The Challenge: Battle of the Exes - Spoiler Discussion

Mark just tweeted that he is just getting to Florida

I'm really not feeling the idea of a couples thing. I feel like the challenges would be pretty lame if that were the case and we would probably get another exile like elimination. Anyway, I'm a big fan of Darrell on these shows but I got the impression that he has hung up his challenge uniform for good. Not sure where I heard this but can anyone confirm that he has said he is done with these shows? I have been thinking that for the last couple of years but I don't recall where I got the notion. I would love to see him come back. Another name that might warrant consideration for being asked on the next challenge is Tyrie. Been hearing a lot of buzz about how he has been busting his tail and slimming down. He could be doing that for personal reasons but he could also be getting serious for a challenge. Maybe he's tired of getting sent home early all the time and he's working on that.

[QUOTE=VCR14;285369] Hmm I wonder why it's her last day???? I think we should be adding her to the list.[/QUOTE] So its either tonight or tomorrow when they depart.

[QUOTE=Gucci Mane;286393]What if Frank/Jillian really ARE on this challenge?[/QUOTE] I sure hope so! They're such exciting television! :p

[QUOTE=molds13;286644]Since everyone is talking about it... I can confirm that Nany did not drop out. This challenge requires a theme; therefore, if one person is unable to attend for whatever reason, the other person unfortunately suffers as well. That was the case here. [B]Perhaps Sarah and Vinny were able to pass a simple test, and Adam couldn't...or was found to have blatantly lied on it. Who knows?[/B][/QUOTE] Lol, if that was the case then wow... Now im interested in what the questions were and why would anyone have to lie lol

[QUOTE=jesses_girl;288184]Well he's lasting longer than Wes, Leroy, and Vinny. So they must be doing something right.[/QUOTE] You mean being on a team with someone who doesn't suck? Moreso replace Vinny with Sarah in your example, but you get the point.

Now we're getting down to the strong contenders. I think every team left has a chance of winning the Challenge, even Ty & Emily.

Something about Camila's tweets make me think that she and Johnny won

This next challenge is going to be way better than Rivals, I can see just by the cast shaping up already.

[QUOTE=InfamousJoks;282807]Its sad, really. You would would think that someone who is in college and is as pretty as her would try and find someone way better than Whor-yer or Bananas. Either way, she may be in shape but she doesn't strike me as someone who is very athletic. I'd rather have Cooke on the challenge than her. I really like drama and all, but I watch the Real World for that; I'd rather see people who have personalities but would really shine in the missions and make them actually worth watching.[/QUOTE] Nany REALLY pissed me off when she was on Derrick's podcast when her season was airing and said that she hates when people hype themselves up like saying "Oh I'm the best and I'm gonna beat everyone" and then 10 SECONDS LATER does exactly what she says she hates hearing.

[QUOTE=Euroslavia;285368]He hooked up with J.D. on Cutthroat, granted that was only shown on The *** They Should've Shown, I think. He made out with Ryan on Gauntlet 3, before being rejected by him afterwards.[/QUOTE] I HOPE it's J.D. instead of Ryan, granted JD is pretty annoying but i don't think i can take watching Ryan Kehoe on my T.V. again

If Tyler is indeed not on this one, what other same sex male pairing is there?

Was Shane and Ryan's thing ever actually mentioned on screen? I know that they had previously dated, but I don't remember ever seeing anything about it during Fresh Meat (or any of the following seasons featuring Ryan). I know BMP likes to stretch things out and make something out of (almost) nothing, but I figured if they're going with this relationships theme, that there'd be some type of footage to at least attempt to back up the claim that the two had been in a relationship. Personally, I feel like this one is grasping at straws.

[QUOTE=Gucci Mane;286388]I hope Diem doesn't "quit" again like she did on the Ruins.[/QUOTE] She quit? Why?

[QUOTE=gamer73;287161]Will Priscilla be able to drink on the challenge?[/QUOTE] Chances are, yes. Most countries have a drinking age of 18 or younger, very few besides the US have it at 21 or anything above 18. Those that do have a higher drinking age aren't a likely location for this challenge. She was able to drink while they go abroad for their trip during RW San Diego.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this Thursday will be the 3 week mark since leaving for the challenge correct?

Hope Ty and Emily won. It'd be a bit refreshing. :D

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Noone bite my head off(Molds haha) but weren't there some tweets from Adam suggesting that he and Nany will not be apart of the upcoming challenge? I know im probaly in the minority, but I actually hope that Adam and Nany are on the next one. The only reason why I would want to see Dustin is if Mike was there.

I agree, but with Tyler, Davis and JD all not being able to do the challenge, they may have had no choice. I think BMP knows they will get backlash doing a challenge with a relationship theme and not including gay and lesbian pairs, and with Aneesa and Rachel already willing (hopefully), Ryan and Shane may have been their only option. Their relationship was probably the most legitimate of all considering they dated before Ryan was on Fresh Meat.

Molds, do you actually know the remaining people are just waiting for them to give a hint so you don't get in trouble for revealing the cast or something. I never actually know WHAT you KNOW and dont want to give away vs what you DONT know, haha. If that makes sense.

[QUOTE=Nightwolf;288187]You mean being on a team with someone who doesn't suck? Moreso replace Vinny with Sarah in your example, but you get the point.[/QUOTE] Almost every good competitor is paired to someone who is below average. Emily is stuck with Ty, Wes is stuck with Mandi, Mark is stuck with Robin, etc... So no one really has much of an advantage here, except for maybe Abram and Cara.

[QUOTE=V1man;290218]1. I'm not "people." 2. I'm not worried about it. I'm simply bringing information forward for the education of the presumably unknowing. 3. Diem doesn't owe you are anyone else anything about her personal life. She's obviously made a choice about him, perhaps with his specific input. 4. I'm a facebook friend of CT, too, but I don't think we're going to exchange Christmas greetings.[/QUOTE] 1. Duly noted. I won't refer to you and molds as people again. I was going to use "persons" but I knew you were going to correct me on it. 2. You already brought it up once. Why would you bring it up again if Diem herself doesn’t want it exposed? 3. Almost all of his profile pictures are of the two of them. I don’t think he’s the one who wants to keep it under a rock. 4. Maybe my standards are off but I won’t be facebook friends with someone who treated my sister so “badly” and still does according to Priscilla. [QUOTE=townie;290209]CT's sister is still Facebook friends with Diem too for what it's worth...[/QUOTE] I don’t think this is an issue since the typically private CT has been listed as “in a relationship” for some time and almost all his pictures are of him and his girlfriend. I guess he doesn’t have the same relationship restrictions on social networks.

Doesn't TJ explain all the money stuff before all the challenges though?

[QUOTE=JEK & Wes;300212]I believe Robin's accusation of Mark throwing the elimination against Johnny. The bigger guy has won every singe X-Battle elimination and Mark is much bigger than Johnny. He should be able to easily out muscle Johnny. And if Robin's accused him of throwing it, that pretty much confirms that he losses to Johnny in their head to head. I also believe Robin must have beaten Camila, because if she lost to Camila herself, she has no reason to blame Mark for anything.[/QUOTE] If Robin did beat Camila then Mark is such a ****** for doing that to her, especially for Robin who's always looked at as a weirdo so all the **** he says about her being a **** and holding him back would be BS. That it if Mark lost on purpose.

Could be very farfetched but maybe the cast is going to be divided based on results of this test, either IQ or scores of these psych tests. Seems strange but also too coincidental that so many cast members are tweeting/taking them. Especially since they are ones that have been rumored to be on the next challenge.

[QUOTE=FishHooks;282551]My understanding is they very much wanted to throw Dustin to the Wolves but Dustin was the one who said no.[/QUOTE] Evan said that on Derrick's podcast I think because they orignally wanted Dustin even to replace Adam but they didn't want him in that environment that soon and having to explain his gay past again to those guys

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[QUOTE=burythestar3;283835]Mark just tweeted that he is just getting to Florida[/QUOTE] Mark's parents live in Florida. Melbourne is a city in FL, he doesn't mean Melbourne, Australia.

BillyBear, In your post you said you didn't realize Dunbar hooked up with a lot of people on Duel 2. Than said you knew about him and Jodi and Diem. Did you mean Dunbar hooked up with Diem??? If that's true i had no clue. She had a boyfriend i thought, and the fear of CT finding out and killing him seems like a reason not to. But i don't think that's what you meant. It was two posts quoted and than a comment, hard to understand who was referring to who. Anyone clarify? As has been said, I see a hookup type challenge being just like fresh meat 2 eliminations with exiles, and i can't see how it would have any awesome physical eliminations like tbone in rivals. I really enjoy those type eliminations. I don't want that format, unless it's a duel 1 format where guy/girls pair for missions but that is it. I liked that, and the guys still could have 1 on 1 physical eliminations. Duel 1 was a great set up, minus 2 awful eliminations, first being I can, and the many flaws in the push me elimination, which costed two people who probably would/could have won it all. I wouldn't mind a cuthroat with the captains choosing the teams with like CT/Wes/Kenny being captains. If they all were on it. Wes seems to be speculated, so Kenny probably isn't too far off being speculated. Derrick and Wes had that twitter "feud" that Derrick was blowing out of proportion, I wonder if that got Derrick on the show?

My speculations from this thread: They arn't leaving until Friday would be consistent with Adams tweet. Something happened with Nany that no longer lets her compete, so Adam had to be let go… Which leads me to believe theres some sort of "past hook ups" content in the variation of partners, opposite teams or maybe like an old school couples vs newer couples. Now as for the people going, I feel like a lot of people on these lists are based on stupid assumptions like they mentioned the word "test" or some gym claimed they were training someone. I think I'll just wait to see their tweets the day of the departure.

[QUOTE=molds13;286394]Then they are.[/QUOTE] Oh ok. Anyway, I like the cast so far. With the exception of Paula, Mandi, and Sarah, this cast should bring the drama. I just hope the Vegas/San Diego kids are smart enough to team p. Who am I kidding, they never are.

How much longer til the ENTIRE cast will be known?

[QUOTE=JSilver23;287926]Hopefully my question doesn't break any of the thread rules but I had a thought and was hoping for some feedback. Do you guys think it is likely that maybe this starts off as a pairs challenge but then splits into an individual challenge?[B] I can't think of why people are being let go SO soon (when comparing it to past challenges). [/B] Maybe teams for awhile and then the final ___ are removed from their pair and it's every man for himself for the final. Thoughts?[/QUOTE] Well, if that one tweet was true, then Dustin and Heather are back because Dustin got injured, not because they lost an elimination round.

[QUOTE=Nightwolf;288187]You mean being on a team with someone who doesn't suck? Moreso replace Vinny with Sarah in your example, but you get the point.[/QUOTE] Exactly! and since we dont know who has defeated the eliminated teams, you cant really say that any team is doing good in the challenge because I'm sure some teams havent gone into an elimination yet and could be skating by... ala Ryan/Theresa, Jenn/Noor, Jenn/Mandi, Leroy/Mike, Johnny/Tyler....

[QUOTE=VCR14;282302]Could be very farfetched but maybe the cast is going to be divided based on results of this test, either IQ or scores of these psych tests. Seems strange but also too coincidental that so many cast members are tweeting/taking them. Especially since they are ones that have been rumored to be on the next challenge.[/QUOTE] Like the Bad ***** and the Good Guys?

[QUOTE=Calinks;284091]I'm really not feeling the idea of a couples thing. I feel like the challenges would be pretty lame if that were the case and we would probably get another exile like elimination. Anyway, I'm a big fan of Darrell on these shows but I got the impression that he has hung up his challenge uniform for good. Not sure where I heard this but can anyone confirm that he has said he is done with these shows? I have been thinking that for the last couple of years but I don't recall where I got the notion. I would love to see him come back. Another name that might warrant consideration for being asked on the next challenge is Tyrie. Been hearing a lot of buzz about how he has been busting his tail and slimming down. He could be doing that for personal reasons but he could also be getting serious for a challenge. Maybe he's tired of getting sent home early all the time and he's working on that.[/QUOTE] Darrell said on the Fresh Meat II after show that he's done, but he could come back if it was a Duel since you're on your own. That doesn't mean if there is a Duel 3 he'd be on it, but that's pretty much the only one he would do.

I think BMP had enough guy/guy gay action/talk with San Diego.

[QUOTE=Mind Riot;287669]I'd say it's less veering into, and more crashing into the territory of speculating the mystery cast members.[/QUOTE] Not really, more like proving who is not on this challenge.

Disappointed if its a pairs challenge. I think those challenges have been the worst.

[QUOTE=jesses_girl;288189]Almost every good competitor is paired to someone who is below average. Emily is stuck with Ty, Wes is stuck with Mandi, Mark is stuck with Robin, etc... So no one really has much of an advantage here, except for maybe Abram and Cara.[/QUOTE] Cara Maria hasnt done anything outstanding. Robin is a good competitor, the team at a good advantage physically is CT/Diem. Strong guys can compensate for weak girls, Ask Wes about Casey. But its hard for Strong girls to compensate fore weak guys, Ask Evelyn about Luke, or Sarah about Vinny.

I'm actually glad in a way. I don't have the will power to avoid spoilers (especially when I'm at work). I've actually tuned out of the last few seasons about 2/3 ways through, partially because there is no suspense.

Emily will always be sketchy to me because of her dysfuntional showmance with Ty, but how good anybody is as a competitor can always boil down to how good the competition is, literally and figuratively.

Awall why yes he does.

Even if Robin lost to Camila it is still an ******* move to intentionally throw an elimination round with a partner.