From Wednesday 23rd April,
Netflix
The Paramount Reality Universe has long-running multi-show all-star reality challenge show The Challenge and now Netflix is getting in on the action with their NRU show Battle Camp.
Battle Camp sees eighteen of your favourite Netflix reality stars (!) from shows such as The Circle, Love is Blind and The Mole compete at a sort of Summer Camp under the watchful eye of moustachio-ed former NFL player Taylor Lewan as they compete in various games and challenges to win $250,000.
The main point of difference between this and The Challenge seems to be that to get eliminated from The Challenge you have to lose a challenge, here failing at challenges and losing popular votes means your name gets put on a wheel, and whoever the wheel lands on goes home. It will be interesting to see how much you can affect your odds, or if they might as well have saved everybody a load of time by just spinning the wheel at the start and giving that person $250,000 and we can all get on with our lives.
Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
This is very much like a My First The Challenge, the tasks don’t have the scale, and really the wheel is too biased towards the vote given how relatively little time is committed to that. Also the reveal of the votes on the wheel has been done in the most tedious way possible.
Still, it’s over and done with in ten episodes – trying to figure out how it’s going to work if six people are entering the game episodically.
I thought I would give this a watch on a long train journey. There is some elements I really like.
I like how the eliminations work. It’s not just a vote off. Players play a challenge. The losing team all get added to a wheel. 3 people then play a punishment game voted by the winners the winner of that is not added to the wheel the two losers are added. Then you have a vote any vote means you are added to the wheel for each vote. 6 votes for a player they take 6 spots.
What I like about that is it means you don’t need the support of an alliance to throw a vote on someone get them added to the wheel and if it lands them they are gone. It’s not always the person with the most spots on the wheel that goes it does genuinely feel random.
In the begining eliminated players are replaced with a new player.
The setting and music are fun. However there is not a whole amount of game to each episodes a lot of it is just people chatting.
I have found myself skipping a bit of the chatter and just watching the games the strat chat after the game and then the wheel spin