Why the Challenge isn’t what it used to be
I’ve seen some people saying they like this season but I think it’s boring as hell. Right now I’m rewatching Dirty 30 and I can give some big reasons why new school the challenge can’t hold old the challenge’s jock strap
Drama. 4 episodes in there have already been 3 physical altercations. The alcohol fueled violence and drunken hostility added an exciting element. Now apparently if there’s a verbal altercation, it doesn’t even get shown and the next day there are 3 less contestants.
Hook ups. Cory is running rampant. The girls are topless in the pool. Obviously in other seasons there’s tons of hooking up. Often times we even see it through night vision or through a bathroom window. Nowadays you got Johnny and Lete, which apparently an actually interesting scene did happen with them, but again it’s not shown. Beyond that we have Anna Leigh and Cory essentially flirting. That’s the level of sexual material
Eliminations. The way this season is formatted made it so it was almost impossible for large swings to happen or power moves to be made. Each team just threw in their weakest person, that person lost, their team got smaller, they then lost the daily, rinse and repeat. In Dirty 30 someone is voted in (great) and then 3-5 people have to draw the double cross which allows them to throw someone else in. It’s completely unknown who is going in vs for the last 3 episodes of the current season they might as well have not even done the daily.
Backstabbing. The challenge used to be a conniving, manipulative, backstabbing game. It was part of the game and it was expected. You almost got praised for it. Now it’s so vanilla that when Lete puts Cara in the entire house loses their shit. The captains are expected to split the money equally and nobody even really considers the idea of taking it. The element of deception is gone.
Alcohol.