Frédéric Favier

Frédéric Favier is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Caramoan.

Profile[]

Profile retrieved from tf1.fr^[1]

Prénom: Frédéric
Age: 31 ans
Profession: Charpentier
Ville: Isère
Equipe: Tayak
ZONE CV: "Le travail finit toujours par payer", telle est la devise de Fred. Compétitif, il n'hésite pas à mettre la main à la pate pour mener sa vie comme il l'entend. Cependant, il n'oublie pas que vivre c'est aussi partager. Ses connaissances en menuiserie peuvent lui permettre de devenir un personnage incontournable des Tayak.

Koh-Lanta[]

For the opening challenge for rice and for the power to choose their tribemates, Frédéric was partnered with Nathalie Ensargueix, Christopher Lavaud, and Carole Rapin. The team won the challenge and selected Bertrand Bolle, Christelle Gauzet, Christophe Guttatoro-Martin, and Morgane Rodriguès to be a part of the Tayak tribe with them. The Tayak tribe initially won the first Reward Challenge, in which the reward was fire, but the victory and the reward were transferred to the Mingao tribe later that day as it was discovered that Frédéric and Christopher had broken the rules at one point in the challenge.

Apart from this, the Tayak tribe's obvious strength over the Mingao tribe worked in their favour in challenges, allowing for the former to ulong the latter. The only time the Tayak tribe lost an Immunity Challenge was during the third cycle, in which they unanimously eliminated Morgane at the corresponding Tribal Council because of her deteriorating physical and emotional state. Though the remaining Tayak tribe members would all go on to secure places on the Merged Tribe, Nathalie was in the hot seat for her perceived laziness around camp and would have likely been voted out had they lost another Immunity Challenge.

Before the tribes merged, both designated tribe leaders, Bertrand and Jean-Bernard Hauton-Arnaud, were selected as the Ambassadors for their respective tribes and visited their rivals' camps. Both men spent their visits trying to get to know their rivals rather than discussing what the voting dynamics might become in the individual phase. However, Bertrand also hinted to the Mingao tribe members that there might be some people on his own tribe that are more deserving of the Ambassadors' vote than they are and Jean-Bernard also talked about Hakim Djellali and his funny behaviour around camp, but also implied that Hakim was the fellow Mingao tribe member that he'd be willing to lose first. At the Ambassadors' Meeting, Bertrand and Jean-Bernard quickly opted for a draw, which resulted in Bertrand receiving the Ambassadors' vote. At the first individual Immunity Challenge, it came down to Bertrand and Frédéric in the end and the former asked the latter if he could drop out because the former had the Ambassadors' vote cast against him. Frédéric complied, but Bertrand would soon regret asking Frédéric for this favour as he felt that he didn't earn his win. However, this didn't matter as all of the original Tayak tribe members, with the exception of Christophe and along with Hakim, who had very quickly socialized with the original Tayak tribe members come merge, voted out Jean-Bernard because of his status as the leader of his alliance, his challenge prowess, and his negative attitude and criticisms concerning Hakim.

At the Final Ten, the original Tayak tribe members made plans to vote out one of their own, Nathalie, because they still thought that she was being somewhat lazy around camp. On top of this reason, the alliance's men wanted to cancel Nathalie's attempts at making an all-female alliance. However, the day of the merged tribe's second Tribal Council, Christopher was evacuated to the infirmary as he was suffering from irregular heartbeat patterns. This prompted the original Tayak tribe members, with the exception of Nathalie, who was out of the loop, and Christopher, who was at the infirmary, to change their plans and vote out Hakim instead. They did this as they didn't want the original Mingao tribe members to go into the Final Nine with four in numbers, including Jean-Bernard, if Christopher were to be permanently evacuated from the game before the vote. The next day, when Christopher was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game because he needed to go to the hospital for more tests, Hakim returned to the game in his place. At the Final Nine, Christophe, who felt personally insulted by Bertrand telling him that his actions at the previous Tribal Council were brainless, approached Frédéric with an idea to eliminate Bertrand on the basis of him being too authoritarian as an alliance leader. Frédéric told Christophe that it would be hard to rally votes from the rest of the tribe, though he could try, and that he himself would not vote against Bertrand. When Christophe tried to rally Nathalie's vote, she felt that he was being too threatening and told Bertrand about Christophe's scheming soon after that. As a result, Christophe's plan backfired as he, who was now seen as treacherous for his scheming, replaced Nathalie as the black sheep of the original Tayak tribe members and was outcasted by the tribe, including the original Mingao tribe members, for the remainder of the cycle. At the corresponding Tribal Council, Christophe was voted out unanimously.

Following this diversion, Frédéric and his alliance decided that they would resume their pagonging of the original Mingao tribe members for the next few cycles. Upon Régis Colombier's elimination, the remaining original Tayak tribe members formed the Final Five, however, this meant that there would be one more cycle before the finale. Though Bertrand, Frédéric, and Christelle agreed that Nathalie was the least deserving of the alliance to make it any further into the game and were originally going to vote her out at the next Tribal Council, they ultimately decided to prioritize strategy over merit and voted out Carole instead because they felt that she would do well in the Perch challenge at the Final Three.

Frédéric made it to the finale and, when Christelle won the Perch challenge at the Final Three, she chose to take Frédéric to the Final Two over Bertrand. At the Final Tribal Council, Frédéric was seen as being in Bertrand's shadow and this, along with Christelle's strong social footing throughout the game, resulted in Frédéric losing to Christelle in a 6-1 vote.

Voting History[]

Episode	Frédéric's Votes	Voted Against Frédéric
1	Tayak Tribe Immune
2	Tayak Tribe Immune
3	Morgane	-
4	Tayak Tribe Immune
5	Tayak Tribe Immune
6	Jean-Bernard	-
7	Régis	-
8	Christophe	-
9	Charlène	-
10	Hakim	Individual Immunity
11	Régis	Régis
12	Carole	Individual Immunity
13	Ineligible	-
Jury Votes for Frédéric	Bertrand
Runner-Up, Day 39