Simon Quintilla is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Palawan.
Profile[]
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Simon est un jeune papa âgé de 26 ans qui carbure à l'amour de sa femme et de sa fille. Le désir de sport et l'amour de la nature l'ont poussé à s'inscrire à l'aventure Koh-Lanta.
Koh-Lanta[]
Simon was selected by Jade Handi to be a member of the Batang tribe. On the second day, Simon tasted a plant that looked similar to a cassava, but this plant turned out to be inedible and he developed swelling in his mouth. Fortunately, Simon was cleared to continue competing by the medic and was given a pill by the medic for his swelling. When Ali Jaffar quit the game on Day 5, Pascale Bodin returned to the game in his place. Pascale failed to integrate herself into the well-unified Batang tribe and, when they lost the second Immunity Challenge, she was voted out unanimously. In the third cycle, Simon faced another health issue, feeling lethargic and fatigued, which was the reason for Marie-Laure Dagniaux voting for him at the corresponding Tribal Council. However, the latter was eliminated unanimously for her laziness around camp.
When the Batang tribe won the fourth Reward Challenge on Day 11, they were rewarded with the right to permanently kidnap one of the members of the Guntao tribe as part of a tribe switch. The Batang tribe chose Érick Africaa, who up until then was the leader of the Guntao tribe. Like Pascale before him, Érick initially had difficulty integrating himself into the Batang tribe, however, his strength in challenges and his charismatic demeanour soon boosted his rapport with his new tribemates and more of them felt that he deserved to stay. Érick especially formed a friendship with Simon. Before the fourth Immunity Challenge, which the Batang tribe would end up losing, Simon suffered yet another health issue, this time a headache, and was temporarily evacuated from the game. Simon, therefore, was absent from the fourth Immunity Challenge and, upon returning to camp the day of Tribal Council, was concerned that he might be voted out next for his recent health issues. However, he didn't receive a single vote that night and joined the majority in voting out Mélanie Guyon for her mediocre challenge performances over the past few cycles. Going forward, the Batang tribe did not lose any more Immunity Challenges and its six members made the merge.
Before the tribes merged, the Batang tribe assigned Patrick Brasier De Thuy as their Ambassador and, before going to meet the Guntao tribe's Ambassador Laurent Boudes, Patrick asked his tribemates who they would want to be the Ambassadors' vote. All of the tribe agreed upon Grégoire Delachaux as their first pick because of his challenge prowess and poor sportsmanship during tribal challenges, with the exception of Érick due to his amity with Grégoire. At the Ambassadors' Meeting, when Laurent turned down Patrick's suggestion about Grégoire being the Ambassadors' vote, Patrick suggested Érick, who turned out to be the Batang tribe's second pick. Laurent was initially reluctant about this, but he was swayed when Patrick told him that Érick was "neither a Batang nor a Guntao" and that Laurent was Érick's first pick for the Ambassadors' vote. The evening after the tribes merged, when Érick learned why Laurent agreed upon his name, he told Laurent that Patrick was not telling the truth and that Kevin Cuoco Giudicelli was his first pick. In response to Patrick's duplicity, the original Guntao tribe members planned to vote him out at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council for his duplicity and tried to convince Maryline Hemelsdael and Simon to vote in a different direction than Érick. However, after Érick lost the first individual Immunity Challenge, Maryline and Simon remained loyal to the original Batang tribe members and sorrowfully contributed to eliminating Érick in a 6-5 vote.
The next day, Filomène Mendonca criticized Maryline and Simon for voting against Érick and claimed that they weren't honest about it. However, even her own allies, along with the original Batang tribe members, criticized this as being unfair. Over the next few cycles, Simon contributed to the pagonging of the original Guntao tribe members.
At the Final Six, Patrick won the corresponding individual Immunity Challenge. Two days before the corresponding Tribal Council, the tribe received a letter which revealed that their letters from home were on a neighbouring island. They built a small raft and the they sent Laurent and Simon to retrieve the letters. Upon arriving on this island, Laurent and Simon discovered that it was bountiful in bananas and spent the night there before finding the letters the next morning. After reading their letters, they returned to camp without their tribemates' letters. This was because the pair proposed to their tribe that they all enlarge the raft and permanently move to the island where the letters are. At Tribal Council, Laurent, the last of the original Guntao tribe members, was voted out unanimously. At the Final Five, Simon won individual immunity and he and Maryline voted against Patrick at the corresponding Tribal Council because of Patrick's poor sportsmanship towards Maryline after he lost the most recent Reward Challenge. Meanwhile, Patrick and Kevin voted against Maryline because they felt that she was the least deserving of the five remaining contestants to continue. Jade, who was in the middle, initially voted against Kevin, which led to the first revote ever in Koh-Lanta taking place. Being forced to pick a side in the revote, Jade sorrowfully voted against Patrick as she knew that he would be her biggest threat.
Having made it to the finale, Simon was eliminated at the Final Four after losing the Orientation challenge.
Voting History[]
| Episode | Simon's Votes |
Voted Against Simon |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batang Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Pascale | - |
| 3 | Marie-Laure | Marie-Laure |
| 4 | Mélanie | - |
| 5 | Batang Tribe Immune | |
| 6 | Batang Tribe Immune | |
| 7 | Érick | - |
| 8 | Filomène | - |
| 9 | Grégoire | - |
| 10 | Grégoire | - |
| 11 | Laurent | - |
| 12 | Patrick; Patrick1 |
Individual Immunity |
| 13 | Lost Challenge2 | |
| Eliminated, Day 38 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Jade | |
^2 At the final four, the remaining castaways competed in an elimination challenge. Simon came in last and was eliminated.
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