Denis Brogniart and his secret weapon: the “Koh-Lanta” totem -
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Koh-Lanta
, it's back!
The adventure game returns every Friday on TF1 from 9:05 pm.
The new season of the show is called "The Secret Weapons" and promises many twists and turns at the time of the council.
Don't these new cards put in the hands of the players risk making the program a 100% strategic game?
There is no longer any doubt that
Koh-Lanta
and Monopoly have much more in common than it seems.
A game is fun when everyone plays by the rules, but it gets a lot more fun when everything is turned upside down by each other's strategies.
And believe us, your purchase of the four stations in the game will look poor when you discover the twists promised by the production of the TF1 show this season.
In the first episode of this new edition launched this Friday, Denis Brogniart will present “the secret weapons”, elements small in size but large in their power.
They will be able to upset the course of the game by reversing established strategies.
The hijacking of the vote, for example, makes it possible to deprive someone of the ballot and to take their vote.
Double or quits allows someone to duel in the council.
Finally, the black bracelet, meanwhile, negates the power of an immunity necklace played on the council after the votes and after the counts.
Enough to shake up all the certainties of adventurers until the last minute, and make
Koh-Lanta
an even more strategic game than it already was.
A bonus with "very strong impacts"
Like the immunity necklaces introduced in the show ten years ago, secret weapons will disrupt the entire strategic side of the program.
Julien Magne, the producer of
Koh-Lanta
, compares the existence of these amulets to "a sword of Damocles" which is placed above the heads of the candidates.
"It came to stretch the strategies of the pre-advice a little more and it had a very strong impact on all the shows and on the way of playing adventurers", he promises during the presentation of the season to the press.
Will the players take advantage of this to achieve master strokes?
Or, like Lola last season with her immunity collar, will they hand over their secret weapon to one of their comrades?
"We have been surprised several times by the way in which they seized these weapons and how they played them", admits the producer.
According to him, these novelties will have "very strong impacts" on the course of the adventure, with "quite incredible reversals of the situation.
"
Spice up without rushing
However, the strategic aspect of the show is not to the liking of all viewers.
If some are attached to it (thinking that
Koh-Lanta
without betrayal, it's called
Fort Boyard
), others think squarely that it is more like cheating and prefer the sporting aspect of the program.
By focusing on secret weapons (since it is still the name of the season), the production had to be careful not to alienate part of the audience.
"These secret weapons should not turn the whole of
Koh-Lanta
into a strategic game," warns Julien Magne.
There is always this Yellow / Red clash, resourcefulness, the D system, survival and confrontation on the trials.
"
Thus, the production weighed the pros and cons before signing the theme of this edition.
What tipped the scales in favor of secret weapons was the desire not to offer too many of them.
Rest assured, adventurers should not find a new power each time they want to pick cassava or they go to fill their gourd.
But along the way, the strategies will still go well.
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