Desafío (TV series)
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
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, if they were famous, age, social status, or where they came fromEach 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, 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.
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.
''El Juicio''
"Juicio" 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
;Desafío 2004 - La Aventura| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
;Desafío 2005 - Cabo Tiburón, Colombia
| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
;Desafío 2006 - La guerra de los estratos
| Privilegiados | Rebuscadores | Llevados |
;Desafío 2007 - La Guerra de las Generaciones
| Catanos | Cuchachos | Pelados |
| Alexandra Díaz | Carlos Díazgranados | Camilo Vega |
| Betty Rosales | Edgar Jaimes | Cindy González |
| Johanna Cote | Fernely Guerrero | |
| John Dossman | Jair Romero | Harold Martínez |
| Jorge Paz | Isabel Solís | |
| Luis Arias | Laura Puerta | John Jairo Córdoba |
| Sandra Azuero | Margot Álvarez | Nina Osswald |
| Víctor Benavides | Sandra Bermúdez | Sharon Durán |
;Desafío 2008 - La Lucha de las Regiones
| Costeños | Cachacos | Vallecaucanos |
| Gustavo Fuentes | Sonia Vanegas | Clara María Cruz |
| Brígida Gutiérrez | Mauricio González | Diego Landaeta |
| Juan José Sierra | Ávila | Gustavo González |
| Stephanie Carrillo | Jorge Iván Giraldo | Halem Castillo |
| Myriam Brant | Carolina Trujillo | Katherine Arango |
| Klein Contreras | Andrés Alarcón | María Isabel Franco |
| Londoño | Pedro José Orduz | Lina María Ramírez |
;Desafío 2009 - La Lucha de las Regiones, La Revancha
| Costeños | Cachacos | Emigrantes |
| John Jairo Larios | Arlex Eduardo Ávila | José Jesús Henao |
| Carlos Adolfo Ponnefz | Andrés Gaitán Herrera | Ludwig Harold Monoga |
| Jonathan Mulford | Hebert Fabián Guzmán | Castañeda |
| Echávez | Aydeé Patricia Galvis | Jhovanna Ramírez |
| Anaís Gutiérrez | Sofía Blanchet | María Claudia Rubio |
| Stephanie Coymat | Bermúdez | Sandra Mendivelso |
| MaryLuz López | Miguel Ángel Urrea | Paola Andrea Rodríguez |
;Desafío 2010 - La Lucha de las Regiones, el Brazalete Dorado
| Costeños | Sobrevivientes | Paisas |
| Jonathan Cure Simonds | Dayana Martínez | Akemi Nakamura Gómez |
| Angélica María Duque | Eider Guerrero | Carolina Jaramillo |
| Bony Lim Rodríguez | Eliana Ardila | Cristian Leonardo Flores |
| Emerson Eloy Vásquez | Karen Jiménez | Daniel Alejandro Cortés |
| Martha Maturana | Oscar Mahecha | Luis Alfredo Rueda |
| Silvio José Carrasquilla | William Vargas | Natalia Rueda Montoya |
| John Jairo Escobar | Temistocles Savelli | Gina Daza |
;Desafío 2011 - La Lucha de las Regiones, La Piedra Sagrada
| Retadores | Paisas | Sobrevivientes |
| Kelly Andrea Cadena | ||
| Jader Alexis Arizala | ||
| Farid Laverde |
;Desafío 2012 - El Fin Del Mundo
| Cafeteros | Cachacos | Costeños | Sobrevivientes |
;Desafío 2013 - África, El Origen
| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
;Desafío 2014 - Marruecos, Las Mil y Una Noches
| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
;Desafío 2015 - India, La Reencarnación
| Tigres | Elefantes | Cocodrilos |
;Desafío 2016 - Súper Humanos, Súper Regiones
| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños |
;Desafío 2017 - Súper Humanos, Cap Cana
| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños | Desterrados |
Luisa Hernández |
;Desafío 2018 - Súper Humanos XV
| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños | Súper Humanos |
;Desafío 2019 - Súper Regiones
| Amazónicos | Antioqueños | Cachacos | Cafeteros | Costeños |
| Llaneros | Pastusos | Santandereanos | Tolimenses | Vallecaucanos |
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-up | Audience |
| 1 | :es:Desafío 2004|Desafío 2004: La Aventura | Colombian's and :Category:Islands of Panama|Panama Islands | Three teams of six | Paula Andrea Betancourt | Monica Londoño | 14.7 |
| 2 | :es:Desafío 2005|Desafío 2005: Cabo Tiburón, Chocó, Colombia | :es:Cabo Tiburón|Cabo Tiburón, Colombia | Three teams of six | Tatiana de los Ríos | Álvaro Mesa | 14.9 |
| 3 | :es:Desafío 2006|Desafío 2006: Guerra de Estratos | Dominican Republic | Three teams of six | Alfredo Varela | Diego Agudelo | 10.9 |
| 4 | :es:Desafío 2007|Desafío 2007: La Guerra de las Generaciones | Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama | Three teams of eight | Isabel Solís Montoya | Camilo Vega | 8.6 |
| 5 | :es:Desafío 2008|Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones 2008 | Isla Contadora, Panama | Five teams of six | Juan Pablo Londoño | Pedro José Orduz | 12.9 |
| 6 | :es:Desafío 2009|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 | :es:Desafío 2010|Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones, El Brazalete Dorado 2010 | Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama | Six teams of six | Eider Guerrero | Jhonattan Cure | 13.6 |
| 8 | :es:Desafío 2011|Desafío: La Lucha de las Regiones, La Piedra Sagrada 2011 | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Mauricio Morales | Jader Arizala | 12.4 |
| 9 | :es:Desafío 2012|Desafío: El fin del mundo 2012 | El Salvador | Six teams of six | Jenny Moreno | Sergio Alejandro Arango | 14.0 |
| 10 | :es:Desafío 2013|Desafío: África, el origen 2013 | Senegal | Three teams of seven | Carolina Jaramillo | Alejandro Herrera | 13.1 |
| 11 | :es:Desafío 2014|Desafío: Marruecos, las mil y una noches 2014 | Morocco | Three teams of seven | Wilder Zapata | Manuela Vásquez | 11.1 |
| 12 | :es:Desafío 2015|Desafío: India, la reencarnación 2015 | India | Three teams of eight | Vanessa Posada | Pierine Peñaranda | 12.3 |
| 13 | :es:Desafío 2016|Desafio: Los Superhumanos 2016 | Trinidad and Tobago | Six teams of seven | Ángel Jesús Arregoces | Augusto Castro | 11.6 |
| 14 | :es:Desafío 2017|Desafío 2017: Superhumanos Cap Cana | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Mateo Carvajal | Jhon Jairo Mosquera | 12.5 |
| 15 | :es:Desafío 2018|Desafío 2018: Superhumanos, XV | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Óscar Muñoz | Witsmar Lucumí | 12.1 |
| 16 | :es:Desafío 2019|Desafío 2019: Super Regiones | Dominican Republic | 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 |
Other versions
Although the main version of Desafío is produced by Caracol TV for Colombian television, three other versions have been produced already.| Show name | Produced by | Grand Prize | Broadcast years | Seasons |
| :es:Desafío 2006 |Desafío 2006 | GenTV | $100,000 | 2006 | 1 |
| Univision | $100,000 | 2010 | 1 | |
| Nomads Greece | ANT1 | €150,000 | 2017 2018 | 2 |
| :bg:Игри на волята|Juegos de voluntad Bulgaria | NOVA TV | 200,000 лв. | 2019 2020 | 2 |