The Challenge 39: Battle for a New Champion (Premieres Oct 25)

**Byrd** · 2023-09-13 15:56

About six weeks out, probably a little after Challenge USA 2 finishes, and who knows when All Stars 4 airs.

Cast announcement is here

There's a bunch of vets on the cast, but they are not part of the contestant pool that can win it all. I don't think we need to include them in the fantasy draft, assuming we do it.

Who still wants to do Challenge Fantasy?

**Vil** · 2023-09-14 13:11

Holy crap. I'm just far too happy to see Asaf back.

So those people are just an annoying constant barrage of heavy hitters or something? Meh. I like Brad and Darrell, could take or leave Kaz, but the rest are either overexposed or I don't care to see. I'm just dreading the idea of them living in the house anyway, meaning that they can get involved in things with zero repercussions. Or them giving them their own house. They're not going to advertise these people and have them only there for the last 10 minutes of some episodes, are they?

I think 24 is a good number, but that seems weirdly low for this show with their moronic casts of 30+. I'm cool with just picking from the 24 "players", unless it becomes clear that the champs have potential to do much more. My wild speculation is that all eliminations are against them and they may be chosen per elimination game based on their "specialty".

**Xno Kappa** · 2023-09-15 20:35

No vets in the main cast? I’m 100% down.

**Byrd** · 2023-09-18 18:02

Full EW.com article here.

I kind of want to wait until we have a trailer or something which shows if the champs will be in the house at all in order to determine if they are draftable or not. Seems like if we see some champs that win eliminations, that would make sense to include them (even if they aren't in the main game or in danger of getting voted out), but their maximum point value would be pretty dang low.

**Vil** · 2023-09-21 15:59

An alternative that came to mind would be just drafting the regular players than having a supplemental draft of the champs. The question is if they'll even have actual "wins" or is it just who did better, and it kind of makes a weird situation for this, but doing a whole(?) game format that way.

Semi-related, a few familiar names, and a LOT of familiar names depending on how much you're into other reality shows. There were more that were rumored as of yesterday that made it seem like some Bill Simmons fantasycast. Still kind of is.

https://twitter.com/peacock/status/1704873235286736904