{"id":1019,"date":"2026-02-13T03:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/?seasons=the-challenge-the-ruins"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:19:58","slug":"the-challenge-the-ruins","status":"publish","type":"seasons","link":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/?seasons=the-challenge-the-ruins","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge: The Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real World Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins is the eighteenth season of the MTV reality television game show, Real World\/Road Rules Challenge, and follows The Duel II. The Ruins took place in Phuket, Thailand, with former cast members from MTV&#8217;s The Real World and Road Rules competing along with several cast members from the Fresh Meat challenge. This season was played in the format of two teams: Champions and Challengers. Players on the Champions team had won at least one previous challenge, while players on the Challengers team had never won a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last season to use Real World\/Road Rules in the on-screen title, before being shortened to The Challenge in the 19th season.<\/p>\n<p>The season premiered on September 30, 2009 and concluded with the &#8220;S#!t They Should Have Shown&#8221; special on December 23, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-1019","seasons","type-seasons","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/seasons\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/seasons"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/seasons"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}