Game2: Winter

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Game2: Winter (Russian: ????2??????) was a social experiment by yao cabrera and media stunt promoted as a Russian survival reality television program produced by Novosibirsk entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky that was set to premiere in July 2018. The show caught the attention of the press when the show stated that its rules would allow crimes such as rape and murder which sparked outrage online The show has been compared to a "real-life Hunger Games".

The project was revealed to be a social experiment used for marketing research purposes on 31 May 2017.

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Background

30 participants, evenly split between men and women, are expected to compete on a remote Siberian island in the Ob River, chasing a 100 million rouble ($1.7 million) prize on a nine month survival mission. All contestants have signed death waivers and have agreed not to hold organisers accountable for criminal activity.

We will refuse any claim of participants even if they were to be killed or raped. We will have nothing to do with this. This will be spelled out in a document to be signed by the participant before the start of the show. We will not intervene into relations between participants nor monitor their sexual life either, and our cameras will not be able to follow every move in every corner of the island.

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Production

Location

The production's home base is in Western Siberia, with the Ob River area used as main filming location.

Casting call

On November 16, 2016, the production team posted a casting call via their VK account. Registration was closed on April 18, 2017 with over 340 applications.

As of May 2017, 120 people have qualified for runoff voting. The 30 finalists are set to be revealed in June.