Exatlon

Exathlon
Also known as	Exatlon
Genre	Sports Reality Competition
Opening theme	Exathlon
Country of origin	Turkey
Original languages	Spanish Portuguese Romanian Hungarian
Production
Production location	Dominican Republic
Original release
Network	Rede Bandeirantes
Release	2017 – present

Exathlon (Exatlon in some countries) is a reality competition series where two teams of physically fit contestants compete against each other. Following the reality TV format the show has many parts that are planned ahead. The teams are composed of athletes (current, former, Olympic etc.) sports professionals and celebrities on one team and ordinary people with athletic ability, from all walks of life on the other team. All must have strong physical skills and sporting abilities.

Exathlon is a team-oriented competition which moves to an individual mode in its final weeks, culminating in a final round where a male and female are crowned the Exathlon champions. The format finale varies in certain markets where the male and female compete for one of them to be crowned the Exathlon champion.

Exathlon first aired in Brazil on (Rede Bandeirantes) in 2017 and since then has been a rating success in Mexico (TV Azteca), Romania (Kanal D), Colombia (Canal RCN), US Hispanic (Telemundo) and Hungary (TV2).

Format

An Exathlon season is stretched across 4 to 6 nights a week from a minimum of 12 weeks to as many as 30 weeks.

Each day the teams compete on specially designed parkour courses. The parkour courses are designed as head-to-head races (tête-à-tête). The first team to achieve 10 wins is crowned that days winning team - 10 is the Winner.

Exathlon's key point of difference is its complex parkour courses that can test the most accomplished athlete. These stable parkours combine running tracks with swimming pools, hurdles, obstacles, balance beams, toboggan slides, sand & mud crawl nets, crawl tunnels, under/over bars, dropping platforms, and physical sporting mechanismus. Each parkour has a further skill-based ending that is changed according to the game requirements. The game endings are interchangeable across the parkours with over 50 possible choices. The parkours are long testing tracks that require a number of sporting skills. Each one can involve any combination of speed, swimming, jumping, balance, flexibility, strength, dexterity, coordination, muscle memory and sporting intelligence. The Exathlon parkours test all aspects of an athlete's abilities.

Individuals need to perform at their highest level consistently as this is the only way they can secure a strong position within their team rankings. These rankings are important as regularly, over the course of the series, contestants will be eliminated from either team.

Exathlon's host plays and important role in the show commentating on each parkour, guiding the viewer through each game. A unique characteristic of this sports-reality format is the sports style commentary.

The Team Stage

Eight to ten Athletes in each team face-off week on week, with athletes eliminated each week.

A typical week in Exathlon includes but is not limited to: the House game, the Money game and Money Smash, the Individual Medal game, the International game, the Best-off game, the Special game, the Elimination game and the Play-off game.

Once Exathlon reaches its final eight athletes the format moves from the team stage to the individual stage.

The Individual Stage

The final eight compete individually to crown the Exathlon Champion or Champions.

Aside from the parkour games, Exathlon also includes Quiz & Word games played once a week between the two teams.

Exathlon's format evolves in future season's creating international tournaments and competitions across multi-national, regional and world championships.

The winner of each s

Exathlon Series

Legend:

  Currently Airing Franchise

  Franchise With an Upcoming Season

  Franchise no Longer Aired

  Status Unknown

Country/Region	Local Title	Network(s)	Winners	Hosts
Brazil	Exathlon Brasil	Band	Season 1, 2017: Marcel Stürmer	Luís Ernesto Lacombe
Colombia	Exatlón Colombia	RCN Televisión	Season 1, 2018: José Rodríguez	Roberto Manrique
Hungary	Exatlon Hungary	TV2	Season 1, 2019: Katalin Huszti Season 2, 2020: Dr. Busa Gabriella & Böjte Dávid	Palik László
Mexico	Exatlón México	Azteca 7 (Season 1) Azteca Uno (Season 2-3)	Season 1, 2017-18: Ernesto Cazáres Season 2, 2018-19: Aidee Hernández & Aristeo Cazáres Season 3, 2019-20: Mati Álvarez & Heliud Pulido	Antonio Rosique
Romania	Exatlon România	Kanal D	Season 1, 2018: Vladimir Drăghia Season 2, 2018: Beatrice Olaru Season 3, 2019: Andreea Arsine & Ion Surdu	Cosmin Cernat
United States (in Spanish)	Exatlón Estados Unidos	Telemundo	Season 1, 2018: Marisela Cantú Season 2, 2019: Valeria Sofía Rodríguez Season 3, 2019: Alberto Medina Season 4, 2020: Current season	Erasmo Provenza
Turkey	Exatlon Challenge Türkiye	Netflix	Season 1, 2020: Barış Erdoğan	Orkun Işıtmak