast competed in a challenge, and the top three "Real World" and top three "Road Rules" teams would become the "Inner Circle" and have the power to vote off teams. The "Inner Circle" was determined by a cumulative score that would be tallied on a leader board. The final six teams would compete for a final prize worth $300,000.

Cast

Hosts: Eric Nies from ' and Mark Long from '

Elimination order

Real World
#Los Angeles
#London
#Seattle
#Miami
#New York

Road Rules
#Semester At Sea
#Down Under
#Europe
#The Quest
#Latin America

Scoreboard by episode

Bold indicates Inner Circle

Final results

The final teams for "Real World" were "Boston", "Back to New York", and "New Orleans". The final "Road Rules" teams were "Maximum Velocity Tour", "USA Second Adventure", and "Northern Trail". "Real World" ended up winning, but Coral was the only one to receive all of her cash prize.

Memorable moments

* Belou, who had brought her infant child along to live in the "Challenge" house, excoriated fellow Road Rulers Holly and Chadwick for questioning her competence as a mother.
* Jisela confronted Theo, Holly, Piggy and Chadwick on their alliance in the Inner Circle.
* A hurricane stopped production and the cast had to be relocated to a hotel where they threw the toga party. Many events had to be thrown together due to the logistical turmoil brought by the storm.
* Veronica & Yes and Beth & Jon were the first people voted off their teams. The former team was voted off because the Inner Circle had decided to knock out stronger teams, while the latter team was out because everyone wanted to get rid of Beth.
* Emily got into a confrontation with Chadwick, Holly & Piggy after she had told the other teams about the Inner Circle's alliance. While being confronted by Jisela, Chadwick denied all claims of an alliance & called Emily a "liar." Even after being voted off, Chadwick sent Emily a nasty e-mail, blaming her for manipulating the game & having him sent home.
* Although Holly and Chadwick had been advocates of the plan to vote off strong teams, when Chadwick and Piggy finished outside the IC, Holly suddenly decided that they should vote off the weakest team instead of the one her husband was on. The rest of the IC didn't like the hypocrisy and did end up voting out Chadwick and Piggy.
* Coral got into an argument with Stephen on the first day. Coral was mostly frustrated with Stephen's rude, hectoring personality.
* Team "Real World" devised a contract stipulating that the teams would be voted off according to the point system that was given to them. They followed this contract, except in the case where the team decided to vote off Lindsay & Stephen, mostly because Stephen was driving everyone crazy and no one liked him.
* Hookups during the challenge included: Mike "The Miz" and Tara, Timmy and Holly, and Theo and Coral.
* The "Real World" teams and "Road Rules" teams all decided that whoever won the final challenge would split the money with the opposite team. The teams formulated contracts so each cast member would get a share of the prize money. Holly thought that this was stupid and thought that the "Road Rules" team was going to win, and indicated that she would not split her money with Coral. Consequently, when they lost Coral decided to keep her money and gloated over it.
* Coral walked away with the most money.
* This challenge would mark the last challenge that "Real World" ever won the final reward challenge and prizes.
* This challenge also marked the end of the six versus six challenge theme.
* Lori from Back to New York was Mike's original team mate but she dropped out at the last minute for unknown reasons and was replaced by Coral.

External links

* [http://roadrules.mtv.com MTV's official "Road Rules" Website]
* [http://www.mtv.com/onair/realworld/ MTV's official "Real World" Website]