Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons

Separated into teams of Real World and Road Rules, each cast member is paired off with a castmate from their original season and they gain points after each daily mission based on their performances. The pairs with the most points cumulative from each team form the "Inner Circle" and vote off another pair from their own team. The individual winning pair of each challenge also earn additional prizes. After five pairs from each team are voted off, the final three Real World teams and final three Road Rules teams compete against each other in a series of challenges before the final race, that earns the winning teams $300,000.

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• Hang Man: Teams must hang on a pole as long as they can. The contraption is made so after one team member falls, the other team member will fall immediately.
• Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
• Musical Inner-Tube Tango: In a game similar to musical chairs, teams will dance around a pool. Once the music stops, they must get an inner tube around their head. After each round, there will be two less inner-tubes. If one person from a team does not get an inner-tube, the whole team is eliminated.
• Winners: Stephen & Lindsay (Team Real World)
• Vertical Limit: Each member of the team will climb as high as they can on a rope with buoys on it in three minutes. They will gain a point for every buoy they pass. If they fall off the rope, they cannot get back on, and the number they ended on will be their final number.
• Winners: Danny & Kelley (Team Real World)
• Slam Dunk - Teams will bungee jump together back to back and try to score into hoops valued at 5, 10, and 15 points.
• Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
• Ladder of Doom: A relay race where each member needs to climb down a ladder over a 50-foot basin and retrieve a flag and bring it back to the top of the ladder.
• Winners: Theo & Holly B. (Team Road Rules)
• Round 'Em Up: Teams will enter a ring on horses and have a maximum of 15 minutes to round up at least one cow and get it into the pen.
• Winners: Sean & Elka (Team Real World)
• Rush Hour: Teams will have to move one car out of the puzzle by moving other cars within the puzzle forward and backwards. The cars are not allowed to make any turns. Cars are also not allowed to hit any other cars; if this does happen, the team will be disqualified, and receive a score of 0. Teams will be sequestered for fairness.
• Winners: Sean & Elka (Team Real World)
• Hands on the Saturn: Teams must have at least one whole hand on an ice sculpture of a Saturn sedan at all times. After two, three, and four hours, competitors must place another extremity (hand or feet) until all four are on the ice. Five minute breaks are allotted every three hours.
• Winners: Dan & Tara (Team Road Rules)
• Sidekick Showdown: Similar to the game show, The Newlywed Game, team members must match answers to their team member's responses to personal questions.
• Winners: Mike M. & Coral (Team Real World)
• Blockhead: Each member of the team has a responsibility: a swimmer and a builder. The swimmer must go into the ocean and retrieve cubes. The builder then must build a tower at least 4 cubes high with all the same color face of each cube facing outwards. Afterwards, one player must stand on the structure and blow a whistle.
• Winners: Timmy & Emily (Team Road Rules)
• Siamese Wrestling: Team members will be bound together back to back wrestling another team. The teams need to pin down (a shoulder touching the mat) the other team for three seconds. It will be broken into two rounds: the first round will be two minutes and the second round will be a sudden death.
• Winners: Timmy & Emily (Team Road Rules)

For the final mission, the Ultimate Teams (Sean & Elka for Real World and Theo & Holly B. for Road Rules) must delegate tasks for each team members to accomplish. The finale is divided in a relay race to collect fish. Once the teams collect their fish and solve their puzzle, they must climb a rope ladder to the top of a cliff and cross the finish line.

• Kayaking: Two teams will race on their kayaks to a buoy with a pair of fish hooked to a carabiner. After unhooking their fish, they must kayak to the yacht.
• Free Dive: The two next teams will deep sea dive into the ocean and to retrieve their next set of fish and allow the next team to pass.
• Longboard: The final two teams will swim in tandem on a longboard, unhook their last set of fish from a buoy, and swim out to the beach shore.
• Fishticks Puzzle: After retrieving all of their fish, the teams will then stack them from the smallest fish to the largest fish and transfer them from one end of a stick to another. Once completed, the team may advanced to the rope ladder and cross the finish line.
• Winners: Team Real World (Sean & Elka, Mike M. & Coral, and Danny & Kelley)

;Teams

:{{Color box|red|border=silver}} The contestant is on the Real World team

:{{Color box|blue|border=silver}} The contestant is on the Road Rules team

;Competition

:Bold indicates the Inner Circle

:{{Color box|lime|border=silver}} The team won the final challenge

:{{Color box|skyblue|border=silver}} The team did not win the final challenge

:{{Color box|yellow|border=silver}} The team came in first in the mission and won a prize

:{{Color box|white|border=silver}} The team was safe from elimination

:{{Color box|tomato|border=silver}} The team was eliminated by the Inner Circle

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The reunion special, Real World/Road Rules Challenge Battle of the Seasons: Inside the Inner Circle, was aired live on May 27, 2002 and was attended by the contestants who were in the Inner Circle until the season finale. The special was hosted by Lindsay Brien from The Real World: Seattle and Mark Long from Road Rules: USA – The First Adventure.

• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118154049/http://www.mtv.com/onair/rwrr_challenge/battle_seasons/ |date=November 18, 2006 |title=Official website }}
• [https://www.mtv.com MTV's official Road Rules Website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20010917014710/http://www.mtv.com/onair/realworld/ MTV's official Real World Website]

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Category:The Challenge (TV series)

Category:2002 American television seasons

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