The Coven South Africa 1

**The Coven South Africa 1** is the first ever season of **The Coven South Africa** and the first season overall of the *The Coven* franchise.

## Format and Background

### Development

After planning this out for a very long time, the creator of this series Siobhan Kingsley, finally decided to let it have a chance to shine. Taking inspiration from several famous reality shows such as Big Brother, Survivor, & The Challenge, and combining them into one huge and unique format. The Coven production team brought together 16 players to compete in the first ever edition of The Coven series.

### Team Phase

For the South African version (or the first ever version) of *The Coven*, every season, 10-20 houseguests will be divided into 2 or 3 teams, each with 5-10 on them, they will stay in those teams for the first few 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 Power 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 9-13 players remaining in the competition, the teams will dissolve, leaving everyone to play for themselves. The next 7-11 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. All of the jurors must vote one of the 2 finalists to become the winner of the series. The winner would take home a 100,000,000 ZAR prize.

### Casting

After days and days of finding the perfect cast to compete in the first ever season, the casting producers finally decided on 16 South Africans out of a grand total of 151,956 applicants that applied to partake in the first series of The Coven. This season, the casting producers also decided to cast a unique amount of ages during the series, so that there's diversity and so the whole cast won't consist of people in their 20's.

## Twists/Changes

* **Split House Premiere:** For the first time in The Coven history, the first 8 people revealed would enter the house and play the round first, and the last 8 revealed would enter on Day 3 and play in the second round, making 2 people be evicted in only 1 phase, and without a team.
* **Battle Back Competition:** The first 5 people evicted would be competing in a Battle Back competition where the winner would be able to return to the competition.
* **Dead-Last Nomination:** In Phase 2, it was revealed that the person who place last in the challenge, or did the worst, would be automatically nominated for banishment.
* **Back-And-Forth:** The three players nominated for banishment will compete against each other for one last chance to save themselves from the block.

## Players

 **Nominee**

**Aaliyah**

 **Team Immunity**

**Aisha**

 **Nominee**

**Bongani**

 **Team Immunity**

**Ezra**

**JD**

**Kgosi**

 **Team Immunity**

**Lara**

**Lerato**

 **Team Immunity**

**Nadia**

 **Team Immunity**

**Nomusa**

 **Landlord**

**Raj**

**Sipho**

 **Team Immunity**

**Thabo**

 **Nominee**

**Zanele**

 **Banished**

**Thandi**

 **Blocked**

**Siya**

### Teams

 Aaliyah

## Nomination History

* Initial Nomimations
* Replacement Nominations

## Competition History

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 2
 8
 9
 10
 TeamImmunity
 Landlord
 Back-And-Forth
 BlockBattle
 3
 14
 15
 16

## Trivia

* This is the first ever season of *The Coven* franchise.