The Challenge Theory IV: Why Were They on That Team?

This in my mind will be the first segment in a series of posts about why certain players ended up on certain teams during the history of "The Challenge". The reason being is because I can name about 10 or 15 examples of times in which a player should have or shouldn't have been on one team or another, but I don't want to relegate 10 or 15 posts about the topic. Because of this, I will use this post to name THREE examples that I can think of and why they ended up on the team that they ended up on. Hopefully this will tie every who reads what I am writing over until I can think of a new topic.

Number 1: Dan and the Miz "Inferno 2" (2005)

 

Dan (left) and Mike "The Miz" (right) in the "Inferno 2" (2005)

So way back in the day (2000 to 2004) the format for the "Real World Road Rules Challenge" was Real World versus Road Rules, just so that there wasn't any confusion. However, because Road Rules had absolutely wiped the floor with Real World in the "Gauntlet" and the "Inferno", Bunim/Murray Productions decided to make a change in the team format. So in the "Inferno 2", they added the format of "Good Guys" (blue) versus "Bad A**es" (red) in order to get a sort of angels versus devils system going on. For most of the players on both teams, the selection was very obvious. On the Bad A** team you had:

Derrick Kosinski, whose previous challenge "Battle of the Sexes 2" showed him making negative outbursts with his fellow teammates during a team meeting.

Chris "CT" Tamburello, made a splash on his season of "Real World: Paris" by being rude to his fellow cast members and especially push Adam King into the middle of the street, not to mention being rude to Leah Gillingwater during the first season of the "Inferno" back in early 2004.

Veronica Portillo was a designated "mean girl" who used her body in the "Gauntlet" to get people to not vote for her and especially being extra mean to Katie Dooley.

Tonya Cooley, did you see her during the "Battle of the Sexes 2" basically do everything to get into every guy's pants?

Tina Barta was one of the only true bad people on the team. Not only does she look like a bad a**, she has the attitude to back it up. We all remember her outburst at Tonya over a telephone on "Battle of the Sexes".

Abram Boise sure didn't act like a bad person on "Battle of the Sexes 2" but he sure didn't have a great attitude on the "Inferno". Especially with the way he mocked Katie during a mission and by the way he fashioned that mohawk.

And now some of the Good Guys:

Jon Brennan is the self-proclaimed Christian and follows Jesus Christ, so he was an easy pick to be a Good Guy.

Jaime Chung is a good girl and doesn't show any side of being evil.

Shavonda Bilingslea was someone who didn't have many outbursts on her show and was genuinely a nice person.

Darrell Taylor, while a boxer and someone who looks like the devil was actually a nice guy up until this season and even after the chance to hit CT in the "Inferno", he actually sat back.

Jodi Weatherton probably could have been considered to be a Bad A** because of her intentions to get drunk and hook up, she likely wasn't because of her timid personality.

Landon Lueck leading up to this season was also more of a tool than a bad person, and yes, I am saying that even though he threw knives.

As for Brad Fiorenza and Robin Hibbard, yes, I know they spent time in jail during "The Real World: San Diego", but they have not done anything since then and Brad went to jail for no good reason at all.

With that said, there is one major "unknown" controversy in the casting of the teams (besides Julie and Beth because Julie told Bunim/Murray that she wouldn't do the show if she wasn't a Good Guy, so they likely swapped her with Beth) and that controversy is between Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Dan Renzi. You see, if it was up to me, I would have put Mike on the Bad A** team and Dan on the Good Guys team. Reason being is that besides one outburst on "Real World: Miami", Dan was actually a good guy. He was at that point known on the "Battle of the Sexes" in Jamaica as being a honorary female cast member because being gay, he would often spend time in the women's villa.

Mike on the other hand was consistently known for being bad. At first he declared himself "The Miz" and challenged Lori on the "Real World: Back to New York" for being a sellout for getting a 9 to 5 job. Not to mention him yelling at Kendall in the "Inferno" for volunteering herself to go into the Inferno with Leah and for getting epically wasted on his 21st birthday and verbally beating himself up for losing "Hands of Saturn. My point is that Mike had more of a reason to be a Bad A** than Dan did. It is more than likely, they made Mike a Good Guy to balance out the teams as it wouldn't be fair if the teams were Landon, Dan, Brad, Darrell, and Jon versus CT, Derrick, Mike, Kuramo, and Abram. Not to mention they probably wanted to keep Abram and Mike on separate teams in order to balance things out.

Number 2: CT and Wes versus Johnny and Frank "Rivals II" (2013)

The second major casting question that I had was the one that pertained to the pairing of CT with Wes and Johnny "Bananas" with Frank. Now everyone knows that CT had a huge rivalry with Wes, pretty much since the beginning. After CT ripped off the flag in "Push Me" and was disqualified, CT first yelled at Brad, who tried to calm CT down and then got in a huge argument with Wes. I seemingly remember the argument going a little something like this:

Johnny "Bananas" and Frank (top)
CT and Wes (bottom) on "Rivals 2" (2013)

CT: Go home to your girlfriend you are putting the ring on lay away.

Wes: You are going to bring up the girlfriend? Why don't I fake date someone to get to the end of this?!

CT: Why don't you mind your own business?

Wes: You're a scumbag!

CT: YOU'RE A SCUMBAG!

Afterwards, we all know that in "Rivals" (2011), CT and Wes had an argument which escalated in Wes throwing CT's mattress out the window and on to the deck. It is safe to say that while I am questioning the partnership, I can see them as being Rivals.

However, the pairing that I cannot see as Rivals was the pairing of Johnny "Bananas" and Frank from the "Real World: Back to San Diego". Johnny and Frank had never been on a challenge, merely the only interaction they had was on twitter where Johnny dogged Frank, Zach, Ashley, and Sam for being rookies and people complaining about them being on TV. Yes, there was a bit of a twitter "spat", but in my mind, they didn't spend any time on TV with each other and the move just confused me.

In my opinion, the real pairings should have been Johnny/CT and Wes/Frank. Johnny and CT because they actually had a rivalry with Johnny arguing with CT in the "Gauntlet 3" over Johnny getting nominated for an elimination and CT carrying Johnny on his back like a transformer with his own personal "Bananas" backpack to eliminate Johnny from "Cut-Throat" (2010). Not to go off on a tangent, Wes and Frank could have been rivals from "Battle of the Seasons" (2012) where Frank had an argument with Wes because the San Diego cast had free reign over the house and the Austin cast was upset about it. To be honest, I don't know what the argument was about, but I know it happened. I think that they paired the teams up that way so that things would be more fair. Lets be honest, a CT/Johnny pairing would have just been plain unfair in almost every way.

Number 3: Why was Jaime Murray a Rookie on "Gauntlet II"? (2005)

Finally for a bit of lesser known tidbit on the "Real World Road Rules Challenge" was the placing of Jaime Murray from the "Real World New Orleans" (2000) on the rookie team on the "Gauntlet II". You see, after they scrapped the Real World versus Road Rules format, they decided to make a Rookies versus Veterans format. A veteran was contestant that had been on two or more previous challenges and a rookie was someone who had been on one or no previous challenges. That all became a mess when Jaime Murray was put on the rookie team when he had already been in the "Extreme Challenge" (2001) and "Battle of the Sexes" (2003) already with the "Gauntlet II" being his third challenge. More than likely, this is more easily solvable as Bunim/Murray Productions had a male rookie (most likely either Steven or Frank from "Real World: Las Vegas") and merely inserted Jaime in there to take that person's place. Don't get on Jaime for this mishap though because he ended up winning his third consecutive challenge and being the second player in the history of the show to do it.

Jamie Murray on "Gauntlet 2" (2005)

The Challenge Theory III: Partner Challenge Domination

"The Challenge" or what was once the "Real World Road Rules Challenge" was at first a competition between alumni from "Real World" and "Road Rules". Out of the first nine challenges, six of them were exclusively competitions between Real World and Road Rules. These seasons included "The Real World Road Rules Challenge", "Challenge 2000", "The Extreme Challenge", "Battle of the Seasons", "The Gauntlet" and the "Inferno". In four of these challenges the Road Rules team usually won by a large margin, especially at the end, which caused Bunim/Murray Productions to scrap the whole idea of Real World versus Road Rules. The swapped it with themes like "Good Guys versus Bad A**es" or "Rookies versus Veterans" or "Champions versus Challengers" or "Red Team versus Blue Team versus Gray Team".

Usually in these challenges you would have one team vote a player from their team to go against a player from the other team or visa versa where one team would vote in a player from the other team to face one of their players that was voted in by the other team. The individual challenges (formerly called "missions") would allow the winning team to split the $10,000 or $20,000 winnings in their team bank account or their individual bank account. And finally, it would allow the remaining teammates at the end of the season to split the winnings from the final mission if their team happened to win. These were my favorite types of challenges to watch because I always liked seeing the challengers work as a team and always rooting for the underdogs on said teams. 

Bad A**es win Inferno 3 (top)
Road Rules team wins the first Inferno (bottom)

Now, while I always liked this approach to the show, it always carried with it many problems. The first of many problems was in every one of these team challenge seasons, there was always that one player who was always picked to go to eliminations. Whether it was because their team didn't like them or they thought they weren't as good, it always seemed to happen and it always made the rest of their team scared of go into eliminations. Also, when immunities and life shields were involved, teams would always try to make sure that a certain person got the life shield so they could throw in said "undesired" players or when it came to male and female elimination days, the men would always throw the mission so that they would get a chance to get rid of a female on their team. Probably the best example of this was the case of Sarah Greyson in "The Gauntlet". Sarah was seen as being weak because of her performance on "Road Rules: Campus Crawl" where she consistently quit in missions and was sent home because of it. The Road Rules team put her into the Gauntlet five times and each time she came back and eventually went on to split the "Handsome Reward" with the rest of her team that tried to get rid of her.

Sarah Greyson in the "Gauntlet"

Now it wouldn't be fair to also address the fact that there were pair and individual challenges during this time. They included two seasons of the "Battle of the Sexes", two seasons of "Fresh Meat", two seasons of "The Duel" and one season of "The Island". "Battle of the Sexes", while considered a team challenge was also an individual challenge because of how they voted players off their own team. "Fresh Meat" was a challenge where each "Real World" or "Road Rules" alumni could draft one fresh meat player based on statistics from a sort of combine trial. "The Duel" was a free for all challenge and "The Island" was a challenge where the contestants went to an island off the cost of Panama, didn't compete in any missions or eliminations, but rather eight different "Face-Offs" in order to earn a key and not get voted off the island.

Abram and Johnny "Bananas" in the 

voting ceremony on "The Island" (2008)

Now before I discuss my theory for why they made the change to partner challenges, let me talk about the current gripings that I have with pairing challenges. First and foremost, they have run it into the ground. Since 2011 they have had three "Rivals" seasons, three "Battle of the Exes" seasons, which are basically rehashes of "Rivals" with coed pairs, and "Bloodlines", which paired a challenge alumni up with a brother, sister, or a cousin of theirs. Basically it just laziness on the part of Bunim/Murray Productions to see something in the past that was received decently and replicating it five or six times. And while there have been minute rule changes to make "Rivals" different from "Rivals 2" and "Rivals 3" it still hasn't been enough to stop the fan griping. 

Not to mention the individual challenges are very repetitive and so are the eliminations. I swear, 90% of the challenges or "missions" are merely high up in the air where the contestants have to jump from one place to another or go across a beam that is high off the ground, or one partner has to help the other partner across. And don't even get me started with some of these eliminations. I think I can name four or five eliminations that have merely been reused because they have "run out of ideas". Likely because they cannot come up with something else that shows the physicality of the players instead of what was used before which was a lot of personal endurance and mental toughness.

Jessica performing phase 3 of "Out on a Ledge" in Free Agents (2014)

With that said, this is my theory. Back during the "Gauntlet" and "Inferno" era, one of the negative aspects was the fact that at the end, the team that won the final mission would win around $250,000, but they would have to split that amount with anywhere between four players and nine players. The main issue with this is the fact that instead of getting half of the amount of money they won, they would only end up getting anywhere between $25,000 to $55,000 so it wouldn't be nearly as much if you and a partner won $250,000 and got to split the amount right down the middle. This also added the ability to have the runners up and the second runners up win $35,000 a piece and $15,000 a piece. At the end of the day, it is more money gained per final and you don't have to worry about getting rid of people or worry about others attempting to sabotage you in a mission to make sure that you end up in the next elimination challenge. Not to mention, imagine splitting $230,000 with nine people, which is $25,000 rounded down and you end up with a lot of useless coinage in the wake of you winning. 

I actually liked the idea of having a challenge where at times players were partners, at times they were on a large team and at times they were on a small team like "Free Agents", which is a more modern version of "The Duel", but they really need to find a way to reinvent themselves. Even though "The Challenge" is getting a 29th season, the show has slowly regressed in viewers and the originality that made it so special in the beginning. The amount of drama in the show can only do so much until it discontinues and everyone needs to go ahead and watch a new reality show. I think we are all looking forward to that 29th season and hoping that they will do something different to keep the mouths of the fanboys watering. 

The Challenge Theory II: Tonya Cooley's Sexual Assault Accusation

I just want to preface this post by saying that rape and sexual assault are terrible things. If you or anyone you know has been raped and sexually assaulted, please go or have them go to the authorities to start an investigation. With that said, this is probably the craziest incident that ever did or ever could have occurred in challenge history. In this case I am going to be an objective as possible here as to not slander any of the people involved because of how serious the matter is in the world today.

Tonya Cooley was probably the most complex cast member in challenge history. She originally began in 2002 on the cast of "Real World Chicago" where she was the clean-cut girl with a boyfriend and didn't do anything crazy or taboo. She often bickered with her cast members Theo and Aneesa because the both of them were more of party animals and more promiscuous than she was. She later made her challenge debut on the "Battle of the Sexes" in Jamaica. She also came into this challenge with a boyfriend and was most known for not wanting to take her clothes off during the mission called "Battle of the Opposite Sexes" because of her morals.

Tonya on Real World Chicago  (2002)                                                                         Tonya on Battle of the Sexes (2003)

Fast forward to about a year later, Tonya had ditched the boyfriend and the good girl persona, got breast implants and got drunk all the time. When she entered the "Battle of the Sexes 2", Tonya was sleeping with multiple guys (Ace and Theo Von in particular), putting rocks in her mouth, and was getting drunk all the time. 

Later that year, she starred in the "Inferno 2" where she admitted to sleeping with Mark Long, who was dating fellow cast member Robin Hibbard, which lead to Tonya being called a slut and a whore. This then lead to Tonya throwing her fellow Bad Asses' clothing into a swimming pool making Beth Stolarczyk eventually threaten to leave the show because she didn't want to be threatened. Tonya would then squabble all season with the "Mean Girls" (Tina, Rachel and Veronica) for unknown, dramatic reasons. Both Tonya and Rachel would later lament making Tonya's life miserable by pointing out that they were young and dumb, however, Tina never got over her distaste for Tonya. Tonya likely was falling into this lifestyle because as she explained, she didn't receive a lot of attention as a child because she would go from foster family to foster family as a child. 

Tonya with a rock in her mouth (top left)Tonya throwing Beth's clothes into the pool (bottom left)"Mean Girls" Tina, Rachel, Veronica (above)

It wasn't until a few years later in 2006 where Tonya became a full blown alcoholic where she was starring on "Fresh Meat" and a year before that on a reality show that also starred with Jonny Fairplay on the 2005 reality show called "Kill Reality". This was a show in which Tonya was known for getting drunk, partying, and grabbing Jonny Fairplay's balls. Tonya was also starting to take the challenge very seriously because she wasn't winning and that she thought that people weren't voting teams off based on merit. Tonya constantly bickered with other cast members including her partner Johnnie, who was never seen again after "Fresh Meat", likely because he wasn't very impressive. 

However, in 2007, Tonya finally won her first challenge on the Bad A** team in the "Inferno 3". She actually arrived onto the show with a husband back in the United States. With that said, she continued her mean streak of getting drunk, stripping and making out with the rookie cast member Davis Mallory. This would have been a big issue, but Davis was gay. It is not known if Tonya was having problems back home, but what was known was that Davis and Tonya were close friends and that Tonya immediately lamented making out with Davis in the hot tub by exclaiming "I HATE IT WHEN I HURT PEOPLE!"

It wasn't until "The Island" in 2008 and "The Ruins" in 2009 where Tonya literally became a complete train wreck. Honestly, in the beginning of her time, it was kind of funny that she would do bad things, but she was likely into her early 30's and later on it was no longer light hearted anymore. She was consistently drunk arguments with people, she was throwing up all the time, she slapped Veronica in the face (which stemmed from past hatred towards Veronica) and she just seemed like an unpleasant person to be around. She actually was doing well in "The Ruins", but her constant alcohol binges was starting to make her "Champions" teammates not respect her and made the audience think that Tonya's life might not be that great. After disqualifying herself by slapping Veronica in the face, we never saw Tonya on "The Challenge" again and we really didn't know 100% why. 

Tonya slapping Veronica on "The Ruins" (2009)

It wasn't until late 2011 where allegations came about a possible rape case on the set of "The Ruins" back in 2009. In this case, Tonya Cooley accused male teammates Evan Starkman and Kenny Santucci of penetrating her vagina with a toothbrush while the cameras were rolling without her consent, while she was intoxicated. This lead to Tonya settling out of court, which consequently caused Tonya, Evan and Kenny to be barred from any future season of "The Challenge". It also caused MTV to be more strict when it came to sexual assault. In the next season "Battle of the Exes" (2012) Vinny was kicked off the show because he tried to take Mandi's dress off at a night club without her permission. 

Now the real question is, who do I believe and why? First things first, this is a really loaded question with a lot to consider. You see, back in 2009, Evan and Kenny were basically the two main money makers for "The Challenge" (the others being John Devenanzio "Johnny Bananas" and Wes Bergman), not to mention Kenny, Evan and even Johnny would have likely been able to get away with anything and not get kicked off the show. I faintly remember many times where Evan, Kenny and Johnny pulled pranks on cast members, which included Johnny hitting Tonya in the face with baby powder, Kenny or Evan trying to take Katie's pants off, and Johnny throwing glue and feathers on a picture of Derrick's child. These guys were on top of the world and used it to their advantage to be horrible to people. 

Now again, this is my objective opinion and I am not attempting to slander people. With that said, I am going to first outline evidence for why they could have committed rape against Tonya. The first bit of evidence is the fact that apparently Wes and Katie claim that the assault or rape did happen. Not to mention, after it happened Katie admitted off the record that it was her toothbrush that was used during the assault. Later on, Kenny stopped sleeping with female cast members on the show (even when they made advances towards them) and stopped acting like a bad person all the time. However, these are the only known reasons why the rape or assault could have happened. 

This story was considered in the past until Johnny Devenanzio came out in an interview calling Tonya a liar looking to cash in on a situation. And despite the fact that there was a mention that unnamed female cast members notified Tonya that an assault took place, Johnny still sticks to saying "nothing criminal took place at all." To be honest, this is something that you would expect from Johnny because he is friends with Evan and Kenny. He also went on to say that "the only think they (Evan and Kenny) are guilty of is taking jokes too far." 

Evan, Johnny and Kenny

Here is my theory. I think they definitely had sex and it might have been done with the toothbrush. But I think all three were completely drunk. I have no idea how someone can make up claims that someone penetrated them with a toothbrush. That just seems like it is so random that it has to hold some water. Now Susie and Sarah claim that they were both in the room when the said event took place, but they claim that nobody raped anybody and that everything was consensual. I do also have to question Tonya's integrity at the same time. I don't like to go against the victim in rape and sexual assault situations, but the case is just so circumstantial. 

Now there was an actually rape case that occurred at Vanderbilt University between football players and a college coed, but there were pictures of the act and hallway videos of the culprits carrying the victim into the room that she was assaulted in. Even that victim was passed out drunk and unaware that her attackers had done anything to her. She even went on to stay friends with one of the defendants that carried out the act. 

The problem with this case is that it is very hard to stay objective here, but it is hard to take Tonya at her word. She was consistently drunk throughout the season and often times being drunk leads to hallucinations of things happening that didn't. Now could it have happened? Of course it could have, I wouldn't put it past Evan and Kenny to do something like that, especially on that particular season to a weaker minded individual like Tonya, it is just very hard to put her at her word and it is even harder with so much circumstantial he said, she said evidence. Again, I do reiterate the fact that they did have sex and I also believe that the female cast member that told Tonya that it happened might have either misunderstood or might have not liked Evan and Kenny. Not to mention, without video proof I cannot give a clear answer that anything bad actually happened. 

Again, I want a possible discussion here, what do you think? Do you think that Evan and Kenny raped or sexually assaulted Tonya with a toothbrush? Or do you think she made it up or was too drunk to remember? Understand that I have to be objective here because of how I feel about certain cast members, but I think that in the end, this theory was as unbiased as possible. 

The Challenge Theory I: Timmy Beggy's Disqualification From Inferno 3

One of my all time favorite "Real World Road Rules" challengers in the history of the show happened to be Timmy Beggy. Timmy was originally a fun spirited and comedic Pittsburgh native that first showed up on "Road Rules: USA Season 2" in the mid 1990's and got his first shot on the 5th season of the challenge in "Battle of the Seasons". He would appear in three total challenges until his final one where he was on the Good Guys team in the "Inferno 3" and in those three previous challenges he had never been eliminated.

In the 10th episode of the season, the Good Guys and the Bad A**es faced each other in a mission called "Dog Day Afternoon", which was based on the movie by the same name. In this mission, male and female pairs on one team would push a dog sled from one side of a field to the other carrying a male and female pair from the other team on the sled. The team with the best cumulative time would end up winning the mission.

Alton and Susie (Good guys) 

pulling two Bad A**es during 

"Dog Day Afternoon". 

Previously to the mission, the Bad A**es selected Ace from the Good Guys to go into the Inferno and Ace was the male player who won the Life Shield because him and Cara had the best time for the Good Guys, he would not be the one to go to the Inferno, so he had to pick either Timmy, John, or Davis to go in. Originally John and Ace were adamant to put Davis in based on his past performance, but Timmy elected to be put into the Inferno. The reason he gave was because he was older than everyone else and he slowed the team down in "Dog Day Afternoon". Despite the fact that Ace didn't want to put Timmy in, he reluctantly agreed to send his friend and the heart of the Good Guys team into the Inferno. In reality, Timmy claimed that he could barely stand during the missions and that he might have torn his hamstring.

Much like Ace, Kenny Stanucci the self proclaimed "ladies man" was voted in by the Good Guys because they usually went after the weakest player on the other team. And because Kenny didn't seem as tough as Derrick and Abram, they selected him. Kenny also won the Life Shield with his partner Evelyn and he selected Abram to battle Timmy in the Inferno. The Inferno was called "Smash House" where both players were placed in a small glass cube that had two bigger cubes on the outside of it, each cube bigger than the other. They were also given metal rings to break the glass and they were each suspended in the air at a distance of around 20 feet or so. Both players had to race to break ALL glass panes and the one who did this first won.

Now here is where the controversy begins, Timmy actually broke through all of the panes first and then broke through the bottom and won "Smash House". However, to the dismay of the Good Guys, Timmy was disqualified because the glass pane at the top was not broken, even when it hit the ground. Abram was awarded the victory and Timmy went home, but not before a retirement speech where he told everyone "to keep doing challenges" and he left.

Timmy after finding out that he was disqualified from "Smash 

House" (left) Timmy giving his farewell speech (right)

Even after watching this episode back in 2007 I still had many questions about what had taken place because it had only been the third time a player had been disqualified from an elimination (the first two being Beth and CT after being unable to pull a carabiner off a hook in "The Duel"). This was the first time I had ever seen a pane of glass drop to the ground from about 20 feet and not shatter into a million pieces. Now while I don't have the exact clip of what happened because the whole season was deleted off of Dailymotion, but I am pretty sure that if a pane of glass had dropped from that distance, it would have shattered. It was almost as if the glass was merely plastic or something because of how it fell and the velocity of the fall. 

This leads me to believe one of a few things. The first is that the whole elimination was staged and Timmy planned to get eliminated. For this to be true, Timmy would have had to go to the producers and tell them that he was going to give his all, but that they would have to award the win to his opponent, which was very likely due to the fact that Timmy's retirement speech was so well rehearsed. The second possibility is that Murray/Bunim Productions knew of his injury and staged his exit from the show without him knowing. Evidence of this could be Timmy's reaction to being disqualified as you can see from Timmy's open mouth face to the left. Third possibility is that Timmy had no idea that this was going to happen and MTV didn't rig the elimination to allow Abram to win. 

Now besides a bit of fan speculation, the fact that this whole thing was rigged was purely "circumstantial", but I am leaning more towards the second option of Timmy not knowing and MTV rigging it so that Timmy would lose. This is the only outcome that I can come to because I have a hard time believing that a pane of glass that big does not split into a million pieces upon impact with the ground at that distance unless it was the hardest glass in the world. It just seems highly coincidental to me that one pane of glass doesn't break for Timmy when he strangely enough is about to retire from the challenges. I wish I could find more evidence of this, but searching "Timmy Beggy elimination from Inferno 3 MTV Abram rigged Smash House" didn't net me many results besides a few pictures and a few articles talking about the elimination. Hopefully this theory can lead to more discussion on the topic because it is something that not a lot of fans talk about because it happened such a long time ago. 

Introduction

When people think of reality TV shows one of the most important aspects has to be that the show needs to revolve around drama in order to receive ratings. However, one type of reality TV show that I have been very interested in is the "competition" style of reality TV shows. Currently, one of the longest standing "competition" style reality TV shows has been "The Challenge" or what was formerly known as "The Real World Road Rules Challenge", which was originally born from the two MTV MEGA series "Real World and Road Rules". I have been watching the series since 2002 and since then I have studied the competitors, the missions or "challenges" which they are called now, the final missions, the eliminations and the drama.

Because of the fact that there have been many things that are left unsaid about the seasons and a lot of questions that the fans ask, I want to attempt to give my two cents on these controversies. I will be researching each of them and giving analysis based on articles that I have read as well as fan speculation. Some of these theories will be based on recent aspects of the show and some will be based off of events that occurred a long time ago. Examples of such theories are explaining whether or not Tonya was sexually assaulted by two male cast members on "The Ruins" or why we only see paired up partner challenges or how a pane of glass does not break as it hits a solid surface.

Of course, these theories are mainly my opinion and there might be countering opinions based on people's interpretation of the evidence. I will listen to all opinions and if there is any viewer who wishes for me to research one of their theories and post my opinion on it, I will gladly do so. Thank you and enjoy!