MTV Roadies (season 10)

MTV Roadies X : Battle for Glory is the tenth season of MTV Roadies, a reality television show aired on MTV India. The auditions started on 31 October 2012 and were held in Pune, Delhi, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. The show started airing on MTV India from 19 January 2013 with new episodes airing every Saturday at 7:00 pm IST.

MTV Roadies
Season 10
Presented by	Bani J
Judges	Raghu Ram Rajiv Laxman Rannvijay Singh
No. of contestants	16
Winner	Palak Johal
Runner-up	Ramandeep Kaur
Country of origin	India
No. of episodes	17
Release
Original network	MTV India
Original release	19 January (2013-01-19) – 11 May 2013 (2013-05-11)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 9 Next → Season 11

The series was won by veteran roadie Palak Johal, originally from Season 6, of Team Raghu.^[1] She won the title on 11 May 2013. Her grand price included a total cash price of ₹ 450,000, a Hero Impulse bike and an HP laptop.^[2]

Format

For the tenth season, the show changed its format. The contestants were divided into two teams - Rannvijay's team composed of participants selected in the audition, and Raghu's team composed of contestants who appeared on previous versions of the series. 16 ex-roadies were shortlisted with the list released on the show's official Facebook page and Twitter account consisting of Nihal Nikam, Roopali Anand, Anmol Singh, Avtar Nischal, Renee Dhyani, Kanak Raju, Anirudh Sharma, Palak Johal, Diyali Chauhan, Mohit Saggar, Devarshi Patel, Tamanna Sharma, Suchit Singh, Pooja Bannerjee, Roop Bhinder and Shambhavi Sharma. After surviving periodic cuts 8 roadies emerged to join the official list of contestants. A new format for elimination was also adopted where the contestant(s), getting the most votes in a vote-out, from either team are sent to battle each other or opponents from the opposing team. The loser is consequently ousted from the show.

The season's theme song is "Jajabor" - a collaboration between singer Papon and Raghu, and sung in Assamese and Hindi.^[3]

Destination

India – Auditions, Episode 1 – 10, Finale

Roadies' selection

The auditions started on 31 October 2012 in Pune,^[4] followed with auditions in Delhi (4 November 2012),^[5] Chandigarh (17 November 2012)^[6] and Hyderabad (20 November 2012).^[7]

Newcomers

Venue of Audition	Roadies
Pune	Jahid Kalim
Chandigarh	Geetika Budhiraja
Hyderabad	Gaurav Singh
Delhi	Vikas Kumar	Sonal Sharma	Ramandeep Kaur Dhillon	Swati Goswami	Harmeet Singh

Veterans

Original Season	Roadies	Previous Finish
MTV Roadies 4	Roopali Anand	6th Place
MTV Roadies 6	Palak Johal	3rd Place
	Roop Bhinder	13th Place
MTV Roadies 8	Suchit Vikram Singh	2nd Runner-up
	Mohit Saggar	Runner-up
	Avtar Nischal	12th Place
MTV Roadies 9	Anirudh Sharma	13th Place
	Diyali Chauhan	9th Place

Overall Count:

Female Contestants = 8

Male Contestants = 8

Contestants

There were sixteen contestants overall.

Contestant	Original Team	Switched Team	Finish	Total Votes
Palak Johal Bangalore, Karnataka	Raghu	Raghu	Winner	1
Ramandeep Kaur Dhillon New Delhi, Delhi	Rannvijay	Rannvijay	Runner-up	5
Mohit Saggar Chandigarh, Punjab	Raghu	Raghu	Eliminated in Finale	7
Anirudh Sharma Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh	Raghu	Rannvijay	Eliminated in Finale	4
Gaurav Singh Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh	Rannvijay	Rannvijay	Eliminated in Semifinal	8
Sonal Sharma New Delhi, Delhi	Rannvijay	Rannvijay	Eliminated in Semifinal	5
Harmeet Singh New Delhi, Delhi	Rannvijay	Raghu	Eliminated in Episode 10	6
Swati Goswami New Delhi, Delhi	Rannvijay	Raghu	Eliminated in Episode 9	7
Suchit Vikram Singh New Delhi, Delhi	Raghu	Raghu	Eliminated in Episode 8	4
Roopali Anand New Delhi, Delhi	Raghu	Rannvijay	Eliminated in Episode 8	4
Roop Bhinder New Delhi, Delhi	Raghu		Eliminated in Episode 6	9
Geetika Budhiraja Chandigarh, Punjab	Rannvijay		Eliminated in Episode 6	11
Avtar Nischal New Delhi, Delhi	Raghu		Forfeited in Episode 5	6
Vikas Kumar Delhi, Uttar Pradesh	Rannvijay		Eliminated in Episode 3	3
Diyali Chauhan Delhi, Uttar Pradesh	Raghu		Eliminated in Episode 2	5
Jahid Kalim Pune, Maharashtra	Rannvijay		Eliminated in Episode 2	7

The Total Votes is the number of votes a roadie has received during Vote-outs where the roadie is eligible to be eliminated from the game. It does not include the votes received during the finale where the finalists are voted for the win.

The Journey

Episode 1 - Delhi → Kohima

The episode began with the introduction of all the roadies of Ranvijay's Team in traditional Nagaland custom who were selected for the journey .One by the one all the roadies were introduced with flashbacks from their PI's which told whats the reason for their selection, whats their personality like and what would be their future in Ranvijays team. He introduced the winner of roadies battleground 5 Abhimanyu and told him to challenge anyone to swap with his position in the team he picked Gaurav and he lost to Gaurav and had to leave the show . team remains unchanged . Raghu makes a surprise entry and introduces his team and the initial reaction of ranvijay's team was that they were pretty impressed by opposition. Back at hotel Raghu team since were seniors and EX-ROADIES plans a ragging attempt which backfires and ends in an argument between the contestants of the Raghu team. The second day begins with both teams entering to a task locations. The task turns out to be a Money task in which 50,000 would get added into the winner teams account. Raghu's team agreed to perform first and they finished at a score of 255 .Ranvijay team completed the task with 2 penalties therefore 20% was reduced from there score but they still surprised everyone by winning the task with just 1 pt extra that is 256 the original score being 320. The Raghu team seemed surprised that they ending up being losers at their first task. Raghu told them their overconfidence and lack of co-ordination was the main reason for the loss. At night both team were surprised when the heard the arrival of a common roadies prop the Black box.

Episode 2 - Kohima

• Most votes : Geetika and Jahid; Mohit and Diyali
• Sent to elimination challenge: Geetika and Mohit; Jahid and Diyali
• Eliminated : Jahid and Diyali

Episode 3 - Kohima → Mokokchung

Money Task
Girls from either team competed against each other. Geetika from Rannvijay's team sat out of the challenge to balance competitors on both sides.

• Results:

Round	Opponents	Winner
1	Swati - Roop	Swati
2	Swati - Roop	Swati
3	Swati - Roopali	Swati
4	Swati - Roopali	Swati
5	Swati - Palak	Palak
6	Swati - Palak	Palak
7	Sonal - Palak	Palak
8	Sonal - Palak	Palak
9	Ramandeep - Palak	Palak
10	Ramandeep - Palak	Ramandeep
11	Ramandeep - Palak	Palak
Team Raghu

Immunity Task
Boys from both teams competed against each other. Avtar from Raghu's team sat out of the challenge to balance competitors on both sides.

• Results:

Round	Opponents	Winner
1	Gaurav - Mohit	Mohit
2	Gaurav - Mohit	Mohit
3	Vikas - Mohit	Mohit
4	Vikas - Mohit	Mohit
5	Harry - Mohit	Mohit
6	Harry - Mohit	Mohit
Team Raghu

• Most votes : Sonal and Vikas
• Sent to elimination challenge: Ramandeep and Vikas
• Eliminated : Vikas

Episode 4 - Mokokchung → Jorhat

Money Task
The task involved a spinwheel labeled with Strip, Brazilian wax, Enema and Paint ball shot. The contestants were given a quiz, and with every wrong answer one of the boys would have the penalty of one of the tasks from the spinwheel.

Question	Correct answer	Misfortune	Scapegoat
1	Sonal	Paint ball Shot	Anirudh
2	Roopali	Paint ball Shot	Harry
3	Roopali	Brazilian wax	Gaurav
4	Sonal	Strip	Mohit
5	None	Enema	Harry, Avatar
6	None	Brazilian wax	Suchit
7	None	Strip	Harry
8	None	Paint ball shot	Suchit, Gaurav
9	Roopali	None
Team Raghu

• Voluntary entered the casket: Sonal; Palak

Episode 5 - Jorhat

• Most votes : Geetika; Roop
• Sent to elimination challenge: Sonal and Geetika; Roop and Palak
• Eliminated : Geetika
• Withdrew : Avtar

Episode 6 - Jorhat → Tezpur

Money Task
Girls from either team were pitted against each other in a boxing challenge where each winner from a pairing would win ₹ 50,000 for her team and the overall best performer a Hero Impulse Bike.

• Results:

Opponents	Score	Winner
Sonal – Roopali	8 – 15	Roopali
Ramandeep – Roop	26 – 4	Ramandeep
Swati – Palak	14 – 9	Swati
Team Rannvijay - ₹ 100,000
Team Raghu - ₹ 50,000
Best Performer - Ramandeep

• Most votes : Roop and Anirudh
• Sent to elimination challenge: Roop and Anirudh
• Eliminated : Roop

Episode 7 - Tezpur → Bhalukpung

Captaincy Challenge
The winners of the captaincy challenge was given the power to choose a new team Raghu and Rannvijay.
Sonal from Team Rannvijay and Suchit from Team Raghu won their respective challenge.

• Team Swap:

New Team Raghu : Suchit, Mohit, Palak, Harmeet and Swati

New Team Rannvijay: Sonal, Gaurav, Ramandeep, Roopali and Anirudh

Episode 8 - Bhalukpung

Money Task

The possession of the respective accumulated money by either team was decided. The team captains guessed the how many arrows their teammates could fire into a sand sack; the captain who guessed the closest would take the larger lot of money regardless of the initial team who collected it.

Team	Hits	Guess	Difference
Rannvijay	18	48	30
Raghu	15	45	30
Team Raghu

Coincidentally both team gained equal points. Therefore, the possession of accumulated money was then decided by successful number of hit on the sand sack by each captain out of best of 5 shots. Suchit hit the target first three shots successfully, however Sonal was unable to manage even one. Consequently, Raghu team managed to collect the bigger lot of money.

• Most votes : Roopali and Gaurav; Mohit and Suchit
• Sent to elimination challenge: Roopali and Suchit; Mohit and Gaurav
• Eliminated : Roopali and Suchit

Episode 9 - Bhalukpung → Bomdila

Money Task

Team	Contestant	Fill	Place
Raghu	Swati	7 cm	4th
	Palak	67 cm	2nd
	Harry	45 cm	3rd
	Mohit	88 cm	Winner
Rannvijay	Gaurav	65 cm	2nd
	Sonal	22 cm	3rd
	Ramandeep	12 cm	4th
	Anirudh	83 cm	Winner
Team Raghu

• Most votes : Ramandeep and Swati
• Sent to elimination challenge: Ramandeep and Swati
• Eliminated : Swati

Episode 10 - Bomdila → Tawang

Tawang, being the final destination for journey, brings the last elimination before the finale. For this a "shopping" task is given to the roadies; and to balance teams, Ramandeep from team Ranvijay sits out due to a 3-1 vote against her for participating in this task. Surprisingly, she gets immunity right away and becomes the first contestant to make it to the finale. For the task, contestant from each team are required to obtain as valuable commodities as possible from the money given. [Money Task, 1.5L] Also, they are required to complete their tasks and meet their respective mentors (Raghu and Ranvijay) as soon as possible. [Immunity Task] Team Ranvijay wins both these tasks, and subsequently gets immune to reach the finale. In the vote-out, contestants Harry, Mohit and Palak are required to suggest the contestant who won't go to the battle for elimination, and would automatically qualify for the finale. Palak wins this vote out. In the battle, Harry and Mohit compete against each other in the task similar to roadies 6 finale. Harry gets eliminated, and Mohit joins Palak in team Raghu for the finale.

• Most votes : Harry and Mohit
• Sent to elimination challenge: Harry and Mohit
• Eliminated : Harry

Episode 11 -Semifinal

The final 6 finalists meet again for finale but first they will 1st meet the old contestants who they have dumped so far to reach finale. Ranvijay decides to nominate two players from his team by a game known as chess boxing: 4 finalists will be divided into the team of two. Raman chooses no-one, Anirudh chooses Sonal, Sonal chooses Gaurav, Gaurav chooses Sonal, so making the final team like this Anirudh-Raman, Gaurav-Sonal. For the task girls will start with a chess and simultaneously boys will fight a boxing match in a ring, each move in a chess will consist of 20 sec. otherwise the player will miss a turn, to win the task either one should knock out the opponent in boxing first or check-mate the other player in chess, game will be timed for 2 min., after 2 min, boys will play chess and girls boxing. Sonal and Gaurav lost the task and got eliminated while Anirudh and Raman qualified for the next level.

• Sent to elimination challenge: Anirudh and Ramandeep; Sonal and Gaurav
• Eliminated : Sonal and Gaurav

Episode 12 - Finale

Palak, Raman, Mohit and Anirudh met for their finale task. The contenders are teamed up with their dream competitors as called out by them in the finale part 1 episode. Mohit and Anirudh are one team and Palak With Raman are one team. The team task is for one member to fetch 10 glasses of honey climbing a rope one at a time within 5 minutes, while the other tastes a very spicy chili from northeastern part of India. As an advantage to the female team members, the male team has to carry 10 kg extra weight while they climb the rope to fetch the glass of honey. Mohit fetched 6 glasses of honey after Anirudh ate the chili. Where as Palak fetches 8 glasses after Raman ate the chilli on her team and Wins the task thus Raman and Palak enter the Final finale task.

The final task between Palak and Raman is a time task to fetch a hammer at the bottom of a water tank without breathing and hit the gong above the water tank, they are also chained and the keys are at the bottom of the tank. Raman reveals that she is aqua-phobic but still continues the task and completes it. Palak completes the task faster than Ramandeep and is announced the winner.

• Eliminated: Anirudh and Mohit; Ramandeep
• Winner: Palak

The Game

Key:

  Team Rannvijay

  Team Raghu

Journey

Episode	Air date	Grant		Vote-out		Outcome	Saved	Eliminated
		Money	Immunity	Result	Vote
1	23 February 2013	+ ₹ 50,000	None
2	2 March 2013	+ ₹ 50,000	Gaurav, Swati	Geetika, Jahid	7–5–3–1	Sent to battle opponent(s) in an elimination challenge where the loser is ousted from the show	Geetika, Mohit	Jahid
		+ ₹ 25,000	Anirudh, Roopali	Diyali, Mohit	5–4–3–2–1–1			Diyali
3	9 March 2013	+ ₹ 50,000	Team Raghu	Sonal, Ramandeep, Vikas	3–3–2–2–2–1–1		Ramandeep	Vikas
4	16 March 2013	+ ₹ 100,000	Suchit	None		One member from each team voluntarily entered the casket to be sent to the battle directly	None
		– ₹ 50,000
		+ ₹ 50,000	Swati
5	23 March 2013	None		Geetika, Sonal	5	Sent to battle opponent(s) in an elimination challenge where the loser is ousted from the show	Sonal	Geetika
				Palak, Roop	3–3		Palak, Roop	Avtar^2
6	30 March 2013	+ ₹ 100,000	Team Rannvijay	Anirudh, Roop	3–2–1		Anirudh	Roop
		+ ₹ 50,000
7	6 April 2013	Team Swap
8	13 April 2013	Money Switch		Gaurav, Roopali	3–3–2–1–1	Sent to battle opponent(s) in an elimination challenge where the loser is ousted from the show	Gaurav, Mohit	Roopali
				Mohit, Suchit	3–3–2–2			Suchit
9	20 April 2013	+ ₹ 200,000	Mohit, Palak	Swati	3–1		Ramandeep	Swati
		+ ₹ 100,000	Anirudh, Gaurav	Ramandeep	3–1
10	27 April 2013	+ ₹ 150,000	Team Rannvijay	Harry, Mohit	2–1		Mohit	Harry

Finale

Episode	Air date	Opponents		Outcome	Eliminated
11	4 May 2013	Anirudh, Ramandeep	Gaurav, Sonal	Battled each other for a place in Finale	Gaurav, Sonal
12	11 May 2013	Palak	Mohit		Mohit
		Anirudh	Ramandeep		Anirudh
		Ramandeep	Palak		Ramandeep
Winner – Palak

Team Rannvijay	Team Raghu
₹ 425,000	₹ 450,000

Voting History

	1	2^1	3	4	5	6	7	Semifinal	Finale
Roadies voted to:	Nominate						Save
Palak	Diyali, Mohit	Not eligible	Roop	Roopali	Suchit, Mohit	Swati	Mohit	Finalist	Won Battle	Winner
Ramandeep	Geetika, Jahid	Gaurav, Sonal	Geetika	Not eligible	Anirudh, Roopali	Sonal	Not eligible	Won Battle	Won Battle	Runner-up
Mohit	Diyali, Avtar	Not eligible	Avtar	Anirudh	Swati, Harry	Swati	Palak	Finalist	Lost Battle	Eliminated
Anirudh	Roop, Mohit	Not eligible	Roop	Roop	Ramandeep, Gaurav	Ramandeep	Not eligible	Won Battle	Lost Battle	Eliminated
Sonal	Geetika, Jahid	Geetika, Vikas	Not eligible	Not eligible	Roopali, Gaurav	Ramandeep	Not eligible	Lost Battle	Eliminated
Gaurav	Jahid, Geetika	Harry, Vikas	Geetika	Not eligible	Roopali, Anirudh	Ramandeep	Not eligible	Lost Battle	Eliminated
Harry	Jahid, Geetika	Swati, Gaurav	Geetika	Not eligible	Suchit, Mohit	Swati	Palak	Eliminated
Swati	Geetika, Jahid	Ramandeep, Vikas	Geetika	Not eligible	Suchit, Mohit	Harry	Eliminated
Suchit	Diyali, Avtar	Not eligible	Avtar	Roop	Swati, Harry	Eliminated
Roopali	Roop, Mohit	Not eligible	Roop	Roop	Gaurav, Sonal	Eliminated
Roop	Diyali, Avtar	Not eligible	Avtar	Anirudh	Eliminated
Geetika	Sonal, Jahid	Harry, Sonal	Geetika	Eliminated
Avtar	Diyali, Suchit	Not eligible	Roop	Withdrew
Vikas	Sonal, Jahid	Swati, Sonal	Eliminated
Diyali	Palak, Mohit	Eliminated
Jahid	Harry, Sonal	Eliminated
Immune	Anirudh, Gaurav, Roopali, Swati	Team Raghu	Palak, Sonal, Suchit, Swati	Team Rannvijay	none	Anirudh, Gaurav, Mohit, Palak	Team Rannvijay	Mohit, Palak	none
Withdrew	none		Avtar^2	none
Result	Diyali, Geetika, Jahid, Mohit	Ramandeep, Sonal, Vikas	Geetika, Palak, Roop, Sonal	Anirudh, Roop	Gaurav, Mohit, Roopali, Suchit	Ramandeep, Swati	Harry, Mohit	Anirudh, Gaurav, Ramandeep, Sonal	Anirudh, Mohit, Palak, Ramandeep	Palak, Ramandeep
Eliminated (Outside Vote-out)	Diyali, Jahid	Vikas	Geetika	Roop	Roopali, Suchit	Swati	Harry	Gaurav, Sonal	Anirudh, Mohit	Ramandeep

Italized font indicates ineligible votes which were used to break a tie.

1. ^ According to the scroll selected by Palak prior to the vote-out the maximum vote getter shall become safe and will replace themselves with a member from their team to face the other in the elimination challenge. Consequently, Sonal chose Ramandeep to battle against Vikas.
2. ^ Originally Palak lost the battle of survival against Roop however Avtar nominated himself for elimination to save Palak and hence switched places with her.

  Nominated to battle opponent(s) in an elimination challenge where the loser is ousted from the show.

Roadies' Presence

Key

  – The Contestant won the Competition

  – Contestant eliminated as a result of losing a task against an opponent

  – Contestant forfeited the competition to save an eliminated one.

Roadie	ep 1	ep 2	ep 3	ep 4	ep 5	ep 6	ep 7	ep 8	ep 9	ep 10	ep 11	ep 12
Palak Johal	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Ramandeep Kaur Dhillon	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Mohit Saggar	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Anirudh Sharma	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Sonal Sharma	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Gaurav Singh	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Harmeeet Singh	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Swati Goswami	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Suchit Vikram Singh	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Roopali Anand	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N
Roop Bhinder	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N
Geetika Budhiraja	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N
Avtar Nischal	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N
Vikas Kumar	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Diyali Chauhan	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Jahid Kalim	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N

 Y indicates that the Roadie was present in the episode.
 N indicates that the Roadie was absent in the episode.
  indicates that the roadies was present in the episode but as a part of the audience for watching the Finale rather than as a contestant for the title.

References

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