The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío is an Argentine spin-off of the American reality competition series The Challenge, featuring Argentinian reality television contestants and celebrities competing against one another in various challenges to avoid elimination.
The series, hosted by TV presenter Marley, premiered on Telefe on February 13, 2023.
Background
In February 2022, a new series of international seasons of The Challenge was announced to air later in the year. The series comprises four new editions of The Challenge, which includes The Challenge: USA, The Challenge: Australia, The Challenge Argentina: El Desafío and The Challenge UK. These local renditions were followed by a fifth series in which winners and select contestants of each series will compete again on another season titled The Challenge: World Championship, which aired on Paramount+.
In addition to the opportunity to represent the Argentine series in The Challenge: World Championship, cast members also competed to win an ARG$15,000,000 prize pool. Unlike other spin-off versions, there was only one winner.
Contestants
Future appearances
Albertario, Jiménez, Alfonso and Cascón they participated in The Challenge: World Championship representing Argentina, although they were all eliminated (Albertario - 15th, Jiménez - 14th, Cascón - 13th and Alfonso - 8th)
Format
Argentina: El Desafío consists of a daily challenge, winner's selection and an elimination round. For the first ten episodes, players compete in male-female pairs which change for each cycle of the game. Daily Challenge: Players compete in the main challenge in male/female teams of two. The last-place team is automatically sent to the elimination round. The winners earn the power to select a second team to compete in the elimination against the last-place team. Eliminations ("The Arena"): The last-place team from the daily challenge compete in an elimination round against the team selected by the winners of the daily challenge. The winners remain in the game while the losers are eliminated. For episode 11/12, the game changed to an individual format. Players compete in daily challenges individually, where the last-place players of the each gender are automatically sent to Arena to compete individually against a same-gender recently-eliminated opponent (see twists below) later selected by the winners. Twists The Algorithm: From episodes 1-10, an algorithm assigns players a new partner of the opposite gender for each cycle of the game. Players must be assigned a new partner they haven't previously been paired with, and cannot have the same partner twice in a row if they have already partnered with each eligible remaining player. The Algorithm also selected pairs during the Final Challenge. Re-entry Twist: Rather than selecting between contestants still in the game, the winners of the "Te Cayó la Ficha" challenge had to select one eliminated player of each gender (from the six most-recently eliminated contestants) to return and compete in the Arena against the last-place players of the challenge. The winners continue in the game while the losers are eliminated.