Virginie Mercadal Pioli

Virginie Mercadal Pioli is a contestant from .
==Profile==
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Ambitieuse, dynamique voire hyperactive, Virginie a toujours besoin de faire quelque chose! Sportive, cette varoise, danse, marche ou pédale plusieurs fois par semaine. Elle veut montrer qu'une femme peut être féminine, coquette et aller au bout d'elle même à Koh-Lanta! Virginie, mariée et maman de deux enfants, est sensible, voire un brin susceptible, mais elle est toujours en mouvement. Artisan coiffeur et chef d'entreprise, elle aime diriger son salon!
==Koh-Lanta==
Before the contestants even got on the boat, Denis Brogniart informed them that they would have to immediately decide upon two among them to not join the rest on the boat. Believing that this was an elimination, Véronique Bègue and Boris Deltell sacrificed themselves for the other contestants. The other sixteen contestants said their goodbyes and got on the boat, which was headed to an island where they would be divided into two tribes the next day. When swimming to this island from the boat, Alain Merdel almost drowned, but Claude Dartois saved him and helped him get to the island. As the contestants trekked towards the north side of the island, Virginie cut her upper eyelid by bumping into a branch. That night, Vivien Escouflaire and Alain found the island's watering hole and the sixteen contestants settled in for the night. The next day, they finished their trek and Denis Brogniart revealed that the two tribes would be divided by gender. Thus, Virginie was assigned to the Vang tribe and they immediately competed against the Do tribe in their first Reward Challenge, which they won. The reward for the Vang tribe was three matches and, upon arriving at their camp, they succeeded in making fire. They also encountered Boris, who had arrived there the day before by helicopter and who would be their sole male tribemate instead of being eliminated. Virginie's eyelid was stitched up earlier at the first Reward Challenge and she was required to wear a bandage over her eye throughout the remainder of the first cycle and, in turn, couldn't participate in the first Immunity Challenge, which was in the water. This temporary handicap, along with her already strong personality, encouraged Virginie to be hyperactive around camp, which earned her the ire of some of her tribemates, especially Frédérique Brugiroux. On the other hand, Frédérique also had a strong personality and annoyed some of her tribemates by not contributing around camp that much and by being negative about not having more men in the tribe. Frédérique and Virginie clashed on a few occasions throughout the remainder of the cycle and, after the Vang tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge, the two made it clear to one another that they would be voting against each other at Tribal Council. With the rest of the tribe wanting to have more peace at camp and realizing that Virginie would be more of an asset to them than Frédérique, Frédérique was voted out unanimously at Tribal Council.
Early in the next cycle, the women of the Vang tribe initially followed Boris on his idea about building a quick shelter near a thicket, however, they realized that this wasn't a good idea and restarted construction of the shelter somewhere else. This, along with a few other strange ideas to improve the Vang tribe's camp life and a couple of unideal challenge performances, provoked the tribe's women to think that Boris might not be necessary for their survival in the game. The Vang tribe lost the second Reward Challenge, which notably upset Wafa El Mejjad who felt like she could've performed better. The next day, the Vang tribe won the second Immunity Challenge. Upon their victory, the Vang tribe was offered the right to exchange Boris for Véronique, however, they turned down this offer in spite of their prior concerns with Boris, agreeing that a good team should stay strong and stick together. Upon returning to camp, Virginie cooked periwinkles for her tribemates, however, they turned out burnt and the Vang tribe did not enjoy this meal. Virginie continued to work a lot throughout the cycle, but her mostly laidback tribemates felt that her efforts were becoming excessive and that she needed to slow down. With a few rats invading their camp, the Vang tribe had a mediocre start of the next cycle. Furthermore, they lost the third Reward Challenge, Blind Leading the Blind, against the Do tribe.
When the two tribes arrived for the third Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart surprised them with a sudden tribe switch. With two tribes being formed with an equal number of men and women in each, Virginie was selected by Jean-Pierre Pigato to be one of the four women of his tribe. Jennifer Lieutaud's tribe won the third Immunity Challenge and they were given the right to select which camp to return to. Without hesitation, they chose to return to the Do camp, making them the second Do tribe. Philippe Duron, now one of the members of the second Vang tribe, was upset by this turn of events because he and his other three male tribemates were essentially forced to start fresh on a comparatively empty camp while relinquishing the results of their hard work to a mostly laidback second Do tribe. At the Vang camp, Virginie showed the tribe's new members around the camp and continued to work hyperactively. The newcomers were impressed with Virginie's work ethic, which seemed to juxtapose that of the majority of the original Vang tribe based on the state of the camp. The next morning, Alain was temporarily evacuated from the game due to a dizzy spell and was exempt from attending Tribal Council later that night. Meanwhile, the other men and Véronique planned to vote based on tribal lines, putting Aurélie Gasser, Virginie, and Marine Plissonneau on the chopping block since they were in the minority. Hoping that one or more of the men may flip to their side, the minority alliance voted against Véronique at Tribal Council for her challenge weakness. However, the majority alliance stayed strong and voted out Virginie who, in spite of her strong work ethic, they found difficult to talk to due to her hyperactivity. When Alain was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 10 after the medics deemed that he needed more time to recover, Virginie returned to the game in his place. The Vang tribe won the fourth Reward Challenge, Memory, in part thanks to Aurélie's familiarity with similar games due to her experience as a leisure center animator. The next day, the Vang tribe constructed their raft for the fourth Immunity Challenge and, though it was superior to that of the Do tribe, they lost said challenge the day after because their rivals made a strategic risk during the race that paid off. At Tribal Council, Virginie was voted out by the majority alliance again for the same reasons as before.
===Voting History===
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==Post Koh-Lanta==
==Trivia==
==References==
Category:Contestants
Category:Female Contestants
Category:Koh-Lanta
Category:Koh-Lanta Contestants
Category:Koh-Lanta: Viêtnam
Category:Viêtnam Contestants
Category:Vang Tribe
Category:15th Place