Sébastien Gottiniaux

Sébastien Gottiniaux is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Cambodge.

Profile[]

Profile retrieved from tf1.fr (in French)^[1]

Prénom: Sébastien
Métier: Moniteur d'escalade
35 ans - Manche (50)

Sébastien est un passionné de nature et d'escalade depuis 15 ans, et il en a fait son métier. Il a le goût de l'extrême. Agile, réfléchi, fort en équilibre, son physique et son mental en béton sont autant de solides atouts qui pourraient le mener très loin dans l'aventure.

Koh-Lanta[]

Sébastien was one of three contestants, the others being Claire Pradayrol and Vincent Roux, to join the game at the beginning of the second cycle. After placing first in the corresponding Reward Challenge, the Bokor tribe selected Sébastien to join them and increase their numbers to seven. The Bokor tribe turned out to be the strongest of the three starting tribes as they did not lose any of the first three immunity challenges, protecting Sébastien from an early Tribal Council. At the Final Eighteen, a tribe dissolution challenge took place, with the Sokka tribe losing and thus being disbanded. The Bokor tribe assigned Manuella Baudet to select which of its former members they would absorb and she selected Maria Beccaris and Sandro Gonzalez Schena. After this newly-constructed Bokor tribe lost the fourth immunity challenge, Franck Schlienger was narrowly voted out against Maria in a 5-4 vote at the corresponding Tribal Council. The next cycle, Sébastien entered into an alliance with Sandro, Clémentine Jullien, and Bastien Muñez, all other people who had voted against Franck, and the four wanted to target stronger opponents going forward. However, the Bokor tribe did not lose any more immunity challenges, allowing for Sébastien to survive the tribal phase and make it to the merge. At the beginning of the merge, the second Bokor tribe members only held a slight numbers advantage over the second Takéo tribe members, but this was enough for the former group to easily vote out Vincent of the latter group in a 6-5 vote due to his position as a challenge threat. The next cycle, after Vincent reentered the game to replace Manuella who had been evacuated from the game after a series of fainting spells, the two factions of the tribe became more united and agreed to behave as such by voting based on merit. Thus, Sandro and Marjorie Rousseeuw were voted out in consecutive cycles for his duplicitous strategizing and for her seeming completely spent in challenges, respectively. At the Final Eight, the Tied Destinies twist took place and, due to the equal number of men and women remaining in the tribe, each pair was forced to have a man and a woman. The pairings were Corentin Albertini and Kelly Beaugrand, Frédéric Blancher and Clémentine, Mathilde Chevalier and Vincent, and Sébastien and Claire, with Sébastien and Claire winning the corresponding individual Immunity Challenge. With Tribal Council approaching, Corentin knew that he would be in danger because he was seen as the least athletic of the remaining men and because he was paired with Kelly, who herself was regarded as the least-deserving of advancing among a tribe of players agreeing on voting based on merit. At Tribal Council, everyone besides Corentin and Kelly had voted against either one of those two, but the narrowness of the vote did not matter as both were eliminated anyway; Corentin was the one voted out while Kelly was the one dragged down with him. At the Final Six, a new alliance emerged between Clémentine and the three jokers that entered the game during the second cycle. Unfortunately, during a reward, Sébastien revealed the existence of this alliance to Frédéric, who in turn informed Mathilde about it when he returned to camp. After losing the corresponding individual immunity challenge, Mathilde became the consensus target, so she went looking for a Hidden Immunity Necklace and eventually found one without her opponents knowing. At Tribal Council, Mathilde shocked the other castaways by playing her recently-acquired advantage, nullifying all votes cast against her and "idoling out" Claire in the process. The next cycle, Frédéric won the Loved Ones reward challenge and was allowed to share a variation of the reward with someone else. Clémentine, who had just received Claire's black vote upon the latter's exit, made a gesture on her chest implying that she would not cast her two votes against Frédéric if he chose her. Frédéric did and Clémentine planned on keeping her word. Though Mathilde was once again a consensus target, she won the final individual immunity challenge, forcing Clémentine to cast her votes against either Sébastien or Vincent. Mathilde and Clémentine aligned and agreed to vote against Sébastien as they felt that he was the bigger jury threat. Meanwhile, Sébastien and Vincent expressed disappointment in Clémentine's move at the reward challenge, with Vincent calling it blackmail and telling Clémentine that he would be voting against her at Tribal Council even though he knew that it would be pointless due to her Hidden Immunity Necklace. Regardless, the numbers were not in Sébastien's favour and he was voted out right before the finale.

Voting History[]

Episode	Sébastien's Votes	Voted Against Sébastien
Entered the Game, Day 4
2	Bokor Tribe Immune
3	Bokor Tribe Immune
4	Franck	-
5	Bokor Tribe Immune
6	Bokor Tribe Immune
7	Bokor Tribe Immune
8	Ineligible	-
8	Vincent	Individual Immunity
9	Marjorie	-
10	Marjorie	-
11	Corentin	Individual Immunity
12	~~Mathilde~~¹	-
13	Frédéric	Clémentine (x2), Frédéric, Mathilde
Voted Out, Day 38
Voted for Sole Survivor	Frédéric