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The new council rule, introduced this season on Koh-Lanta, reshuffles the deck and makes each elimination potentially reversible.
It only took a pot. For its return to TF1 this Tuesday, March 3, Koh-Lanta: The Relics of Destiny promised to shake up one of its most iconic rules. After 25 years of “their sentence is final”, elimination at council is no longer necessarily definitive. And from the first episode, the mechanics produce a spectacular turnaround.
Warning: the following article contains spoilers
With the Reds, Lionel, 42 years old, a tobacconist, was unanimously eliminated. Nine votes against him. The matter seems settled and his teammates think they have made a decision.
But heading to the “den of destiny”, this new addition installed next to the council, in which the outgoing candidates must break a pot.
There are a total of eight pots and only one allows for a duel: the one Lionel chooses.
The message is clear: “Riposte Duel”. Lionel can choose a player still in the game and face them immediately. The winner stays, the loser leaves the adventure for good. Deeming her less sporty than the others, he chooses Françoise.
So in front of Denis Brogniart and the rest of the candidates, the two face off. And against all odds, the one who had just been eliminated turns the tables. Lionel wins: it is finally Françoise who leaves, while Lionel re-enters the game and retrieves an immunity necklace valid for the next council of the Reds.
In just moments, everything changes. A unanimous vote erased. A strategy swept away. And a clear message for the rest of the season: now, nothing is definitively decided at the council.
