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''MTV Roadies: Journey in South Africa'' is the eighteenth season of India ''
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'' produced by Pippip Media Private Limited. It premiered on MTV on 8 April 2022. A spin-off series, Roadies - All Access Star hosted by
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and judged by
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streamed exclusively on
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. Participants will have to showcase their talent and even showcase their flair for general knowledge. The winner Nisman Parpia gets a fully paid five-day trip to South Africa, the opportunity to host her own digital show, witnessing the Roadies finale shoot and also gets an opportunity to host a Roadies after hours digital show. Like the previous season, the show was being streamed on Voot 24 hours before TV, exclusively available only to Voot Select subscribers.
In addition to airing on
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, the premiere episode was simulcast across three other channels of
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, Comedy Central India and
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, becoming the most-watched episode in the franchise's history. On 10 July 2022, Ashish Bhatia and Nandini G emerged as winners of the season, and for first time there were two winners. Jashwanth Bopanna and Yukti Arora were the first runners-up and Kevin Almasifar and Moose Jattana were 2nd runners-up.


Format

Unlike previous seasons, Season 18 had Ex-Roadies and Debutant Roadies competing against each other in ''Buddy Pairs''.
Bikes were introduced again as journey vehicle. A special currency ''Roadiums'' were also introduced which will help the Roadies in the journey. There were tasks, vote outs, vote ins, immunity, eliminations, wildcards and various twists.


Roadies

:: ''Roadies in chronological order of their introduction.''


Journey overview

The journey started with Ex-Roadies having a welcome meal and meeting other Ex-Roadies in Amakhala Game Reserve Location.
The debutee Roadies were welcomed by Francois Van Niekerk (Local Guide) at the
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giving them the first scroll, which gave them the ''Welcome Task''.


Welcome Task!

Before this Task, the new Roadies had to divide themselves into 3 teams, each team were given a clue to solve leading to the next clue. After the Task, debutee Roadies reached Amakhala Game Reserve Location and meet the ex-roadies.


Buddy Pairs Twist

Each pair needed to have 1 new roadie and 1 ex-roadie. The new roadies had to impress the ex-roadies by auditioning process. There was also a condition that one 'buddy' from a pair should have known riding. Later, ''Sonu Sood'' entered and finalized the buddy pairs And also introduced to a new point system called "Roadium", which will help the roadies in the game.


First Task: Rugby In Water

This task were played in 2 teams with 5 buddy pairs on each team, playing a water version of rugby. The team with most goals will win and earn immunity and Roadiums. Team Loyalty won and received 2 immunity for any 2 pairs & 3000 Roadiums for 3 other pairs. ''Arushi C & Arshvir'' and ''Sohil & Simi'' took the immunity. Later in the first Vote-out, ''Sapna & Angad'' and ''Kavya & Sidharth'' received the highest number of votes, but they received an opportunity to return back to the back by winning the Survival Task. The first buddy pair with 5000 Roadiums will be safe, these Roadiums can be earned by winning the task or getting it from fellow Roadies.


Second Task: Recuse Adventure

This task were played in 2 teams with voted-out buddy pair as Captains and 4 safe buddy pairs on each team. At each checkpoint in the adventure they will earn 1500 Roadiums. ''Kavya & Sidharth'' received 5000 Roadiums and were safe. ''Sapna & Angad'' failed to receive 5000 Roadiums and were eliminated.


Third Task: Rug Rug Mein Rugby

''Sonu Sood'' introduced The Greater Wall of Africa Rugby Team. This task was played in 2 teams with 4 buddy pairs on each team, playing rugby. The team with most goals will win and earn immunity and Roadiums. Before the Task, 1 buddy pair had to sit-out and not compete in this Task. This was decided by a kick off game. ''Yukti & Nandini'' lost it and didn't compete with any team. Team Boom Bruh won and received 2 immunity for 2 pairs & 1000 Roadiums for 2 other pairs each. ''Arushi C & Arshvir'' and ''Kevin & Soundous'' took the immunity.


Fourth Task: Coin Switch Surf-fari

Only non-immune buddy pairs compete in this task, one of them had to surf and other had to invest Roadiums on their performance. ''Yukti & Nandini'' got 5 times their investment, ''Gaurav & Moose'' got double their investment, ''Kavya & Sidharth'' got to keep their investment and all others lost their invested Roadiums. ''Gaurav & Moose'' borrowed Roadiums from other buddy pairs, they used 4000 Roadiums and earned immunity.''Gaurav & Moose'' took the immunity. Later in the second Vote-out, ''Aarushi D & Tanish'' received the highest number of votes and were voted-out.


Fifth Task: Rowing Adventure

This task were played in 2 teams with buddy pairs with highest Roadiums as Captains and 3 other buddy pairs on each team. The winning team will earn immunity and Roadiums. Riddles at each Checkpoint forming a final code to open the chest. Team B won and received 1 immunity for 1 pair & 1000 Roadiums for 3 other pairs each. ''Ashish & Sakshi'' took the immunity.


Sixth Task: Get! Set! Fly!

Before the Task, all buddy pairs except for ''Ashish & Sakshi'' took part in an African Dance, where the locals choose the order on who was doing the best. ''Arushi C & Arshvir'' were not chosen and therefore, had to stay back at the campsite. Each buddy pair had to Bungee Jump from Bloukrans Bridge which is 216m (708 Ft) and memorize a set of animal statues and rearrange it after bungee jumping. ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' won immunity and a special power to give a Roadie. They gave it to ''Nandini''. ''Sohil & Simi'' and ''Gaurav & Moose'' received 500 Roadiums. Later in the third Vote-out, ''Ashish & Sakshi'' and ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' had the power to mutually choose one buddy pair to be immune. They chose ''Arushi C & Arshvir''. ''Gaurav & Moose'' received the highest number of votes and were voted-out.


Seventh Task: Sand Dunk

Before the Task, all buddy pairs took part in solving a crossword puzzle. Once solved they moved on to the task site. Two buddy pairs faced-off in sand boarding and had to collect flags. The buddy pair in each round will move on to Stage 2. Each buddy pair had 3 balls (2 basket balls & 1 golden basket ball) had to shoot making a goal earning points. ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' won immunity.


Eighth Task: Nach na is Nicena

Each buddy pair had to perform a bollywood dance number in front of the African public and actor ''Edrien Erasmus'' as judge. ''Ashish & Sakshi'' won immunity. ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' and ''Ashish & Sakshi'' went on a boat sail to relax and enjoy South Africa. Later in the fourth Vote-out, ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' and ''Ashish & Sakshi'' had the power to each choose one buddy pair to be safe, which will be revealed after votes are counted. They chose ''Kevin & Soundous'' and ''Sohil & Simi'' respectively and all vote against them were cancelled. ''Yukti & Nandini'' received the highest number of votes and were voted-out, but they received an opportunity to return back if they get all Roadiums from 3 buddy pairs. They received all Roadiums from ''Sohil & Simi, Ashish & Sakshi'' and ''Kevin & Soundous'' and ''Yukti & Nandini'' were safe, therefore all these buddy pairs now had 0 Roadiums.


Ninth Task: Aata Maze Satakli

This task was played in 2 teams with buddy pairs with highest Roadiums as Captains and 3 other buddy pairs on each team. The winning team will earn immunity and Roadiums. Before the Task, 1 buddy pair not chosen by Captains will not compete in this Task. ''Sohil & Simi'' were not chosen and didn't get to compete. ''Kevin & Soundous'' took immunity. ''Arushi C & Arshvir'' and ''Ashish & Sakshi'' received 1000 Roadiums.


Tenth Task: Andaaz Apna Apna

Each buddy pair had to feed
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, get a code from the bottom of the bowl. Then move to the next checkpoint, collect 4 eggs and drink an Ostrich egg. ''Kavya & Sidharth'' won immunity. ''Yukti & Nandini'' received 1000 Roadiums. ''Kevin & Soundous'' got 500 Roadiums for ''Soundous'' drinking Ostrich egg. Later in the fifth Vote-out, ''Sohil & Simmi'' received the highest number of votes to vote-out but ''Arushi C & Arsh'' received least votes to save and were voted-out.


Eleventh Task: Gufa mai Guftagoo

Each buddy pair had a different clue to go to the location of the task. This task were played in 2 teams with the buddy pair who reached to the task location the fastest got to choose 2 other buddy pairs to be on their team. The winning team will earn immunity and Roadiums. ''Ashish & Sakshi'' won immunity. ''Yukti & Nandini'' were directly in danger zone. ''Sapna & Angad'' and ''Aarushi D & Tanish'' returned back to the game. At a surprise vote-out, Roadies were not voting-out instead were voting for one buddy pair to be in danger zone with ''Yukti & Nandini''. ''Sapna & Angad'' received the highest number of votes but were in danger zone.


Twelfth Task: Chal Putle

This task were played by 2 danger zone buddy pairs and 1 safe buddy pairs to support them. They had to collect mannequins and deliver them. ''Yukti & Nandini'' won and were safe and ''Sapna & Angad'' lost and were eliminated.


Thirteenth Task: Zindagi Na Milegi Gu-bara

As ''Kevin'' and ''Tanish'' were sick and didn't go to the task location. Therefore, ''Aarushi D'' and ''Soundous'' were a buddy pair for this task. This task buddy pairs had to collect elephant dung and had to eat an elephant's favorite rice ball. ''Ashish & Sakshi'' won immunity. ''Sohil & Simi'' got 500 Roadiums for ''Simi'' drinking elephant dung juice.


Fourteenth Task: Cl-uff Hanger

For this task also, ''Aarushi D'' and ''Soundous'' were a buddy pair for this task. This task buddy pairs had to collect gem stones as they abseil down a waterfall from the cliff. ''Baseer & Jaswanth'' won immunity. ''Aarushi D & Soundous'' received 1000 Roadiums (500 Roadiums each). And ''Kevin'' and ''Tanish'' were feeling better and joined back in the journey.


Biding for Immunity

Buddy pairs got a chance to bid their Roadiums to get immunity. ''Kevin & Soundous'' got immunity for 3100 Roadiums. Later in the seventh Vote-out, Roadies had to vote-out one Ex-Roadie and one New Roadie, not needed to be a buddy pair. ''Tanish'' from New Roadies and ''Kavya'' from Ex-Roadies received the highest number of votes and were voted-out.


Buddy Pairs Resuffle

The current buddy pairs had the chance to resuffle their pairs. Each pair still needed to have 1 new roadie & 1 ex-roadie. ''Gaurav & Moose'' and ''Arushi C & Arshvir'' were back in the game and couldn't be paired-up as buddy pair again. Roadies were unable to come to a conclusion and therefore, were paired up by ''Sonu Sood''.


Fifteenth Task: Bum-chiki-chiki-bum

''Baseer & Soundous'' didn't agree with the new buddy pairing and decided not to compete. This task buddy pairs had to ride bicycles through a circuit doing stunts. Each buddy pair who performed the stunt and got the advantage, each received 500 Roadiums. ''Ashish & Nandini'' won immunity. ''Sohil & Sidharth'' received 1000 Roadiums.


Sixteenth Task: Barrel ki Barfi

Each buddy pair had to convert an English word into a Hindi word, to go to the task location. ''Gaurav & Simi'' received 500 Roadiums for correctly anserwing the most words. This task was played in 2 teams with the buddy pair who came in 1st and 2nd place choosing 2 other buddy pairs to be on their team. The winning team will win 2 immunities and Roadiums. ''Arushi C & Sakshi'' were not chosen to be in any of the teams and did not compete. ''Sohil & Sidharth'' and ''Baseer & Soundous'' won immunity. ''Kevin & Moose'' received 1000 Roadiums. Later in the eighth Vote-out, Roadies had to vote-out one buddy pair. ''Arushi C & Sakshi'' received the highest number of votes and were voted-out.


Seventeenth Task: Tai - Tai Fish

Before the Task each buddy pair received 500 Roadiums. In Part-1 of the task buddy pairs had to bid for box filled with fish. And in Part-2 they had to segregate and pack the fishes. ''Ashish & Nandini'' won immunity and received 500 Roadiums. ''Kevin & Moose'' won immunity. ''Aarushi D & Jaswanth'' received 1000 Roadiums.


Fun Task: Hoop Hoop Hurray!

This was a fun task to earn Roadiums.


Eighteenth Task: Ball Baby Ball

This task was played in 2 teams with the 2 immune buddy pair as captains. ke beech ''Yukti & Arshvir'' were not chosen to be in any of the team and did not compete. ''Ashish & Nandini'' received 1000 Roadiums. Aarushi D & Jaswanth got immunity and Sohil & Sidharth got 500 Roadiums. Later in the ninth Vote-out, only 1 Roadie from each buddy pairs could vote on behalf of themselves & on behalf of their buddy pair. Buddy pairs with at least 1 vote against them were in danger zone, but they had to guess which buddy pairs have vote for them. Based on the correct guesses, those votes were cancelled. All buddy pairs guessed it correct, and as ''Baseer & Soundous'' received highest votes they were voted-out.


Eighteenth Task: Beach ke beech mai

This task was played in 2 teams with buddy pairs with highest Roadiums as Captains and 3 other buddy pairs on each team. The winning team will earn immunity and Roadiums. The entire winning team won immunity - ''Ashish & Nandini, Kevin & Moose'' and ''Gaurav & Simi.''


Nineteenth Task: Hai Hooku Hai Hooku Hai Hai

Before the task, there was a surprise open Vote-out, Roadies had to vote-out one Ex-Roadie and one New Roadie, not needed to be a buddy pair. ''Arshvir'' from New Roadies and ''Aarushi D'' from Ex-Roadies received the highest number of votes and were voted-out. ''Yukti & Jaswanth'' became the new buddy pair. In this task, buddy pairs had to sky-dive and memorize a series to solve the puzzle on the ground. The last placed buddy pair will get eliminated. ''Kevin & Moose'' won the task and received an advantage "Ticket to Finale". ''Sohil & Sidharth'' lost the task and were eliminated.


Twentieth Task: Roadies da Dhaba

In this task, buddy pairs had to cook for the
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public and Chef Leroux Botha and sell. ''Gaurav & Simi'' won the task and received an advantage in the next task.


Twenty-First Task: Main Nikla Quad-i Lekar

The Roadies reach the Atlantis Dunes for this Semi-Finale Task involving Quad biking. ''Gaurav & Simi'' got a one-minute advantage for winning the previous task. The losing buddy pair will get eliminated. ''Ashish & Nandini'' and ''Yukti & Jaswanth'' won the task and became Finalists. ''Gaurav & Simi'' lost the task and were eliminated.


Twenty-Second Task: Finale Task

Before the Task, all eliminated and voted-out Roadies returned to support the finalists. Each buddy pair had an amount of Roadiums set to invest on Roadies, the finalist buddy pairs had to spend & take their support in the task. Roadiums could also be used for a time advantage of 15 seconds for 500 Roadiums. ''Ashish and Nandini'' won and became the winners of Roadies: Journey to South Africa.


Roadium Score Board


Vote Out Order

: indicates Ex Roadies : indicates New Roadies : indicates Winner(s) : indicates 1st Runner Up(s) : indicates 2nd Runner Up(s)


Notes


Voting History


Notes


References

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External links


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