All Stars 4: The Most Ridiculous Cast in Challenge History

I’ve taken a hiatus from writing about The Challenge, but I was still planning on writing about the state of the All Stars franchise after seeing some of the horrible names initially rumored to be on the season.

Then I saw the final cast list and it’s…actually kind of amazing?

Or at least amazingly unique.

So far with the All Stars franchise, I have not been a big fan of the direction the show has taken.

The original concept Mark Long pitched was We Want OGs.

And in the first season of All Stars, that’s mostly what we got.

The first cast was incredible, with the only people who debuted on Fresh Meat or later being Big Easy, Nehemiah, KellyAnne, Jonna and Jemmye, who was the most recent to debut with Real World: New Orleans in 2010.

All Stars 2 mostly kept to the same script, although the number of post-Fresh Meat cast members ballooned to nine (although there were 24 people on All Stars 2, as opposed to 22 on All Stars). The more recent debuts were Jonna, Jasmine and Derek C from Real World: Cancun in 2009.

But on All Stars 3, the show opened it up to people who debuted way later, like Jordan and Nia (Real World: Portland in 2013), Sylvia (Real World: Skeletons in…