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The Challenge

The Challenge - Rivals 2 (2013)

Audience Score
72

Rivals 2 Plot

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.

The Challenge Rivals 2 aired on July 10th, 2013.

Rivals 2 Episodes

1. Rumble in the Jungle

July 10th, 201342 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 home early- the fate of her partner up in the air.

2. New Girl

July 17th, 201342 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 hookup with a veteran bad boy doesn't go as planned.

3. The Dark Knight Rises

July 24th, 201342 min

A fight breaks out after one of the competitors is mocked.

4. Mortuusequusphobia

July 31st, 201342 min

A dangerous elimination event is faced by the contestants.

5. What the Phuket?!

August 7th, 201342 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 elimination.

6. Revenge Is a Dish Best Not Serve

August 14th, 201342 min

Competitors reveal their true feelings about each other, creating tension; a team's trustworthiness is questioned.

7. Crossing Jordan

August 21st, 201342 min

8. Thrilla in Camila

August 28th, 201342 min

A team is pushed by exes; a deliberations vote breaks an alliance; a player's motives are questioned.

9. Diemnesia

September 4th, 201342 min

CT and Diem's romance ignites; the final guys challenge starts a war of intimidation among Johnny, Wes and CT.

10. True Colors

September 11th, 201342 min

The losing female teams are desperate to secure their places in the final; Diem learns she has been manipulated.

11. Final Destination

September 18th, 201342 min

The ladies work hard in the last elimination challenge; TJ throws a curve ball before the final.

12. The Island of Misfit Challengers

September 25th, 201342 min

The teams must leave the luxury of the yacht to battle obstacles on Nightmare Island.

13. The Challenge: Rivals II Reunion

September 25th, 201342 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 Marlon.

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The Duel II
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The Island
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The Gauntlet III
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The Inferno III
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The Duel
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Fresh Meat
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