What is up Challenge Maniac Scott here with a special breaking news edition

of Challenge Accepted. Challenge accepted is where I go over the big news stories,

the rumors, the gossip of the week, and I take your rapid fire Q&A questions. Well,

the big news this week hit on Wednesday night during survivor at about 8.50 p.m.

during the episode. There was an ad that played during survivor on CBS that

shocked the challenge world. Now this ad was then posted by the Chowns Social Media

Council Twitter on Instagram. I'm going to go ahead and play that ad for you right here.

Get ready to CBS for reality Titans battle it out with MCD Challenge Legends for the ultimate prize

of half a million dollars. Who has what it takes to become America's best? This is the Challenge USA.

All right, so that's what the promo said, okay? The the tweets and the Instagram posts say the

challenge USA is back. See who will be crowned America's best when the challenge USA returns to CBS

this summer. Okay, well a lot of us on the on the inside here in the know know that the challenge

USA is filming right now. It's filming right now currently and it's not done. I think a lot of us

had earmarked this for probably coming at us maybe in late summer, maybe in early fall, but

probably thought it would come after all star season four, which filmed of course way earlier in

the year and has been sitting there in the can. We haven't even seen a promo or snipped any sort

of official cast news, things like that. But here we are the penultimate episode of survivor,

airing on CBS and we get a promo for the challenge USA to and not in that promo per se. It's

said coming soon in the promo, but on the social media they're confirming this summer. Now the summer

goes. I believe until early September. So that could mean August could mean September. Who knows?

But I mean, this is big news because there were rumors and rumblings that this wasn't even going to

air on CBS. Well, guess what it is? Whether that was planned originally or the writer strike had

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