Reno Rumble is the first season of Australianreality television series Reno Rumble, it aired on the Nine Network. Season one had former contestants from The Block on the Nine Network against former contestants from House Rules on the Seven Network. It was hosted by Scott Cam and judged by Darren Palmer and Romy Alwill. It premiered on May 5, 2015.[1] The season was won by Ayden and Jess Hogan who received $100,000 with half to charity and a Mazda CX-5.[2]
Format
Each week each individual team within The Redbacks (The Block) and The Bluetongues (House Rules) are allocated two rooms to deliver, first room is delivered within the first 48 hours, the highest scored individual team will receive immunity from elimination. The teams will then work on their second room the rest of the week, the team with the highest score are safe from elimination, the individual team with the lowest score in the losing team are eliminated.
Contestants
Nine has announced the 8 teams from The Block & House Rules who will compete on Reno Rumble.[3]
The week is split in two, The first 48 hours of renovation is to renovate their first room and the individual team with the highest score will receive immunity from elimination.
The rest of the week is to renovate the second room, the whole team (red or blue) with the highest score are the weeks winning team and avoid elimination, the lowest scoring individual team in the losing team will be eliminated.
Due to Ben & Jemma's (Bluetongue) elimination, Carly and Leighton, the last bluetongue team, will have Ayden & Jess stay on as a Bluetongue team. There were no team captains as each couple on each team worked as one. This week has a double elimination & no immunity but an extra $10,000 for their reno. First rooms tied scores and both received $5,000 extra.
For the second rooms, each team got to receive a helping hand from an eliminated team, bluetongues chose Jemma and Ben and redbacks choose Kyal and Kara.