Patrick Merle

Patrick Merlehttps://www.bienpublic.com/societe/2020/03/28/koh-lanta-ils-sont-de-chez-nous-vous-les-avez-vus-a-la-tele is a contestant from , , and .
==Profile==
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*Profession: Ouvrier teinturier
*38 ans
*Loire (42)
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*Koh-Lanta 9 - Palau - Micronésie (2009)Nombre de jours: 39/39Précédé par sa réputation de stratège, Patrick va devoir être encore plus vigilant qu'en 2009. Le Roannais a plus d'un tour dans son sac, il veut continuer à tirer les ficelles sur le camp, sans se cacher.
*Quels souvenirs gardez-vous de votre première participation à Koh-Lanta? Je retiens avant tout le jour où j'ai appris que je faisais partie de l'aventure. Depuis 5 ans, j'espérais rejoindre Koh-Lanta. Quand ce moment est enfin arrivé, j'étais le plus heureux! Arrivé sur l'île dans cet état d'esprit, j'ai passé plusieurs semaines de rêve. Je suis allé jusqu'en finale, je ne pouvais rien espérer de mieux hormis gagner.
*Quel a été votre plus grand regret lors de cette aventure? Et votre plus grande fierté? Je n'ai pas de regrets car je mesure la chance que j'ai eu de participer à Koh-Lanta. J'aurais peut-être préféré ne pas avoir à éliminer certains concurrents mais cela fait aussi partie du jeu. Mais mon côté stratège m'a surpris. Je ne suis pas très calculateur, mais parfois, dans l'aventure, il fallait l'être pour avancer. Je reste fier d'avoir pu atteindre la finale.
*Pourquoi avoir choisi de revenir en découdre dans cette Revanche des Héros? Koh-Lanta est une aventure à la fois physique et humaine. Dans les autres saisons, j'ai découvert plusieurs aventuriers que j'avais envie de connaître davantage. La Revanche des Héros était l'occasion rêvée de revivre des moments forts, mais surtout de relever d'autres défis. J'ai une vraie revanche à prendre, je suis passé tout près de la victoire. Cette fois-ci, j'y vais pour gagner et toucher les mythiques poteaux!
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==Koh-Lanta==
===Palau===
For the group section of the opening sudden death challenge, Patrick was partnered with Isabelle Da Silva, Kaouther Ferdjani, Julien Mairesse, Raphaële Navarro, and Pascal Nickert. After the group transitioned into the individual section of this challenge, Patrick was the third man to arrive at the finish line with his staff and was safe. Before the tribe composition the next day, Denis Brogniart revealed to the contestants that Myriam Desvergne, who had been temporarily evacuated from the game two days before after having injured her ankle during the sudden death challenge, had been permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game the day before as it was determined that she had fractured her ankle. He added that, because of this, Anthony Parra would reenter the game in her place. Patrick was assigned by Marine Mocellin to be a member of the tribe and they immediately competed in the first Immunity Challenge. Though the Koror tribe had maintained a strong lead throughout the challenge, the Mawaï tribe succeeded in catching up near the end and winning the challenge. Upon returning to camp, Patrick strategized with the men that they needed to vote against one of the women, particularly either Christina Chevry or Raphaële, as he felt that doing so would keep the tribe strong. Since the tribe had an equal number of men and women, Patrick tried to convince Marine to vote with the men. However, this backfired as Marine realized that joining him would put her at the bottom of a men's alliance and, in turn, made plans with the women to vote against Julien. At Tribal Council, the men voted against Raphaële while the women voted against Julien. This resulted in a tied vote and the contestants had to revote. Since nobody changed their vote on the revote, Julien and Raphaële had to draw rocks. Julien drew the black rock and was eliminated, leaving the men in the minority.
Over the next few cycles, it became evident to the Koror tribe that Patrick was the most strategic player amongst them. In spite of their low start, the Koror tribe bounced back and won six consecutive challenges, including two Immunity Challenges and a Reward Challenge in which the reward was fire. Having fire allowed the Koror tribe to improve upon their diet. The sixth of these challenges was the fourth Reward Challenge which began on Day 10 and consisted of going on a trek to retrieve as many bags as possible, which would be returned to the starting line on Day 11. During the night of this challenge, Alexandre Amico and Isabelle fought with each other as the former felt that the latter was being lazy and the latter did not care for how the former was talking to her. Marine, tired and cold, had a tetanic seizure and she was temporarily evacuated from the game. The next day, the two tribes returned forty bags each to Denis Brogniart, who stated that both tribes have won the challenge as a result. The reward for this challenge was the right to permanently kidnap one of the members of the opposite tribe as part of a tribe switch. The Mawaï tribe chose Freddy Boucher and the Koror tribe chose Louis-Laurent Léger. Louis-Laurent bonded well with his new tribemates and he became more well-liked by the Koror tribe than Freddy after Freddy declared that he was a proud Mawaï tribe member at the fourth Immunity Challenge the next day. The Koror tribe lost the fourth Immunity Challenge and Denis Brogniart revealed to them that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then. Marine, who had voted earlier from the infirmary in the event that the Koror tribe lost, voted against Raphaële for her lack of affinity with her. In the confusion of the sudden Tribal Council, Isabelle and Raphaële turned on each other for similar reasons, however, the men were able to stay united and voted out Christina, who they deemed was too quiet in spite of being good in challenges. When Marine was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 13 after she was deemed medically unfit to continue competing, Christina returned to the game in her place. The Koror tribe won both challenges in the next cycle.
Before the tribes merged, Isabelle and Fabienne Lefebvre-Trehoux were selected as the Ambassadors for their respective tribes. Like in the previous season, the Ambassadors had to eliminate someone instead of simply casting a vote against someone. With Fabienne refusing to agree upon eliminating Freddy or any of her fellow original Mawaï tribemates and Isabelle initially taking a similar stance concerning her own allies, it seemed that Isabelle and Fabienne would be having to face a rock draw in order to decide who amongst themselves would be eliminated instead. However, Isabelle decided to offer Alexandre's name just before the Ambassadors were to draw rocks, feeling that he did not deserve to stay in the game as much as everybody else and that he was not worth potentially being eliminated over. Fabienne agreed to this and Alexandre was eliminated from the game. After Isabelle and Fabienne returned to camp and broke the news, the majority of the other contestants commented to each other that they felt that Isabelle was selfish and had failed to live up to her duty as an Ambassador, with only Patrick openly stating that he understood her decision and likely would have done something similar in her place. Nobody was eliminated at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council, but the next cycle, Alexandre rejoined the merged tribe after finding a stone ring hidden on the island where the tribe composition took place on Day 3. However, when Alexandre was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 21 after having cracked his nose during the second individual Immunity Challenge, Kader Rebaï returned to the game in his place with immunity at the upcoming Tribal Council. When Patrick tried to convince the second Koror tribe members to stay strong and vote together against Pascal, they all agreed except for Louis-Laurent, who did not want to work with Isabelle considering her role in Alexandre's first elimination. Instead, Louis-Laurent made plans with the second Mawaï tribe members, with the exception of Kader, to vote against Isabelle. Concerned about the numbers, Patrick made attempts to convince Freddy and Kader to vote with his allies against Pascal. When Patrick realized that Kader was committed to this new alliance but that Freddy was likely to vote with the other alliance, he instructed his allies to vote against Freddy instead of Pascal, reminding them about his treasonous attitude after he had been kidnapped by the Mawaï tribe. At Tribal Council, Patrick's alliance of himself, Christina, Isabelle, Raphaële, and Kader voted against Freddy while the rival alliance of Rodolphe Assi, Freddy, Fabienne, Louis-Laurent, and Pascal voted against Isabelle. This resulted in a tied vote and the contestants had to revote. Since nobody changed their vote on the revote, Freddy and Isabelle had to draw rocks. Freddy drew the black rock and was eliminated, leaving Patrick's alliance in the majority.
At the Final Nine, in the first round of the second individual Reward Challenge, Buggin' Out, Patrick lost to Isabelle and Kader. He was eliminated from the challenge as Isabelle and Kader selected Rodolphe and Raphaële to be each other's partners in the second round. Realizing that their alliance was now open to being pagonged by Patrick's alliance, Rodolphe and Pascal made attempts to flip Kader over to their side throughout the cycle. However, Kader did not budge as he felt that Patrick's alliance had not yet betrayed him unlike the second Mawaï tribe members. On top of this, Patrick and Kader were beginning to become close with one another. Meanwhile, Raphaële won the corresponding individual Immunity Challenge, a feat that she would repeat in the next cycle. At Tribal Council, Rodolphe's alliance voted against Kader because they felt that his decision to stick with Patrick's alliance was treasonous, but this did not affect anything as Patrick's alliance voted out Pascal because they had less affinity with him than the rest of his allies. The next cycle, Louis-Laurent earned the ire of Patrick after the former opted to relax instead of collecting the Tree Mail summoning the contestants to the next Reward Challenge. This, along with Louis-Laurent's evident challenge prowess, put a target on his back concerning who Patrick's alliance might vote out next in their pagonging of Rodolphe's alliance. However, Patrick also noticed that Raphaële was bonding very well with the members of Rodolphe's alliance. For this reason, Raphaële's allies kept her in the dark about their true target, Louis-Laurent, and told her that their target was Rodolphe. Meanwhile, Rodolphe's alliance, understanding that they were essentially dead people walking, planned to burn their votes on Kader at every Tribal Council going forward for the same reason as in the previous cycle and for relaxing in the water with Patrick during a storm while the rest of the tribe was moving their wood out of the rain. After losing the fourth individual Immunity Challenge to Raphaële, Louis-Laurent was voted out by most of Patrick's alliance at the corresponding Tribal Council.
Upon returning to camp, Raphaële questioned her allies in shock on why she was not informed about the plan to eliminate Louis-Laurent. Though Patrick let her know about their alliance's concerns regarding Raphaële's relationships with their rivals, Raphaële began to distance herself from her allies. Patrick won the fourth individual Reward Challenge, but opted to forfeit his reward, which was a large steak and some accompanying foods, so that the rest of his tribemates could enjoy it instead. Though they were appreciative of his gesture, some of his tribemates, especially Rodolphe and Fabienne, felt that Patrick gave up his reward in order to make up for hurt feelings associated with his strategic gameplay. Eventually, Raphaële tried to form a women's alliance with Christina, Isabelle, and Fabienne, but this failed because Isabelle reported this development back to Patrick in disagreement with Raphaële's idea. Meanwhile, Fabienne recruited Rodolphe to vote with them, but Christina remained on the fence about joining her friend Raphaële in her plan to shake up the game. With Christina winning the fifth individual Immunity Challenge, she essentially found herself in the middle between the trio of Isabelle, Patrick, and Kader, who planned to vote against Raphaële for her recent divergence and for her challenge prowess, and the trio of Rodolphe, Fabienne, and Raphaële, who planned to vote against either Patrick or Kader. Ultimately, at Tribal Council, Christina stuck with Patrick's alliance and Raphaële was voted out in a 4-2-1 vote. At the Final Six, Rodolphe was once again on the chopping block and knew that he had to win the sixth individual Immunity Challenge in order to stay in the game. Conversely, understanding that Christina and Isabelle would be more hesitant to vote against Fabienne in the event that Rodolphe won immunity, Patrick and Kader concluded that Rodolphe losing this challenge was imperative. Partway through the sixth individual Immunity Challenge, Patrick realized that it was possible to sabotage Rodolphe and, therefore, Isabelle, Patrick, and Kader achieved this by taking turns covering the pole with the most amount of progress complete, blocking Rodolphe from making progress on whatever pole he would choose to work on, and filling their own respective buckets. Patrick won the challenge and Denis Brogniart revealed to the tribe that, like once earlier in the season, Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then. Rodolphe was voted out by Patrick's alliance, but not before criticizing Patrick for his perceived dirty and unfair gameplay. At the Final Five, Patrick and Kader once again slacked off around camp, which ended up being the last straw for Christina and Isabelle in their decision to align with Fabienne to form an all-female alliance against the two men. As for which of them the women were planning to target for what would be the last Tribal Council before the finale, Fabienne initially suggested Patrick after he targeted her relentlessly in the loved ones Reward Challenge because she was the only contestant remaining that was never part of his alliance throughout the individual phase of the game. The Reward Challenge was won by Isabelle and the corresponding reward included access to a private island in Palau for an entire year. After Isabelle returned to camp after a visit to this island with her loved one, Patrick noticed the new shift in power and became more active around camp while advising Kader to do the same in an attempt to regain control of the numbers. When neither man won the seventh individual Immunity Challenge, the women decided to target Kader instead of Patrick as they felt that the latter deserved to be in the finale more so than the former. At Tribal Council, Kader was voted out in a 3-2 vote.
Having made it to the finale, Patrick was taken by Christina to the Final Two instead of Isabelle after Christina won the Perch challenge. At the Final Tribal Council, Patrick received more criticism rather than praise for his strategic gameplay and the jury generally felt that he could've done more socially. This, along with Christina's challenge prowess and good relationships with her tribemates, resulted in Patrick losing to Christina in a 5-2 vote.
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 In episode 1, the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Julien and Raphaële, forcing a revote. Patrick did not change his vote on the revote. In episode 7, the vote ended with a 5-5 tie between Freddy and Isabelle, forcing a revote. Patrick did not change his vote on the revote.
===La Revanche des Héros===
One of the more strategic players of the Nekmao tribe, Patrick was a key figure in his majority alliance including Coumba Baradji, Claude Dartois, Teheiura Teahui, and eventually Guénaëlle Biras and Maud Garnier. Patrick received several minority votes but also found both Hidden Immunity Necklaces. The original Nekmao tribe members and Maud blindsided Klahan Ambassador Francis Bordas at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council and continued to pagong the original Klahan tribe members over the next two cycles. At the Final Eight, this pagonging was put on hold as Coumba and Patrick conspired with Bertrand Bolle, Moussa Niangane, and, to a lesser extent, Claude to blindside Teheiura because they feared his endgame potential. At the last Tribal Council before the finale, Patrick turned in his two Hidden Immunity Necklaces to Denis Brogniart in order to flaunt his idol hunting and social positioning skills throughout the season. Having made it to the finale, Patrick was eliminated at the Final Five after losing the Orienteering challenge along with Coumba. Patrick finished in fifth place while Coumba finished in fourth place because, after the challenge, Denis Brogniart dismissed the former from the challenge area before the latter.
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 Patrick used a Hidden Immunity Necklace, but no votes were cast against him.
 At the final five, the remaining castaways competed in an elimination challenge. Patrick failed to earn one of the three spots and was eliminated.
===La Légende===
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==Post-Koh-Lanta==
==Trivia==
* Patrick is the oldest member of .
* Patrick is the oldest contestant to compete on .
==References==
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