The Challenge: 40th Anniversary Season Competitors and Premiere Date Revealed by MTV

The Challenge is celebrating a major milestone with a big competition. Champions from four different eras of the MTV series are returning to compete in the 40th anniversary season.

The 40 players, the show’s largest cast ever, include Kaycee Clark, Tori Deal, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, Aneesa Ferreira, Brad Fiorenza, Leroy Garrett, Mark Long, Rachel Robinson, Cara Maria Sorbello, Laurel Stucky, CT Tamburello, Darrell Taylor, Devin Walker, Jenny West, Cory Wharton, and Jordan Wiseley.

MTV revealed more about the competition in a press release.

MTV today announced that the longest-running reality competition series The Challenge will embark on its monumental 40th season beginning Wednesday, August 14 at 8PM ET/PT. The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras will feature 40 legendary competitors from the series’ 26-year history representing their “Challenge Era” in an epic battle for the ages where legends will collide as they strive to immortalize their names as Challenge 40 Champions and earn their share of the one million dollar prize.

This season’s stacked roster features the most Challenge champions ever including 7x winner Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, 5x winner CT Tamburello, 4x winners Darrell Taylor and Jordan Wiseley, 3x winner Derrick Kosinski, 2x winners Mark Long, Jonna Mannion, Rachel Robinson, Cara Maria Sorbello, Laurel Stucky, and Jodi Weatherton, and 1x winners Kaycee Clark, Nehemiah Clark, Katie Cooley, Tori Deal, Brad Fiorenza, Aviv Melmed, Emily Schromm, Devin Walker, and Jenny West alongside fan-favorite Challengers Tina Barta, Paulie Calafiore, Theo Campbell, Derek Chavez, Aneesa Ferreira, Michele Fitzgerald, Amanda Garcia, Leroy Garrett, Horacio Gutiérrez Jr., KellyAnne Judd, Olivia Kaiser, Ryan Kehoe, Josh Martinez, Nurys Mateo, Nia Moore, Brandon Nelson, Tony Raines, Averey Tressler, Cory Wharton, and Kyland Young.

In the monumental 40th Season, The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras, the path to glory is far from easy, as they must first compete at the Era Invitational and eliminate the weakest links from within their own Challenge Era for only the best will earn a coveted spot on their team. With relentless, new challenges and twists, these seasoned Veterans are perpetually kept on their toes in the game they thought they had mastered.

Challenge Competitors representing Era 1 (Seasons 1-10):

• Tina Barta (8 Challenges) – IG: tinabarta X: @TinaBarta
• Katie Cooley (11 Challenges, 1 win) – IG: KatieCooley26 X: @KatieCooley26
• Aneesa Fereira (17 Challenges) – IG: AneesaMTV X: @AneesaMTV
• Brad Fiorenza (13 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: bradfiorenza X: @bradfiorenza
• Derrick Kosinski (13 Challenges, 3 Wins) – IG: DerrickMTV X: @DerrickMTV
• Mark Long (8 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: TheMarkLong X: @TheMarkLong
• Rachel Robinson (8 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: Rachel_Fitness X: @Rachel_Fitness
• CT Tamburello (19 Challenges, 5 Wins) – IG: _famous4nothing
• Darrell Taylor (14 Challenges, 4 Wins) – IG: darrell_taylor_lb4lb X: @mtvrrdarrell
• Jodi Weatherton (5 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: JodiMTV

Challenge Competitors representing Era 2 (Seasons 11-20):

• Derek Chavez (5 Challenges) – IG: d.e.r.e.k.c X: @d_e_r_e_kc
• Nehemiah Clark (7 Challenges, 1 win) – IG: nehemiahclark X: @_KingNehemiah
• Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio (23 Challenges, 7 Wins) – IG: JohnnyBananas X: @JohnnyBananas
• KellyAnne Judd (7 Challenges) – IG: kellyannejudd X: @kellyannejudd
• Ryan Kehoe (7 Challenges) – IG: ryankehoe5
• Aviv Melmed (1 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: aviv_melmedbruno
• Brandon Nelson (6 Challenges) – IG: BrandonDNelson X: @brandondnelson
• Emily Schromm (3 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: emilyschromm X: @emilynschromm
• Cara Maria Sorbello (15 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: misscaramaria
• Laurel Stucky (8 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: laurelstucky X: LaurelStucky

Challenge Competitors representing Era 3 (Seasons 21-30):

• Tori Deal  (9 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: tori_deal
• Amanda Garcia (7 Challenges) – IG: mtv_amanda X: @mtvamandag
• Leroy Garrett (13 Challenges) – IG: royleethebarber X: @Bruce_lee85
• Jonna Mannion (10 Challenges, 2 Wins) – IG: jonnamannion X: @jonnamtv
• Nia Moore (4 Challenges) – IG: therealniamoore X: @therealniamoore
• Tony Raines (7 Challenges) – IG: t_raines X: @tonyraines
• Averey Tressler (3 Challenges) – IG: avereytressler X: @ave_tress
• Devin Walker (7 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: mtv_devin X: @MTVDevinWalker
• Cory Wharton (10 Challenges) – IG: corywharton_ig X: CoryWharton
• Jordan Wiseley (9 Challenges, 4 Wins) – IG: jordan_wiseley

Challenge Competitors representing Era 4 (Seasons 31-39):

• Paulie Calafiore  (4 Challenges) – IG: pauliecalafiore_ X: PaulieCalafiore
• Theo Campbell (3 Challenges) – IG: theo_campbell91 X: @theo_campbell91
• Kaycee Clark (5 Challenges, 1 Win) – IG: ksince1987 X: @ThatStudMuffin
• Michele Fitzgerald (4 Challenges) – IG: mich_fitz X: @meeshfitz
• Horacio Gutiérrez Jr. (2 Challenges) – IG: horaciogutierrez
• Olivia Kaiser (2 Challenges) – IG: oliviaannkaiser X: @oliviakaiserxo
• Josh Martinez (6 Challenges) – IG: josh_martinez_ X: @joshmbb19
• Nurys Mateo (2 Challenges) – IG: nuryskmateo X: @nuryskmateo
• Jenny West (2 Challenges, 1 win) – IG: jenniferwestofficial
• Kyland Young (2 Challenges) – IG: kylandyoung X: @kylandyoung

Leading up to premiere, fans will get an exclusive sneak peek and meet the cast during MTV’s The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras: Countdown Begins launch special airing Wednesday, August 7th at 8PM ET/PT. Stream previous seasons of The Challenge on Paramount+, MTV VOD, and The Challenge channel on Pluto TV.

Returning alongside The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras will be a new season of MTV’s Official Challenge Podcast, with episodes dropping every Thursday following premiere. Hosted by veteran competitors, the upcoming season will feature in-depth recaps with first-hand anecdotes from the most recent episodes. Fans can subscribe to MTV’s Official Challenge Podcast to catch up on past seasons and receive new episodes in their feed HERE. The podcast is produced by Paramount Audio and MTV Entertainment in collaboration with iHeartRadio and is available across all major podcast platforms.

The Challenge was created for MTV by Bunim/Murray Productions. Julie Pizzi, Justin Booth,  Jacob Lane,  and Emer Harkin serve as Executive Producers for Bunim/Murray with Diego Amson serving as Co-Executive Producer. Dan Caster, Leanne Mucci, and Jared March serve as Executive Producers with Angela Liao serving as Executive in Charge of Production for MTV.

What do you think? Have you kept up with this MTV series? Will you be watching the anniversary competition in August?