In the new episode 11 of 7 vs. Wild Season 3, the teams are on an emotional rollercoaster. Due to minor issues, one team is in tears while another team screams in happiness. However, one contestant is going through a low that could lead to elimination.
Warning, this article contains spoilers for episodes 1–11 of 7 vs. Wild Season 3
How are the teams doing? In episode 11 of 7 vs. Wild Season 3, the teams are faring quite differently. For the first time, we experience a longer timeframe in the episode. Consequently, different teams are doing differently well. Starting late in the evening of day 5, the episode ends at noon on day 7.
One of the participants of Season 3 is Twitch streamer Jens “Knossi” Knossalla. You can see more about him in our video.
Jan Schlappen is on the verge of elimination, but Joey Kelly disagrees
What is happening with the team? Jan Schlappen, who is a replacement contestant, is experiencing a low in episode 11. The extreme athlete has already complained about mental issues and lack of motivation in the previous days.
In the current episode, he can’t even manage his somersault, which he has been doing every day since the beginning of the series. Reasons for his condition are likely the lack of variety and isolation in the wilderness.
The contestant also admits that he has thought about injuring himself to force a pickup. At this point, he apparently decided to sleep on it and seek a conversation with Joey Kelly the next day.
What does Joey Kelly say about this? Jan’s teammate, Joey Kelly, speaks frankly with him. For him, an elimination is out of the question. Joey says in the episode, he has the necessary skills to get both through the two weeks.
Jan was incredibly excited to be part of this at the beginning. He applied, and the fans chose him to be part of it, according to Joey Kelly. The conversation ends without us knowing how it will go on with the team.
However, at the end of the episode, no phone ringing is heard, which usually foreshadows an elimination from the series.
Good mood among the other teams
How are the other teams doing? The team of community favorites Jens “Knossi” Knossala (37) and Sascha Huber (31) is in great spirits in the current episode. Although the team has neither luck with fishing nor does the episode go injury-free, the participants are in high spirits and chant their well-known “Hey Bear, Ho Bear!” in unison through the forest.
Also, the team of Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler and Wieland “Rumathra” Welte is in a good mood; the team takes an excursion in the episode and goes farther than they have ever been. The team also focuses on improving their accommodation. As the first team in 7 vs. Wild Season 3, the streamers build a door.
How is Team Papaplatte and Reeze doing? Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller’s (26) and Dominik “Reeze” Reezmann’s (30) team can present the viewers with a new item on day 6 that they have with them. The influencer team has a supply of Elotrans powder with them. According to Apotheken-Umschau, this powder is usually given to people who have lost fluids and salts due to diarrhea, in order to replenish them.
For the contestants of the survival show, that is also the idea. They want to take a packet of it repeatedly over different days.
How does the team react to their “secret weapon”? When opening the packet, it apparently smells good, so much so that contestant Reeze is brought to tears. After days full of exertion, the team is already so weakened that even the smell of lemon elicits such emotions.
How is the wildcard team doing? The wildcard team of Ann-Kathrin “Monkey on Bike” Bendixen (23) and Hannah Assil (32) is focusing in this episode on the so-called cedar tree. The bark of the cedar tree is processed by indigenous people into a variety of things.
Monkey on Bike has lived with indigenous people before and uses her skills in this episode to work with Hanna to process the bark of the tree into a fish trap. To do this, the team first creates fibers, which they then knot together.
In the last episode, the women’s team was already one of the teams that had the most luck with food procurement. Even though the focus of the team was not on that in this episode, the two continue to find success throughout the series.
