The extreme survival contest!!
A BRUTAL new reality TV show set to be launched in Russia has sparked controversy after its rules promised to allow “fighting, murder and rape”.
The Hunger Games-style contest, called “Game2: Winter”, which is the brainchild of millionaire Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, has been accused by critics of promoting “savage and bestial behaviour”.
Game2: Winter has sparked controversy over its extreme rules
But what is Game2: Winter, where will it be filmed and who is the wealthy Russian behind it? Here's all you need to know:
What is Game2: Winter?
Game2: Winter will see 30 participants, evenly split between men and women, armed with knives and dropped into the Siberian wilderness for a nine-month survival test.
Starting in July 2017, they will be competing for a £1.3 million prize, and are expected to hunt and fish for food in the bleak taiga forest in order to stay alive.
The daring contestants – who must be over 18 and declared “mentally sane” – will be allowed 100kg of equipment to last them until April 1 2018, and are not permitted to take in guns.
They will have to pay £132,000 just to enter, and their trials and tribulations will be filmed by 2,000 fixed cameras and broadcast live online 24/7.
The extreme survival show will be translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic, and there has reportedly been interest from mainstream broadcasters in five countries to air it on television.
Shockingly, the rules for the contest originally stated: “Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything.”
“Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed,” reads an advert. “2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives. Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything.”
Contestants will each sign a waiver acknowledging that they might be raped or killed but the rules also state that police are free to arrest anyone who commits a crime on the show. “You must understand that the police will come and take you away,” the rules state. “We are on the territory of Russia, and obey the laws of the Russian Federation.”
Contestants will be placed in a landscape where bears and wolves are likely to be living. According to the Siberian Times, knives will be allowed yet guns are forbidden. The show is the brainchild of entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky who says he “will refuse any claim of participants even if they were to be killed or raped”.
There won’t be a crew but rather 2,000 cameras dotted around the area. Each contestant will also have their own personal recording device. Willing participants need to be 18 and “mentally sane” to compete.
“The show promises to be international,” Pyatkovsky said. “Five countries have already expressed the desire to broadcast it for their audiences.”
He claims that 60 people have already applied, including one American.
This article was amended on 16 December 2016 to correct a temperature conversion.
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