The Challenge Champion is the title held by players that have completed and won a Final Challenge.
Prizes[]
- Main article: Prizes
The Challenge Champions receive a check during the completion of every season. In the early seasons of the show the final prize total was accumulated throughout the season by winning challenges, though this eventually turned into a standard prize pot. Additional rewards of plane trips, cars, and TVs were also given as final rewards in the earlier seasons. The prize pot has gradually increased through the years, reaching $1,000,000 on Dirty 30, though it is not always guaranteed to be this amount.
List of Challenge Champions[]
- Main article: List of Challenge Champions
Over the course of the history of the show, there have been 106 contestants that have received the title of Challenge Champion.
Trivia[]
- Piggy Thomas is the first international contestant to win a championship on the flagship series. She is followed by Evan Starkman, Turbo Çamkıran, Dee Nguyen, Rogan O'Connor, Jenny West, and Emanuel Neagu.
- Darrell Taylor and Veronica Portillo are the first contestants to win back-to-back championships. They are followed by Landon Lueck, Evan, Tyler Duckworth, Johnny Bananas, CT Tamburello, Jonna Mannion, and Kaz Crossley.
- Darrell holds the record for the most consecutive championships won, with four.
- Bananas holds the record for the most championships won on the flagship series, with seven.
- He also holds the record for the most championships won across all series, with eight.
- Evelyn Smith and Veronica hold the record for the most championships won on the flagship series by a female contestant, with three each.
- Cara Maria Sorbello also holds the record for the most championships won across all series by a female contestant, with three.
- Tony Raines is the first flagship player to win a championship on a Challenge spin-off, but not the flagship series. He is followed by Jonna.
- Bananas is the first contestant to decide not to split their winnings with their partner. He is followed by Ashley Mitchell.
- Sarah Rice is the first contestant to have their share of the prize money taken by their partner. She is followed by Hunter Barfield.
- Cara Maria is the first contestant to be declared the sole winner of a season. She is followed by Turbo, Yes Duffy, Sol Pérez, Emanuel, and Laurel Stucky.
- Every sole winner so far has managed to win their season without seeing an elimination.
- CT is the only contestant to win two Champs vs. Stars seasons.
- Ashley M. holds the record for the most money won in a single season, with $1,000,000.
- Turbo holds the record for the most money won in a single season by a male contestant, with $750,000.
- Jonna is the only contestant to win two All Stars seasons.
- Sean Duffy is the first person to win two seasons. Roni Martin and Veronica are the first female contestants to win two seasons.
- Veronica is the first person to win three seasons. Darrell is the first male contestant to win three seasons.
- Darrell is the first person to win four seasons.
- Bananas is the first person to win five, six, and seven seasons.
- Four different pairs have won multiple seasons together:
- Darrell and Veronica won The Gauntlet and The Inferno together.
- Derrick Kosinski and Kenny Santucci won The Inferno 3, The Island, and The Ruins together.
- Bananas and Evelyn won The Island and Rivals together. They also share their The Island win with Derrick and Kenny.
- Evelyn also shares her The Inferno 3 win with Derrick and Kenny. Bananas also shares his The Ruins win with Derrick and Kenny.
- CT and Emily Schromm won Rivals II and Champs vs. Stars 1 together.