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The Greatest Male Players in Challenge History: #29 — Rogan O’Connor

Michael Alvey
2 min readJul 11, 2024

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3 Seasons: Vendettas, War of the Worlds 2 (Win), Total Madness (5th place)

Final Efficiency: 2/3 (66.7%)

Win Efficiency: 1/3 (33.3%)

5 Mission Wins, 2–1 Elim Record

Individual Missions: 1/8 (12.5%)

Partner Missions: 0/1 (0%)

Combined Individual/Partner: 1/9 (11.1%)

Average Times Voted In Per Season: .50

Seasons Making Final Going Into Minimum Amount of Elims: 1

It’s hard to assess the abbreviated career of Rogan.

After a flameout in the opening mission of Vendettas, it seemed like Rogan’s Challenge career would be just one episode.

But he was brought back three seasons later on War of the Worlds 2, where he quickly gained control of Team UK. With protection from Paulie on the US side and strong allies like Joss, Dee, Kayleigh and CT on UK, Rogan was able to stroll into the final without seeing an elimination.

He became the fifth person to go from getting eliminated first in their first season to becoming a Challenge champion, joining Evelyn, Johnny Bananas, Cara Maria and Rachel Moyal.

Rogan returned on Total Madness and had another good season. He won the opening mission and beat Jay and Nelson in eliminations to make the final. However, he had a lackluster showing in the final and went out on day one in an elimination against Bananas.

Rogan is obviously physically strong and he’s shown a good head for the political game, but the sample size just isn’t there to put him higher.

Rankings

30. Turbo Çamkıran

29. Rogan O’Connor

28. Kyle Christie

27. Kyland Young

26. Paulie Calafiore

25. Tyler Duckworth

24. Timmy Beggy

23. Devin Walker

22. Frank Sweeney

21. Mike Mizanin

20. Hunter Barfield

19. Theo Campbell

18. Faysal Shafaat

17. Cory Wharton

16. Leroy Garrett

15. Alton Williams

14. Zach Nichols

13. Abram Boise

12. Theo Vonkurnatowski

11. Brad Fiorenza

10. Derrick Kosinski

9. Darrell Taylor

8. Kenny Santucci

7. Mark Long

6. Wes Bergmann

5. Evan Starkman

4. Landon Lueck

3. Jordan Wiseley

2. Johnny Bananas

1. CT Tamburello

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