The Challenge

The extremelylong - running MTV seriesThe Challengeis about to enterit ’s thirty - fifth season , subtitledTotal Madness . The game ’s creators are consistently looking for new twists to change the game , and their late innovation is that anyone who take it to the final of the time of year has to win an reasoning by elimination first .

The challengers themselves seem to be unnerving opponents this season , and with the elimination gimmick it ’s really anyone ’s game . So here is every male competition on the season , ranked in order of their potential to come through .

Asaf Goren

Asaf take care like a jolly potent individual , but as a rookie all of the cards are heap against him anyway . He might not be the first out , but it seems like there ’s almost no chance of him being the last adult male standing .

The only connectedness he even has with anyone in the time of year is with Tori , a young woman that he unceremoniously cheated on during their season ofAre You The One .

Christopher “Swaggy C” Williams

Swaggy C is yet another newcomer toThe Challenge , and while all rookies have a prospect of making it to the closing , they are almost always the sacrificial lambs of the season .

As aBig Brotheralum he really has n’t been tested in aChallenge - style environment , and if he winds up making it to the oddment or bring home the bacon it will only be because he pulsate pretty much every other gentleman’s gentleman in the serial . So it ’s potential , but improbable .

Josh Martinez

Normally we would n’t rank any ex-serviceman ’s chance as lower than a cub ’s , and as an actual physical competitor Josh seems decent , but after his showing last season it ’s kind of hard to expect him to get to the end .

In one of the most baffling movement of all time , Josh chicane over the major alliance he was a part of , switched to the opposing coalition , and accidentally ensured that his raw alliance was on the turn a loss closing of the biz for the rest of the time of year . So it secure to say , his political plot is a ignominious maw of skill .

Jay Starrett

Realistically speak , Jay ’s opportunity here do not seem slap-up . Yes , he was a competition onSurvivor , and yes , his social game is in all likelihood better than any other rookie , but he ’s still a rookie .

And for those who do n’t follow the MTV drama , Jay was formally with Morgan during their season ofEx On The Beach , then Morgan went onThe Challenge , encounter Johnny Bananas , and dumped Jay for Bananas . Coming in with any sort of issues with a vet like Johnny is not a great way to start off .

Nelson Thomas

Nelson is someone who is an above average forcible competitor , and as one of Cory ’s biggest friend inChallengehistory it seems secure to assume he ’ll make it at least a few installment in .

But the existent matter here with Nelson ( and the rest of Team Young Buck ) is that while physically he can do the job , he ’s not the brightest electric-light bulb inThe Challenge , and his political biz is fearsome .

Rogan O’Connor

Rogan is a really uncanny example of howThe Challengeis constantly throw wild cards . In his first time of year he did n’t even make it past the first day , and on his second time of year he made it to the net .

However he still has n’t been really examine , he has a significant injury that can always rear it ’s ugly point , and his willingness to throw away Dee under the bus certify that he ’s not a very reliable ally .

Faysal “Fessy” Shafaat

It ’s pretty extraordinary for a rookie to have the variety of chances that Fessy has going into his premier time of year onThe Challenge , but as a former contender onAmerican Ninja Warriorit seems like his chances are way above norm .

Total Madnessis a time of year that requires competitors to face elimination before have to the final , and Fessy seems like someone who is both tailor made to winChallengefinals and like someone who no one else will want to face in an evacuation .

Cory Wharton

When he first get in onThe Challenge , it seemed like Cory was pass to become one of the unexampled faces of the show . And perhaps it ’s just because the expectations were mellow , but ultimately he has been a existent disappointment so far .

He ’s done okay , but he always seems to make really obvious mistakes that most halfway decentChallengecontestants would know to debar . If he can obviate them then he might go far , but if he screws up again then his prospects are bleak .

Stephen Bear

Stephen Bear is one of those citizenry who seems to be hold for world television set , and he know it . He ’s one of the most galling contestants in the history of the series , and that is all intentional on his part .

He ’s a fairly good competition overall , but his form of reverse political biz is what plant him aside . rather of trying to spiel the secret plan by manipulate everyone , he just adjudicate to get at them up and throw them off as much as potential , a strategy that has actually worked well for him in the past times .

Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio

It might be surprising to see Bananas this low on this lean , look at that he ’s won moreChallengesthan anyone else . And he very well may make headway this one too , but in terms of the biz ’s formatting , this is give-up the ghost to be one of the most difficult fashion for him to win .

Johnny is really tough to perplex in final , but his history in eliminations is not great . An elimination is the well-to-do style to get him out of the game and the other players know it , and since people have to succeed an elimination to get to the final it   could be a rough road for Johnny .

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The Total Madness Cast

Asaf Goren on Are you the One Season 4

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Josh Martinez in Big Brother talks to someone off camera.

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Nelson Thomas from The Challenge

Rogan O’Connor in The Challenge

Faysal lying in bed hugging Hayleigh, both with a pink blanket covering them

Taylor Selfridge and Cory Wharton from Teen Mom on a couch. Cory looks serious while Taylor smiles.

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Johnny Bananas The Challenge

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