The Greatest Male Players in Challenge History: #11- Brad Fiorenza

Michael Alvey
3 min readFeb 1, 2019

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14 Seasons: Battle of the Sexes 2, Inferno II, Gauntlet II, The Duel (2nd place), Gauntlet III (Final), Duel II (2nd place), The Ruins, Cutthroat (Win), Vendettas, Final Reckoning, All Stars 2, All Stars 3 (2nd place), All Stars 4, Battle of the Eras

Final Efficiency: 5/14 (35.7%)

Win Efficiency: 1/14 (7.1%)

8–10 Elimination Record, 48 Mission Wins

Individual Missions: 5/35 (14.3%)

Partner Missions: 4/35 (11.4%)

Combined: 9/70 (12.9%)

Average Times Voted In Per Season: .71

Seasons Making Final Going Into Minimum Amount of Elims: 3

For most of his career, Brad has been known for his consistency.

Although it took him four seasons to make his first final, he was screwed by the veterans on his team to save Eric Nies on Sexes II, having outperformed guys like Abe, Derrick and The Miz among others on that season. He was again a strong contributor on his next two seasons, but lost physical eliminations to Abe and Derrick.

From The Duel to Cutthroat, Brad went on an unbelievable run without being eliminated (not counting his fight with Darrell on the The Ruins), making four finals and earning elimination wins over Big Easy, CT (on a technicality), MJ and Landon.

Politically, Brad has almost always been in dominant alliances, including being in the top four guys on both of the Duel seasons and running the show on the red team on Cutthroat, staying out of elimination the whole season.

After taking 10 seasons off, he returned on Vendettas and took out Victor and Frank S before losing a horribly constructed elimination to Leroy right before the final.

Brad’s only bad seasons were Final Reckoning when he and Kyle lost three eliminations (although they did win two missions) and All Stars 4 where he had an all-around terrible season and lost to Adam in elimination. He also had an uneventful season on Battle of the Eras, losing early to Cory.

His work in the All Stars series has only helped his resume, as he won three missions and beat Derrick in elimination on All Stars 2, and on All Stars 3 he made four Authorities (most out of any male) and aligned with Wes, Nehemiah, Mark and Derrick to make the final. But once again he came up short in the final.

While he has just one win, he could easily have four. Wes’ soccer kicks on The Duel, Big Easy dying on Gauntlet III and his cramps on Duel II had him narrowly miss out on wins those seasons.

But other than getting a win on Cutthroat thanks in part to favorable circumstances in the final, Brad has always found a way to fall just short.

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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