Number 1: Dan and the Miz "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:
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)
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