Every Season of The Challenge, Ranked: #39 — All Stars 3

Michael Alvey
9 min readJul 18, 2022

Location: Panama City and San Jose Island, Panama

Host: TJ Lavin

Aired: 2022

Champions: Jonna and Wes

Overall Thoughts: When the cast for All Stars 3 was initially leaked, many believed it would be the most epic season in years.

But for various reasons, it didn’t play out that way.

It didn’t help that four women were forced to leave the game due to non-traditional reasons (Melinda, Tina and Veronica left with injuries, while Jemmye went home due to her dad being sick).

While All Stars 3 was fairly exciting from week-to-week, when you look back on it after all is said and done, there just weren’t many standout moments.

There were a couple intriguing rivalries like The Treehouse vs. KellyAnne/Kendal, Wes vs. Yes, and Brad vs. MJ, but there wasn’t a ton of true vitriol (other than Sylvia vs. KellyAnne).

At the end of the day, All Stars 3 just didn’t feel like it had the same heart to it as the first two incarnations. The joy of getting to spend time with old favorites started to wear off, and with players who were more suited to be on the flagship franchise infiltrating All Stars, the…

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