The Look - The Caucus Challenge: Love and War

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BY DC CUEVA 

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This past month & a half has seen plenty to devour for those of us in Challenge Nation -- the fandom of MTV's longest-actively running series. There's the finale & ensuing reunion of Season 39 of the MTV show that crowned a new champ, the reveal of the cast and first look at the fourth iteration of the All-Stars spinoff on Paramount+, and the traditional speculation around the hotstove for its landmark 40th season... plus love for Nelson after his recent foot amputation surgery. But as you await the next chapter in the fifth major pro sport -- and for which our season preview of that comes next week, we'd like you to sample for your enjoyment the following made-for-YouTube goodie here on this Easter.

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Though it is a year late for reasons bigger than this passion, this DCBLOG site will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of our first full year of going Inside MTV Reality this spring, coinciding with All-Stars IV which features many competitors who we have followed throughout the duration of our time together with you here. But our most recurring subject in these ten years is something that we first came across back in the summer of 2017 during the first $1 million Challenge... and it's something that doesn't have to do with an MTV show itself -- rather it's a show inspired by it, and whose most important figures got to meet those Challengers during premiere week in New York so very long ago.

Secaucus, New Jersey resident Andres Rodriguez and his clique of friends got to do a workout session with Kailah, Tony and the rest of the XXX: Dirty 30 cast just before the season premiere of what became one of the series' most controversial seasons. But what brought us to Dre was that he was the host, producer and sometimes competitor of his very own live reality game show entitled The Caucus Challenge. We have followed every step of the Dre.Media story ever since that original story on the franchise seven years ago, which also expanded into Real World-like series The Life We Live and a summer with his most important members of that group, six of his closest friends.

The most recent season of his magnum opus saw a harbinger of what we just saw on MTV with a Caucus Challenge season that gave those who haven't ascended to the top step of the victory podium a chance to have a season to themselves with no champion in sight to ruin their road to the top. And for this latest edition of the ultimate backyard battle: it's also a last stand -- Love and War.

Going into Season 15, there must've been some rumblings going around the universe that surrounds the Dre.Media franchise that this was gonna be a last waltz: some of those who've done multiple Caucus Challenge seasons or have spent many vacation weekends on The Life We Live with Dre and friends were ready to take on the real "real world" after entertaining the YouTube masses for the last few years.

The tagline for this show's fifteenth season reads: "It's more than just a game. We've had fresh meat, game changers, revolutions, and resurrections… but are you ready for WAR? It's the end of an era, but who will reign? Welcome to season 15, The Caucus Challenge: Love and War." And if Final Reckoning was the last chapter of that much-maligned $2.5 million trilogy that came when the MTV show turned 30 seasons young and expanded its horizons around the world and the reality genre, then for the fifteenth season of Secaucus, New Jersey's most important contribution to YouTube reality entertainment promises to be totally different in many ways from that cable staple.

The cast who comes into Secaucus for this season is a who's who: some have become icons in the Dre Media universe, other have won the whole thing, and several are getting initiated for the first time. And anyone who follows this YouTube icon surely knows who Damaris, Jaylen, Lance, Mayelin and Mike are... so does Alex, Bradi, Kevin, Kristennn, Joel, Michaela and Tallo. And they're about to get to know DeJuan, Jada, Jerrica, Jessica, Jon, Matthias, Ssondy, Terry and Zae - a few of whom come from outside the Big Apple from as far away as Chicago, Vegas and the Bay Area.

And once they meet up with Dre and TLWL alum/multiple-times' Caucus Challenger Janiece, they are about to go through a game that will test every aspect of themselves and the players around them. A rookie revolution may cause the vets to rethink their strategy as old and new rivalries emerge, allegiances are questioned, and a bomb from left field could turn the game totally upside down just before the most intense TCC final awaits those who survive the regular season. Binge it all below...

   EPISODE 1   

   EPISODE 2   

   EPISODE 3   

   EPISODE 4   

   EPISODE 5   

   EPISODE 6   

   EPISODE 7   

   Season Finale   

And just debuting a week ago -- and with episode 2 to come tonight: a new era for The Caucus Challenge. Below, partners are taking over the game and with plenty of new faces on Double Trouble.

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