MTV’s The Challenge: Free Agents premieres tonight with “Live Free or Die”. There are many familiar faces this season, along with a few first timers sprinkled in.
This season, the theme is Free Agents. There are no teams, and it’s every man/women for themselves. 14 girls and 14 guys will be eliminated by battling it out in an elimination challenge, that is chosen by a draw at the end of each episode. Alliances won’t get you by this time. The only way to get to the finals is to survive and advance.
Last season, we did our first MTV Challenge fantasy league and had a blast with it. A few years back in a Bill Simmons article on Grantland.com, the Grantland staff decided to hold a “Reality TV Fantasy League”. I thought the concept was fantastic and wanted to adopt it and bring it to TSB.
The way this works is that 7 members of TSB participated in a fantasy football style snake draft. The TSB Crew had their names selected in a random order to generate picks 1 through 7. Then after the 7th pick, the order was reversed so that the person with the 7th pick would also have the 8th pick and so on. After the order was set, each person was required to draft two guys and two girls.
Our contestants
| Guys | Girls |
| CT | Laurel |
| Johnny | Aneesa |
| Brandon | Camila |
| Frank | Cara Maria |
| Zach | Jemmye |
| Dustin | Theresa |
| Cohutta | Nany |
| Leroy | Emilee |
| Jordan | Devyn |
| Swift | Jasmine |
| Issac | Jessica |
| Chet | Jonna |
| Johnny 2 | LaToya |
| Preston | Nia |
For complete details on each contestant, check out MTV’s official Challenge page
We’ve adopted Simmons’ scoring system for our first draft. But as always, the rules are arbitrary and as commissioner, I can change/add scoring categories at any time.
Emotional/Verbal
Female Crying: 5 points
Male Crying: 20 points
Asking if a fellow cast member is there “for the right reasons”: 10 points
Saying, “I didn’t come here to make friends”: 10 points
Trying to make someone cry and succeeding: 25 points
Trying to make someone cry and failing: -5 to -25 points (commissioner’s discretion)
Blaming parents for poor behavior: 10 points
Calling a friend or relative at home, crying, and saying, “Everyone here hates me”: 20 points
Threatening to sue fellow cast member: 25 points
Being subject of an intervention: 30 points
Plugging an acting, modeling, or singing career: 10 points
Singing song in front of two or more people: 20 points
Romantic/Sexual
Open-mouth kissing: 5 points per participant
Coitus (or pulling over covers in bed): 25 points per participant
Denying coitus: 10 points
Fraudulent denial of coitus: 20 points
Fraudulent claim of coitus: 25 points
Participating in threesome: 50 points per participant
STD scare: 30 points per sexual partner
Pregnancy scare: 50 points per sexual partner
Intentional nudity: 20 points
Unintentional nudity: 5 points
Hitting on the show’s host: 5 to 15 points (commissioner’s discretion)
Possession of concealed erection: 10 to 25 points (commissioner’s discretion)
Revealing past career in pornography: 50 points
Violence
Verbal Fighting: 5 points
Physical Fighting: 25 points
Decisively winning physical fight: 25 points
Throwing drink in someone’s face: 5 points
Having unexplained black eye, fat lip, or bloody knuckles: 25 points
Being restrained or lectured on camera by security or production staff: 25 points
Requesting to be assaulted: 10 points (“Come at me bro”, type stuff)
Invoking show’s rules as only reason for not committing assault: 10 points
Attempting to fight show’s host: 100 points
Drugs/Alcohol
Extreme intoxication: 5 to 25 points (commissioner’s discretion)
Vomiting: 10 points
Being kicked out of bar or club: 20 points
Religious/Volunteerism
Violating stated religious beliefs: 25 points
Early Departures
Being kicked off show: 100 points (must be eliminated outside of game play)
Causing others to threaten to leave show: 15 points
Threatening to leave show and not following through: 15 points
Threatening to leave show and following through: 30 points
TJ Related
Making T.J. say, “You Killed It”: 25 points
Winning elimination challenge: 10 points
Winning final challenge: 50 points
The Draft
Every Thursday I will put up a recap of the show and the scoring from the episode. If anyone sees any points missed, or has a suggestion on a way to add scoring, please let us know. You guys did a great job last year with this.
