The Challenge: Rivals 2
The Challenge: Rivals II is the 24th season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. The season take places in Phuket, Thailand, with former cast members from MTV's The Real World and The Challenge competing. The season followed the same format as the original Rivals challenge, with players paired up with arch enemies from past seasons of The Real World and The Challenge.
Season 24 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Challenge Season 23.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season overview
The Challenge: Rivals II is the 24th season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. The season take places in Phuket, Thailand, with former cast members from MTV's The Real World and The Challenge competing. The season followed the same format as the original Rivals challenge, with players paired up with arch enemies from past seasons of The Real World and The Challenge.
Episode Guide
Season 24 Progress Shield
Rumble in the Jungle
Jul 10, 2013 · 42 min
16 pairs of rivals arrive in Thailand and the rookies cause trouble quickly, leading to a fight in the pool, two surprising hookups involving bad boy CT, and one competitor going h
New Girl
Jul 17, 2013 · 42 min
The rivals get closer than ever before in a sexy challenge that has each contestant literally tied upside down to each other. And one of the new girls has a freak out when her hook
The Dark Knight Rises
Jul 24, 2013 · 42 min
A fight breaks out after one of the competitors is mocked.
Mortuusequusphobia
Jul 31, 2013 · 42 min
A dangerous elimination event is faced by the contestants.
What the Phuket?!
Aug 7, 2013 · 42 min
One challenger gets homesick and takes his frustration out on everyone around him. A strategic fumble in voting leads one challenger to accidentally send her hookup into eliminatio
Revenge Is a Dish Best Not Serve
Aug 14, 2013 · 42 min
Competitors reveal their true feelings about each other, creating tension; a team's trustworthiness is questioned.
Thrilla in Camila
Aug 28, 2013 · 42 min
A team is pushed by exes; a deliberations vote breaks an alliance; a player's motives are questioned.
Diemnesia
Sep 4, 2013 · 42 min
CT and Diem's romance ignites; the final guys challenge starts a war of intimidation among Johnny, Wes and CT.
True Colors
Sep 11, 2013 · 42 min
The losing female teams are desperate to secure their places in the final; Diem learns she has been manipulated.
Final Destination
Sep 18, 2013 · 42 min
The ladies work hard in the last elimination challenge; TJ throws a curve ball before the final.
The Island of Misfit Challengers
Sep 25, 2013 · 42 min
The teams must leave the luxury of the yacht to battle obstacles on Nightmare Island.
The Challenge: Rivals II Reunion
Sep 25, 2013 · 42 min
Hosted by Jonny Moseley. The cast members who attended the reunion were Wes, CT, Paula, Emily, Cara Maria, Diem, Aneesa, Frank, Johnny, Knight, Preston, Jemmye, Camila, Jordan and