M6's new game show arrives this Thursday evening: can a Varois or a Côte d'Azur resident win "99 à battre"?

Their names are Ali, Morgan, Hager, Christian, Margot, Marion, Defne, Anne-Marcelle, Odette, Gérard, they come from Nice, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, La Gaude, Cannes, Pierrefeu-du-Var, Toulon, Agay or even La Seyne-sur-Mer, and hope to be the lucky winner who will win the 100,000 euros of the new M6 game, 99 to beat , presented by Eric Antoine and Juju Fitcats.

A crazy new game in which 100 candidates, of all ages, from all over France, will compete in various crazy and fun challenges (flying a paper airplane as far as possible, building a piece of furniture from a kit, removing a buttoned shirt with one hand, etc.) with the sole aim of not finishing last in each challenge so as not to be eliminated.

For Marion, 31, a saleswoman in the Var region who lives in Pierrefeu-du-Var, the adventure began online. "I saw a story on social media about a game with 100,000 euros to be won, I sent a message and was then cast and selected. These are fun games, quite fun, no need to be a strategist. I tried to find out online to understand what I was getting into because there had been a version in Belgium, but I found little, so I went into the game without preparation. You have to accept that luck is on your side, because how can you prepare to do a shifumi with your friends, basically?" she continues.

A leap into the unknown

In the neighboring department of Alpes-Maritimes, Morgan, a 40-year-old former soldier who started a drone project and lives in Cagnes-sur-Mer, found adventure to be the guiding principle of his application. "I joined the army at 17, at the 3rd RIMa in Fréjus. I did the first season of Ninja Warriors on TF1, and I think my contact stayed in the production's good books," he recalls. "It was presented to me as a major show, with a lot of games. I'm a gamer by nature, so I liked it. It's a leap into the unknown, just like my first time in Ninja Warrior, and discovery fascinates me; it's what drives me."

For this big premiere, M6 saw things in a very big way with an XXL-sized playing field. Enough to surprise the candidates? Not necessarily. On the other hand, the content of the tests quickly destabilized the competitors. Marion: "You have to believe in your lucky star because the tests are unpredictable. One of them consisted of making a paper airplane and making it fly as far as possible, and I cursed myself because the week before, my stepson had made a paper airport in our living room and he had offered to explain to me how to make them and I had refused (laughs) " .

And the candidates are pretty unanimous: to hope to pocket the 100,000 euros, there is no established miracle recipe. "Nothing can be anticipated in this game because you are challenged on things you have already done, others done a little or a lot depending on your interests," explains Morgan. Everyone has a chance in fact, these are challenges that we can reproduce at home. There are no typical profiles to go to the end, we were all trying to see who was physically strong at the beginning of the show while someone who has a logical mind or balance, it is not written on their forehead. To shine in this game, you have to try a little bit of everything."

Real kindness

Despite the competitive spirit that reigns between them - nothing to do with Squid Game, that is - the candidates very quickly took care of each other.

"From the first day, there was a competitive atmosphere, then it became one of kindness, of mutual support, we didn't pull each other's legs," recalls Marion. "There was real kindness between the candidates, we very quickly forgot about the 100,000 euros because we were caught up in the game, we mostly turned towards each other," concludes Morgan. But I take away from this experience a new faith in humanity, it's not totally lost. We are overconnected to the detriment of human relationships and there, in this show, we were interested in each other again, the game has a real human dimension."

The adopted Cagnois has a suitable formula to sum up what you will see on M6: "A permanent challenge with incredible tests in a crazy system where everyone has their place".