The Coven 1 (UK)

**The Coven 1 (UK)** is the first ever season of **The Coven UK 1** and the first season overall of the *STV: Reality Network* franchise.

Being known as the first season of the UK version of *The Coven*, it was a universal success stated by critics and fans. Having a very unique format to differentiate the United States version and their version. It was also known for the amount of arguments, as well as the impressive amount of strategy, which made lots of players extremely likeable during the season. After 39 Days inside The Coven, it ended up being Cassidy Coy's likibility, plus her amazing strategic and physical gameplay that made her the first ever winner of *The Coven UK* and taking home a £75,000 prize in a 6-3 vote against London Birks' loudmouth gameplay and lack of bonds during the season. Due to this, Cassidy C also won the Fan Favorite award as well, giving her an additional £25,000, making Cassidy take home £100,000 in prizes.

## Format and Background

### Development

After the huge success of The Coven's United States version, or in retrospect the first ever series of *The Coven* overall, The United Kingdom decided to make their own version of the show, which was planned out by famous producer and contestant from Sim's Big Brother, Ali Xavier. They decided to make the format of the UK's version, a whole lot different from the U.S. version.

### Team Phase

For the U.K version of the series, every season, 10-16 houseguests will be divided into 2 teams, each with 5-8 on them, they will stay in those teams for the first 5 banishments, in the Team Phase, the teams would be competing in a challenge, where the team that wins, would be immune for the remainder of the phase (AKA team that wins phase 1 will be immune phase 1, winning team for phase 2 will be immune for rest of phase 2, and so on). Both teams will nominate someone from the losing team to be at risk for banishment, however the Landlord (aka the Tenant Power in other countries) is in play, and it'll be able for the winner of it to save 1 person from nominations, the 2 people with the most nominations will be at risk of banishment. if it's used the house must vote for a replacement nominee, if it isn't used the nominees stay the same. If there is a tie in the nomination voting, the person nominated will be decided by a game of luck.

### Individual Phase

When there are 11 players remaining in the competition, the teams will dissolve, leaving everyone to play for themselves. The next 9 players to be banished from the game will make up the Jury, due to it being the individual phase, only 1 person can win the Immunity challenge, the house still votes on 1 person they'd like to nominate, however the only exception is at the Final 4, where the Immunity winner will be the one that nominate 2 players for banishment. The Landlord remains during the individual phase.

### Block Battle

The 2 players at risk for banishment, will have to compete in a challenge for their life in the game. The winner of the challenge will remain in the game while the loser would be officially banished from the competition.

### Finale

The finale officially begins when there are 3 players remaining in the competition. They would be competing in an Automatic Banishment challenge to see who would be the final Juror, and who would be the final 2 to make Judgement Day. The nine jurors must vote one of the 2 finalists to become the winner of the series. The winner would take home a £75,000 prize.

## Twists/Changes

* **Teams:** Unlike The Coven 1 (US), the UK version uses a team format for the first few phases of the competition.
* **Banished By Challenge:** Unlike the US version, the person who gets banished in the UKs format, will be decided on a challenge rather than a vote.
* **Landlord:** Similar to the US version's Tenant Winner, the person that wins Landlord will be able to save a nominee. If a player is saved, the house would have to vote for a replacement nominee, out of the losing team.
* **Team Swap:** After 1 week in the coven, aka on Day 7, for the first time in *The Coven UK* history, there was a team swap, meaning the 13 remaining players were reassigned to different teams.
* **Automatic Banishment:** When there are 3 players left, they will be battling in one final challenge to determine who would be the last player to be banished and the final member of the jury.

## Players

 **Winner**

**Cassidy C**

 **Runner-Up**

**London**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Skye**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Rudolph**

 **Jury: *London***

**Demiah**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Cassidy B**

 **Jury: *London***

**Hugo**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Savannah**

 **Jury: *London***

**Randall**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Carlos**

 **Jury: *Cassidy C***

**Benni**

 **Banished**

**Luca**

 **Banished**

**Cher**

 **Banished**

**Evyindur**

 **Banished**

**Angelina**

 **Banished**

**Jake**

### Teams

 Evyindur

 Cassidy B

## Nomination History

* Initial Nomimations
* Replacement Nominations

## Trivia

* *The Coven UK 1* is the first international series of *The Coven* franchise.
	+ Furthermore, this is the first UK series of *The Coven* franchise.
* This is the first season where instead of counting it by weeks, it's counted by phases.
* The Coven 1 (UK) lasted for 39 Days, the same amount of days as a regular Survivor season.
* This is also the first season where all banishments are decided by competitions rather than votes.
	+ Furthermore, the only time the houseguests had to vote was, if there was a replacement nominee, or at the end where the Jury votes for the winner of the series.
* This is the first season to feature Double Banishments, as well as the first season to feature the Team Twist.
* This is also the first season to officially start with 16 players.
	+ The Coven 1 (US) also had 16 people, however the series started with 14 players as Bushra Farhan and Dalton Orlando joined the game late.
* This season holds the record for the least amount of Days in a **CIVILIAN** season, with only 39.
	+ The Celebrity Coven 1 (US) holds the record for the shortest amount of days with only 28 (4 Weeks), but this was a Spin-Off, not an official civilian season.