The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons
season of The Challenge
The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons is the 23rd season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. The season took place in Bodrum, Turkey and Swakopmund & Windhoek, Namibia, and featured cast members from select seasons of The Real World and The Challenge competing for the $250,000 grand prize.
The season premiered with a special 90 minutes episode on September 19, 2012, and concluded its run on December 19, 2012, with the reunion special.
Format
During each Challenge, teams compete in order to become the Power Team, who have the ability to place one team of their decision into the Arena. The other couple going into the Arena is the last placing team of the daily Challenge. Once in the Arena, a team must decide one male-female pair to compete. The losing pair in the Arena go home, and leave their team short two players. Teams can compete with only two players, and have potential to make a greater share of the final's $250,000.
First place wins $250,000, second-place wins $50,000 and third-place wins $40,000.
Contestants
Teams
8 teams of 4 competed in this season of The Challenge.
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