The Challenge: USA 2 has brought Big Brother, Survivor, and Amazing Race players into the competition series, along with MTV veterans who had vast experience playing the game. Survivor’s Cassidy Clark was among the savvy new CBS players to join the cast, and she made an immediate impact within the first part of the season.
Alyssa Lopez was among one of three stars from the first season of The Challenge: USA who returned for the second installment of the spinoff show. After nearly reaching the final in Season 1, she was hopeful of improving upon that for Season 2, but ultimately found herself among the first six eliminations of the
The Challenge: USA 2 has seen decent ratings across its bi-weekly episodes on CBS, outshining the MTV series due to being on network television. The show has been airing two nights a week, following episodes of CBS’ popular Big Brother reality TV competition. The Challenge: USA 2, a spinoff based on MTV’s competition series, brought
One of the unique elements of the format in The Challenge: USA Season 2 has been the anonymous voting system and The Hopper. After each daily challenge, the team that won the daily gets to vote amongst themselves for one man and one woman to face elimination. From there, each competitor on the two losing
Former Big Brother star and two-time finalist on The Challenge, Paulie Calafiore, was among the surprise cast members revealed for The Challenge: USA 2 on CBS. Within the first episode, viewers saw him reunited with several castmates with whom he’d been in heated altercations during previous Challenge seasons, including Johnny Bananas and Josh Martinez. They
The cast arrived back at the house with Desi Williams and Chris Underwood celebrating their recent elimination wins over Amanda Garcia and Luis Colon. Alyssa Snider was surprised that Desi took her spot on the Blue Team but said she had good connections with Monte Taylor and Tyler Crispen, so she was looking forward to
In the first season of The Challenge: USA, CBS reality TV stars from Big Brother, Amazing Race, Survivor, and Love Island participated in MTV’s competition series for the first time. While fans of the CBS shows likely enjoyed seeing some of their favorites, faithful Challenge viewers might have wished for more of their favorite cast
Wes Bergmann considers himself among the all-time master strategists when it comes to playing The Challenge. However, he discovered on the USA 2 spinoff that some of the newer CBS stars from Survivor and Big Brother may have developed some wise gameplay of their own. In Episode 4 of the spinoff, his teammates from Green
On The Challenge: USA 2 spinoff, six vets from the MTV competition series showed up to the game, which already featured CBS reality TV titans. While some of those CBS stars had appeared on MTV’s The Challenge before, others are newer to the game. However, they made their strategy to get rid of the MTV
The Challenge: USA 2, Episode 4 picked up with Johnny Bananas at The Arena getting to decide whether he’d remain loyal to the Red Team or defect. Bananas said that rule was in the game for a reason, and it was time to shake things up. He officially defected to Blue Team to align with