The Greatest Female Players in Challenge History: #17 — Jonna Mannion

Michael Alvey
4 min readJul 19, 2022

9 Seasons: Rivals, Battle of the Seasons, Rivals II, Free Agents, Battle of the Exes II, All Stars (3rd place), All Stars 2 (Win), All Stars 3 (Win), World Championship

Final Efficiency: 3/8 (Excluding World Championship) (37.5%)

Win Efficiency: 2/8 (25%)

13 Mission Wins, 4–5 Elimination Record

Individual Missions: 1/15 (6.7%)

Partner Missions: 4/33 (12.1%)

Combined: 5/48 (10.4%)

Average Times Voted In Per Season: 1

Seasons Making Final Going Into Minimum Amount of Elims: 2

Nobody’s legacy (and bank account) has benefitted more from the spinoff seasons than Jonna’s.

Jonna’s time on the flagship show can best be described as mediocre. Her best season was probably her first on Rivals, where she pulled the upset over the cocky self-proclaimed puzzle master Sarah. She and Jasmine reached the final female elimination before losing to Laurel/Cara Maria.

Her Cancun team looked to be one of the favorites on Battle of the Seasons, as they won two of the first four missions. But they took a big blow when Jonna refused to step up and let Jasmine go into Hall Brawl, resulting in her and…

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