Every Season of The Challenge, Ranked: #44— Real World/Road Rules Challenge

Location: San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas

Host: David Edwards

Aired: 1999

Champions: Road Rules (Mark, Anne, Kefla, Roni, Noah, Kalle)

Overall Thoughts: I’m not biased against the early seasons (and in all honesty I’m probably biased in favor of them), but I made these rankings based on if I could only watch one Challenge season for the rest of my life, which season would I want to have the most.

And there’s just not enough meat on the bones of this six-episode season to rank any higher for me.

While Real World/Road Rules has some of the lighthearted fun that was such a staple of the original seasons, there’s just not much meat on the bones here.

With just six 30-minute episodes, the season comes and goes before you can blink. The daily challenges are mostly tame, eliminations haven’t been invented yet, and the final is literally just the teams standing in a money chamber and trying to grab as much cash as they can.

Other than being the show’s first real season (I will die on the hill that Road Rules: All Stars is not a Challenge season —…