The seventh season of Flop Nation is coming up fast, and will be based on UK tv kids gameshow 'Raven'. The nostalgic and faithful format resembles a competition-based tournament, uniquely playing out with separate groups of different players over it's duration.
— FORMAT SUMMARY —
The show features 18 competitors (known as ‘warriors’) who are split into 3 groups of 6. Each warrior competes against the other players in their group for the duration of 1 game week (Five days), in a variety of individual, team, pair, and head-to-head challenges. At three points in the week, the worst performing player must attempt a tough elimination competition known as ‘The Way of the Warrior’, where failure results in elimination. At the end of the week, the last three warriors play ‘The Last Stand’, to determine which two people will progress to the final week. Once all three groups have played over three weeks, and each produced two winners, the top 6 repeat the above format over the final fourth week, with the Final Last Stand deciding the one true Ultimate Warrior.
— FORMAT DETAILS —
At the start of each 5-day week of the game, the competing group of 6 warriors for that week are revealed. Each warrior starts out with 9 lives. Losing any challenge holds the penalty of losing 1 life, but these can be won back. Each challenge is played to win a certain amount of gold rings, and if a warrior wins 9 rings, it is exchanged in return for an extra life. If a warrior looses all their lives, they are immediately eliminated from the process, without an elimination challenge.
From the end of the second day, the warrior with the least number of lives and rings must face ‘The Way of the Warrior’, a complex and difficult series of tasks that are designed to only be won by the toughest of warriors. Should someone succeed at the Way of the Warrior, they will be admitted through to the next day of the quest with an extra life, and the task must then fall upon the next warrior with the least number of lives and rings. This process continues until somebody is eliminated. If there is a tie on lives and rings at the bottom, Chatzy decides who plays.
The Way of the Warrior is replaced on the last day of each week by a final competition known as ‘The Last Stand’, where the final three warriors battle one last series of obstacles to make it to the final week, their remaining lives and rings determining the relative time advantage head-start they have over their competitors. The two that finish first advance to the final week.
In the final week, the top 6 warriors from the 3 initial weeks compete once again following the same format, with different competitions. Everyone’s lives and rings are reset at the start of the week to the starting amount of 9 lives and 0 rings. A modified Last Stand features for the ultimate final three warriors, this time with only one victor, who is declared the Ultimate Warrior.