The Challenge
Reality competition show
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| February 25 2025 | The Challenge: World Championship reality competition series begins, featuring contestants from various international reality TV shows competing in a global tournament. |
| January 29 2025 | The fifth season of The Challenge: All Stars premiered on MTV. |
| January 29 2025 | The Challenge: All Stars: Rivals season starts in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, featuring 13 pairs. Winner is yet to be determined. |
| January 22 2025 | Season 40: 'Battle of the Eras' concludes with Jennifer 'Jenny' West as the overall champion. |
| December 18 2024 | Fifth season was announced with a 'Rivals' theme, moving from Paramount+ to MTV. |
| August 14 2024 | 40th season '40: Battle of the Eras' began, featuring 4 teams of 10 contestants competing in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Palawan, Philippines. |
| August 14 2024 | The fortieth season, titled 'Battle of the Eras', premiered on MTV. |
| August 12 2024 | The Challenge: Sverige (Sweden) premieres on TV4, with competition set in Larnaca, Cyprus |
| June 27 2024 | Announcement of a Swedish version of The Challenge to air on TV4, marking the first series in the franchise produced outside of Bunim/Murray Productions |
| April 10 2024 | The Challenge: All Stars 4 begins, with individual, pairs, and teams formats set in Cape Town, South Africa. Laurel Stucky wins the season. |
| January 29 2024 | The Challenge: Home Turf, an eight-part YouTube docuseries, premiered featuring cast members visiting their hometowns and sharing personal stories about their careers and backgrounds. |
| 2023 | Fourth season was filmed in early 2023 in South Africa, marking the first time a cast member from Are You the One? was included. |
| 2023 | T.J. Lavin was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame, during which time Brihony Dawson guest-hosted an episode of the series. |
| October 19 2023 | The final episode of The Challenge: USA aired on CBS, concluding the show's run. |
| August 10 2023 | The Challenge: USA second season premiered, with competition taking place in Pula, Croatia |
| May 22 2023 | CBS announced a second season of The Challenge: USA, scheduled to premiere on August 10, 2023 |
| March 8 2023 | The Challenge: World Championship series premiered on Paramount+, featuring veterans from MTV's The Challenge and winners from international spin-off versions from Argentina, Australia, USA, and UK. |
| February 20 2023 | The Challenge: UK premiered on Channel 5, with competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| February 13 2023 | The Challenge: Argentina (El Desafio) began airing on Telefe, with competition in Buenos Aires & Pilar, Argentina |
| 2022 | Season 2 of The Challenge: All Stars concluded, continuing the spin-off series focused on veteran competitors. |
| 2022 | The Challenge: World Championship was planned to award a grand prize of US$500,000 to its champions. |
| 2022 | Sol Pérez, winner of The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío, was unable to compete in The Challenge: World Championship due to being unable to obtain the required yellow fever vaccination in time, with the issue arising from a holiday period around the end of the Argentina show's filming. |
| 2022 | A sneak preview of 'The Challenge: Untold History' was shown during the Unscripted portion of the MTV Movie & TV Awards. |
| November 14 2022 | The Challenge: Australia premiered on Network 10, with competition held in Buenos Aires & Pilar, Argentina |
| September 21 2022 | MTV premiered 'The Challenge: Untold History', a six-part documentary featuring over 30 former competitors and celebrity fans discussing the behind-the-scenes stories of the reality competition show. |
| July 6 2022 | The Challenge: USA premiered, featuring CBS reality show alumni, with competition taking place in Buenos Aires & Patagonia, Argentina |
| May 11 2022 | The Challenge: All Stars 3 starts, featuring individual and pairs formats in Panama City and San José Island. Wes Bergmann wins, with Jonna Mannion also recognized. |
| February 2022 | MTV announced a new series of international seasons of The Challenge, including four regional editions: The Challenge: USA, The Challenge: Australia, The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío, and The Challenge UK, leading to the first World Championship edition. |
| November 11 2021 | The Challenge: All Stars 2 begins, with an 8-pair format set in Cancún, Mexico. Jonna Mannion and MJ Garrett win the season. |
| October 13 2021 | The series was renewed for a second season. |
| April 1 2021 | The first season of The Challenge: All Stars premieres, featuring an individual, pairs, and teams format, set in the Andes Mountains, Argentina. Yes Duffy emerges as the winner. |
| February 24 2021 | The Challenge: All Stars is officially announced through a partnership with Bunim/Murray Productions. |
| 2020 | Mark Long initiates 'We Want OGs' social media campaign to gauge interest in a new version of The Challenge featuring original cast members. |
| August 2020 | Mark Long and Bunim/Murray Productions officially announced a partnership to develop The Challenge: All Stars series, with Long serving as both a cast member and executive producer. |
| June 2020 | Mark Long pitched the idea for a season with 'old-school' cast members on social media, which went viral. |
| December 18 2018 | The two-part wedding special concluded, completing the documentary about Chris 'CT' Tamburello's marriage to Lilianet Solares. |
| December 11 2018 | The first part of the two-week wedding special 'CT's Getting Married' premiered on MTV, documenting Chris 'CT' Tamburello's wedding preparations and personal journey. |
| November 20 2018 | MTV released the trailer and premiere date for 'The Challenge: CT's Getting Married' special, announcing the upcoming wedding documentary of Chris 'CT' Tamburello and Lilianet Solares. |
| June 26 2018 | Second Champs vs. Stars season concludes with Chris 'CT' Tamburello & Tony Raines as winners |
| April 17 2018 | Second Champs vs. Stars season begins |
| January 9 2018 | First Champs vs. Stars season ends, with Champs team (Chris 'CT' Tamburello, Emily Schromm & Johnny 'Bananas' Devenanzio) winning |
| November 21 2017 | First Champs vs. Stars season begins, hosted by Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin |
| June 20 2017 | Champs vs. Pros concludes with Cara Maria Sorbello & Darrell Taylor emerging as winners |
| May 16 2017 | First season of Champs vs. Pros begins, featuring 2 teams of 10 competitors, hosted by Victor Cruz in Los Angeles, California |
| March 26 2010 | The Spring Break Challenge concluded with Team Susie, coached by Susie Meister from Road Rules: Down Under, winning the competition. |
| March 22 2010 | MTV aired the Spring Break Challenge, a five-episode special spin-off of The Challenge filmed in Acapulco, Mexico, featuring seven Challenge alumni coaching teams of college-aged contestants competing for $50,000 in cash and prizes. |
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