There is a discussion about one of the winning teams in 7 vs. Wild. They violated the show’s rules and made personal contact with the organizing team. Some fans are calling for the disqualification of the two. Participant and Twitch streamer Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller shares his assessment: 7 vs. Wild is not a true survival show anyway; it’s about entertainment.
This post contains spoilers for 7 vs. Wild Season 3 Episode 7 and the winners of the series.
This is the situation:
- The rules state that participants of 7 vs. Wild are not allowed to have contact with the outside world during the 14 days on the island in Canada.
- While participants should place their video recordings in a dead letter box every 4 days so that the recordings can be collected and processed, they must avoid contact with the collectors.
- As participant Sascha Huber revealed, he and his partner Knossi did make contact with the rangers to find out whether eating shellfish was harmless or dangerous. This was because they did not feel adequately informed about a harmful algal bloom (“Red Tide”).
This is the discussion: This deliberate contact is considered a rule violation by some fans of 7 vs. Wild, which should lead to the disqualification of the later winners: If the participants do not know whether something is edible, they should simply not eat it. Breaking isolation is simply not acceptable. It ruins the authentic survival feeling.
Others, on the other hand, argue that the participants’ health takes precedence.
One of the participants in Season 3 is Twitch streamer Jens “Knossi” Knossalla. You can see more about him in our video.
Papaplatte sees blame in the chaotic preparation
This is what Papaplatte says: The Twitch streamer Papaplatte is also one of the winners of 7 vs. Wild. He commented on the situation in a stream (via youtube).
He understands the conflict, but does not see the responsibility with the participants, but with the organizing team of 7 vs. Wild. The preparation for the participants was terrible. Papaplatte says he envisioned a 5-hour PowerPoint presentation as a preparatory briefing, with clear instructions on what could be eaten and what could not, along with tips about flora and fauna:
“Brother, that was all nothing. There was none of that. We were told by locals: You can eat these berries and with this plant, you can wipe your ass. Real talk: That was it.”
He can understand why Sascha Huber and Knossi asked whether the shellfish were dangerous. Because the two had already participated before and knew how the preparation for Season 2 had been.
“Because, bro, at the end of the day, none of us is really there to do 100% only this survival thing; it’s mainly, especially for the non-survival YouTubers, but also for the survival YouTubers about entertainment.”
This is what he sees as the problem: According to Papaplatte, it is another problem of the organizing team to keep things like contact “secret” and not show them in the episodes.
As a streamer, you want to share such things with your community.
More about the difficult preparation for 7 vs. Wild:
