The Challenge: Australia
Australian reality stars compete for the inaugural Challenge Champion title.
The Challenge: Australia is the Australian adaptation of the American reality competition series The Challenge. The first season featured twenty-two Australian reality television contestants and celebrities competing in various challenges to avoid elimination. Hosted by TV presenter and sports commentator Brihony Dawson, it premiered on Network 10 on 14 November 2022, and later moved to 10 Shake from episode 7 due to low viewership.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Reality competition
- Creator
- Mary-Ellis Bunim; Jonathan Murray
- Based on
- The Challenge
- Presenter
- Brihony Dawson
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 10
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Background
The Challenge: Australia draws cast members from a range of Australian reality programs, including The Bachelor Australia, The Bachelorette Australia, Married at First Sight Australia, Love Island Australia, Big Brother Australia, Australian Survivor, MasterChef Australia, Australian Ninja Warrior, Australia's Got Talent, and I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Australia, as well as various celebrities. Announced in February 2022, it was one of four new international editions of The Challenge, alongside The Challenge: USA, The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío, and The Challenge UK. Winners and select contestants from these series later competed on The Challenge: World Championship in Cape Town, South Africa, which aired on Paramount+. In addition to representing Australia in that global season, cast members competed for a A$200,000 prize pool and the inaugural Australian title of "Challenge Champion".
Format
The Challenge: Australia consists of a main challenge, a winners' selection, and an elimination round. In the daily challenge, players compete in male/female teams of two. The last-place team is automatically sent to the elimination round, while the winners earn the power to select a second team to compete in the elimination against the last-place team. Eliminations, called "The Arena", pit the last-place team against the team chosen by the daily challenge winners; the winners remain in the game and the losers are eliminated. A twist called "The Algorithm" was introduced after the first elimination: an algorithm assigns players a new partner of the opposite gender for the next game cycle, ensuring players are paired with someone they have not been with before or cannot have the same partner twice in a row if all eligible pairings have been exhausted. In Episode 5, as part of a halfway-point twist, the winners of the daily challenge were appointed as "the Algorithm" and chose the teams for the next cycle without regard to previous pairings. The Algorithm also selected teams during the Final Challenge. The halfway-point twist also meant that the losers of the "Ball & Chain" elimination were not eliminated, and the winners of that elimination could choose to remain as a team or separate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who created The Challenge: Australia?
The Challenge: Australia was created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray.
When did The Challenge: Australia end?
The Challenge: Australia last aired on 13 December 2022.
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