If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I don’t watch reality TV. None at all. I dabbled in ‘Jersey Shore’ back in the day, but all shows seem to have the same effect on me. “This can’t really be happening, and these people can’t really exist.” But as with all rules there is always an exception. The only “reality show” I watch is ‘MTV’s the Challenge’. I begrudgingly call it reality TV because, to me, it more closely resembles America’s other great sporting event. So much so that me an my buddies have been partaking in a Challenge fantasy league for the past 3 years. I know, I know, Grantland does a reality TV fantasy league; but theirs is based on drama and other terrible tropes of reality TV. Ours however is purely based on performance. As much as I love seeing CT go all Leonidas on someone and knock them square in the chest, shouting “This is the Challenge”, I more so enjoy the sporting story lines that develop from season to season.
Last season was the vindication of CT. CT a perennial all star by all definitions, had been held out from winning a championship ever since being on the show. It was riveting to watch. How could a guy who’s clearly the strongest competitor not obviously win the game every time. Because there’s a lot of moving parts going on. It’s more chess than checkers for these once Real World alums turned pseudo American Gladiators. It’s the same thing that makes watching Greg Poppovich troll the NBA all season by seeming less than, only to turn it on late in the season, so entertaining, that makes watching Johnny Bananas somehow always creep into the finals picture. Johnny Bananas the picture in the dictionary next to over achiever has won 3 times and been in the finals 5, and yet in our fantasy league has never been a number one pick. The idea that the masses could just as quickly turn on Diem, a survivor of cancer, because she crossed CT is fascinating beyond belief. Every season brings new stories, and new twists to the table, not only character wise, but also via the actual rules. This would be like if the NBA each year had a rule they deemed the “fun rule” where they just added fun stuff to the rule book. One year they put a 4 pointer in, another they create a power play rule, whatever. Point being the The Challenge is almost the perfect marriage of actual sports and my child love, WWE. The drama is high, and possibly curated by producers, but the competition is real and at time gruesome.
Well this season Rookerville wants to share the fun of being apart of an MTV’s the Challenge fantasy league. And through the help of fantasizr.com We have created a public league that anyone can sign up with their friends and play. I’ll be your official host and score keeper, kind of the fantasy league TJ, at least that’s how I’m going to view it.
If you go to the link below you can sign up and keep up with all the news on it via our site and our twitter, where we’ll definitely field any questions. Also for fun, we’ll keep you posted on how our internal league going throughout the season. And as Johnny Bananas once said, “It’s all fair in love, war, and the challenge.”
http://www.fantasizr.com/sport/fantasy-the-challenge-free-agents
About Matt Cargile
Matt Cargile is the Editor in Chief of rookerville.com. He also works in finance, but refuses to read any news printed on pink paper. He is a child at heart with adult means. His childhood dream was to either become a magician or the leader of the next great empire and somehow both these things make complete sense. He's contradictory in nature, but is always consistent.
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