I'm watching Battle of the Sexes and Ruthie really surprised me on that challenge! She was a beast! The fact that she outperformed the ENTIRE cast in the Dead Man's Drop mission by hanging on there the longest was super impressive to me! Her outperforming all the guys on the Maximum Velocity mission was great too. It was awesome seeing her win that mission for the girls. The prize was epic too 
four brand new cars. ****, the golden era was everything back then.
I'm just bored lol what are everyone's favorite impressive/surprising/unexpected moments from The Challenge?
I agree with you Justin and I am really looking forward to the upcoming comments in this thread!
Sarah and Irulan hanging upside down for at least 48 minutes (Sarah could've possibly hung longer). You could really see they both wanted to stay. Not to mention they smoked everyone's times on Battle of the Sexes I.
1.) Camila taking out Emilee and Katie on her first season. I thought for sure she'd be the first to go just because she did look a bit unathletic.
2.)Diem taking out Jenn on The Duel 2. It showed she had a lot of heart.
3.)Landon winning a majority of the duel 2 challenges.
4.)LaToya and Jemmye putting up a **** of a fight in the Free Agents elimination.
5.)Sarah Greyson winning five elimination rounds and winning the final challenge on The Gauntlet.
6.)Brittini outperforming Rachel in multiple challenges on The Duel 2.
7.)Cara Maria taking out Nia on Free Agents.
8.)Nanys (even though she's not my favorite) performance on the final challenge on Free Agents.
9.)Landon managing o drag Carley's *** to the finish line of Fresh Meat 2.
10.)Wes/Casey surviving 5 elimination rounds with arguably the worst female competitor.
Svetlana's performance on The Duel will always be really impressive to me. Who would've thought out of all the girls on that cast that she would win the most eliminations and get second place. Especially after how she was portrayed on The Real World.
This has to be one of the top five moments ever! I remember reading The Miz's blog for The Gauntlet and he also mentioned the fact how both girls outperformed the entire cast on Battle of the Sexes. That was one of my favorite eliminations.
Kimberly eliminating Ruthie in the Back Off elimination on The Duel II was another impressive moment to me. I thought Ruthie would win for sure and was shocked how Kimberly outsmarted her in both rounds.
Landon's prefomance on The Fresh Meat 2 Finale.
That is one of the most impressive showings I have ever seen on this show bar none. Noone has wowed me like that since. It really cemented Landon as one of the best competitiors to ever grace this show.
THIS... Landon beat Kenny who is known for being for being a beast in finales and Laurel who is one of the best girls to ever be on a challenge and he had Carley as a partner.. That was such a well deserved win.
Agreed. That to me is why I think Landon is the King of Challenges. Backpack may have more wins and CT may have better flashy moments but nether have impressed me the way Landon did in that final. I don't care what ANYONE says. Landon rules all.
There's 3 "moments" that stand out for me
1. Ruthie on Battle of the Sexes. I like Battle of the Seasons and the 6 vs 6 format but Ruthie's performance got me hooked forever. Having watched Hawaii and seeing her be able to have that kind of success impressed me.
2. Landon's final on Fresh Meat II. I don't think Carley is as bad as some make her out to be BUT Laurel & Kenny should have crushed them. Landon's a beast...always was but that solidified it for anyone that was unwilling to accept it.
3. Sarah beating Irulan on The Gauntlet...and had Irulan won I would have had her listed her. Most of Sarah's wins were "iffy"...I still think she should have been DQ'd against Rachel B but for those women to battle for 48 minutes...there's no words.
To be fair to Kenny, Laurel slowed him down big time on the FM2 final... but at the same time.... Landon hauled that bag or dummy up the mountain without Carley's help after all that mountain biking. Meh. Landon is the goat
Landon is a god.
When Laurel beasted Free agents was impressive to me. also on Zach's performance on every mission on Free Agents.
The way I've always looked at the "who's the best" question is, if somehow every solid competitor participated in an individual challenge format, who would you bet your life savings on? I think anyone that wouldn't pick prime Landon over all others in a hypothetical all stars Duel is kidding themselves. He's going to have the best chance to win the majority of daily challenges, if he does get put into an elimination he's going to be favored over everyone unless it's a pure strength competition and he's against CT or one of the large guys. And if he makes the final, it's a wrap.
Since the FM2 final has been covered, ill mention other ones.
C.T Backpacking Bananas.
Wes and Kenny's 45 minute lead on rivals 1 day 1 one of the final
Michael getting as far as he did that season. I was really rooting for him and Lee that season.
Paula housing the food part on Rivals 2 final.
C.T's firehose vomit, he could put out burning buildings with that.
Camila and Bananas win on BOTE1, i thought for sure Diem and C.T would win.
Nany only being like 9? minutes behind LAUREL on FA final.
Not so much a moment but Wes had pretty much a perfect game on BOTE2 untill the twist came along.
KellyAnne outperforming Rachel during their face-off on The Island was also impressive to me because I really thought Rachel was going to easily beat her. That face-off showed that KellyAnne had a lot of heart. KellyAnne knew she had to win or else she was going to be voted out by everybody.
-Kimberly defeated Vets like Robin, Ruthie, & Ibis
-Marie wins against Cara Maria in Oil Wrestling
-Noor's performance in Fresh Meat 2
-Marlon/Jordan defeated Ty/Leroy in their first elimination
-Leroy defeated Wes 3 out of 3 in his first elimination in "X Battle"
Ty beating Abram on X-Battle
Agreed. I was very happy for Ty after that.
.....
When reading the thread title, ruthie on sexes 1 came to mind. Also roni on the gauntlet. At the beginning of the series, she was receiving votes, and towards the end she was seen as a valuable team player. How clutch Veronica also amazes me. All the times were *** won on the line, she gets out of it, by manipulation or winning a life shield.
Kenny's Rivals 1 final is the most impressive to me. If you held a gun to my head and made me bet on Kenny v. Landon 1 on 1 in a final, I would probably pick Landon but the fact that they had a 45 minute lead on two very good athletes with Kenny doing AT LEAST 75% of the work in the HARDEST FINAL THAT THERE HAS EVER BEEN, is ridiculous to me...and he still didn't looked fatigued at all after the 2nd day.
Kenny's clumsiness and lack of agility will always pull him out of the best "athletes" conversation but he's easily either 2nd or 3rd best ever in terms of finals.
FMII Landon carrying that HUGE tree trunk with one arm and running a sprint. Literally everyone else had to push the **** thing downhill with their partner.
That was a great moment. He carried it like it was nothing.
When you say Tree Trunk do you mean the Punching Bag in the Final? Or am I missing something?
Pages