Escape from Scorpion Island

Escape from Scorpion Island
Created by	CBBC
Presented by	Caroline Flack and Reggie Yates (Series 1) JK and Joel (Series 2-3)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	30 (Series 1) 25 (Series 2,3)
Production
Production locations	Fernando de Noronha, Brazil (Series 1) Perth, Australia (Series 2), Mission Beach, Queensland(Series 3)
Running time	25 min (Series 1) 1 hour (Series 2-3)
Original release
Network	BBC One (Series 1) BBC Two (Series 2-3) ABC1 (Series 1) ABC2 (Series 2)
Release	3 September 2007 – present
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Escape from Scorpion Island is a Bafta nominated BBC children's TV adventure game show in which ten contestants compete for three weeks to 'escape from an exotic island'. Series 1 was made by RDF Television for CBBC. Series 2 and 3 were produced by Foundation/Freehand for CBBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The first series ran on BBC One from 3 September 2007 to 21 September 2007 and was presented by Caroline Flack and Reggie Yates and filmed in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

Series two premièred on 28 September 2008 on BBC Two.

The second and third series are hosted by JK and Joel. Series two was filmed in Perth, Australia. Series three is being filmed at Mission Beach, Queensland. All episodes in the second and third series are one hour long for the UK show and are shown on Sundays at 9am on BBC Two.

Synopsis

Series 1

Having arrived on Scorpion Island, the adventurers are divided into two teams, known as Sting and Claw, consisting of five members each. Over the following three weeks the teams must complete various challenges in order to gain various advantages, such as extra time.

Series 2

Teams Sting and Claw each have three members. Hidden away from the camp is Limbo, where ten captives are held. Each day the captives battle against each other to try and impress Sting and Claw for a chance to get out of Limbo. Four of the Limbo captives are secret power players. There are also some suprise sacrifices.

Note: Tara, Ayla, Alex Y and Lachlan are from Australia and the rest of the contestants are from UK.

Series 3

A new format and for the first time 3 teams take on the Island. Sting, Claw and Venom. With some very evil twists.

Series 1

There are 3 Weeks (19 days). There are 2 teams Sting and Claw On the second week they collect Powerplays for Headstarts in the final challenge to escape from the island. On the third week things get harder. They have to use their Powerplays to gain time advantages. The score was Claw on 2 and Sting on 1. The final challenge was Shadow Mountain Highway. Team Claw got a 2 minute headstart and eventually won since Sting's Kyran and Oscar received minor injuries climbing.

Members

Series 1

Team Claw

• Ayesha
• Helen - swapped from Sting
• Sam - swapped from Sting
• James
• Barbara

Team Sting

• Hayley - swapped from Claw
• Joe
• Lianna
• Kyran - swapped from Claw
• Oscar

Series 2

Team Claw 6 Members

• Jake - original player
• Ayla - used her power play "Swap" to force Anna to take part in the challenge instead of Olivia and won "Stretched to the Limit"(Won)
• Alex T - power player "Freeze" and has been in Limbo since the beginning.He used it in decks of doom and still lost!
• Tara - original player
• Sammy - original player (Power player "Head Start" given to her from Livvy because of her injured leg.)(Used it in Rollin Tunder and lost, they also lost a chance to steal Olivia from sting)
• Livvy - power player "Head Start" gave power play to Sammy.(has a sore leg from 13cm piece of wood and has recently been unable to compete), Has good charaterictics

Team Sting 10 Members

• Alex Y - original player, was in Team Sting, then went to Limbo due to sacrificing himself after losing "The Last Gasp" and got rescued from Limbo in "Reckless Rally"
• Cameron - original player
• Olivia - original player
• Anna - was the first Limbo captive to be won by either team (won in "One False Move")
• Lachlan - used his power play "False Start" after a poor start at "Reckless Rally" and won (won)
• Cai - Won in "Above and Beyond"
• Jack - Won in "Over the Edge"
• Ollie - was in Team Claw after being won in "The Last Gasp" but returned to Limbo after sacrificing himself after losing "Reckless Rally" but was eventually won by Team Sting in "Tower of Strength"
• Amie - Was captured by the island and placed in Limbo from Team Claw after losing "Tower of Strength" (was originally won in "Stretched to the Limit") Won again in Rollin' Thunder by Sting.
• Lizzy - Was captured by the island and placed into Limbo from team Claw after losing "Tower of Strength" (was originally won in "Pedal of Peril") Won again in Rollin' Thunder by Sting.

Limbo As all of the team members are on either Sting or Claw, Limbo, the Stone of Selection of the Survival challenges no longer exist.

The Story So Far

It's now 10 players in Sting and 6 in Claw in favour of Team Sting. Although Team Sting won Ollie and pulled him out of Limbo, he wishes he was in Team Claw, like he was before he sacrificed himself. As for Team Claw, not only did they lose their chance of having Ollie back to their team, they also lost Amie and Lizzy, as they were unexpectedly kidnapped by the island and sent to Limbo. In the final Limbo challenge, Lizzy outlasted Alex T in Rollin' Thunder. Lizzy hung of the huge spindle for nearly 9 minutes, Alex T not even lasting a minute. It was supposed to be 2 on 2 but due to Livvy's leg injury, she could not compete and Aime decided to step down so it could be 1 on 1. As a result of the Ultimate Jeopardy round, the winning team will gain Amie and Lizzy. As for the losing team, not only will they gain Alex T and Livvy, they will gain two secret power players as well as Alex has the power play "Freeze" and Livvy has the power play "Head Start". Either way, Team Sting will lead with 10 members to Claw's 6. However, with challenges still to come before the final escape, both teams will be stealing members of the other, allowing Team Sting to stengthen in numbers and a great chance for Team Claw to possibly get back Oliver, Amie, and Lizzy who were former members from Team Claw. Could Team Claw catch up to Team Sting knowing that they have 2 power players to enable them to win the next challenges?

In the first part of "The Crush Rush", Amie and Anna took part in the challenge for Team Sting and Livvy selected Jake and Sammy to take part in the challenge. Livvy decided to use her power play "Head Start". As a result, since Sammy was the holder of the power play and Livvy had control of it, the head start meant that instead of the boulder was released as soon as the challenge started, the boulder was released six seconds later. In the end, Jake was the fastest to complete the course in 31 seconds, joint second was Sammy and Anna with a time of 36 seconds and in fourth place was Amie who completed the course in 41 seconds. However, there's still part two of the challenge where as pairs, Lizzy and Olivia from Team Sting and Ayla and Tara from Team Claw will take part in the challenge while holding a totem all the way to the finish round. In the first round of "Ultimate Jeopardy" noth Sting and Claw barely make it pass the ropes, but Sting just in front. In the 2nd and last round of "Ultimate Jeopardy" Claw starts of fast and steady but Tara gets gently tagged under the ropes. Even though she was tagged they keep running and and eventually made the time of 0:57 overall of the course. Olivia fighting for her life running hastefully didn't touch with the totem in the first part of the challenge but continuing to make quick progress thourgh the course. Their time was 0:47. Although Joel announced that Claw was disqualified and so was Sting, the match was declared to Sting as they got furthest in the first round.

In the first part of "Vertigo", Cameron and Alex T are captains for Team Sting and Team Claw respectively. Cameron chose Cai to climb up the ladder and Ollie to help hold the ladder with him. Alex T chose Jake to climb up the ladder and Tara to help hold the ladder with him. Despite Alex T used his "Freeze" power play, Team Sting won the challenge. Sammy, Ayla and Livvy believe that Jake might be the traitor and believed that he wanted to go to Team Sting. Team Sting selected Jake as their prize should they win the second part of the challenge. In the second part of "Vertigo", the "Ultimate Jeopardy" round, Team Sting selects Lizzy, Amie, Lachlan and Alex Y to take part in the challenge. As for Team Claw, since they must select four players and they must be different players from the last round (captain must participate if there isn't enough players) Alex T is forced to select Sammy to climb up the ladder along with Ayla and Livvy to help Alex T to support the ladder. In the end, Sammy blitzed Team Sting and not only won the Ultimate Jeopardy challenge but sucessfully defended Team Claw.

In the ring of fire, Sammy is the final captain for Team Claw and Olivia is the final captain for Team Sting. The challenge is called "Torrence of Terror" where the players have to pull raft parts to the top of the hill while facing various disasters. Then, they have to assemble the raft and paddle it to the finish.

Though Team Sting has a 4 player advantage, they can quickly get the parts to the top and build the raft. As for Team Claw, their advantage is the less number of players supporting them on the raft and less people to reach the finish.

List of Challenges

• Skydiving (Episode 1) - Cameron of Team Sting landed first.
• Skyhigh Scramble (Episode 2) - won by Team Sting and got to choose their camp first (River Camp, leaving Claw with Tree Camp).
• One False Move(Episode 3/4) - won by Team Sting and gained Anna.
• Decks of Doom (Episode 5/6) - won by Team Claw and gained Ayla.
• Fearfall (Episode 7/8) - won by Team Sting and gained Lachlan.
• Above and Beyond (Episode 9/10) - won by Team Sting and gained Cai.
• Pedal of Peril (Episode 11/12) - won by Team Claw and gained Lizzy.
• The Last Gasp (Episode 13/14) - won by Team Claw and gained Ollie, Team Sting lost Alex Y.
• Stretched to the Limit (Episode 15/16) - won by Team Claw and gained Amie.
• Recklass Rally (Episode 17/18) - won by Team Sting and gained Alex Y, Team Claw lost Ollie.
• Over the Edge (Episode 19/20) - won by Team Sting and gained Jack.
• Tower of Strength (Episode 21/22) - won by Team Sting and gained Ollie, Team Claw lost Amie and Lizzy but has the chance to regain them if they win the next challenge.
• Rollin' Thunder (Episode 23/24) - won by Amie and Lizzy from the Limbo challenge and Lachlan and Olivia from the Ultimate Jeopardy. Team Sting gained Amie and Lizzy and Team Claw gained Alex T and Livvy.
• The Crush Rush (Episode 25/26) - Round 1 won by Team Claw and will steal a member from Team Sting-Sammy used her powerplay and got a 6 second time advantage. Team Claw won and wanted to steal Olivia if they win Round 2.
• The Crush Rush (Episode 25/26) - Round 2 "Ultimate Jeopardy" round won by Team Sting and don't get to steal a member from Team as Sting and Claw was disqualified and Team Sting went the furthest in the first round.
• Vertigo (Episode 27/28) - Alex T. used his power play but lost the challenge and might lose a member. In this challenge, Sammy, Ayla and Livvy believe that Jake wanted to come to Team Sting by purposely losing the challenge.
• Vertigo (Episode 27/28) - Round 2 "Ultimate Jeopardy" round, Team Claw chooses Sammy and not choose Jake and Tara to take part in the challenge. Sammy is agile so Team Claw wins this round and do not lose one of their original members, Jake (in the next episode preview, all six members from Team Claw are together with Sammy as captain).
• Torrence of Terror (Episode 29/30) - The final challenge to escape from Scorpion Island.

Australian transmission

Series 1 was not transmitted in Australia. All episodes in the second and third series are 30 minutes long in Australia. Series 2 will start on 03/11/08 and end 12/12/08. It will broadcast on ABC1, weekdays at 4:30pm. Also, the favourite challenge (as voted via the ABC Scorpion Island website) is broadcasted at 1.05pm Saturday on ABC2 and Series 3 will be broadcasted on ABC1 in 2009.

United States transmission

Series 3 will be the only Scorpion Island on American Broadcasting Company, on abc2 and at 5:05pm (running time: 1 hour) in 2009.