The Challenge - The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is the 7th season of the MTV reality game show, The Challenge. The season is directly subsequent to Battle of the Sexes. The Gauntlet featured 28 castmates competing in missions with an immunity life-saver awarded to the best individual performer. Each team would then select a player from their team to go into the Gauntlet elimination challenge. This challenge was held in Telluride, Colorado. It was hosted by Jonny Moseley. This is the first edition of the Gauntlet series, with The Gauntlet 2 following in 2005–2006 and The Gauntlet III following in 2008.

18 Episodes

Showdown at the Real World Road Rules Corral: A Guide to the Gautlet

Season 7 - Episode 1

Host Johnny Moseley, and 'Battle of the Seasons' champ Coral introduce the twenty-eight new competitors who will be arriving in Telluride, C...

Howdy Telluride

Season 7 - Episode 2

Real World / Road Rules: The Gauntlet has begun!!! Shots of Telluride Colorado's scenery is shown as we see two planes fly into a small loca...

Snake Soup

Season 7 - Episode 3

Mission: ""Snake Soup""- Tread as long as you can in 48 degree water full of snakes. Mission Winner: Elka for the Real World Team Sent to th...

Masquerade

Season 7 - Episode 4

Mission: ""Masquerade""- Rearrange a puzzle of ""Happy and Sad"" Masquerade masks to create a different puzzle. Mission Winner: Road Rules S...

Mud Bath

Season 7 - Episode 5

Mission: ""Mudbath""- A ""Musical Chair"" type competition involving a declining number of balls in a mud pit. Mission Winner: Road Rules Se...

I Scream

Season 7 - Episode 6

Mission: ""I Scream""- To eat a huge bowl full of Ice Cream completly clean with their hands tied behind their back. Mission Winner: Road Ru...

Holey Canoe

Season 7 - Episode 7

Mission: ""Holey Canoe""- Both teams race by paddling down and back up a river in canoes that have holes in the bottom. Mission Winner: Road...

Heavyweight Hustle

Season 7 - Episode 8

Mission: ""Heavyweight Hustle""- To traverse a uphill Obstacle Course in heavy Sumo-type costumes. Mission Winner: Real World Sent to the Ga...

Sink My Ship

Season 7 - Episode 9

Mission: ""Sink Your Ship""- Try to sink the other teams boats by pulling the plug.

Red Barron

Season 7 - Episode 10

Mission: ""Red Barron""- To aim and shoot the opposite team's plane first. Mission Winner: Road Rules Freshlook Eyesaver Winner- Real World:...

Inferno

Season 7 - Episode 11

Mission: ""Inferno""- To climb a spinning ladder to rescue a cat from flames the fastest while being sprayed by a fire hose. Mission Winner:...

Rolling on the River

Season 7 - Episode 12

Mission: ""Log Roll""- To stay on a spinning foam log the longest. Mission Winner: Road Rules Freshlook Eyesaver Winner- Real World: Mike (R...

Turntable

Season 7 - Episode 13

Mission: ""Turntable""- To last the longest on a spinning disk. Mission Winner: Road Rules Freshlook Eyesaver Winner- Real World: Theo (RW11...

All or Nothing

Season 7 - Episode 14

Mission: ""All or Nothing""- To jump off a dock onto a rope hanging from a helicoptor and climb as fast as possible.

Vertical Sweep

Season 7 - Episode 15

Mission: ""Vertical Sweep"" - To rapell a rock wall while collecting flags the fastest. Mission Winner: Real World Freshlook Eyesaver Winner...

Dukes of Saturn

Season 7 - Episode 16

Mission: ""Dukes of Saturn""- To Climb out of one car, crawl across a ladder, and climb in another car thats hanging 100 feet above the grou...

Gold Rush Part 1

Season 7 - Episode 17

Sent to the Gauntlet- Real World: Theo (RW11) Road Rules: Cara (RR12) Gauntlet Mission: ""Ride 'em Cowboy""- Stay on a mechanical bull the l...

Gold Rush Part 2

Season 7 - Episode 18

Handsome Reward: 2004 Saturn Ions Handsome Reward Winner: Road Rules Final Score Board- Real World: $60,000 Road Rules: $240,000 Earnings Pe...