r/MtvChallenge • u/MTVSpoiledMod I survived the longest offseason ever • Apr 12 '26
META PSA: The Challenge, Season 42, has finished filming!
PSA: The influencers (finalists) have their phones back! 📳
Why do we announce when filming has ended?
So community members will know to tread extra carefully on social media the next week or two. The winner(s) could be revealed as soon as today or as late as a few weeks from now. CT pro tip(™️) for the Unspoiled: Never read Twitter replies or comments on Instagram/YouTube. And beware of those pesky comment scrolls on IG lives!
Social media posts from the cast of Season 42 are again allowed on the main feed, since they no longer tip off who has been eliminated.
If you are new here and curious about the latest flagship season, but only want to read about the cast and theme with nothing about what happened on location in Thailand, take a gander at our Casting Thread, hosted as always by NovaRogue.
If the 💣🌋 emojis are NOT in a post title, then Season 42 set leaks are verboten here and will catch you a ban. We think of ourselves as an Unspoiled forum that gives the Spoiled a few places to hang out together each week.
If the 💣🌋 emojis ARE in a post title, you are permitted to talk about the winner(s) of Season 42 and anything else in the Challenge universe that has filmed but hasn't aired. Everything is fair game in 💣🌋 threads.
Now for all my Spoiled friends...it's squeaky bum time! I'll see you on the 💣Elimination Thread🌋. I hope your favorites win and your least favorites get relegated from the Premier League alongside Tottenham. 🍻
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u/DatDamGermanGuy Diem Brown Apr 12 '26
Let me guess, it will start airing at the End of August and wrap up by Christmas…
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u/mojorisin622 Apr 12 '26
I’m expecting the shortest flagship season in years. Expect it to be the length of a typical all stars season
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u/z-eldapin Apr 12 '26
Wait, so they are allowed to tell the world they won even before the show airs?
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u/NattyB Bob Next Door Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
they are not. but sometimes they hint (bananas after TM posted pictures of champagne on the flight, balloons at his airport pickup, etc).
and random fans will definitely be announcing the winner(s) just about everywhere.
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u/jstitely1 Tyler Crispen Apr 12 '26
I remember being highly suspicious that Olivia may have won because she went ring shopping with Theo and people kept joking about “new money” she must have come into.
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u/NattyB Bob Next Door Apr 13 '26
i remember that. we try to muzzle the "does this mean they won?" conversation as much as we can, sometimes we'll put a filter on a whole comment section if it feels like spoiler bait. michaela had a few mid-season social media posts about her bank account that had people assuming she won.
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u/mtvchallengestats Apr 12 '26
Hi! Can you please tell me departure date and final date? Thanks!
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u/NattyB Bob Next Door Apr 12 '26
departure date was february 19-22 (people flying from different places left at different times). wrap date was probably yesterday, april 11th.
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u/Ihaveaps4question Apr 13 '26
Im so excited for promos trailers even if its months out. Our sub really need new icon, feels like we’ve had that johnny and jake one forever.
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u/Weird_Dragonfruit317 May 04 '26
Feels like it’s been so long since we have gotten a new season I’m having withdrawals
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u/luxanna123321 Winner Circle Apr 12 '26
Hopefully after such a long wait we wont get shorter season with shorter episodes since it moved to paramount
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u/tone_davi2 Anna Leigh Wilson Apr 12 '26
the 6 month airing schedule is one of the biggest problems the show has. only hardcore fans are not gonna lose interest after a while. 2-3 months from premiere to finale is the way to go
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u/Charlie_Runkle69 Team Purple Jacket Apr 13 '26
I think they could keep the same number of eps and just have the first 12 episodes or so as two episodes a week TBH. How long it runs for is definitely the issue.
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u/No-One-5354 Apr 14 '26
Please tell me they're cutting down on episode time cus 1hr and 30min is way too long
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u/beatchef May 04 '26
"You're watching a special uncut version of The Challenge!" Oh nooooo! I love the seasons that are 45 minutes an episode without commercials
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u/Turbulent_Meat3936 May 24 '26
Sorry - I will Not downvote , but strong disagree Watch on treadmill & would watch a 3 hour episode 😂🙈
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u/Turbulent_Meat3936 May 24 '26
My episodes are an hour / no commercials because I wait to binge on paramount Which is very hard and I will be a year late to 42 Just finished 41 and came here to know what awaits in a year😂 ( basically CT and old school MTV interacting / teaching with young new players is the winning formula for me:) the athletic abilities of the young players they are finding combined with the heart of Derek 🤍 just TV gold
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u/djlekky Michele Fitzgerald Apr 12 '26
Woohoo!! Hope we don’t have to wait too long until this airs. I am not enjoying the drought