# Desafío (TV series)

Desafío is a Colombian reality competition television series produced by Caracol TV. In the show, contestants are isolated in an island and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other members until only one final contestant remains and wins a cash prize.
Although the show has been mostly produced by Caracol TV, other versions have been produced by GenTV and Univision. These two versions were produced in Florida and aimed to the Latin American audience in the United States.

## Format
### Groups

Contestants are split in different groups of usually six to eight people each. The criteria for the division might vary from season to season. Some criteria used have been whether they had been in a previous season ("Sobrevivientes", and "Superhumanos"), if they were famous ("Celebridades"), age ("Cuchacos", "Pelados", and "Catanos"), social status ("Privilegiados", "Rebuscadores", and, "Llevados"), or where they came from ("Antioqueños", "Cachacos", "Cafeteros", "Costeños", "Emigrantes", "Santandereanos", and "Vallecaucanos")
Each group is given a unique name and an identifying color. These are used on flags, challenge courses, on-screen text and various other items. Each player is given an assortment of clothes with their respective colors and symbols. Players are required to wear the color of their group in a visible location at all times, allowing the audience to identify their affiliation. Upon switching groups (due to a merge or dissolution), players are required to give up their old clothes and obtain new ones in the new group's color.

### Locations and beaches

Each group is assigned a different beach to stay. Each beach has different qualities and benefits:
* Playa Alta/Oro has a luxurious cabin with beds, showers, bathrooms and a fully equipped kitchen. In some occasions, there are employees that prepare the meals for each contestant.
* Playa Media/Plata features the bare necessities for living. Contestants have a wooden roof with hammocks to sleep. They are given pots and pans, knives, some food and tools to hunt and cook.
* Playa Baja/Bronce features the worst conditions for the contestants to live in. Contestants have to build their own shelter or sleep in a cave. There is no food and the contestants have to eat fruits or try to hunt or fish what they can.
During each show, the groups have to compete in a challenge ("Desafío territorial") to decide which group will stay on each beach. As the show progresses and contestants are eliminated, the teams are merged into a single group and they are taken to Playa Fusión, which features commodities slightly better than Playa Media.

### Challenges

During each show, teams will play three separate challenges. The challenges are:
* Desafío Territorial where the winning group receives the "keys" to "Playa Alta". The second and third place teams get the "keys" to "Playa Media" and "Playa Baja" respectively.
* Desafío de Salvación
** Desafío de Salvacion where the winning team gains immunity from elimination, plus, in some seasons, the chance to be judges at the final "juicio" or judgment.
** Desafío a Muerte where the losing team is sent to "Juicio" to have one of their members eliminated.
Challenges vary from obstacle courses, to races, swimming matches, building puzzles, among many others.

### El Juicio

"Juicio" (or "Judgment") is held after the ‘Desafío de Salvación’. Here, the group that lost the "Desafío Final" vote one person out of their team. Present at the judgment is the team that won the "Desafío de Salvación", who will serve as the judges. After a brief discussion of the events that led to that moment, each member of the losing team walks up to a table and secretly votes to eliminate a member of his team. After all members of the team have voted, the host counts the votes.
Originally, the judges voted to save a member of the other team. The strategy usually was to try to anticipate who the losing team would want to eliminate and save him/her. The next member with the most votes would then be eliminated. In 2008, the rules were changed and the judges were given the option to veto the choice of the other team to eliminate a member. If they veto, the losing team is forced to vote publicly for a second member to be eliminated. This is referred to as the "bloody vote". In 2009, a new rule was made. The losing team voted to eliminate a member of their team. Then, a second voting has to be done to choose a second member to be eliminated. Then, the judges decide which of the two "sentenced" members was eliminated.
In the event of ties, sometimes the judges get to choose which of the members of the losing team that are involved in the tie, is eliminated. Also, the members that are chosen to be eliminated are sometimes given a chance to vouch in front of the judges for their safety.

### End of the game and prizes

When there are two contestants left in the game, they return to Colombia for one last show, along with the eliminated contestants. Here, the audience votes for the contestant they want to win the game. In 2008, the system was changed and it was the other contestants who voted for the winner. The winning contestant usually gets a prize in cash whereas the second place contestant gets a new car.

### The Box format

The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects forced changes in the show's format starting from 2020, with the edition scheduled for that year having its production postponed until further notice. Given the worldwide travel restrictions triggered by the pandemic, in early 2021 the reality's production staff decided to stage the show within Colombia, building a special complex for that purpose which would work as a bubble to ensure the adequate biosecurity conditions for contestants and staff.
In The Box, three teams (Alpha, Beta, and Gamma) of eight (four men and four women) led by a captain are made from eleven original groups of four contestants (two men and two women) after a first challenge, while an additional team (Omega) is later made up of contestants who were not originally selected by the respective team captains, who participate in a special challenge to get the chance to join this last team. Unlike other previous editions of the show in which teams would have to win the right to stay at the best territory in each cycle, in this format the four teams are assigned a house to stay until the team dissolves or merges, all of which have the same qualities and benefits such as public services, a fully equipped kitchen with supplies, beds, showers, bathrooms, furniture, grill, a swimming pool and a gym, which they will progressively lose if teams fail to win the different challenges, to the point those houses will be akin to the Playa Baja/Bronce of previous editions.
During each cycle, five separate challenges are played at five different arenas or boxes: Blue (for water-themed challenges), Red (for contact-themed challenges), Yellow (for ground-based, military-style challenges), White/Rainbow (for air-themed challenges in which contestants may not touch the floor) and Black (for elimination challenges). The challenges teams have to play in every cycle are:
* Desafío de Sentencia y Hambre (Sentence and Hunger Challenge), where the winning team gets to select one or two contestants from any team (even their own) to participate in the cycle's "Desafío a Muerte" and also keep all the food they have been supplied with at the beginning of the cycle. The second team gets to choose a food item from an offered selection and the remaining teams are left without any food for the remainder of the cycle.
* Desafío de Sentencia y Servicios (Sentence and Services Challenge), where the winning team gets to select one or two contestants to participate in the cycle's "Desafío a Muerte" and also keep all of their house's public services (water, electricity, gas) running as normal. The second team gets to choose one of those services while the rest are cut, and the remaining teams get all of their public services cut for the remainder of the cycle.
* Desafío de Sentencia y Bienestar (Sentence and Wellness Challenge), where the winning team also gets to select contestants for the "Desafío a Muerte" as well as keep all of their house's amenities (beds, furniture, pool, gym) in place. The team placing second gets to choose one of those amenities, and the third and fourth-placed teams are deprived of all amenities.
* Desafío de Sentencia, Premio y Castigo (Sentence, Prize and Punishment Challenge), where the winning team gets to select the last contestants for the "Desafío a Muerte" and is also entitled to get a prize and select another team to get a punishment.
* Desafío a Muerte (Death Challenge), where the contestants who were sentenced after the cycle's other four challenges play to avoid being eliminated. The ones to come in last place are eliminated.
The Black "box" is only used for the Desafío a Muerte, while the other challenges alternate around the remaining four boxes every cycle. Challenges vary from obstacle courses, to races, swimming matches, building puzzles, among many others.
As in previous editions, the teams dissolve and reconfigure as the cycles progress until the last eight contestants (four men and four women) are merged and play a semi-final challenge, separated by gender. At the end of the show, a male contestant and a female one are declared as winners.

## Participants
### Desafío 2004 - La Aventura

| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
| Paula Andrea Betancourt | Rafael Barrera | Paula Domínguez |
| Isabella Santodomingo | Mónica Londoño | Francisco Escobar |
| Carlos "El Pibe" Valderrama | Luisa Fernanda Bejarano | Mario Espitia |
| Juan Carlos Vargas | Iván Darío Correa | Leidy Farith Polo |
| Patricia Castañeda | Marlon Restrepo | Elsa Velásquez |
| Juan David Posada | Juliana Posso | Santiago Zuleta |

### Desafío 2005 - Cabo Tiburón, Colombia

| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
| Faustino Asprilla | Paula Domínguez | Vanessa Cañizales |
| Luigi Aycardi | Jean Pierre Mandonnet | Mario Alberto Caparroso |
| Héctor Buitrago | Cristóbal Echavarría | Álvaro Mesa |
| Catalina Acosta | Pedro Luis Falla | Mauricio Ochoa |
| Tatiana de los Ríos | Catalina Jaimes | María Victoria Ramírez |
| Carolina Sabino | Carolina Lizcano | Catalina Tarud |

### Desafío 2006 - La guerra de los estratos

| Privilegiados | Rebuscadores | Llevados |
| Carolina Ángel | Angélica Aristizábal | Diana Maya |
| Gloria García | Eileen Moreno | Tatiana Rueda |
| Catherin Salazar | Mayerly Vásquez | Levia Peralta |
| Alfredo Varela | Fernando Marín | Juan Carlos Camero |
| Juan Guillermo Zea | Diego Agudelo | Jorge Eliécer Pinto |
| Juan Miguel Camacho | Jorge Alberto Peláez | Manuel Horacio Velasco |

### Desafío 2007 - La Guerra de las Generaciones

| Catanos | Cuchachos | Pelados |
| Alexandra Díaz | Carlos Díazgranados | Camilo Vega |
| Betty Rosales | Edgar Jaimes | Cindy González |
| Johanna Cote | Fernely Guerrero | Fabio Lesmes |
| John Dossman | Jair Romero | Harold Martínez |
| Jorge Paz | Janeth Valencia | Isabel Solís |
| Luis Arias | Laura Puerta | John Jairo Córdoba |
| Sandra Azuero | Margot Álvarez | Nina Osswald |
| Víctor Benavides | Sandra Bermúdez | Sharon Durán |

### Desafío 2008 - La Lucha de las Regiones

| Costeños | Cachacos | Vallecaucanos |
| Gustavo Fuentes | Sonia Vanegas | Clara María Cruz |
| Brígida Gutiérrez | Mauricio González | Diego Landaeta |
| Juan José Sierra | María Julieth Ávila | Gustavo González |
| Stephanie Carrillo | Jorge Iván Giraldo | Halem Castillo |
| Myriam Brant | Carolina Trujillo | Katherine Arango |
| Klein Contreras | Andrés Alarcón | María Isabel Franco |
| Juan Pablo Londoño | Pedro José Orduz | Lina María Ramírez |

### Desafío 2009 - La Lucha de las Regiones, La Revancha

| Costeños | Cachacos | Emigrantes |
| John Jairo Larios | Arlex Eduardo Ávila | José Jesús Henao |
| Carlos Adolfo Ponnefz | Andrés Gaitán Herrera | Ludwig Harold Monoga |
| Jonathan Mulford | Hebert Fabián Guzmán | Didier de Jesús Castañeda |
| Marie Cristine Echávez | Aydeé Patricia Galvis | Jhovanna Ramírez |
| Anaís Gutiérrez | Sofía Blanchet | María Claudia Rubio |
| Stephanie Coymat | Shirley Lorena Bermúdez | Sandra Mendivelso |
| MaryLuz López | Miguel Ángel Urrea | Paola Andrea Rodríguez |

### Desafío 2010 - La Lucha de las Regiones, el Brazalete Dorado

| Costeños | Sobrevivientes | Paisas |
| Jonathan Cure Simonds | Dayana Martínez | Akemi Nakamura Gómez |
| Angélica María Duque | Eider Guerrero | Carolina Jaramillo |
| Bony Lim Rodríguez | Eliana Ardila | Cristian Leonardo Flores |
| Emerson Eloy Vásquez | Karen Jiménez | Daniel Alejandro Cortés |
| Martha Maturana | Oscar Mahecha | Luis Alfredo Rueda |
| Silvio José Carrasquilla | William Vargas | Natalia Rueda Montoya |
| John Jairo Escobar | Temistocles Savelli | Gina Daza |

### Desafío 2011 - La Lucha de las Regiones, La Piedra Sagrada

| Retadores | Paisas | Sobrevivientes |
| Roland Bryan Edén | Óscar Muñoz | Andres Felipe Nieto |
| Diego Díaz | Daniel Tirado López | Yorlady Moreno León |
| Ceidy Lorena Gaitan | Luis Fernando Cardona | Jenny Liseth Machado |
| Hanny Marcela Mendoza | Tatiana Cristina Arango | Hector Manuel Osorio |
| Martha Bonilla | Nalu Sol del Mar Guerrero | Kelly Andrea Cadena |
| Carlos Mauricio Morales | Deicy Yamile Cárdenas | Jader Alexis Arizala |
| Farid Laverde | Klein de Jesús Contreras | Arlex Eduardo Avila |

### Desafío 2012 - El Fin Del Mundo

| Cafeteros | Cachacos | Costeños | Sobrevivientes |
| Aníbal Alberto Morales | Mauricio Iragorry | Rosa Paola Caiafa | Sergio Alejandro Arango |
| Carlos Ancízar Quintero | Roland Villegas | Sandra Victoria Mendoza | Jénnifer Alexa Caicedo |
| Luz Alba Sánchez | Julián David Agudelo | Pierine Yolieh Peñaranda | Ruby Alejandra Murillo |
| John Alexander Jiménez | Jenny Leidy Moreno | Robinson de Jesús Pérez | Carlos Eduardo Mejía |
| Vanessa Posada | Adriana Vargas | Dawis Martínez | Édinson Fernando Muñoz |
| Katherine Gómez | Sandra Milena Rojas | Martín Suárez | Silvia Vanessa Becerra |

### Desafío 2013 - África, El Origen

| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
| María Luisa Calle | Martín Suárez | Elizabeth Loaiza |
| Claudia Moreno | Daniel Cortés | Alejandro Herrera |
| Mónica Rodríguez | Stephanie Carrillo | Cindy Jiménez |
| Fabián Mendoza | Silvia Vanessa Becerra | Jaime Andrés Espinal |
| Hassam Gómez | Fabián Guzmán | Jonathan Aarón Hurtado |
| Gregorio Pernía | Carolina Jaramillo | Julián Alberto Árias |
| Juan David Agudelo | Halem Castillo | Lina María Quintero |

### Desafío 2014 - Marruecos, Las Mil y Una Noches

| Celebridades | Sobrevivientes | Retadores |
| David García | Rosa Caiafa | Betsy Tobar |
| Adrian Lara | Elizabeth Loaiza | Carlos Hernández |
| Daniella Donado | Sandra Milena Rojas | David Henao |
| Mauricio Mejía | Ronald Villegas | Manuela Vásquez |
| Daniela Tapia | Oscar Muñoz | George Monti |
| Sebastián Caicedo | Carlos Díasgranados | Diana Peña |
| Martha Isabel Bolaños | Jorge Iván Giraldo | Wilder Zapata |

### Desafío 2015 - India, La Reencarnación

| Tigres | Elefantes | Cocodrilos |
| Akemi Nakamura | Juan David Posada | Faustino Asprilla |
| George Monti | Marie Cristine Echávez | Pierine Peñaranda |
| Alejandro Herrera | Maryluz López Mantilla | Jonathan Aaron Hurtado |
| Tatiana Rueda | Hanny Mendoza | Jonathan Cure Simonds |
| Vanessa Posada | Hassam Gómez | Carolina Trujillo |
| Tatiana De los Ríos | Marlon Restrepo | Dawis Martínez |
| Julián Arias | Paula Andrea Betancourt | Tatiana Arango |
| Daniel Tirado | Rolando Patarroyo | Cindy Martínez |

### Desafío 2016 - Súper Humanos, Súper Regiones

| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños |
| María Clara Ceballos | Angélik Hernández | Tomás Mejía Marulanda | Karoline Rodríguez | Juan Carlos Arango | Ángel Jesús Arregoces |
| Augusto Castro | Gustavo Molina | Esmeralda Amézquita | Eduar Salas | Leonardo Quintero | Karmen Mestre |
| Paola Usme | Leandro Cambindo | Guillola González | Jeysson Monroy | María Fernanda Bylander | Karen Bray |
| Sebastián Buitrago | Marcela Peña Salas | Alejandro Ortíz | Julián Duarte | Valentina Villamizar | Kevin Vega |
| Daniel Vanegas | José Miguel Cambindo | Carlos Andica | Milena Salcedo | Virgilio Elehazar Galeano | Juan Carlos Fuente |
| Johanna Vargas | Leidy Orozco | Paula Andrea Restrepo | Angie Hernández | Johanna Orozco | Mar Ballestas |
| Álvaro Vallejo | Edinson Angulo | Helver Emir Hernández | Miguel Ángel Sierra | Jonathan Lozano | Christian Rafael Maestre |

### Desafío 2017 - Súper Humanos, Cap Cana

| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños | Desterrados |
| Esteban Bernal | Alejandra Cañizares | Luis Giraldo | Victoria Sierra | Fabio Carreño | Dina Vergara | Tatiana Ussa |
| Mateo Carvajal | Óscar López | Camila López | Leidy Martínez | Andrea Fernández | Luz Elena Echeverría | Dúmar Roa |
| Valentina Ortiz | Jhon Jairo Mosquera | Yeni Arias | Camila Celemín | José Vargas | Ricardo Álvarez | Francisco Zuluaga |
| Juliana Jaramillo | Juan Olarte | Héctor Murillo | Daniel Méndez | Tatiana Cabeza | Alejandro Abomohor | Edith Rocío Ortega |
| Fausto MurilloLuisa Hernández | Natali Gómez | Daniela Cardona | Jhonnatan Bulla | Frank Sáenz | Tatiana Ángel | Javier Argel |

### Desafío 2018 - Súper Humanos XV

| Antioqueños | Vallecaucanos | Cafeteros | Cachacos | Santandereanos | Costeños | Súper Humanos |
| Diego Posada | Ricardo Montaño | Mauricio Giraldo | Marisol Chaparro | Paola García | Óscar Muñoz | Camila López |
| David Trujillo | Belmer Ospina | Santiago Guarín | Witsmar Lucumí | Paola Santos | María Fernanda Aguilar | Mateo Carvajal |
| Laura Restrepo | Yeison López | Víctor Bobadilla | Laura Sin | Yaniz Valencia | Mike Wilches | Ángel Arregoces |
| Jonathan Betancur | Daniela Lozano | Manuela Arango | Marcela Rozo | Alexis Cuero | Sunny Doria | Karoline Rodríguez |
| Valeria Duque | Mónica Henao | Laura Suárez | Shadi Harb | Rodney Camargo | María Cristina Vergara | Óscar López |
| Shirley Atehortúa | Karen Cano | Violeta Struvay | David Bedoya | Fabián Gómez | Kevin Fuentes | Andrea Fernández |

### Desafío 2019 - Súper Regiones

| Amazónicos | Antioqueños | Cachacos | Cafeteros | Costeños |
| Lizeth Mendieta Villanueva | Verónica Zuluaga | Lina Franco | Ángela Lopera | Brynnis Joissy López Olivella |
| Diana Gil Bora | Maria Camila Cartagena | Diana Másmela | Tatiana Rincón | Lairen Bernier |
| Clever Alejandro Vargas | Daniel Velásquez Zuluaga | David Franco | Kevin Cárdenas | Jerry Karth |
| Fee Wee Súarez | Juan Fernando Moncada Madrid | Alejandro Gómez Mapaná | Didier Mauricio Sepúlveda | Reikin Herrera |
| Llaneros | Pastusos | Santandereanos | Tolimenses | Vallecaucanos |
| Mayra Alexandra Muñoz | Karla Maya | Katherine Gonzalez | Natalia Vargas | Juliana Ocampo |
| Diana Carolina Camacho Tafur | Andrea Tatiana Morales | Daniela Arias | Viviana Rodríguez | Yenny Álvarez |
| Santiago Rodríguez | Juan David Dueñas Suárez | Yei Gamboa | Robert López | Wilber Rentería |
| Andrés Felipe Lazcano | Cristian López | Brian Aceros | Hernán Darío Guzmán Ipuz | Diego Fernando Lenis Calderón |

### Desafío 2021 - The Box

| Amazónicos | Antioqueños | Boyacenses | Cachacos | Cafeteros | Costeños |
| Ángela López Guarín ("Tatica") | Laura Jiménez Madrid | Rodolfo Torres | Diana Carolina Rey | Carolina Giraldo | Steffit Valencia ("Tiffi") |
| Yadira Castaño ("Yatu") | Juan David Zapata | Laura Angarita | John Ronin Bedoya | Carolina Cortés ("Carito") | César José Romero ("CJ") |
| Cristian Alexander Acho | María Camila Ospina | George Gutiérrez | Sofía Acosta | Carlos Echeverri | Miguel David Assias |
| Fabio Eduardo Torres | Juan Manuel Gil | Nina Yurany Melo | Jonnathan Calderón ("Tatán") | Luis Miguel Tibocha | María Clara Cortés |
| Llaneros | Pastusos | Santandereanos | Tolimenses | Vallecaucanos |
| Sonia Manjarrés | Mayeli Valencia | Francisco Remolina | Paola Solano | Melissa Chalare ("Meli") |
| Jorge Luis Cáceres Franco | Ángela González | Karen Lorena Bayona | Karol Tatiana Zambrano | Gabriela Sánchez |
| Andrea Manjarrés | Jesús David Morales | Vanessa Torres | Esteban Perdomo | Óscar David Coime ("Razza") |
| Gonzalo Andrés Pinzón ("Galo") | Juan José Lemos | Andrés Felipe Ojeda ("Pipe") | Carlos Mario Pérez ("Mono") | Deiby Gómez ("Dagómez") |

### Desafío 2022 - The Box 2

| Amazónicos | Antioqueños | Boyacenses | Cachacos | Cafeteros | Costeños |
| Emily Múnera | Anna De Villa | María Fernanda Tobitto | Karla Rodríguez | Andrea Cardona | Valeria Porto |
| Luis Mosquera ("Leticiano") | Carlos Oquendo | Carlos Andrés Merchán | Brayan Huertas | Neider Criollo | Samir Reveiz |
| Xiomara Alfonso | Valentina González | Daniela Camargo ("Dani") | María Alejandra Sánchez ("Maleja") | Dayana Bermúdez | Stephanie Villadiego |
| Otoniel Tonguino | Andrés Ossa | Juan Pablo Casallas | Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | Andrés Ramírez ("Skirla") | Andrés Alfonso Miranda ("Tarzán") |
| Llaneros | Pastusos | Santandereanos | Tolimenses | Vallecaucanos |
| María Paula Cifuentes | Karol Andrea Yela | Grecia Gutiérrez | Carmelina Durán ("Lina") | Alexandra Rodríguez ("Alexa") |
| Moisés Sanmiguel | Julián Bastidas | Duván Yesid Niño | Jorge Luis Castillo Carballo | Víctor Hugo Gaviria ("Padre Torvic") |
| Karina Rojas | Lisseth Torres ("Liz") | Diana Villamizar | Andrea Olaya ("Valkyria") | Natalia Medina |
| Camilo Tarifa ("Ceta") | Fernando Illera | Johan Sebastián Patiño | Humberto Plazas ("Beto") | Sebastián Paredes |

### Desafío 2023 - The Box 3

Participants :
| Alejandra Martínez | Alejandra Ulloa | Alejandro Calderón | Alejandro Escudero |
| Alfredo Martínez | Byron Riveros | Camilo Bogdan | Carolina Abadía |
| Daniel Murillo | Daniela Taborda | David Mateus | Douglas Mackarthur Bueno |
| Federico Orjuela | Franqui Reyes | Iván Gutiérrez | Johana Gómez |
| Juan Pablo Ángel | Juliana Tovar | Kate López | Kelly Ríos |
| Maira Padilla | Margoth Salazar | Maryam Gómez | Óscar Rivas |
| Paz Ruiz | Rafael Rapelo | Ricky Rodríguez | Sara Cifuentes |
| Sara Velásquez | Saskya Badrán | Valeria Restrepo | Yan Pizo |

### Desafío 2024 - XX

| Alpha | Beta | Gamma | Omega |
| Marlon David Duque Lemus | Angel Danilo Rojas Montoya | Luis Alexander Gómez Getial | Enzo Alejandro Meneses Bermejo |
| Francisco José Amaya | Juan David Villada Bañol | Henrry Alejandro Baquero Ruiz | Bryant Enrique Guzmán Daza |
| Alejandro Londoño Aguirre | Kevyn Leonardo Mosquera Rúa | Yurleisi Carolina Dickson Prado | Franck Stiward Luna Valencia |
| Iván Andrés Arteaga Martínez | Jhoana Daniela Acero Pérez | Karoline Artunduaga Galvis | Jorge Andrés Yepes Restrepo |
| Juliana Melissa Gaspar Marín | Luisa Alejandra Sanmiguel Quiroz | Camila Gamboa Monsalve | Valerie de la Cruz Millán |
| Karen María Candia Ramírez | Darlyn Estefanía Giraldo Torres | Gloria Katherin Peña Manrique | Ana María Tavera Lozano |
| Ana María Restrepo Gómez | Juan Esteban Caipe Caipe | Vittorio Orodico Doglioni | Paula Natalia Roncancio Rincón |
| María Paula Tobón de Castro | Valentina Rodríguez Ortiz | Yoifer Andrés Lemus Moreno | Lina Marcela Hernández |

## Seasons

The Colombian version is produced by Caracol TV and has been hosted by several celebrities. Each competition has a unique name, and lasts from 13 to 15 episodes.
| # | Name | Location | Original teams | Winner(s) | Runner(s)-up | Audience |
| 1 | Desafío 2004: La Aventura | Colombian's and Panama Islands | Three teams of six | Paula Andrea Betancourt | Mónica Londoño | 14.7 |
| 2 | Desafío 2005: Cabo Tiburón, Chocó, Colombia | Colombia (Cabo Tiburón) | Three teams of six | Tatiana de los Ríos | Álvaro Mesa | 14.9 |
| 3 | Desafío 2006: Guerra de Estratos | Dominican Republic | Three teams of six | Alfredo Varela | Diego Agudelo | 10.9 |
| 4 | Desafío 2007: La Guerra de las Generaciones | Panama (Bocas del Toro Archipelago) | Three teams of eight | Isabel Solís Montoya | Camilo Vega | 8.6 |
| 5 | Desafío 2008: La Lucha de las Regiones | Panama (Isla Contadora) | Five teams of six | Juan Pablo Londoño | Pedro José Orduz | 12.9 |
| 6 | Desafío 2009: La Lucha de las Regiones, La Revancha | Panama (Bocas del Toro Archipelago) | Six teams of six | Didier Castañeda | Ludwig Monoga | 13.5 |
| 7 | Desafío 2010: La Lucha de las Regiones, El Brazalete Dorado | Panama (Bocas del Toro Archipelago) | Six teams of six | Eider Guerrero | Jhonattan Cure | 13.6 |
| 8 | Desafío 2011: La Lucha de las Regiones, La Piedra Sagrada | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Mauricio Morales | Jader Arizala | 12.4 |
| 9 | Desafío 2012: El fin del mundo | El Salvador | Six teams of six | Jenny Moreno | Sergio Alejandro Arango | 14.0 |
| 10 | Desafío 2013: África, el origen | Senegal | Three teams of seven | Carolina Jaramillo | Alejandro Herrera | 13.1 |
| 11 | Desafío 2014: Marruecos, las mil y una noches | Morocco | Three teams of seven | Wilder Zapata | Manuela Vásquez | 11.1 |
| 12 | Desafío 2015: India, la reencarnación | India | Three teams of eight | Vanessa Posada | Pierine Peñaranda | 12.3 |
| 13 | Desafío 2016: Superhumanos | Trinidad and Tobago | Six teams of seven | Ángel Jesús Arregoces | Augusto Castro | 11.6 |
| 14 | Desafío 2017: Superhumanos Cap Cana | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Mateo Carvajal | Jhon Jairo Mosquera | 12.5 |
| 15 | Desafío 2018: Superhumanos, XV | Dominican Republic | Six teams of six | Óscar Muñoz | Witsmar Lucumí | 12.1 |
| 16 | Desafío 2019: Súper Regiones | Dominican Republic | Ten teams of four | Brynnis Joissy López Olivella Lairen Bernier Jerry Karth Reikin Herrera | Lizeth Mendieta Villanueva Diana Gil Bora Clever Alejandro Vargas Fee Wee Súarez | 11.0 |
| 17 | Desafío 2021: The Box | Colombia (Nimaima) | Eleven teams of four | Gonzalo Andrés Pinzón Paola Solano | Juan Manuel Gil Laura Jiménez Madrid | 11.811.8 |
| 18 | Desafío 2022: The Box 2 | Colombia (Nimaima) | Eleven teams of four | Camilo Tarifa Andrea Olaya | Juan Pablo Casallas Alexandra Rodríguez | 11.811.8 |
| 19 | Desafío 2023: The Box 3 | Colombia (Nimaima) | Four teams of eight | Alejandro Calderón Alejandra Martinez | Yan Pizo Kelly Rios | 10.0 |
| 20 | Desafío 2024: XX | Colombia (Nimaima) | Four teams of eight | Kevyn Mosquera | Darlyn Giraldo | 11.6 |

## International versions

Although the main version of Desafío is produced by Caracol TV for Colombian television, three other versions have been produced already.
Currently airing   No longer airing   Upcoming or returning version
| Country | Show name | TV channel | Winners | Presenter(s) | Grand prize |
| Bulgaria | Игри на волята [bg] (Igri na volyata) | NOVA | Season 1, 2019: Dobrin Nikolov Season 2, 2020: Milen Tsvetkov Season 3, 2021: Andrey Gridin Season 4, 2022: Alexa Erski Season 5, 2023: Ivan Rulev Season 6, 2024: Martin Kunev Season 7, 2025: Upcoming season | Aleksandra Sarchadjieva (1) Ralitsa Paskaleva (2–6) Dimo Aleksiev (2–6) | 200,000 лв. (1) 100,000 лв. (2–present) |
| Colombia (original format) | Desafío | Caracol Televisión | Season 1, 2004: Paula Andrea Betancourt Season 2, 2005: Tatiana de los Ríos Season 3, 2006: Alfredo Valera Season 4, 2007: Isabel Solís Season 5, 2008: Juan Pablo Londoño Season 6, 2009: Didier Castañeda Season 7, 2010: Eider Guerrero Season 8, 2011: Mauricio Morales Season 9, 2012: Jenny "Perla" Moreno Season 10, 2013: Carolina Jaramillo Season 11, 2014: Wilder Zapata Season 12, 2015: Vanessa Posada Season 13, 2016: Ángel Jesús Arregoces Season 14, 2017: Mateo Carvajal Season 15, 2018: Óscar "Olímpico" Muñoz Season 16, 2019: Equipo Costeños Season 17, 2021: Gonzalo "Galo" Pinzón and Paola Solano Season 18, 2022: Camilo Tarifa "Ceta" and Andrea Olaya "Valkyria" Season 19, 2023: Alejandro Calderón "Sensei" and Alejandra Martínez "Aleja" Season 20, 2024: Kevyn Mosquera | Margarita Rosa de Francisco (1–3, 5, 8–13) Víctor Mallarino (1–2, 6–7) Lina Marulanda† (4) Juan Pablo Llano (4) Taliana Vargas (6) Toya Montoya (7–8) Juan Ignacio Velásquez (8) Catalina Aristizábal (14–15) Andrea Serna (16–present) | COP 300,000,000 (1–8) COP 600,000,000 (9–15) COP 900,000,000 (16) COP 800,000,000 (17–19) COP 1,200,000,000 (20) |
| Greece | Nomads | ANT1 | Season 1, 2017: Apostolia Zoi Season 2, 2018: Stelios Hantampakis | Grigoris Amaoutoglou (1) Savvas Poumbouras (2) Giorgos Lentzas (2) | €150,000 |
| Mexico | La Isla, el reality | Azteca 7 | Season 1, 2012: María Renee Núñez Season 2, 2013: Cecilia Ponce Season 3, 2014: Francisco Covarrubias Season 4, 2015: Jorge Alberti Season 5, 2016: Jorge Luis Vázquez Season 6, 2017: Luis Arellanes | Alejandro Lukini | ? |
| Mexico | La Isla: Desafío en Turquía | Azteca Uno | Season 1, 2023: Maite Olalde Season 2, 2024: Upcoming season | Alejandro Lukini | ? |
| Romania | Ultimul trib | Antena 1 | Season 1, 2018-19: Zamfir Mircea | Octavian Strunilă | €100,000 |
| United States (Spanish) | Desafío 20.06 | GenTV | Season 1, 2006: Alejandro Kenig | Sissi Fleitas | $100,000 |
| United States (Spanish) | Desafío: La Gran Batalla | Univision | Season 1, 2010: Yunior Puig | Michel Brown | $100,000 |
| United States (Spanish) | La isla: desafío extremo | Telemundo | Season 1, 2024: Adrián Di Monte | Javier Poza | $200,000 |