Desafío (TV series)

Desafío
Genre	Reality competition
Presented by	Margarita Rosa (2004 – 2006, 2008, 2011 – 2016) Victor Mallarino (2004 – 2005, 2009 – 2010) Lina Marulanda & Juan Pablo Llano (2007) Taliana Vargas (2009) Toya Montoya (2010) Juan Ignacio Velásquez (2011) Catalina Aristizábal (2017 – 2018) Andrea Serna (2019)
Country of origin	Colombia
No. of seasons	16
Production
Running time	42 minutes
Release
Original network	Caracol TV
Original release	2004 (2004) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Expredición Robinson Other versions
External links
Website

Desafío is a Colombian reality competition television series produced by Caracol TV. In the show, contestants are isolated in an island and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other members until only one final contestant remains and wins a cash prize.

Although the show has been mostly produced by Caracol TV, other versions have been produced by GenTV and Univision. These two versions were produced in Florida and aimed to the Latin American audience in the United States.

Format[]

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Groups[]

Contestants are split in different groups of usually six to eight people each. The criteria for the division might vary from season to season. Some criteria used have been whether they had been in a previous season ("Sobrevivientes", and "Superhumanos"), if they were famous ("Celebridades"), age ("Cuchacos", "Pelados", and "Catanos"), social status ("Privilegiados", "Rebuscadores", and, "Llevados"), or where they came from ("Antioqueños", "Cachacos", "Cafeteros", "Costeños", "Emigrantes", "Santandereanos", and "Vallecaucanos")

Each group is given a unique name and an identifying color. These are used on flags, challenge courses, on-screen text and various other items. Each player is given an assortment of clothes with their respective colors and symbols. Players are required to wear the color of their group in a visible location at all times, allowing the audience to identify their affiliation. Upon switching groups (due to a merge or dissolution), players are required to give up their old clothes and obtain new ones in the new group's color.

Locations and beaches[]

Each group is assigned a different beach to stay. Each beach has different qualities and benefits:

• Playa Alta/Oro has a luxurious cabin with beds, showers, bathrooms and a fully equipped kitchen. In some occasions, there are employees that prepare the meals for each contestant.
• Playa Media/Plata features the bare necessities for living. Contestants have a wooden roof with hammocks to sleep. They are given pots and pans, knives, some food and tools to hunt and cook.
• Playa Baja/Bronce features the worst conditions for the contestants to live in. Contestants have to build their own shelter or sleep in a cave. There is no food and the contestants have to eat fruits or try to hunt or fish what they can.

During each show, the groups have to compete in a challenge ("Desafío territorial") to decide which group will stay on each beach. As the show progresses and contestants are eliminated, the teams are merged into a single group and they are taken to Playa Fusión, which features commodities slightly better than Playa Media.

Challenges[]

During each show, teams will play three separate challenges. The challenges are:

• Desafío Territorial where the winning group receives the "keys" to "Playa Alta". The second and third place teams get the "keys" to "Playa Media" and "Playa Baja" respectively.
• Desafío de Salvación
  • Desafío de Salvacion where the winning team gains immunity from elimination, plus, in some seasons, the chance to be judges at the final "juicio" or judgment.
  • Desafío a Muerte where the losing team is sent to "Juicio" to have one of their members eliminated.

Challenges vary from obstacle courses, to races, swimming matches, building puzzles, among many others.

El Juicio[]

"Juicio" (or "Judgment") is held after the ‘Desafío de Salvación’. Here, the group that lost the "Desafío Final" vote one person out of their team. Present at the judgment is the team that won the "Desafío de Salvación", who will serve as the judges. After a brief discussion of the events that led to that moment, each member of the losing team walks up to a table and secretly votes to eliminate a member of his team. After all members of the team have voted, the host counts the votes.

Originally, the judges voted to save a member of the other team. The strategy usually was to try to anticipate who the losing team would want to eliminate and save him/her. The next member with the most votes would then be eliminated. In 2008, the rules were changed and the judges were given the option to veto the choice of the other team to eliminate a member. If they veto, the losing team is forced to vote publicly for a second member to be eliminated. This is referred to as the "bloody vote". In 2009, a new rule was made. The losing team voted to eliminate a member of their team. Then, a second voting has to be done to choose a second member to be eliminated. Then, the judges decide which of the two "sentenced" members was eliminated.

In the event of ties, sometimes the judges get to choose which of the members of the losing team that are involved in the tie, is eliminated. Also, the members that are chosen to be eliminated are sometimes given a chance to vouch in front of the judges for their safety.

End of the game and prizes[]

When there are two contestants left in the game, they return to Colombia for one last show, along with the eliminated contestants. Here, the audience votes for the contestant they want to win the game. In 2008, the system was changed and it was the other contestants who voted for the winner. The winning contestant usually gets a prize in cash whereas the second place contestant gets a new car.

Participants[]

Seasons[]

The Colombian version is produced by Caracol TV and has been hosted by several celebrities. Each competition has a unique name, and lasts from 13 to 15 episodes.

#	Name	Location	Original teams	Winner	Runner(s)-up	Audience
1	Desafío 2004: La Aventura	Colombian's and Panama Islands	Three teams of six	Paula Andrea Betancourt	Monica Londoño	14.7
2	Desafío 2005: Cabo Tiburón, Chocó, Colombia	Cabo Tiburón, Colombia		Tatiana de los Ríos	Álvaro Mesa	14.9
3	Desafío 2006: Guerra de Estratos	Dominican Republic		Alfredo Varela	Diego Agudelo	10.9
4	Desafío 2007: La Guerra de las Generaciones	Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama	Three teams of eight	Isabel Solís Montoya	Camilo Vega	8.6
5	Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones 2008	Isla Contadora, Panama	Five teams of six	Juan Pablo Londoño	Pedro José Orduz	12.9
6	Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones, La Revancha 2009	Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama	Six teams of six	Didier Castañeda	Ludwig Monoga	13.5
7	Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones, El Brazalete Dorado 2010			Eider Guerrero	Jhonattan Cure	13.6
8	Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones, La Piedra Sagrada 2011	Dominican Republic		Mauricio Morales	Jader Arizala	12.4
9	Desafío: El fin del mundo 2012	El Salvador		Jenny Moreno	Sergio Alejandro Arango	14.0
10	Desafío: África, el origen 2013	Senegal	Three teams of seven	Carolina Jaramillo	Alejandro Herrera	13.1
11	Desafío: Marruecos, las mil y una noches 2014	Morocco		Wilder Zapata	Manuela Vásquez	11.1
12	Desafío: India, la reencarnación 2015	India	Three teams of eight	Vanessa Posada	Pierine Peñaranda	12.3
13	Desafio: Los Superhumanos 2016	Trinidad and Tobago	Six teams of seven	Ángel Jesús Arregoces	Augusto Castro	11.6
14	Desafío 2017: Superhumanos Cap Cana	Dominican Republic	Six teams of six	Mateo Carvajal	Jhon Jairo Mosquera	12.5
15	Desafío 2018: Superhumanos, XV			Óscar Muñoz	Witsmar Lucumí[nb 1]	12.1
16	Desafío 2019: Super Regiones		Ten teams of four	Brynnis Joissy López Olivella Lairen Bernier Jerry Karth Reikin Herrera	Lizeth Mendieta Villanueva Diana Gil Bora Clever Alejandro Vargas Free Wee Súarez	11.0

International versions[]

Although the main version of Desafío is produced by Caracol TV for Colombian television, three other versions have been produced already.

  Currently airing     No longer airing     Upcoming or returning version  

Country	Show name	TV channel	Winners	Presenter(s)	Grand prize
Bulgaria	Игри на волята(bg) Igri na volyata	NOVA	Season 1, 2019: Dobrin Nikolov Season 2, 2020: Milen Tsvetkov Season 3, 2021: Andrey Gridin Season 4, 2022: TBA	Aleksandra Sarchadjieva (1) Ralitsa Paskaleva (2-present) Dimo Aleksiev (2-present)	200,000 лв. (1) 100,000 лв. (2 - present)
Colombia (original format)	Desafío	Caracol Televisión	: Paula Andrea Betancourt : Tatiana de los Ríos : Alfredo Valera : Isabel Solís : Juan Pablo Londoño : Didier Castañeda : Eider Guerrero : Mauricio Morales : Jenny "Perla" Moreno : Carolina Jaramillo : Wilder Zapata : Vanessa Posada : Ángel Jesús Arregoces : Mateo Carvajal : Óscar Muñoz : Equipo Costeños : Galo Pinzón y Paola Solano Season 18, 2022: TBC	Margarita Rosa de Francisco (1-3, 5, 8-13) (1-2, 6-7) Lina Marulanda† (4) Juan Pablo Llano (4) Taliana Vargas (6) (7-8) (8) (14-15) Andrea Serna (16-present)	?
Greece	Nomads(el)	ANT1	Season 1, 2017: Apostolia Zoi Season 2, 2018: Stelios Hantampakis	Grigoris Amaoutoglou (1) Savvas Poumbouras (2) Giorgos Lentzas (2)	€150,000
Mexico	La Isla, el reality	Azteca 7	Season 1, 2012: María Renee Núñez Season 2, 2013: Season 3, 2014: Francisco Covarrubias Season 4, 2015: Jorge Alberti Season 5, 2016: Season 6, 2017: Luis Arellanes		?
United States (Spanish)	Desafío 20.06	GenTV	Season 1, 2006: Alejandro Kenig		$100,000
	Desafío: La Gran Batalla	Univision	Season 1, 2010: Yunior Puig	Michel Brown

See also[]

• Expedición Róbinson (Colombia)
• Survivor (U.S. TV series)

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website