Rule Change Eliminates Strong Participant on Survive in Istanbul
The teams are still unable to establish good relations within the group.
In the reality show «Survive in Istanbul» (16+), tensions rise by the fourth episode. While some participants try to mathematically calculate all moves ahead to break through to victory, others are playing their own game. But whatever plans the teams make, the project organizers are following their «Tarantino-esque» scenario and abruptly change the voting conditions. The players are stunned. And the show unexpectedly loses its strongest participant.
In an attempt to avoid punishment for offending quad bike riders, Boiko decided to hide in Istanbul.
The new episode began with Mia Boiko«s return to the team. The singer had spent several days on a personal challenge, trying to survive in Istanbul without money or knowledge of the language. Not all her teammates were happy about the reunion; tension was literally in the air. Mia herself added fuel to the fire. She did not hide that she perfectly understood: she was the next one to face elimination trials from the star team. The only salvation was immunity, which the singer fought for by remaining in the foreign city. But she did not receive this prize.
Left without the villa, Alena Blin began making threats.
Boiko returned to her camp at the villa much later than her rival Alena Blin. The journalist, who ended up in the people«s team, turned out to be just as much of a black sheep; the players do not accept her and constantly nominate her for votes.
Magomed Murtazaliev«s joking led to flirtations with Mia Boiko.
Mia had no choice but to change her strategy. The girl bet on honesty and admitted to the team that after the elimination of Ekaterina Gordon and Irina Shibetskaya from the project, she only has to try to fit into the collective.
This is what the challenge looked like.
In the people«s team, it»s not all calm either. Alena Blin, angered by the fact that her team lost the luxurious villa, issued an ultimatum.
Rapper Serega changed his famous scarf for a panama hat, and it was a bad omen.
«If you burn my immunity at the voting and vote against Sergei (the journalist»s friend. — Ed.), then I will sabotage all big challenges. You won«t see the villa anymore,» the star threatened the people«s team.
Her team members, it seems, did not expect such a turn. They understood that in this way Alena Zhigalova was trying to stay on the project. But what to do about it — the question remained open.
In the new episode, the residents of the Istanbul forest (the losing team) went to their task at the villa. If before they just cleaned there while the stars were away, this time they had to entertain the winners.
Each of the people«s team members came up with an activity from themselves — from making cocktails to relay races in the pool. Only Alena Blin and Sergei Stepanov remained aside. They tried to establish communication with the stars, because in the future the teams will merge, and new allies never hurt.
A sympathy develops between Magomed Murtazaliev and Mia Boiko. The stars began to support each other. This was visible during the humorous competitions from the people«s team animators.
At the big challenges, the teams faced a fierce struggle. They had to knock down barrels of sand with 2-kilogram balls. Only a few people from the teams could participate. From the people«s team, Igor Prokhorov, who works as a volleyball coach in Tyumen, fitness trainer Leonid Vakhitov, blogger Alena Grom, and Russian master of sports in powerlifting Vlada Zolotova volunteered.
From the stars went rapper Serega, actor Kuzma Saprykin, actress Maria Gorban, and singer Mia Boiko.
«I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I want to accept this battle,» comments Igor Prokhorov, anticipating the start of the challenge. «This is my challenge. I am professionally involved in volleyball. All my life with balls.»
If this game was within the men«s power, then for the female half — a real blow. The participants literally fell off their feet. And Maria Gorban, on emotions from fatigue, asked to go home.
The people«s team won in this challenge. The last heaviest barrel was knocked down by the volleyball player. It was not easy.
«Opposite me stood Serega. He is just a beast. His swing is the most powerful,» commented Prokhorov on the course of the game.
And since the victory was for the common people, their team went to rest at the villa. And the stars packed their suitcases and morally prepared to sleep in the forest and switch to an endless rice diet.
In the finale, the teams went to vote. It would seem, no surprises: everyone knew against whom they wanted to cast their vote. But here came the first unexpected decision of the project organizers — at the ceremony, only one team is present. The people«s team and the stars were separated, meaning they will not know about each other»s intentions. But that«s not all.
According to the new rules, the teams nominate not their own players, but participants from the opponent«s team. This means that the outcome can be any, but the strongest are under the biggest blow. At this moment, Alena Blin could not hold back her emotions: the journalist rejoiced because she knew that she would definitely not be chosen.
Thus, rapper Serega and Leonid Vakhitov went to the challenge. They needed to play two games: the first on memory, and the second on endurance. In both cases, the fitness trainer from the people«s team won. And the rapper went home with the words:
«I came to hunt, to knock him out. But luck was on his side,» commented the star on his loss.
