tv show The Challenge CBS | July 6th | Suvivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race, Love Island

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Get ready for a whole new era of The Challenge.

Reality stars from Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race, and Love Island are taking their talents to the original competition series franchise for its new spin-off, The Challenge: USA, and now it's time to meet the 28 competitors who are putting on the Under Armour jerseys for a shot at half a million dollars.

The full cast list was revealed Wednesday, and it's chock-full of CBS reality legends. They include Survivor winners Tyson Apostol, Ben Driebergen, and Sarah Lacina; Big Brother champ Xavier Prather; The Amazing Race victor James Wallington; and Love Island winner Justine Ndiba. It's basically an all-star cast list already.

Plus, there are tons of contenders looking for their first big win, like Big Brother alum Tiffany Mitchell (who helped make history with the iconic Cookout alliance) and Survivor alums Domenick Abbate (who lost the very first tiebreaker Final Tribal vote), Danny McCray, and Shan Smith. But who will have what it takes to win The Challenge? And which reality show will reign supreme over the others?

 

The cast of 'The Challenge: USA'

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Hosted by T.J. Lavin and filmed in Buenos Aires, The Challenge: USA will begin with each competitor being given $1,000 in their individual challenge accounts. Throughout the season, they must battle to keep and increase their prize money by either winning challenges or eliminations (in which they steal all the money in their opponents' account). But to complicate matters, an algorithm will randomly pair contestants for each challenge, making alliances and strategies more difficult to manage than ever. Only one male and one female will be declared Challenge champions by the end of the season, winning $500,000 and going on to compete on The Challenge: Global Championship (working title), the upcoming Paramount+ tournament.

Check out the full cast list for The Challenge: USA below.

• Domenick Abbate, Survivor season 36 runner-up
• Azah Awasum, Big Brother season 23 contestant
• David Alexander, Big Brother seasons 21 and 22 contestant
• Tasha Fox, Survivor seasons 28 and 31 contestant
• Tyson Apostol, Survivor season 27 winner, seasons 18, 20, and 40 contestant
• Kyra Green, Love Island season 1 contestant
• Cashel Barnett, Love Island season 1 contestant
• Alyssa Lopez, Big Brother season 23 contestant
• Ben Driebergen, Survivor season 35 winner, season 40 contestant
• Sarah Lacina, Survivor season 34 winner, seasons 28 and 40 contestant
• Melvin "Cinco" Holland Jr., Love Island season 3 contestant
• Tiffany Mitchell, Big Brother season 23 contestant
• Danny McCray, Survivor season 41 contestant
• Justine Ndiba, Love Island season 2 winner
• Enzo Palumbo, Big Brother seasons 12 and 22 contestant
• Cayla Platt, The Amazing Race season 33 contestant
• Xavier Prather, Big Brother season 23 winner
• Cashay Proudfoot, Love Island season 3 contestant
• Leo Temory, The Amazing Race seasons 23, 24, and 31 contestant
• Angela Rummans, Big Brother season 20 contestant
• Javonny Vega, Love Island season 3 contestant
• Shannon St. Clair, Love Island season 3 contestant
• James Wallington, The Amazing Race season 32 winner
• Shan Smith, Survivor season 41 contestant
• Kyland Young, Big Brother season 23 contestant
• Desi Williams, Survivor season 35 contestant
• Derek Xiao, Big Brother season 23 contestant
• Cely Vazquez, Love Island season 2 contestant

 

The Challenge: USA premieres Wednesday, July 6, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

 

I'm creating another thread for this version of the show since I think the fan groups are slightly different and the main challenge thread is going to be all over the place with different conversations.

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[Dula Peep]

I was hyped but then I saw the teams  

[Bethenny Frankel]

those teams are awful, who asked for this? 

[Attitude]

4 minutes ago, Bethenny Frankel said:

those teams are awful, who asked for this? 

I don't think it's a team challenge. They're competing as random duos. 

[MP2K]

Yeah, they'll be playing as individuals and duos. There's only Three Amazing Race people for it to be teams

 

 

The highs are high... are the lows are in hell. Why would they cast Enzo, David, Ben, etc.?

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[Airhead]

A diverse cast!

[KLatz]

This was, bar none, the hardest season of The Challenge to avoid spoilers on. Like they were everywhere 

 

Still very excited to see this! I generally love this cast

[J Legend X]

uh? so this is all rookies stuff?... Azah?, homegirl could not even win a sleeping challenge... Ready for Derek and Shan to Slé !

[Attitude]

With Love Island moving to NBC/Peacock I wonder who they'll cast from if there is a season 2.

[Chris]

Don't we have a Challenge thread?

 

 

Btw Sylvia is still getting dragged everywhere after last episode.

 

[Shy Boy]

24 minutes ago, Attitude said:

With Love Island moving to NBC/Peacock I wonder who they'll cast from if there is a season 2.

Hopefully more TAR people. I need to see legend Marie

 

1 hour ago, KLatz said:

This was, bar none, the hardest season of The Challenge to avoid spoilers on. Like they were everywhere 

 

Still very excited to see this! I generally love this cast

I kept my ass off Twitter after I was spoiled on the first boot. Thankfully I haven't seen anything else and I'm hoping it stays that way. 

[MP2K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv6JN4oRzUo

[Quiqui4eva]

I’m pretty excited for this. People are gonna switch once the show starts airing I fear

[Airhead]

 

 

[MP2K]

Desi is so damn gorgeous and fit I honestly don't remember a thing she did on her season of Survivor though.

[MP2K]

 

[aayAlex]

imma watch this even tho ive never seen any of these cbs shows 

[EriKills]

I don’t watch any of the other shows so, #TeamSurvivor , I can’t wait to watch legends Shan/Tyson/Tasha  

 

i don’t remember Desi or Dom so I might add them to my rooting for list. 
 

Danny meh. 
 

Sarah and Ben, absolutely NOT. Awful duo. 

[Harmonizer]

I am actually excited to watch a season of The Challenge without the same tired ass people getting rid of all the newbies and staying until the end.

 

No one wants the Josh, Kaycee, and Tori show.

[MP2K]

On 6/30/2022 at 6:48 PM, Harmonizer said:

I am actually excited to watch a season of The Challenge without the same tired ass people getting rid of all the newbies and staying until the end.

 

No one wants the Josh, Kaycee, and Tori show.

its def going to be good to see something fresh.

[TaggedGalaxy]

Survivor crew is bad, we did noT need to see Sarah and Ben on our screens again. I don’t even remember Desi and Dominick.

 

Big Brother crew is good, too many recent players but that’s expected.

 

Love Island crew is full of the same desperate people, Cely, Cash and Shannon have been desperate to extend their 15 minutes.

 

I haven’t watched the amazing race in years so I don’t know any of those people.

[Attitude]

Not the first episode leaking.