For the second time, The Challenge is pitting 14 Champions — people who know how to make a final and win — against 14 Challengers — veterans and rookies alike who have yet to get a win under their belt. The two teams compete in numerous missions, typically called challenges, in order to win cash, prizes and advance in the overall game. The winning team in each challenge receives a cash prize of $30,000 which is split evenly among the team members and placed in their individual bank accounts.
Before every challenge however, the Champions and the Challengers each select three players of each gender within their team to be nominated for elimination. After the challenge, the six nominees from the winning team pick one guy and one girl among themselves, as well as a male-female pair from the losing team's nominees to battle against in the Ruins.
In the Ruins, there are two events — one battle for each gender. The winners from each event get to stay in Guatemala City and have a chance to compete for a share of $600,000 in the final challenge. The losers are eliminated from the game, and lose all of their prize money in their individual bank accounts to the event winners.
