The Challenge: Rivals II - Discussion (Spoilers)

[QUOTE=VegasAtSea;338745]Chris Tamburello (13)Wes Bergmann (16)Johnny Bananas (17)Tyrie Ballard (18)Dunbar Merrill(19)Derek Chavez (22)[I]Ty Ruff (23)[/I]?Ryan Knight (24)_______________________________Leroy Garrett (25)Frank Sweeney (26)Zach Nichols (26)Brandon Swift (27)Trey Weatherholtz (27)Robb Schreiber (27)Jordan Wiseley (28)Marlon Williams (28)Trishelle Cannatella (12)Diem Brown (FM, We'll put her with Wes)Paula Meronek (16)Sarah Rice (21)Devyn Simone (21)Jasmine Reynaud (22)Jonna Mannion (22)Emily Schromm (23)_______________________Camila Nakagawa (Spring Break)Jemmye Carroll (24)Heather Cooke (25)Nany Gonzalez (25)Naomi Defensor (25)Jessica McCain (28)Anastasia Miller (28)Mystery GirlOld School vs. New School, perhaps? This may be a stretch regarding Camila, but I think this could possibly be another format.[/QUOTE]The mysterious girl need to be laura waller so she can kick jessica ***

[QUOTE=VegasAtSea;338675]What if this last rookie female was someone like Belou or Jo or Becky... I would be extremely happy. I'd laugh though if Jo ever came back lolololol[/QUOTE]lol that would be amazing! Would love to see Becky (or even Heather B or Julie from NY!)! It would be really funny if they tired to put Jo on the show again.......but yeah, a very random old school vet just appearing would make me extremely happy. Julie the Mormon is another face I miss! And Anne Wharton.....bring her back :)

The picture uploader isn't working for me for some reason, but I think TJ Lavin might have given us our first clue about the location for this season. TJ posted this on instagram two hours ago: [url=http://instagram.com/p/Xa-X3ridhk/]Photo by tjlavin • Instagram[/url]. The pic is incredibly blurry and I think that may be intentional since he gave the location away last season with his posts. In the caption for the picture he writes, "Never saw dudes racing fixies on a flat track.. It was pretty fun to watch @fairdalebikes have you ever seen it?" If you look at the @fairdalebikes instagram account, he has been posting pictures from Taipei, Taiwan as early as 4 days ago. We know that the cast is somewhere in the Asia Pacific so Taiwan is certainly a possibility.

Ideally, the rookie girl would be Mallory or Christena (South Pacific) and the rookie male would be someone like Colin (Hawaii) but I just think those are dreams. Plus, both they'd have pretty much no chance as they'd continually be tossed into eliminations if the Rookie team had any control

[QUOTE=kvm1977;338837]Ideally, the rookie girl would be Mallory or Christena (South Pacific) and the rookie male would be someone like Colin (Hawaii) but I just think those are dreams. Plus, both they'd have pretty much no chance as they'd continually be tossed into eliminations if the Rookie team had any control[/QUOTE]I would also like your dreams to come true in this instance lol

Looks like a roller derby on bikes, pretty cool.And yeah its probably Taiwan then. I can't imagine theres many places west of LAX that would need a connection flight through Taiwan.

Taiwan? Really? So boring.

If it's really Taiwan. We should look out for Taipei 101. I'm sure they'd to do a challenge there.

[QUOTE=Nostalgic;338848]Taiwan? Really? So boring.[/QUOTE] I don't know I think its pretty cool, its probably the closest they could get to China. And you never know, China might knock out a few satellites and invade during the season, that would make for some good TV.

I don't know if we should take it as a compliment or an insult the the reality czar Jacoby from Grantland mentioned Vevmo, and linked to it.

Maybe this is really a Ruins 2. The first Ruins filmed in Thailand, so maybe they're doing the sequel in Asia as well.

Not enough champion females for a ruin 2.

[QUOTE=Kajun;338860]Not enough champion females for a ruin 2.[/QUOTE] It may be The Ruins 2 with a tweaked format of Old School vs. New School or Veterans vs. Rookies. Just for the heck of it I started re-watching the first Ruins last night and the team concept with the inner circle worked really well. This is kind of on topic so we shall see what you guys and gals think about it... What if they did a Best Friends/Rivals/BOTS mash-up? By that, you have a team of 4 people made up of 2 Vet friends Male/Female and a team of 2 Rookie friends Male/Female. This makes alliance building extremely difficult for many reasons. For instance, one team of four could be Johnny/Paula/Frank/some other rookie girl. So the team is made up of rivals and friends. The alliances get tricky because Johnny and Paul may want to align with CT's team but Frank wants to align with Zach's team. Also, can you imagine the fight between Frank and Johnny about who goes into an elimination? The more I think about it, the more I like it. It'll never happen but one can dream....

On the MTV Poll they had The Ruins 2 as veterans & rookies if I'm not mistaken.

[QUOTE=TheKorean;338859]Maybe this is really a Ruins 2. The first Ruins filmed in Thailand, so maybe they're doing the sequel in Asia as well.[/QUOTE] Or a Cutthroat II since the first was Soviet themed, this could be Qing Dynasty themed.

[QUOTE=ILoveRW;338857]I don't know I think its pretty cool, its probably the closest they could get to China. And you never know, China might knock out a few satellites and invade during the season, that would make for some good TV.[/QUOTE] True!

I feel like the biggest stalker,I think found pictures of the location. I decide to go through the people TJ Lavin is following on instagram, since I came to the conclusion that after hosting some many challenges, he must be following some crew members. I found this comment on this lady airport intagram picture from Laura: [ATTACH]1674[/ATTACH] by that lady found this guy on instagram that also left the country on monday, I google his name and according to IMDB it say that he was a camera assistant for some challenges such as The Inferno, Battle of The Sexes, The Island, The Duel II, etc. Here are the pictures from his current location and TJ Lavin like some of his pictures: [ATTACH]1675[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1676[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1677[/ATTACH] I think it can be Thailand again.

The Inner Circle of the Ruins was first done on the original Battle of the Seasons. It is also the original Battle of the Seasons were the first real Alliance ever formed and got victimized by their own rules. Mark Long was the host of the Challenge with Eric Nies.

Looks like you found a pic of the challenge house haha

Well the writing on that can is Thai. So it could be a few places Indochina but most probably Thailand. But then again would they really go back after The Ruins. Maybe its northern Malaysia.

[QUOTE=Pinky;338867]I think it can be Thailand again.[/QUOTE] Can I just say.. THE THINGS YOUU GUYS ARE FINDING IS REALLY AWESOME!.. Your finds and the Bike Derby pic is like the coolest things ever.. Just wanted to say that.. :)

[QUOTE=ILoveRW;338871]Well the writing on that can is Thai. So it could be a few places Indochina but most probably Thailand. But then again would they really go back after The Ruins. Maybe its northern Malaysia.[/QUOTE] If I were guessing I would add the word South to the name of the location.

[QUOTE=Pinky;338867] I think it can be Thailand again.[/QUOTE] One way to figure out would be to find out the language on that Coke can!

That is a coke can from Thailand! So they must be in Thailand! Great find!!

I don't think this has been addressed yet, but Marlon (or someone using his account) tweeted on the 26th [ATTACH]1678[/ATTACH] [QUOTE=Pinky;338867]I feel like the biggest stalker,I think found pictures of the location. I decide to go through the people TJ Lavin is following on instagram, since I came to the conclusion that after hosting some many challenges, he must be following some crew members. I found this comment on this lady airport intagram picture from Laura: by that lady found this guy on instagram that also left the country on monday, I google his name and according to IMDB it say that he was a camera assistant for some challenges such as The Inferno, Battle of The Sexes, The Island, The Duel II, etc. Here are the pictures from his current location and TJ Lavin like some of his pictures: I think it can be Thailand again.[/QUOTE] Excellent find!

Jessica Mccain just retweeted something yesterday

[QUOTE=theman23;338884]Jessica Mccain just retweeted something yesterday[/QUOTE] [ATTACH]1697[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1696[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1695[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1694[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1693[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1692[/ATTACH] I guess we both got our answers.

I cannot be the only one feeling like Laura is acting this way, just to be called in as an alternate, because she would bring "drama"(her own words!)

Just wanted to say after watching the first episode of Portland I think the Portland guys are going to do well, especially Jordan. He will be one of the top guys in the house imo.

If anyone tweets outside of the Portland cast they can be considered off the show, but since they just started the RW I'm sure they get phone time to promote