A real-life ‘Thirst Games’ is coming to Russia
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A group of people from around the globe has agreed to take part in a real-life “Thirst Games” — rivaling on a controversial fresh game showcase in Russia where fighting, rape and even murder is permitted.
The deadly contest, dubbed “Game2:Winter,” will be held on a remote Siberian Island in the Ob Sea and broadcast worldwide on the internet beginning in July, according to the Siberian Times.
The thirty participants — who include an ex-military man from South Korea, a student from Sweden and a self-described “professional blonde” from the Russian Arctic — have all signed a release of liability for injury, as well as death waivers, in addition to agreeing to not hold the organizers accountable if they were to commit a crime during filming.
An earlier rule, which has since been eliminated after sparking outrage online, stated that the contestants would be able to do whatever they desired to sustain — which is ultimately the main objective. Stay alive until April 1, 2018, the Times reports.
“Everything is permitted. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything,” the rule said.
On Monday, organizer Yevgeny Pyatkovsky insisted, tho’, that the producers wouldn’t intervene if something sinister were to happen while the cameras were rolling.
“No we won’t,” he told the Times. “I am pretty sure there will be fights, and more. We are not startled of negative reaction if that happens, either … This is the raw Siberian taiga: Anything can happen, and we might not be on time to solve an emergency.”
During the game, players must forage and store their own food in order to get through the winter months. Once the cold weather hits, they will need to learn to ice-fish through slots cut in local lakes and ponds.
The contestants will be made up of fifteen dudes and fifteen women, from various parts of the world. They will only be armed with knives as they plucky freezing temperatures, bears and other dangers associated with Siberia, the Times reports.
“There will be a ground team on duty, and one or two helicopters for emergency situations,” Pyatkovsky said. “Having said that, bears can run as swift as sixty kph [37 mph], and our two thousand cameras on the island would not be able to cover every centimeter of the forests.”
Like the famous dystopian book and movie franchise “Thirst Games,” players will be filmed by cameras that are set up remotely across the island.
“We will not intervene into relations inbetween participants nor monitor their sexual life either,” Pyatkovsky told the Times. “They are free to form any duo or union, and there is no boundaries or rules regarding lovemaking. If a woman falls pregnant — and manages to carry the baby — that’s fine with us. We will display the baby after the project is over.”
After their arrival, contestants will be tasked with building a house or shelter and be provided with winter clothes, devices and fishing gear. Later on in the game, they will have to track down a group of “criminals” who will be released from a nearby jail, Pyatkovsky said.
“The task will be to catch the criminals, and whoever does so gets a prize from a sponsor,” he said.
Pyatkovsky’s project had been in the works for several years before eventually coming to fruition, he added.
“There is nothing like this demonstrate in the entire world,” the Russian explained. “No one has done it as a real thing where people will actually have to use every skill they ever gained, social, physical, psychological, to sustain.”