Every Season of The Challenge, Ranked: #10 — War of the Worlds

Michael Alvey
12 min readMay 11, 2022

Location: Swakopmund, Namibia

Host: TJ Lavin

Aired: 2019

Champion: Turbo

Overall Thoughts: After the maligned trilogy, the show did a hard reset with War of the Worlds.

A brand new crop of 18 rookies from all over reality TV, the floodgates were fully open for the show to cast from all over the world.

Justin Booth returned to The Challenge, presumably watched Mad Max: Fury Road 400 times while he was away, and designed arguably the most distinct looking and greatest competition season in Challenge history.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS

  • Theo telling Ashley she sounds like Eminem’s mom in 8 Mile
  • Hunter getting revenge on Ashley
  • Amanda revealing Zach was on Bumble after Final Reckoning
  • Zach throwing the ball to Wes
  • JP calling out CT
  • Paulie and Kyle fighting in costumes
  • Bear quitting the Tired Out mission
  • Georgia finding out about Bear’s “cousin”
  • Turbo/Hunter’s fight
  • Ninja and Turbo’s fight in…

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