The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars (season 2)

The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars
Genre Reality game show
Presented by Mike “The Miz” Mizanin
Starring Winners
Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio
Emily Schromm
Chris “CT” Tamburello
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 8
Production company(s) Bunim/Murray Productions
Release
Original network MTV
Original release November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21) – January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09)
Chronology
Preceded by Champs vs. Pros
Followed by Champs vs. Stars (Season 3)
External links
Website

The second installment of The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars, a recurring special mini-series of MTV's long-running reality game show, The Challenge premiered November 21, 2017. In the eight-week event, eleven alum from Real World, The Challenge, and Are You the One? who have made it to the finals on a regular season of The Challenge compete against celebrities.[1][2]

Cast

Host: Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, WWE pro wrestler, former The Challenge winner and RW: Back to New York cast member

PlayerKnown ForTeamCharityRaisedFinish
Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio RW: Key West Champs Special Olympics $50,000 Winners
Emily Schromm RW: D.C. Champs Girls, Inc. $55,000
Chris "CT" Tamburello RW: Paris Champs F.I.G.H.T. $55,000
Josh Murray The Bachelorette Stars Extra Special People Unknown Runners-Up
Justina Valentine Rapper / Wild 'n Out Stars Young Women's Leadership Network Unknown
Michelle Waterson UFC Stars MVP Vets and Players Unknown
Tori Deal AYTO? 4 Champs Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Unknown Episode 8
Wes Bergmann RW: Austin Champs American Cancer Society $5,000
Zach Nichols RW: San Diego (2011) Champs Wigs 4 Kids Michigan $5,000
Ariane Andrew Former WWE pro wrestler Stars Black Girls Rock Unknown
Kim Glass Olympic volleyball Stars Covenant House Unknown
Matt Rife Wild 'n Out / TRL Stars World Wildlife Foundation Unknown
Aneesa Ferreira RW: Chicago Champs Suicide Prevention $5,000 Episode 6
Riff Raff Hip Hop Artist Stars Nevada SPCA Unknown Episode 5
Shawn Johnson Olympic gymnastics Stars Hope Sports Unknown Episode 4
Romeo Miller Rapper/Actor Stars Team Hope NOLA Unknown
Ashley Mitchell RW: Ex-Plosion Champs Prevent Child Abuse America $5,000 Episode 3[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]
Terrell Owens NFL wide receiver Stars Ky Cares Foundation Unknown
Jenna Compono RW: Ex-Plosion Champs The Jason Gruen Foundation Unknown Episode 2[lower-alpha 3]
Cory Wharton RW: Ex-Plosion Champs Kids' Food Basket Unknown Episode 1[lower-alpha 4]
Camila Nakagawa Spring Break Challenge Champs N/A

Game summary

Challenge games

  • Tow Truck: Starting with four players, two of each gender, teams must pull a semi-truck up a small incline from start to finish. Across the track are checkpoints. the first check point adds two more players, for a total of six pulling, while the other checkpoints have two players from each team that can swap out with a current player, if they desire. First team to finish wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: Zach
  • Parkour the Course: All across the arena flags are placed with pints ranging from 1 point up to 5 points per flag. Each team sends individuals to try and grab as many flags as they can. The opposing team from across the arena has access to a slingshot to try and hit the runner with a ball to end the round. The opposing team also sends one player to try and tag the runner to end the round. Each individual player gets one round on offense and one round on defense. Most points by the end of all the runs wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: Emily
  • Slamball: Similar to Basketball, in three rounds, each team send three players to try an score as many points as possible across an arena of trampolines. Players cannot jump around different trampolines with the ball. They must either shoot it, or pass it. If the shot is made from a marked trampoline, the team scores three points, instead of the usual one point. First to win three out of five rounds wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: Zach
  • Push Ball: Similar to soccer, teams must score as many goals as possible using a giant soccer ball in two rounds. Each team assigns player to defense and offense. After two 10-minutes rounds, most goals wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: Aneesa
  • Jumbo Foosball: Similar to the table game of Foosball, teams must try and kick the ball into the opposing teams goal to score a point. Players are tied to a pole and arranged similar to the table game, only being able to move left or right. Most points by the end of the game wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: Wes
  • Flag Pole: Individually, players must run towards a pole and must bring it down into the water. They must then swim as fast as they can towards a buoy. There are flags the players can grab to subtract seconds off their total times, with the harder to reach flags being worth more time subtracted. Fastest combined team time wins.
    • Winners: Champs - MVP: CT
  • Sink or Swim: Competing as individuals, players must swim through a five obstacle course. At the end of each obstacle, players must release assigned balls before moving on to the next obstacle. The fastest male and female from each team win guaranteed spots in the final. They also get to choose one more player from their team to advance to the finals.
    • Winners
      • Champs: Bananas & Emily
      • Stars: Josh & Michelle
  • Championship Series: In the final challenge, the teams participate in five challenges. The first four challenges are used to determine who will get an advantage in the fifth challenge. Whoever wins the fifth challenge wins the final challenge.
    • Don't Trip: Teams must traverse from pedestal to pedestal to reach a flag at the end of the course. If players fall off the pedestal or their one plank used to traverse each pedestal touches the floor, the team must start over. Once they reach the end, they must open a combination lock using numbers gained from each pedestal they crossed. First team to raise their team flag wins.
      • Winners: Champs
    • #Hard AF: Similar to "X Knocks the Spot" from Battle of the Exes, players of the same team stand on a platform and have to duck and jump over swinging bars. The opposing team has to try and knock off one player using rubber balls. If one player falls, their time is stopped and the team switch sides. Whichever team has the longer time after each team has gone wins.
      • Winners: Champs
    • Face Race: Teams must race around a race track with a small wooden car while trying to hit and collect cardboard faces of the opposing team. One team member is in the small wooden car to steer while blind-folded as the other two members push and collect. Once they reach the end of the track, they must arrange the order of the faces according to their charity they are playing for. First team to correctly arrange the faces to the charity wins.
      • Winners: Stars
    • Slide Ball: In a first-to-five game, teams must try and throw a ball in the opposing teams goal to score a point. The arena is very slippery and soapy and players are oiled up. First to 5 goals wins.
      • Winners: Champs
    • Tower of Power: Players are shackled together and must race around the stands to collect large plank puzzle pieces. Once their team collects all their respective pieces, they must dig through sand to find individual keys for each member to release them from their restraints. Each team has 25 total keys, minus three for each challenge they won in the Championship Series. Once released, they must complete their puzzle pyramid using the pieces they collect. First to finish the puzzle pyramid and scale up it is the winner of The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars.
      • Winners: Champs

Arena Games

  • Target Practice: While standing on rotating platforms, players must try and throw balls across to their respective goals to score points. If any player falls off, their competitor can continue the round until they fall off or run out of balls. After two rounds, the player with the most points win.
    • Played by: Cory vs. Matt
  • Ground Control: Players must pull themselves down several pegs to try and reach their button to push. Each player is directly linked to their competitor, with their competitor being pulled further away as they pull closer to the button. First player to push the button wins.
    • Played by: Wes vs. Romeo
  • Lasso Me: Players are each given a hoop that they must try to wring it around their competitors body. Played in a best 3 out of 5 format, first to 3 pints wins.
    • Played by: Tori vs. Shawn
  • Tic Tac Hole: In a combination of mini-golf and Connect 4, players must first try and sink a golf ball into the hole in the middle of the arena. If they are successful, they can place a connect 4 piece onto the board. Players repeat this process until a player achieves 4 in a row on the main board. The first player that achieves 4 in a row on the board wins.
    • Played by: Bananas vs. Riff Raff
  • Cage Match: Players star in the middle of a caged arena. When the round starts, they must try and grab the rope in the middle and bring it outside of the cage. If there is a stalemate from both players, to which there is barely any movement, the round resets back to start. First player to successfully get the rope outside the cage wins.
    • Played by: Aneesa vs. Michelle

Elimination chart

Episode Gender Winners Arena contestants Arena game Arena outcome
# Challenge Team MVP LVP pick Voted In Winner Loser
1[lower-alpha 4] Tow Truck Male Champs Zach Cory Matt Target Practice Matt Cory
2/3[lower-alpha 3] Parkour the Course Female Champs Emily Jenna Ariane N/A[lower-alpha 5]
3/4[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] Slamball Male Champs Zach Wes Romeo Ground Control Wes Romeo
4 Push Ball Female Champs Aneesa Tori Shawn Lasso Me Tori Shawn
5 Jumbo Foosball Male Champs Wes Bananas Riff Raff Tic Tac Hole Bananas Riff Raff
6 Flag Pole Female Champs CT Aneesa Michelle[lower-alpha 6] Cage Match Michelle Aneesa
7 Sink or Swim N/A Champs Bananas N/A Tori
Emily Wes
CT[lower-alpha 7] Zach
Stars Josh Ariane
Michelle Kim
Justina[lower-alpha 7] Matt
8 Championship Series Champs Runner-Up: Stars

Episode progress

PlayersEpisodes
1[lower-alpha 4]2/3[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 5]3/4[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]4567[lower-alpha 7]Finale
Bananas SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE ARENA SAFE WIN WINNER
CT SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE WIN SAFE WINNER
Emily SAFE WIN SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE WIN WINNER
Josh SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE WIN LOSER
Justina SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE LOSER
Michelle SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE ARENA WIN LOSER
Tori N/A ARENA SAFE SAFE OUT
Wes SAFE SAFE ARENA SAFE WIN SAFE OUT
Zach WIN SAFE WIN SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Ariane SAFE ARENA SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Kim SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Matt ARENA SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Aneesa SAFE SAFE SAFE WIN SAFE OUT
Riff Raff SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Shawn SAFE SAFE SAFE OUT
Romeo SAFE SAFE OUT
Ashley SAFE SAFE QUIT
Terrell SAFE SAFE QUIT
Jenna SAFE OUT
Cory OUT
Camila DQ
Competition
     The contestant won the final challenge.
     The contestant did not win the final challenge.
     The contestant was named "MVP" for their team and was immune from the Arena.
     The contestant won in the Arena.
     The contestant lost in the Arena and was eliminated.
     The contestant was voted into the Arena, but did not have to compete.
     The contestant didn't win the challenge or wasn't picked to be in the final challenge and was eliminated.
     The contestant won the team challenge, but was disqualified from the competition due to physical violence.
     The contestant was forced to leave the competition due to injury.
     The contestant withdrew from the competition.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Ashley withdrew from the competition in Episode 3 due to a family emergency back at home. Zach gave his MVP earnings from the recent challenge won to Ashley.
  2. 1 2 3 Prior to the "Slamball" challenge in Episode 3, Terrell Owens quit the competition after he engaged in a verbal altercation with CT at the end of the previous episode.
  3. 1 2 3 Jenna suffered a fractured ankle during the "Parkour the Course" challenge in Episode 2, and was subsequently forced to withdraw from the competition.
  4. 1 2 3 Camila was disqualified from the competition after the first challenge, following an incident in which she assaulted a production assistant.
  5. 1 2 Ariane was selected for the Arena in Episode 2, but did not have to compete. After Jenna's departure from the competition due to injury, Emily voted for Jenna as the LVP, and as a result, host The Miz announced that no female Arena would be held.
  6. The Stars were tied after the LVP vote, so the Champs got to choose anyone of the female competitors for the Stars LVP
  7. 1 2 3 The Champs and Stars competed individually, with the fastest time of each gender of each team moving on to the final. The third and final member for each team was then chosen by the winners.

Episodes

No. in
season
No. in
series
Title Original air date U.S. TV first-run viewers
(million)
17"Tow Big, or Tow Home"November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21)0.666[3]
28"Parkour All Obstacles"November 28, 2017 (2017-11-28)0.536[4]
39"Slamballs and Elbow Brawls"December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05)0.736[5]
410"When Push Comes to Shoving Stars"December 12, 2017 (2017-12-12)0.542[6]
511"Playing Me for the Foos"December 19, 2017 (2017-12-19)0.593[7]
612"Flag Poles and False Hopes"December 26, 2017 (2017-12-26)0.523[8]
713"Sink, Purge, Repeat"January 2, 2018 (2018-01-02)0.689[9]
814"It's the Final Countdown"January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09)0.609[10]

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