The Challenge: All-Stars recap: 5 things we learned from the first part of the final

This one is no joke.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE CHALLENGE AHEAD!

Ready?

The OGs are back.

The Challenge: All-Stars pits 22 of some legends of the MTV competition series in a Paramount Plus-only series. But it’s not the Challenge they competed in back in their primes.

With usual host T.J. Lavin, it’s a series just like the “regular” one. And like we do with the series, we normally power rank the competitors to see who’s in the lead for the $500,000 prize. But this week, we’ll dive into Part 1 of the final to see what happened.

In this week’s episode: THE FINAL HAS BEGUN! Two competitors have already gone home in Stage 2 of a multi-part final, and those left might be in trouble due to the eating portion …