MTV Roadies (season 16)
MTV Roadies Xtreme is the fifteenth season of Indian reality show MTV Roadies. The show is hosted by Rannvijay Singh. It started airing on MTV India from February 18, 2018. The audition was done by the four aspiring gang leaders - Raftaar, Nikhil Chinapa, Neha Dhupia and Prince Narula and this season, Rannvijay Singh serves as a mentor and host. Roadies' selection (episodes- 1 to 7). This season the auditions were different from past seasons, the contestants had to get a least of 3 votes from the gang leaders and as a twist Rannvijay had a special  power and had 2 votes. Culling process (episode- 8). Total count: Battleground (episode- 8). It is an online selection process in which participants are given various tasks to perform in order to get shortlisted. Four contestants, namely Mazer and N/A, Iram and Nikav were shortlisted. Iram and Nikav won the Final Battleground challenge and entered in Episode-18. Rohan chose Nikhil's Gang and Kashish chose Prince's Gang. Round 1: The roadies have to pull a log of wood tied with a rope along a pulley and drop it on a box to break it and get the flag  in it. The first 3 roadies to get the flag move to the next round. Roadies distribution (Shillong journey) (episodes- 9 to 14). Round 2: The 3 roadies have to wrestle in a circle marked on the ground to push a contestant out of the circle. The remaining 2 roadies move to the last round. Round 3: The roadies have to climb a ladder and reach the top to place their flag. One of their leg is tied to a metal weight covered by wooden planks. The roadies have to pull the weight up breaking the planks and reaching the  top. The one who will reach first, will win the task. Bibek won the task and won immunity. For this task, gang leaders had to select 1 female contestant as their first choice, the selected girl had to select her best friend for this task. All four girls had to put her hand inside ice to raise flag and see the sequence of artifacts which she had to arrange in perfect order. If she fails, she had to convince other performers to join to raise the flag again but the sequence will be changed. After completing her friend should do  the same. The winner who is the first choice will get the advantage. i) He had to put Shruti's partner Minnie in one of the other three gangs. Minnie joined Prince's gang. ii) He had to put any one female roadie each in the other two gangs. Nikhil put Farah in Raftaar's gang and Surbhi in Neha's gang. Bibek Bora quit the show Preeti won the task and won immunity. Samiksha got 0 points. Priya, Samiksha and Geetika were in the danger. Episode 12. Special Vote Out 1. The gang leaders had to write the name  of the roadie in the danger zone whom they wanted to eliminate. 2. The roadies had to write the name of the roadie whom they wanted to eliminate, along with the name of the gang leader whom they think must have written that name. 3. If their vote matched with the gang leader whose name has been written, only then the vote will be counted. 1. No Gang Leader Voted for Geetika, so her 2 votes were cancelled. 2. 5 roadies voted for Priya with Gang Leader name Nikhil and 3 roadies voted for Priya with Gang Leader Neha. 3 . 6 roadies voted for Samiksha with Gang Leader name Prince and 2 roadies voted for Samiksha with Gang Leader Raftaar. Samiksha Malik got voted out with 8 votes. For this task the gang leaders had to decide who would go against whom, but the competition would be between all 4 of them. Raftaar went against Prince and Neha against Nikhil. One gang leader had to decide which roadies (one girl and one boy) would play for the gang leader going against him and vice versa. The task has 3 phases. Each phase is to be performed by either of the  two roadies and the gang leader. Phase 1: The first member has to climb up a structure and pull out bamboos having colored bricks, which will fall down when the bamboo is pulled out. Phase 2: The second member has to duel the second member of the opposite team to pick up the brick and give it to the third member. Phase 3: The third member has to balance the bricks in the order of colors VIBGYOR on a platform that has to be balanced by a rope. The team who balances the entire correct sequence for five seconds will  win the task and that gang leader will get the power. Team Nikhil won the task and Nikhil got the power to choose any one male and any one female roadie to join his gang. Nishkarsh and Shubhada joined Gang Nikhil. Wild Card - Sharan Vs Mehakdeep The roadies had to choose between Sharan and Mehakdeep to 'vote in' for the journey. Mehakdeep entered into the competition by getting majority of votes. Nikhil was given a choice to replace wild card roadie Mahekdeep with anyone in his gang. Mehakdeep joined Nikhil's gang after Nikhil chose to remove Nishkarsh. For this  task remaining 4 girls who were not in any gang were paired up with one male roadie each by the gang leaders. The girl has to describe traditional ornaments from a picture of a couple. Each ornament is allotted a number which their partner has to check from Oppo phone. Then the partner has to ride a cart up to the numbers and pick up the ornament of that number, giving it to the girl. The girl finally has to dress those correct ornaments on a local couple. 1. The pair with maximum number of correct ornaments will get to  choose which gang they want to join together. 2. The pair who came second will choose one gang leader who will decide that into which gang that pair should go. 3. The remaining two pairs will go directly into the danger zone. Khursheed and Preeti chose Prince's Gang. Sonu and Geetika chose Prince to decide that into which gang that pair should go and Prince decided Raftaar's Gang. Vote out 3 (last vote out of Shillong) Nishkarsh, Priya, Abhishek and Kriti were in danger zone. Roadies had to vote out one boy and one girl. Priya Sindhu and  Abhishek Dubey were eliminated with majority votes. Kriti, Nishkarsh and Sandy joined Neha's Gang. Pavneet joined Raftaar's Gang. Finalists. •Gang Neha:- Kashish Thakur Pundir-Winner •Gang Prince:- 1. Preeti Kuntal-1st Runner-up 2. Niskarsh arora-2nd Runner-up The winning gang will become immune from the next vote-out. Judges: Rannvijay Singh and Gaelyn Mendonca Gangs vs Gangs (Kaziranga journey) (episodes- 14 to 18). For this task, Gang Raftaar competed against Gang Nikhil and Gang Neha combined for 3 immunities because of Gang Raftaar being targeted in the 7th task. So 2 members from Gang Raftaar would compete against  one member each from the other two gangs. The task had 3 phases. 1. One member has to dig eggs buried in a landmine and throw them to the second member through a net. After ten minutes, their positions will be interchanged. 2. One member has to throw those collected eggs to his partner. Any member from the opposite team has to stand in the middle of them with a bamboo in the hand and break the eggs before they reached the second member. 3. The team member has to throw the collected eggs to his gang leader who has  to put one egg each in an inverted pot and break the pot without cracking the egg. The team with more number of uncracked, perfect eggs will win the immunity. Team Nikhil and Neha collected one egg but because Nikhil cracked the egg while breaking the pot, they lost the immunity. Gang Raftaar couldn't collect a single egg and they lost immunity as well. Fara Fatima Khan got voted out with 9 votes. For this task the gang leaders had to choose one strongest and one weakest member respectively. Two gangs had to form an alliance. In each alliance  the strongest member of one gang will perform the task with the weakest member of the other gang. Prince and Nikhil formed one alliance. Neha and Raftaar formed the other alliance The task had 2 phases. Phase 1 : Both the contestants have to enter the grid from opposite directions and reach the central disc. According to the instructions given by their gang leaders with the help of Oppo phone, they have to construct a tower over the central disc. Phase 2 : One contestant then has to move around the grid and collect 5 flags without disturbing the wires, which on  slight touch can make the tower collapse. Amongst the two winners, the member who has been selected as the strongest, will have immunity along with the other two members of his/her gang (except the weakest member of the gang) Hence, 3 members of Gang Nikhil and Minnie from Gang Prince won immunity. For this task the gang leaders had to participate along with their gang members. The task had 3 stages. Stage 1: The remaining members excluding one member each at stage 2 and stage 3 has to perform at this stage. The contestants have to enter a pit  filled with rhinoceros poop and dig out tokens with their mouth and legs, with their hands tied at the back. Once a team collects 10 tokens, they can move to the second stage. Stage 2: The contestant has to decipher a Bollywood movie name from emoticons and act it out to the team member at stage 3. Stage 3: The contestant has to guess the Bollywood movies. The team which guesses two movies first wins the task and wins one immunity. Gangs vs Gangs (Bhalukpong journey) (episodes- 19 to 22). For this task, one boy and one girl from each  gang will perform the task. The task has 3 stages: Stage 1: (1) The girl has to free herself from a bamboo cage. (2) The boy has to break the log of wood in which a chain is attached, which locks one of his leg, thus freeing himself. Stage 2: The pair has to climb a net wall and reach to the other side by monkey crawling. The first 3 pairs to complete stage 2 only move on to the last stage. Stage 3: The pair has to row a boat across the river and wave their flag. For this  task, one girl and one boy from each gang had to perform along with their gang leader. Two gangs had to form an alliance, but which has never been formed before. 1. One teammate has to drive the car off road. 2. The second teammate has to navigate the driver. 3. The third teammates of each alliance have to balance a rope between them and pick up 5 pots in the way with the help of a hook on the rope. At the end, both alliances have to throw the pots in a fire pit and break them. On breaking  one pot, the other alliance gets 30 seconds added in their time. The alliance completing the task in less time will win 2 immunities. Raftaar had a power to cast a vote In this task one girl and one boy from each gang had to go against each other. Rohan and Shubdha from Gang Nikhil, Nishkarsh and Iram from Gang Neha, Kashish and Preeti from Prince's Gang and Sonu and Geetika from Raftaar's Gang. The Gangleaders had 100 fruits and they had to bet before every fight. The winners (1 girl and 1 boy) will get immunity along  with all the other members of their gang who are not performing the task. Round 1: Won: Nishkarsh Won: Preeti Won: Sonu Won: Iram Round 2: Won: Sonu Won: Preeti Notes Roadies Auction. Gangs after auction is mentioned in Gangs part below Gangs vs Gangs (Itanagar Journey) (Episodes- 23 to 25). For this task two gangs will compete against each other. The two winning gangs will immunity. There will be five rounds. In each round, there will be one raider and two defenders. The raider has to tag the defender's face with their gang colour. Gang Raftaar won the  match. Gang Prince won the match. Sonu, Geetika, Shubhada, Abhishek, Sharan, Nishkarsh and Preeti won immunity. For this task, Gang Nikhil and Gang Neha had to compete against each other for one immunity. Two boys from each gang had to rescue their girl. (1) A nail filer: To cut the rope, hence freeing their hands. (2) An axe: To break open the booth. (3) The key to the lock on the ankle of their girl. Gang Nikhil won the task and won one immunity. Rohan got the immunity. For this task, two gang members and the gang leader has to  perform the task. 1) The first roadie has to crash through a pile of boxes and make his way forward by crossing the path, hanging on the hooks from the ceiling. 2) After crossing the obstacles, the first member has to pull down a bar, acting as a counter weight by which the second member gets pulled up to a certain height. 3) The second member has to see through a binoculars and guide the third member in cutting four coloured wires in the given order, thus diffusing a time bomb. Gang Raftaar won the task and won immunity. Sonu , Abhishek, Geetika and Shubhada got immunity. In the Vote-out Mehakdeep Singh Randhawa was voted-out. For this task, the roadies had to challenge previous seasons champions and finalists. 1) The roadie and the challenger will each be balancing on a cart tied to a car and have a joystick in their hands. 2) If the roadie could make the challenger fall off the cart with the joystick in one of the three rounds, he/she would win the challenge and get immunity. Kashish won the task and got immunity. Karan Kundra interacted with all the roadies. He had a  power to take away an immunity and give it to someone else. He took Geetika's immunity and gave it to Shruti. Shruti got immunity. In the surprise Vote-out Geetika Sood and Nikav Bharucha were voted out. Final Destination (Ziro Journey) (Episodes- 26 and 27). For this task, two gangs had to form an alliance. The winning alliance would get 4 immunities. 1) One member would be swinging on a plank controlled by 4 members and directed by the 5th member. 2) The swinging member had to pick up 10 flags one by one from post A and place  them at post B. 3) While the alliance performed, the other alliance would drive a car across a path and keep ringing the bells in the path. 4) After every 3 bells, one member of the performing alliance had to discontinue from the task. Neha-Raftaar alliance won the task. Sonu, Abhishek, Kashish and Surbhi won immunity. For this task the unimmune roadies had to perform individually. The boys and the girls competed separately. The goal was to protect your own ball and at the same time get your opponent's ball out of the ring. Preeti won in girls  and Nishkarsh won in boys. Preeti and Nishkarsh got immunity. In the Vote-out Shubhada Nishthala and Rohan Hingorani were voted out. For this task :- •Shruti and Sonu are one team. •Abhisek Sharan and Surbhi second team. •Kashish Preeti and Niskarsh third team. Kashish, Preeti, Niskarsh, Abhisek, Sharan and Surbhi are in for Round 2 of semi finale After losing in Semi Finale Task-1 Sonu Jatt and Shruti Sinha were eliminated. Voting History. "The numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the chart represent the gangs in which the roadies were originally in before the auction (i.e, 1 - Raftaar, 2  - Prince, 3 - Neha & 4 - Nikhil)." [#] Ep12 Special Vote out 1. The gang leaders had to write the name of the roadie in the danger zone whom they wanted to eliminate. 2. The roadies had to write the name of the roadie whom they wanted to eliminate, along with the name of the gang leader whom they think must have written that name. 3. If their vote matched with the gang leader whose name has been written, only then the vote will be counted.