Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge

Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge is the fourth season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge (at the time known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge).

Extreme Challenge
Season 4
No. of contestants	13
Winners	Dan Renzi Jamie Murray Julie Stoffer Kameelah Phillips Rebecca Lord Syrus Yarbrough
Location	Portland Montreal Boston London Hamburg Prague New York City Los Angeles
No. of episodes	18 (including the Reunion special)
Release
Original network	MTV
Original release	January 9 (2001-01-09) – May 22, 2001 (2001-05-22)
Season chronology
List of episodes

Format

Extreme Challenge is the third and final six-on-six Real World/Road Rules Challenge. The cast was split up into two different six-person teams, one representing The Real World and the other representing Road Rules. The teams traveled via tour bus in the eastern U.S. and Europe competing in different challenges. Each time a team won an individual challenge, money would be added to a Monster.com team bank account. The last mission would be for the right to keep the money collected in the pot, an additional cash prize, and a car.

Cast

This was the only season without a regular alumni host/presenter introducing each challenge. Instead, various alumni provided audio clues.

Real World team Player Original season Dan Renzi The Real World: Miami Jamie Murray The Real World: New Orleans Julie Stoffer The Real World: New Orleans Kameelah Phillips The Real World: Boston Rebecca Lord The Real World: Seattle Syrus Yarbrough The Real World: Boston

Road Rules team Player Original season Ayanna Mackins[a] Road Rules: Semester at Sea Christian Breivik Road Rules: USA – The Second Adventure Emily Bailey Road Rules: USA – The Second Adventure James Orlando Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour Laterrian Wallace Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour Michelle Parma Road Rules: Europe Susie Meister[a] Road Rules: Down Under

Game summary

Episodes		Mission outcome				Mission MVP	Wheel of Good Stuff
#	Challenge	Winners		Losers
1	Ring of Fire		Real World		Road Rules	—
	Rope Courses		Road Rules		Real World
2	Blimp Water Skiing		Real World		Road Rules	Julie	Jeep
3	Fisherman's Wharf		Real World		Road Rules	Kameelah	Fujifilm
4	No Laughing Matter		Real World		Road Rules	Syrus	"Gimme Your Stuff"
5	Rollerball Resurrection		Road Rules		Real World	Christian	Dreamcast
7	Wrestling with the Past[a]		Road Rules		Real World	James	Auto Video Products
9	Sub-Standard		Real World		Road Rules	Syrus	Sea-Doo Watercraft
10	Bring It On		Road Rules		Real World	Emily	"Gimme Your Stuff"
11	Breath-Taking		Road Rules		Real World	Christian	Dreamcast
12	Tough Guy		Real World		Road Rules	Dan	iOmega MP3
13	Defying Gravity		Real World		Road Rules	Rebecca	Palm Pilot
14	Famous Couples Fashion Show		Real World		Road Rules	Jamie	"Gimme Your Stuff"
15	Medi-Evil		Real World		Road Rules	Julie	Buell Blast Motorcycle
15/16	Operation Human Shield[b]		Real World		Road Rules	—[c]
16	Toyota Motosports		Real World		Road Rules	—
17	Race to the Finish		Real World		Road Rules

  Real World

  Road Rules

Episode		Mission outcome				Prize
#	Challenge	Winners		Losers
8	Human Foosball[d]		Yellow Team		Black Team	$6,000

  Yellow Team

  Black Team

Final results

• Real World won the final challenge, winning brand new Toyota Celicas. They earned $110,000 with each team member receiving $18,833. For winning the "Human Foosball" mini-challenge, Dan, Julie, and Rebecca received an additional $1,000 for a total of $19,833.
• Road Rules lost the final challenge, therefore losing their entire bank. For winning the "Human Foosball" mini-challenge, Christian, Emily, and James received an additional $1,000.

Teams

Rope Course (Ep.2) Laterrian & Ayanna Jamie & Kameelah

Human Foosball (Ep. 8) Yellow Team Black Team James Jamie Christian Syrus Dan Laterrian Emily Kameelah Julie Michelle Rebecca Susie

Famous Couples Fashion Show (Ep. 14) Christian & Laterrian Dan & Syrus James & Emily Kameelah & Rebecca Michelle & Susie Jamie & Julie

Toyota Motosports (Ep. 17) Laterrian & Emily Jamie & Syrus

Memorable moments

• The episode entitled "Couple Fashion Show" featured both teams having to dress up as famous duos in a fetish club. This episode has never been aired following its original air date, for reasons that remain unknown.^[1]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
23	1	"A Challenging Decision"	January 9, 2001 (2001-01-09)
24	2	"Blimp Water-Skiing"	January 16, 2001 (2001-01-16)
25	3	"Budding Romance"	January 23, 2001 (2001-01-23)
26	4	"No Laughing Matter"	January 30, 2001 (2001-01-30)
27	5	"Rollerball Resurrection"	February 6, 2001 (2001-02-06)
28	6	"Ayanna's Departure"	February 13, 2001 (2001-02-13)
29	7	"Wrestling with the Past"	February 20, 2001 (2001-02-20)
30	8	"Love and Foosball"	February 27, 2001 (2001-02-27)
31	9	"Yes Sir...I Mean, Yes Ma'am!"	March 6, 2001 (2001-03-06)
32	10	"Leader of the Pack"	March 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
33	11	"The Scariest Mission of All Time"	March 20, 2001 (2001-03-20)
34	12	"Tough Love"	March 27, 2001 (2001-03-27)
35	13	"Grudge Match"	April 3, 2001 (2001-04-03)
36	14	"Good Intentions"	April 10, 2001 (2001-04-10)
37	15	"Downward Spiral"	April 17, 2001 (2001-04-17)
38	16	"True to Himself"	April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24)
39	17	"Race to the Finish"	May 1, 2001 (2001-05-01)

Reunion special

The reunion special, Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge: Cease Fire, aired after the season finale and was attended by the entire cast. It was hosted by Melissa Howard from The Real World: New Orleans and Mark Long from Road Rules: USA – The First Adventure.

Notes

1. Susie replaced Ayanna in Episode 7 when the teams arrived in Boston. Ayanna physically attacked Christian in the Road Rules bus after Christian made a joke to Laterrian that Ayanna perceived to be racist. Though the cameras did not capture the incident, and Christian did not want to send Ayanna home, the producers asked Ayanna to leave in episode 6. Susie replaced Ayanna when their casts received their next clue at the Real World: Boston house. The Road Rules team later admitted on the reunion that Ayanna was a more valuable physical asset than Susie.
2. In episode 15, a dispute over the Operation Human Shield mission caused an intense argument between James and Syrus. Neither team was awarded $10,000 at the end of that mission, but in episode 16, both teams got the chance to defend their actions in court on the set of Judge Mills Lane. Road Rules, with the exception of Laterrian, decides not to participate, so the judge, Mills Lane, granted the money to the Real World, although he acknowledged Laterrian for his admirable defense.
3. Laterrian was honored by the judge and received a small gavel as a token, but there was no official MVP for this mission.
4. In Episode 8, the mission had the contestants compete with three Real World cast members and three Road Rules cast members on two different teams. The Yellow team consisting of Christian, Dan, Emily, James, Julie, and Rebecca won the mission and were awarded with $1,000 in cash for each of them.