Which MTV competition series first aired as The Challenge in 1998 under a different title?

Road Rules: All Stars was the 1998 MTV competition series that later became known as The Challenge.

The program brought together former cast members from MTV’s The Real World and Road Rules for a series of missions and eliminations. It premiered in 1998 under the title Road Rules: All Stars, before the franchise adopted several related names and ultimately settled on The Challenge.

The format developed MTV’s reality-competition tradition by combining social strategy, travel, physical contests, and returning personalities. Later seasons introduced international casts and competitors from other reality programs, but the franchise began with participants from the two MTV series.

A common mix-up is calling the first season The Real World/Road Rules Challenge. That title was used later; Road Rules: All Stars is the original name associated with the franchise’s 1998 debut.