La Isla 2012: El Reality

La Isla 2012: El Reality
Season Information
Version	Mexico (Unofficial)
Season No.	1
Filming Location	Dominican Republic
Filming Dates	July 16, 2012 - September 16, 2012; November 26, 2012
Season Run	August 20, 2012 - December 8, 2012
No. of Episodes	65
No. of Days	62
No. of Castaways	18
Winner	María Renee Núñez
Runner(s)-Up	Julio César Frías
Tribes	Celebridades Desconocidos Famosos Fusión
Cast
Opening Sequence
Season Chronology
Next	La Isla 2013

La Isla 2012: El Reality is the first season of one of the TV Azteca incarnations of the competitive reality TV show La Isla.

María Renee Núñez became the series' first Sole Survivor, beating Julio César Frías in the Grand Finale to win the MX$2,000,000 grand prize.

To date, this season has produced 5 returning players, with Gaby Fernández, Ivonne Montero, Julio César Frías, Mariana Torres, and Rafa Mercadante coming back in future seasons.

Development

The season featured 12 contestants who were already on the public eye, known in the show as Celebrities. They didn't need to audition, as they were cast due to their status. It also held in-person auditions to cast 5 of the 6 everyday people, with these taking place all over the country from May to June 2012. The final castaway was cast thanks to online auditions, held at around the same time.

Once all 18 people were cast, they flew out to the Dominican Republic, wherein the season was recorded over a period of two months. The season then premiered on August 20. The Reunion and Finale were recorded a couple of weeks before its December 8 air date.

Weekly Schedule

The program aired on Azteca 7 four times a week, with it following a given schedule on what happens each day:

Day	Ocurrence
Mondays	Territorial Challenge	Reward Challenge (at the merge)
Tuesdays	Immunity Challenge
Wednesdays	Final Challenge
Thursdays	Trial (up until final six)	Deathly Duel (after final six)

Twists/Changes

• Celebrities vs. Strangers: The cast consists features 12 Mexican and South American celebrities, already known to the general public, and 6 contestants previously unknown, coming from all walks of life.
• Day 1 Split: The 12 celebrities were be split into two tribes of six people each. This split was done via random draw, once everyone landed. The six names that were drawn—three men and three women—would comprise one tribe, while the other six names would be the other.
• Beaches: The Tribes compete each week for one of three beaches:
  • High Beach has all of the amenities one could ask for, included but not limited to: showers, a bed, all the food they could ask for, and a jacuzzi.
  • Medium Beach only gave the tribe some tools, harvested bananas and limes, and hammocks to sleep on. Their water tank is also close to their campsite.
  • Low Beach contains half as many supplies as Medium Beach, has no hammocks, and their water well is miles away from where they're staying.
• Special Privileges: All three tribes would have different privileges based on their status before they came in the game:
  • The Celebridades Tribe was able to keep all of their luggage, would get the luxuries of High Beach, and would arrive to it, first via luxury cars, and then from a catamaran, complete with gourmet food and service.
  • The Famosos Tribe had to choose and pack all of the luggage that was able to fit in a small bag. They arrived at the not-as-good Medium Beach, getting to it via horseback, and then using motor-powered boats.
  • The Desconocidos Tribe left all of their luggage behind. They'd be living in Low Beach for the first week, and got there after they walked and manually rowed to their new beach.
• Captains' Challenge: On Day 16, each tribe would send a captain, and they would compete in a challenge representing their team. This challenge determines the immediate fate of the Tribes, as the losing captain's Tribe would cease to exist. Since this challenge was also a Territorial Challenge, a winner would have to be determined as well. The three representatives were Lourdes Figueroa, Ricardo Casares, and Yanilen Díaz. Yanilen would fall off first, while Ricardo followed her shortly after, thus leaving Lourdes as the winner.
• Tribe Absorption: The day after the Captains' Challenge, the tribes were informed of the challenge's outcome, and, due to Yanilen's loss, the Famosos Tribe would disband and split into the former Celebridades and Desconocidos tribes. Since Lourdes won, she'd have first pick as to which member from the former Famosos Tribe would join her Tribe.
• Trial Mechanics: The winner(s) of the Immunity Challenge would be the Judge(s) for that week's Trial, and would be in charge of saving one person from the losing Tribe (or the rest of the Merged Tribe once that phase was reached). Then, the losing Tribe would vote someone out (at the Merge, the Judge also gets a regular vote). Once all votes would be read, the Judge(s)'s vote would be revealed, and depending on what happened, the following rules would be enforced:
  • If the person saved by the Judge(s) was voted out, then the whole vote would be nullified, and a new round of voting would commence, this time out loud and in front of everyone else.
  • If the saved person was part of a 2-person tie, the other castaway would be eliminated.
  • If the castaway that was saved was part of a 3+-person tie, or there was a 2+-way tie in either the first or second rounds of voting, the saved person would break the tie, by announcing the person who would be leaving out loud.
• Deathly Duel: Once the cast reaches final six, the two castaways who won immunity would be safe, while the others would take part in a life-or-death duel, where one person would be eliminated. At final three, the castaways take part in a duel of their own, with one person leaving, and the other two making it to finale night.
• Finale Night: The Final Two would compete once more in an extremely long challenge, consisting of multiple phases, and that challenge would determine the Sole Survivor.

Contestants

Contestant		Tribe Affiliation			Finish	Votes Against
		Original Tribe	Absorbed Tribe	Merged Tribe
	Belem Guerrero 38, Ciudad Neza, MC Olympic Cyclist	Celebridades			1st Voted Out Day 4	4
	Juanito Acosta 54, DF Politician	Famosos			2nd Voted Out Day 8	5
	Rafa Mercadante 39, DF TV Host	Famosos			3rd Voted Out Day 12	4
	El Travieso Arce 33, Los Mochis, SL Five-Time World Champion	Famosos			4th Voted Out Day 16	4
	Juan Ruíz 47, DF Entrepreneur	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		5th Voted Out Day 20	6
	Daniel Elbittar 33, Caracas, Venezuela Actor & Model	Celebridades	Celebridades		6th Voted Out Day 24	6
	Ricardo Casares 32, DF TV Host	Celebridades	Celebridades		7th Voted Out Day 28	4
	Lourdes Figueroa 24, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala Miss Guatemala 2009	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		8th Voted Out Day 32	8
	Julia Orayen 32, Argentina The Hostess of the Debate	Famosos	Celebridades		9th Voted Out Day 36	12
	Hilario Gerez 28, Cancún, QR Entrepreneur	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		10th Voted Out Day 40	7
	Ivonne Montero 38, DF Actress & Singer	Celebridades	Celebridades	Fusión	11th Voted Out Day 44	6
	Yanilen Díaz 25, Venegas, Cuba Former La Academia Contestant	Famosos	Desconocidos		12th Voted Out Day 48	8
	Celia Lora 28, DF Daughter of Alex Lora	Celebridades	Celebridades		Eliminated Day 52	1
	Mariana Torres 26, León, GT Actress	Famosos	Celebridades		Eliminated Day 56	3
	Gaby Fernández 20, Guadalajara, JC Model	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		Eliminated Day 60	5
	El Bofo Bautista 33, Dolores Hidalgo, GT Soccer Player	Celebridades	Celebridades		Eliminated Day 61	2
	Julio César Frías 22, Playa del Carmen, QR Prehispanic Dancer	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		Runner-Up	2
	María Renee Núñez 22, Hermosillo, SR Student	Desconocidos	Desconocidos		Sole Survivor	6

Season Summary

Cycle (Episodes)	Air Dates	Beaches			Challenges				Saved by the Judge(s)	Eliminated (Vote)	Finish
		High	Medium	Low	Reward	Immunity	Final	Duel
Cycle 1 (1–4)	August 20–23, 2012	Celebridades1	Famosos1	Desconocidos1		Desconocidos	Famosos		Celia	Belem (4-1-1)	1st Voted Out Day 4
Cycle 2 (5-8)	August 27–30, 2012	Celebridades	Famosos	Desconocidos		Desconocidos	Celebridades		Julia	Juanito (5-1)	2nd Voted Out Day 8
Cycle 3 (9–12)	September 3–6, 2012	Desconocidos	Celebridades	Famosos		Desconocidos	Celebridades		Julia	Julia Rafa (4-1; 2-2-1; 1-0)2,3	3rd Voted Out Day 12
Cycle 4 (13-16)	September 10–13, 2012	Celebridades	Desconocidos	Famosos		Celebridades	Desconocidos		Julia	El Travieso (1-1-1-0; 1-0)4	4th Voted Out Day 16
Cycle 5 (17–20)	September 17–20, 2012	Desconocidos		Celebridades		Celebridades	Julio César		Lourdes	Lourdes Juan (3-2-2-1; 4-2-1)2	5th Voted Out Day 20
Cycle 6 (21–24)	September 24–27, 2012	Desconocidos		Celebridades		Desconocidos	None		Ricardo	Daniel (6-0)5	6th Voted Out Day 24
Cycle 7 (25–28)	October 1–4, 2012	Desconocidos		Celebridades		Desconocidos	El Bofo		Julia	Ricardo (3-0)6	7th Voted Out Day 28
Cycle 8 (29–32)	October 8–11, 2012	Desconocidos		Celebridades		Celebridades	Yanilen		Gaby	Gaby Lourdes (3-2-1; 2-2-1-1; 1-0)2,3	8th Voted Out Day 32
Cycle 9 (33–36)	October 15–18, 2012	Celebridades		Desconocidos		Desconocidos	Celia		Mariana	Julia (4-1)	9th Voted Out Day 36
Cycle 10 (37–40)	October 22–25, 2012	Desconocidos		Celebridades		Celebridades	Julio César		Gaby	Hilario (3-2)	10th Voted Out Day 40
Cycle 11 (41–44)	October 29 – November 1, 2012	Merged Beach			Julio César [El Bofo]	Julio César	El Bofo		María Renee	Ivonne (5-0)5	11th Voted Out Day 44
Cycle 12 (45–48)	November 5–8, 2012				El Bofo [Julio César]	Julio César	El Bofo		Mariana	Yanilen (5-1-1)	12th Voted Out Day 48
Cycle 13 (49–52)	November 12–15, 2012				Julio César	Julio César	El Bofo	María Renee	None	Celia (Deathly Duel)	Eliminated Day 52
								Mariana
								Gaby
Cycle 14 (53–56)	November 19–22, 2012				Mariana	Julio César	María Renee	El Bofo		Mariana (Deathly Duel)	Eliminated Day 56
								Gaby
Cycle 15 (57–60)	November 26–29, 2012				El Bofo	Julio César	María Renee	El Bofo		Gaby (Deathly Duel)	Eliminated Day 60
Cycle 16 (61–65)	December 3–6, 2012				None	None	None	María Renee		El Bofo (Deathly Duel)	Eliminated Day 61
								Julio César
	December 8, 2012	Final Duel								Julio César (Finale)	Runner-Up
										María Renee (Finale)	Sole Survivor
Notes: ^1 The beaches were already chosen before the tribes were divided, so no challenge was needed. ^2 The castaway saved by the Judges had a majority of the votes, so voting was nullified, and a new vote would take place. ^3 The vote resulted in a tie. Per La Isla rules, the castaway saved by the Judges was the only one eligible to vote in the tiebreaker ^4 The castaway saved by the Judges was part of a tie involving at least two other people. Per La Isla Rules, the vote against them was nullified, and they'd be voting in the revote. ^5 The castaway saved by the Judges received some votes, but they were only negated, as it was a minority of the votes. ^6The castaway saved by the Judges was part of a tie, and since their votes were negated, the other person was automatically voted out.

Voting History

		Original Tribes							Absorbed Tribes									Merged Tribe
Cycle		1	2	3			4		5		6	7	8			9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Episode		4	8	12			16		20		24	28	32			36	40	44	48	52	56	62	64	65
Voted Out		Belem	Juanito	Null	Tie	Rafa	Tie	El Travieso	Null	Juan	Daniel	Ricardo	Null	Tie	Lourdes	Julia	Hilario	Ivonne	Yanilen	Celia	Mariana	Gaby	El Bofo	Julio César	María Renee
Vote		4-1-1	5-1	4-11	2-2-12	1-0	1-1-1-03	1-0	3-2-1-11	4-2-1	6-04	3-05	3-2-11	2-2-1-12	1-0	4-1	3-2	5-04	5-1-1	Duel6	Duel6	Duel6	Duel6	Final Duel
►►	María Renee	—	—	—			—		Juan	Juan	—	—	Hilario	Hilario	None	—	Hilario	Ivonne	Yanilen	Safe	—	—	Safe	Sole Survivor
►►	Julio César	—	—	—			—		Lourdes	Juan	—	—	Lourdes	Lourdes	None	—	Yanilen	Ivonne	Yanilen	—	—	—	Safe	Runner-Up
►►	El Bofo	Belem	—	—			—		—		Daniel	Julia	—			Julia	—	Ivonne	Yanilen	—	Safe	Safe	Eliminated
►►	Gaby	—	—	—			—		Juan	Juan	—	—	Lourdes	Lourdes	Lourdes	—	Hilario	Ivonne	Yanilen	Safe	Safe	Eliminated
►►	Mariana	—	Juanito	Julia	Rafa	None	Julia	None	—		Daniel	Julia	—			Julia	—	María Renee	Gaby	Safe	Eliminated
►►	Celia	Belem	—	—			—		—		Daniel	Ricardo	—			Julia	—	María Renee	Yanilen	Eliminated
►►	Yanilen	—	Juanito	Julia	El Travieso	None	El Travieso	None	Gaby	María Renee	—	—	Gaby	María Renee	None	—	Hilario	Ivonne	Celia
►►	Ivonne	Belem	—	—			—		—		Daniel	Ricardo	—			Julia	—	María Renee
►	Hilario	—	—	—			—		Lourdes	Juan	—	—	Gaby	Julio César	None	—	Yanilen
►	Julia	—	Juanito	Rafa	Rafa	Rafa	Yanilen	El Travieso	—		Daniel	Ricardo	—			El Bofo
►	Lourdes	—	—	—			—		Hilario	Hilario	—	—	Gaby	Julio César	None
►	Ricardo	Ivonne	—	—			—		—		Daniel	Julia
►	Daniel	Belem	—	—			—		—		Ricardo
►	Juan	—	—	—			—		Lourdes	María Renee
	El Travieso	—	Juanito	Julia	Mariana	None	Mariana	None
	Rafa	—	Juanito	Julia	Mariana	None
	Juanito	—	El Travieso
	Belem	El Bofo
Saved		Celia	Julia	Julia			Julia		Lourdes		Ricardo	Julia	Gaby			Mariana	Gaby	María Renee	Mariana
Notes: ^1 The castaway who was supposed to be voted out was saved by the judges, and since they'd gotten the majority of the votes, that entire voting round was nullified, and a new one commenced. ^2 The vote resulted in a tie. Per La Isla rules, the castaway saved by the judges had to decide which of the castaways would be voted out. ^3 The castaway saved by the Judges was originally part of a 4-way tie, but due to the Judges' decision, the votes against them were nullified. Since it was still a tie, per La Isla rules, that castaway would break the tie. ^4 The castaway saved by the judges didn't have the majority of votes, but their votes were negated regardless. ^5 The castaway saved by the judges was part of a tie, and with their votes negated, the other castaway was automatically eliminated. ^6 When there were six castaways left, Trials were replaced in favor of Deathly Duels, wherein everyone who hadn't won Immunity that week would go on to compete in the Duel.

Trivia

• This season starts a sort of curse for the first castaway voted out, as it would be a woman from the orange-colored tribe. In this case, it was Belem Guerrero.
• This season also started a tradition where the Final Two castaways would be from the same tribe, this time being the Desconocidos tribe.