Rodolphe Assi

Rodolphe Assi is a contestant from .
==Profile==
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*Profession: Carrossier
*52 ans
*Bouches-du-Rhône (13)
==Koh-Lanta==
For the group section of the opening sudden death challenge, Rodolphe was partnered with Alexandre Amico, Joëlle Bourlier, Fabienne Lefebvre-Trehoux, Louis-Laurent Léger, and Marine Mocellin. After the group transitioned into the individual section of this challenge, Rodolphe was the fifth or sixth 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. Since they were, respectively, the oldest and youngest active contestants, Rodolphe and Marine were given the right to divide themselves and the other fourteen contestants into two tribes. One would have to divide the fourteen other contestants into two groups and, afterwards, the other would have to choose which of the two groups they would like to form a tribe with and select one of the two available colours for their new tribe, essentially placing the person who just divided the other fourteen contestants with the other group by default to form the rival tribe. The pair agreed that Marine would do the former and that Rodolphe would do the latter. After Rodolphe chose to be part of what would be named the Mawaï tribe, Marine became a part of what would be named the tribe by default. The two tribes 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.
When the Koror tribe won the first Reward Challenge, they were rewarded with fire. Having fire allowed the Koror tribe to improve upon their diet and this, along with strategic mistakes made by Pascal Nickert and Anthony during the second Immunity Challenge, contributed to the Mawaï tribe losing the second Immunity Challenge. Upon returning to camp, Rodolphe, Fabienne, and Claire Rolet went exploring in order to find something to eat. Unfortunately, the trio got lost and had to spend the night away from the rest of their tribe in a storm, but conversely, they had found an abandoned fishing shelter to sleep in and a bunch of bananas to bring back to their tribemates the next day. The rest of the tribe went looking for the trio and vice versa the next morning and the tribe was reunited. With Tribal Council taking place that evening, the Mawaï tribe openly discussed who between Anthony and Claire was the weakest link in challenges. While Claire remained passive and did not say anything, Anthony opted to defend himself and got heated at times. At Tribal Council, the majority of the Mawaï tribe voted against Anthony instead of Claire mainly because of his status as the last person to arrive at the tribe composition, eliminating him from the game for good. Going into the next cycle, the Mawaï tribe lost the second Reward Challenge, Hot Pursuit, which they once again blamed on poor strategy. After Rodolphe, Louis-Laurent, and Pascal finished building their tribe's raft for the third Immunity Challenge, the Mawaï tribe received fire from production as it was deemed that they needed intervention since they were very malnourished. In spite of their newfound energy from their improved diet, the Mawaï lost the third Immunity Challenge the next day. At the corresponding Tribal Council, Denis Brogniart criticized the Mawaï tribe for not learning from their strategic mistakes as they lost four challenges consecutively, placing the blame on poor strategy each time. He then instructed the tribe to designate one of their own as their leader, to which they agreed upon Rodolphe. As for the vote, though Pascal received a few votes due to him feeling sick, the majority of the tribe voted against Claire because they still considered her their weakest link.
The fourth Reward Challenge 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. Just before the Mawaï tribe was about to settle down for the night of this challenge, Kaouther Ferdjani sprained her foot. Though she decided to persist in spite of her injury throughout the remainder of the challenge, her injury affected her performance somewhat. On Day 11, 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. In order to rest her leg, Kaouther rested upon returning to camp. The next day, the Mawaï tribe finally broke the Koror tribe's winning streak by winning the fourth Immunity Challenge. The next cycle, Kaouther was temporarily evacuated from the game sometime after the fifth Reward Challenge since she was feeling pain due to a cracked tooth. Meanwhile, the Mawaï tribe had resumed their old habit of losing both the Reward Challenge and the Immunity Challenge due to poor strategy. Returning to the game only just after the Mawaï tribe had lost the fifth Immunity Challenge, Kaouther became immune from receiving any votes at the corresponding Tribal Council as she did not have an opportunity to participate in this challenge. Upon returning to camp, Kaouther continued to rest, which earned her the ire of Fabienne and Pascal, who felt that she and Kader Rebaï were focused too much on challenges and had become lazy around camp. Meanwhile, Kaouther and Kader criticized Fabienne and Pascal for the opposite reason. It was implied that Kaouther would have been targeted by Rodolphe, Fabienne, and Pascal at Tribal Council for her challenge liability due to her foot injury and for her newfound inactivity around camp. However, since she was immune from receiving any votes, the trio made plans to target Kader instead for his inactivity around camp and recruited Freddy to vote with them. At Tribal Council, after a heated exchange with Fabienne, Kaouther decided to quit the game due to her foot injury, due to her tribe's constant strategic failure in challenges, and due to her feeling that the tribe's priorities are not right. When Denis Brogniart asked her tribemates if they felt that Kaouther would regret her decision to quit, all but Kader responded that they believed that she would. Immediately after this, Kader was voted out unanimously by the rest of his tribemates as they had planned.
Before the tribes merged, Isabelle Da Silva and Fabienne 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 Merle 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 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 Chevry, Isabelle, Raphaële Navarro, and Kader voted against Freddy while the rival alliance of Rodolphe, 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 Rodolphe's alliance in the minority.
At the Final Nine, in the first round of the second individual Reward Challenge, Buggin' Out, Rodolphe lost to Isabelle and Kader. However, he was not eliminated from the challenge as Isabelle chose him to be Kader's partner in the second round. Rodolphe and Kader won this round and, in turn, the individual Reward Challenge. 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, with Rodolphe even promising to take him to the Final Two. However, Kader refused, claiming that he was too much in conflict with Fabienne for this to happen and that Patrick's alliance had not yet betrayed him unlike the second Mawaï tribe members. 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. 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. The sole member of this alliance who did not vote against Louis-Laurent was Raphaële, who voted against Rodolphe instead. This was because the rest of Patrick's alliance had kept her in the dark about their true target, telling her that their target was Rodolphe, because they felt that she had grown too close to the members of Rodolphe's alliance, especially Louis-Laurent.
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.
===Voting History===
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 In episode 7, the vote ended with a 5-5 tie between Freddy and Isabelle, forcing a revote. Rodolphe did not change his vote on the revote.
==Post Koh-Lanta==
==Trivia==
* Rodolphe is the oldest member of the original Mawaï tribe and the oldest man to compete on .
==References==
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Category:Male Contestants
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Category:Koh-Lanta: Palau
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Category:Mawaï Tribe
Category:Merged Tribe (Palau)
Category:Palau (FR) Jury Members
Category:6th Place