The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is the 2nd season of SA Reality Series, which premiered on June 8th, 2020 and concluded with the Final Challenge on July 3rd, 2020.

This format closely follows that of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet 3, where players are divided onto two teams, competing for safety and the ability to impact who faces The Gauntlet (Elimination). This season, players were hand-chosen from the application pool in a draft by hosts and  to be a part of either Anthony's Army or Sam's Squad.

Production
The Gauntlet was announced as the second season of SA Reality Series on June 3rd, 2020 with the opening of applications. Applications closed 4 days later on June 7th, 2020, with the cast being announced the next day with the Cast Reveal & Premiere on June 8th, 2020.

This season was hosted by and.

Format
The game begins with 20 players, fighting for their shot at their share of $50.

The 20 players are divided into two teams, Anthony's Army and Sam's Squad. However, these teams did not stay intact for the entirety of the game, with the Team Switch in Episode 4 leading to the creation of new teams Kelly's Kamikaze and Nathan's Navy. Each round, the teams will go head to head in a Challenge to determine the winning and losing team. The winning team will be safe and will vote for one person on the losing team to automatically send into Elimination as well as one person from the losing team to be safe and therefore immune from going into Elimination. Note that someone cannot be saved back to back times they are eligible. The losing team will also vote for someone from their own team to face Elimination against the person sent in by the winning team.

The two people sent into Elimination will then face off head to head in The Gauntlet where one person will be eliminated each round with no chance at re-entering the game.

This continues until a small amount of players are left and both teams compete in the Final Challenge to determine who will win and get to split the $50 prize and who will finish the game with nothing.