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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 23, 2023 0:27:15 GMT -5
Two teams compete in physical challenges. Takes place in a studio set or lot. Some versions have multiple seasons per year, or multiple parts to a season, or a season that runs year-round. Similar format to early versions or seasons of Calle 7 (2009-2023) but uses different color schemes. Includes other bits like dancing and trivia. Esto es Guerra (EEG) began in Peru on April 2012 with 20 seasons ongoing. Also has versions in Bolivia (2015-2017), and Panama (2016-2018). Geurreros is a version from Colombia that began on August 2017 with 22 seasons, but nothing in 2023. Also has versions in Costa Rica (2017), Mexico (2020-2021), and Puerto Rico with 9 seasons ongoing (2019-2023). Combate is a completely separate franchise that began in Ecuador in 2010. EEG was accused of copying Combate. Also has versions in Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina, Guatemala, and Bolivia (can't find anything on that one). Most versions cancelled around 2016-2018. Guatemala still ongoing. Ecuador has a successor show to Combate called BLN la Competencia. Some players there have been on Calle 7 Ecuador and Combate Ecuador. EEG and Guerreros had crossover specials between their countries. Several players have appeared on other shows like Exatlon, Los 50, Desafio, and Reto 4 Elementos. Category page that hasn't been updated since 2021 - es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Esto_es_guerra |
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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 23, 2023 0:37:42 GMT -5
Links for ongoing versions... {Combate Guatemala} Official channel www.youtube.com/@combateguatemalaFull episodes for 2023 in Live section. Seasons 2021-2023 can be identified by unique logos, subtitles, or posting styles for each season. Search for programa and year for older seasons. Full episodes from near the end of 2015 to the end of 2020. No idea when each season starts or ends. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd8cv1CTW9QeUDpEcwGadRM9mAe85eGJqSome finals can be found by searching for final, but full episodes for grand finals generally aren't labelled. There's also no Wikipedia page to look up dates for each season. Links for cancelled versions... {Geurreros Colombia} The network has full episodes and short clips from most seasons going back to around Season 10 2019, but it's all in the same playlist with over 1,000 videos. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsrhx0BhWNkv2malQ4Nb6LttmFLzrfaP8Easier to look up finale dates on Wikipedia, and search the channel for dates of each finals week. |
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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 23, 2023 1:28:30 GMT -5
Various grand finals from EEG Peru, Guerreros, and Combate. EEG Peru doesn't allow embedding... {Peru Season 12 2016 (special season - El Origen de la Lucha)}
{Peru Season 12 2016}
{Peru Season 12 2016 (special season - La Revancha)}
{Peru Season 13 2017}
{Peru Season 17 2020 (short clips with parts of runs)}
{Peru Season 18 2020 (short clip with part of a run)}
{Peru Season 19 2022 (short clip with part of a run)}
{Peru Season 20 2023 (a couple grand semifinal runs + a few grand final runs)}
{Mexico Season 2 2021}
{Mexico vs. Peru 2021}
{Colombia vs. Puerto Rico - 2019, 2020, 2021}
{Puerto Rico vs. Peru 2021}
{Peru vs. Puerto Rico 2021 (short clips with parts of runs)}
{Puerto Rico Season 9 2023 - Grand Final Day 1-4}
{Colombia Season 10 2019}
{Colombia Season 11 2019}
{Colombia Season 14 2020}
{Colombia Season 15 2020}
{Colombia Season 16 2020 - Grand Final + Best Man and Woman Special}
{Colombia Season 17 2021 - Grand Final + Best Man and Woman Special}
{Colombia Season 19 2021 - Grand Final + Best Man and Woman Special}
{Colombia Season 20 2021 - Grand Final Day 1-2}
{Colombia Season 21 2022 - Grand Final Day 1-2}
{Colombia Season 22 2022 - Grand Final Day 1-4}
{Combate Ecuador - 2014-2018}
{Combate Guatemala - 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 (grand finals are hard to find because the channel isn't very organized...)}
{Combate Guatemala - other finals that aren't grand finals... i think...}
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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 24, 2023 23:59:07 GMT -5
Having spent a little over a week on these shows...
EEG and especially Combate are more variety show-like with lots of dancing and trivia and other silly bits. Guerreros also does this to some extent, but seems a little more focused on physical challenges.
The kinds of courses or challenges these shows do throughout each season feels very same-y, even though Guerreros does seem to have more interesting one-off obstacle challenges than EEG and Combate.
At a glance, these shows generally feel like they don't really go anywhere, until suddenly it's the final week. Guerreros seems to be earning points everyday at least, I think.
The lighting in a lot of these makes them very hard to watch. Some have lights that might be intense enough to trigger an epileptic seizure.
Many of these versions and seasons feel like they could've come out 10-20 years ago.
I don't know if I could handle another week of people speed-hopping over bars or climbing through donuts in a dim studio set with aggressive moving head lights.
My ideal version of these kinds of shows would combine Guerreros Mexico (outside, high climbing, almost Beastmaster-like challenges) + Guerreros Costa Rica (they used a bunch of Ninja obstacles) + C7 Panama/Paraguay (almost a sports-like focus on physical courses).
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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 26, 2023 1:27:02 GMT -5
One version that somewhat stood out to me was Guerreros Costa Rica - Season 1 2017, which was cancelled after one season. It was notable because they actually used a bunch of Ninja-like obstacles. There was a salmon ladder, a curved wall, ring toss, pegboard across that ring toss board, a different up and down pegboard, hand stairs, swinging wheels, arm rings but on a single rail, hopping a ring up rail stoppers, unstable bridge shaped like an hourglass, floating boards but with climbing holds for your hands, really long angled steps, an archway monkey bar climb, and some red hanging holds with different shapes. I like that the set design isn't too busy. Still don't like that all these shows like to use so many distracting moving head lights. Like many of these formats, it generally feels like it's not really building toward anything for the bulk of it. If I had to describe this specific version - It's like they took the idea for an ANW 1-3 boot camp, but turned it into a whole 4 month long daily game show that came out 10 years too late, while forgetting to bring in more obstacles. The entirety of the show could've been reduced to a single month. --- Full season playlist of 85 episodes - www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5skvO-mfXO5Q1V0a98gdjAlc2g7s_oq{Final two episodes...}
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Post by penguincatfish on Dec 26, 2023 21:18:25 GMT -5
Another one that was a little interesting was Guerreros Mexico 2020-2021 (cancelled after two seasons). While the other shows used a single area, this show had three areas - the main arena, the outside long course with a pool section, and a really high crane setup that none of these other shows have. The crane sections kind of remind me of Beastmaster. {tire climb}
{log ladder climb}
{pole platforms}
{giant swinging jump}
{angled steps but really high up}
{tiny bridge with a rope}
{bike across a bridge with swinging bags}
{platform with logs}
{this thing}
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