Challenge Season 35: How Will The Rookies Use Their Big Brother And Survivor Experience?

The Challenge is about to welcome lucky number seven rookies to the madness Season 35 fray. And while some (Bayleigh, Kaycee, and Swaggy C) know to "expect the unexpected," one player (Jay) won't be instructed to "drop your buffs."


Yet what is their respective plan of action on the longtime MTV series? For Swaggy, it's aligning with his fiancée Bayleigh (like the two demonstrated on Big Brother). Nevertheless, he sees their unity as a benefit on The Challenge (their showmance relationship a couple of many years prior on the small screen wasn't viewed the same way).


"On Big Brother, as soon as two folks are with each other, it's an instant target," he told MTV News. Yet in here, it's sort of easier because I can sleep in one room and she can sleep in another, and we can both have ears. Whenever she shows how scary she is, no one is going desire to disaster with the two of us."


Meanwhile, Bayleigh is willing to lose the newbie stereotype (aka being the opening to go into an elimination).


"I'm not a normal rookie," she explains. "You're not going to throw me in just because I'm new. I'm going to come in and beast every competition. I'm going to destroy each person with my man, so people will aspire to work with us versus looking at us like dead weight."


Kaycee, meanwhile, is approaching this competition "pretty much the same" compared to how she played Big Brother. Plus it worked out favorably for her on BB.


"I won Big Brother Season 20 getting as well as each person yet also competing at the same time," Kaycee explained. "I'm willing to crush it."


Lastly, Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X alum Jay is approaching his game play as "an underdog" and will need to "politic to identify which route to go." And he is continuous working out" (which he couldn't do on the beaches of Fiji).


Which rookie do you know has the strongest chance of making it far in this Challenge -- and who are you happy to be able to see competing? Sound off, and never miss the premiere of The Challenge: Total Madness on Wednesday, April 1 at 8/7c.