The Look: The Caucus Challenge - Unfinished Business

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BY DC CUEVA      

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It's been a while since our last blog post back last October... and there's a reason for that: four years ago this past week, my family lost our house patriarch, and things haven't been the same since my late dad left us -- and as this post goes to print, we've just had another member of our extended family leave us as well. It also spurred a gradual transition from a decade of doing content of the written variety to now focusing on the audio/visual side of things with my cameras. But there's always an exception to this enforced DCBLOG sojourn: a budding part-time vlogger taking a break from editing videos of his own to feature the work of a fellow YouTuber who, thanks to our common fandom for MTV's The Challenge, always outdoes himself to nurture a franchise that is his own -- certainly different from my Vegas vlogs.

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Ten years ago on the outskirts of the small town outside the Big Apple that crowned the world champion of the world's most popular sport a few weeks ago, only those who went to high school with him knew exactly what he was up to when it came to spending spring and summer breaks filming a homemade version of America's then-fifth (and now, sixth) major sport in his own backyard. Secaucus, New Jersey native Andres Rodriguez first came up with the idea of The Caucus Challenge while attending high school at 16... but when he met the cast of a then-milestone but since tainted season nine years ago, this site opened the world's eyes to both that show and its various spinoffs. As the first place anywhere in either the fourth or fifth estates to have opened the lid on this backyard battle to a global audience, we have seen through this whole evolution of Dre.Media Productions ever since, spawning the subgenre that is known as live reality games -- homemade versions of the shows we love watching.

As those who love competition just enjoyed the World Cup (like this avid all-around sports fan did) and those who love reality television have been engaged in both the U.S. and U.K. versions of Love Island as well as the new season of Big Brother... and in a week from now, we'll have a new place to turn to for Season 42 of The Challenge. But for those anxious for that countdown to begin towards a familiar format returning: while you were busy watching the grandma of America's newest royal couple join a whole bunch of stars in The Traitors estate (and this one was busy watching the Olympics, World Cup and many other sports), a whole different set of competitors took to the outskirts of Pennsylvania for the nineteenth and latest chapter of The Caucus Challenge -- this time with a score to settle.