The Challenge
Rivals 2
July 10, 2013
13Episodes
The Challenge: Rivals II is the 24th season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. The season take places in Phuket, Thailand, with former cast members from MTV's The Real World and The Challenge competing. The season followed the same format as the original Rivals challenge, with players paired up with arch enemies from past seasons of The Real World and The Challenge.
Episodes
1. Rumble in the Jungle
July 10, 2013
42 min
16 pairs of rivals arrive in Thailand and the rookies cause trouble quickly, leading to a fight in the pool, two surprising hookups involving bad boy CT, and one competitor going home early- the fate of her partner up in the air.
2. New Girl
July 17, 2013
42 min
The rivals get closer than ever before in a sexy challenge that has each contestant literally tied upside down to each other. And one of the new girls has a freak out when her hookup with a veteran bad boy doesn't go as planned.
3. The Dark Knight Rises
July 24, 2013
42 min
A fight breaks out after one of the competitors is mocked.
4. Mortuusequusphobia
July 31, 2013
42 min
A dangerous elimination event is faced by the contestants.
5. What the Phuket?!
August 7, 2013
42 min
One challenger gets homesick and takes his frustration out on everyone around him. A strategic fumble in voting leads one challenger to accidentally send her hookup into elimination.
6. Revenge Is a Dish Best Not Serve
August 14, 2013
42 min
Competitors reveal their true feelings about each other, creating tension; a team's trustworthiness is questioned.
8. Thrilla in Camila
August 28, 2013
42 min
A team is pushed by exes; a deliberations vote breaks an alliance; a player's motives are questioned.
9. Diemnesia
September 4, 2013
42 min
CT and Diem's romance ignites; the final guys challenge starts a war of intimidation among Johnny, Wes and CT.
10. True Colors
September 11, 2013
42 min
The losing female teams are desperate to secure their places in the final; Diem learns she has been manipulated.
11. Final Destination
September 18, 2013
42 min
The ladies work hard in the last elimination challenge; TJ throws a curve ball before the final.
12. The Island of Misfit Challengers
September 25, 2013
42 min
The teams must leave the luxury of the yacht to battle obstacles on Nightmare Island.
