re: MTV The Challenge: Total Madness

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Landon, Evan, Paula, Ev



Maybe my odds on winners. Paula is the only real weak-ish link, but she can kill a final because she was a distance runner. She's a B+, the others are all A+. Ev, Evan, and Landon all are smart and top level athletes in the history of the show. The females would have to avoid eliminations though. Paula is not good in pressure situations. Politically they'd be pretty protected, too.

 

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Rachel, Jodi, Darrell, Abram



Not the smartest team overall and not the best politically. They could be picked on early, but their females are A+ physically. They could take out a lot of chicks and win a lot of daily challenges, too. If they get to a final, watch out. There's a ton of mental and physical toughness there.

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Team D: Brad, Wes, Laurel, Cara



Savvy as hell. Cara scares me, though. She is mentally or physically weaker than just about every other female. Brad is very good in finals. He was actually trying yo throw the final in Duel 2 and still smoked Evan until he juts layed down at the end. Since it's Wes, though that team is getting thrown in first unless they win.

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Bananas, Derrick K, Camila, Susie



Secretly watch the fuk out. They will play a dirty as game and best a lot of teams in daily challenges, thus semi controlling the game. They also will work with the Evan team to pit strong teams against each other, bettering their chances to get to a final.

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Tori Deal, Emily, Jordan, Frank Sweeney



The best female elimination squad you can get. The guys are also A-level dogs, but they may get pushed around physically by bigger guys a la the Fessie/Jordan Elim from last year.

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Miz, CT, Veronica, Corral



The male team would ever want to see them in an elimination. The girls, though, are beatable, mouthy, and not as good as they think they are Coral also would never make a modern final the likes of Rivals 1 or War of the Worlds. I have doubts about Veronica, too.

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 Turbo, Joss, Kam, Ninja



Very high odds to win the whole thing. The Ninja could get pushed around in an Elim with these other chicks though. I also don't know how good Kam would be in a killer final. Never seen how she can run 20+ miles. That's a loaded team, but we've seen Joss get beaten by an OG before.

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Theo, Rogan, Dee, Jenny



Biggest threats to the CT-Miz team in terms of physicality. Not going to be good politically though. One of the first teams to go into an elimination, probably against the Wes/Laurel team.

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I disagree with your thoughts as to what would happen politically

I see 3 alliances:
Ross/Ninja + Rogan/Dee

Bananas + Evan

Abram + Corral

The Wes and Jordan teams are outsiders.

Miz CT Coral and Veronica are all A+ political players if there is any team I could see avoiding eliminations altogether its them. I also think they're the best at puzzles and probably eating challenges as well

The more I think about it. In a final I think Jordan/Frank/Tori/Emily is nearly unbeatable the weakness is Emily and Tori are utterly useless in puzzles but in a Final that doesn't really matter Jordan can do their puzzles for them. For that reason I think they are getting thrown in to eliminations early and often but obviously they're no chumps in eliminations either.

Vegas Frank could have been a top level player in the history of the show. He was big, athletic, extremly smart, and tough and not scared of mentally unstable-era CT.

Kenny said recently (who knows if it's actually true) that Frank punked CT down big time during their Gauntlet 3 altercation, but MTV edited the show so that it looked even or that CT was being a badass... He said Frank was not scared one bit of CT and, since he was really just a bully and picked on weaker small guys, he wouldn't do anything.

Frank wasn't scared of cliques and eliminations. He was kind of a bigger, better Wes in that manner.

He also pulled the biggest upset in Challenge history, but there's obviously BIG Easy to blame for it.

For how lopsided Gauntlet 3 was, it's still a pretty good season because you know how it ends. It had a very good cast.

My only reservation about Frank R is how he didnt know Derek sucked. Apparently Derek sucked on Road Rules too how were so many people fooled by him? A smart player like Frank should've known he sucked

Frank R + Alton would of been an awesome Rivals team.