Go Fighting!

Go Fighting! (Chinese: 极限挑战; pinyin: Jíxiàn Tiǎozhàn) is a Chinese variety show broadcast on SMG: Dragon Television. It was first aired June 14, 2015.^[1] Go Fighting! is classified as a game-variety-reality show, and the MCs and guests complete missions at a landmark to win the objective. Usually each episode will also have an overarching theme or story.^{[citation needed]} Each episode varies in the challenges and the instructions given to the MCs, and rules are not strictly enforced, resulting in a largely unscripted show.

Go Fighting!
Also known as	Chinese: 极限挑战; pinyin: Jíxiàn Tiǎozhàn
极限挑战 Jíxiàn Tiǎozhàn
Genre	Game-reality-variety show
Developed by	Yuan Lei(Season 1) Bao Xiaoqun(Seasons 1–3) Wang Jianjun, Gao Yunfei(Seasons 4–6)
Directed by	Yan Min(Seasons 1–4) Ren Jing(Season 2), Shi Jianing(Seasons 5-current)
Starring	Current cast members: Huang Lei Wang Xun Show Lo Lay Zhang Former cast members: Huang Bo Sun Honglei
Opening theme	"A Man's Job 男人的事" by all original cast members
Composer	Peng Fei
Country of origin	China
Original language	Chinese
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	62 (including special episode and movie) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Li Yong Zhu Tao Bao Xiaoqun(Season 1 only)
Production location	China
Running time	About 90 minutes
Original release
Network	SMG: Dragon Television
Release	June 14, 2015 (2015-06-14) – present
Related
Sisters Over Flowers

History

The show has been a commercial and critical success since its inception, and the MCs have received praise for 'breaking the rules' of usual variety game shows and mingling with normal people going about their daily lives.^[2] The first and second seasons averaged ratings of 8.9/10 and 9.1/10 on China's main review-based social network site Douban.^[3][4]

The show's catch phrases are "This is fate / 这就是命" and "This is love / 这就是爱" with a corresponding action that resembles the Chinese character for 'fate / 命'. Go Fighting! has been called the Chinese version of the popular Korean variety show Infinite Challenge; this comparison has led to minor controversies.

Personnel

In March 2019, it was reported that original director Yan Min and cast members Huang Bo and Sun Honglei have decided to temporarily back out of the show after Season 4 due to scheduling conflicts. Huang Lei stated he would only be present for 3 episodes due to acting commitments.^[5] They were replaced by Lei Jiayin, Yue Yunpeng and Dilraba Dilmurat.

In March 2020, Season 6 began filming with a brand new cast consisting of Lei Jiayin, Guo Jingfei, Jia Nailiang, Yue Yunpeng, and Deng Lun. Wang Xun and Zhang Yixing ("Lay") were the only original cast members left.^[6]

Current Cast

Name	Age	Occupation	Duration	Notes
Wang Xun	50	Actor	1–present
Lay Zhang	33	Actor, singer, and dancer		501–503, 506, 509, 510 Absent: 304, 403–405, 408, 412
Yue Yunpeng	40	Comedian	5–present	202, 501–present
Dilraba Dilmurat	33	Actress
Lei Jiayin	41	Actor
Jia Nailiang	41	Actor		504, 505, 507, 508, 5011
Guo Jingfei	45	Actor	6–present
Deng Lun	32	Actor	6–present

Original Cast

Name	Age	Occupation	Duration	Notes
Sun Honglei	54	Actor	1–4	501 (video appearance), 506 (video appearance)
Huang Lei	53	Actor, Singer, Teacher, Director	1–5	Absent: 502, 503, 505, 507, 509, 510
Huang Bo	50	Actor	1–4	Absent: 302, 303
Wang Xun	50	Actor, Screenwriter, Director	1–Present
Show Lo	45	Singer, Actor, Host	1–5	Absent: 105
Lay Zhang	33	Actor, singer, and dancer	1–Present	501–503, 506, 509, 510 Absent: 304, 403–405, 408, 412

Relationships

Relation	Members	Details
Go Fighting Three Idiots 极限三傻	Sun Honglei Wang Xun Lay Zhang	In episode 1/01, the three were put in a team. Sun Honglei's foolish big brother act, along with Lay Zhang's absent-mindedness and Wang Xun's slowness to realize, created this lasting combination.
Go Fighting Three Geniuses 极限三精	Huang Lei Huang Bo Show Lo	In episode 1/01, the three were put in a team. In comparison to the Three Idiots, these three are considered geniuses (Huang Lei in particular), although recently Show Lo has exhibited sillier behaviour, making him more alike to the Three Idiots and being referred to as the Fourth Idiot.
Minesweeper Alliance 扫雷联盟	Huang Lei Huang Bo Show Lo Wang Xun Lay Zhang	The character 'lei' in Sun Honglei's name is the same as the character for a mine. In episode 2/03, the five banded together to steal Sun Honglei's jogger step counter. In episode 2/09 however, Wang Xun joined Sun Honglei's team and the minesweeper alliance consisted of 4 people instead.
Hong-Xing Combination 红兴组合	Sun Honglei Lay Zhang	In episode 1/02, Sun Honglei stole Lay Zhang's suitcase containing several gold bars, though the latter forgave him afterwards. Sun Honglei also broadcast a missing person notice over Shanghai's local radio station to search for Lay Zhang in episode 2/01.
Lei-Lei Combination 雷磊组合	Sun Honglei Huang Lei	The two actors originally became friends on the set of 2011 drama Men (男人帮), and their affection for each other led to the creation of this pairing.
Teacher-Student Combination 师徒组合	Huang Lei Lay Zhang	In Season 1, Lay Zhang is stunned by Huang Lei's reasoning skills, and decides to become his student. In Season 2, the two form a team in the 24-hour bike race. They are also known as the Two-Foxes combination, as Lay later learns to be more shrewd.
Pineapple Combination 菠萝组合	Huang Bo Show Lo	In Season 2, Huang Bo played Show Lo's mother in the comedy sketch remake of Meteor Garden. Combining the two characters from their names makes the word pineapple.
Double Huang Combination 双黄组合	Huang Lei Huang Bo	The two have been labelled as the smartest MCs in the show after Show Lo started resembling an 'idiot'.
Pig-Sheep Combination 猪羊组合	Show Lo Lay Zhang	They often paired up for missions, and in the last episode of Season 1, they were known as Mirror Brothers after Show successfully imitated Lay Zhang during a taxi ride.
Lei-Luo Combination 雷罗组合	Sun Honglei Show Lo	In episode 1/06, the two were forced to cross dress as women and fight for a seat on the train. In episode 1/09, Show Lo helped Sun Honglei complete his mission of picking lotus seed heads.

List of episodes

If more than one set of teams are used other than the Race Mission teams, they are divided and distinguished to the corresponding mission under Teams. Team members are listed in alphabetical order from Team Leader, to Members, to Guests. As some episodes consisted of road missions and were not confined to a single landmark nor was a landmark officially recognized on-air, the landmark shown for those episodes is the final mission venue.

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
		Premiere	Finale
Season 1	12	June 14, 2015 (2015-06-14)	September 20, 2015 (2015-09-20)
Special	1 special for China's National Day week	October 5, 2015 (2015-10-05)
Movie	1	January 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)
Season 2	12	April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)	July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03)
Charity Concert (full)	1	July 10, 2016 (2016-07-10)
Season 3	12	July 9, 2017 (2017-07-09)	November 17, 2017 (2017-11-17)
Season 4	12	April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)	July 15, 2018 (2018-07-15)
Season 5	12	May 12, 2019	July 28, 2019
Season 6	12	May 10, 2020	Present

List of episodes

Main article: List of Go Fighting! episodes

List of guests

The following is a compilation of guests and the number of time they have been on the show. They are listed in order of appearance.

Daniela Anahí Bessia^[7] Guest

Guest	Episode(s)	# of Episodes Appeared	# of Appearances
Joe Chen Chiau-en	1/03	1	1
Guo Tao	1/05, 3/09	2	2
Zhou Dongyu	1/07	1	1
Chen Bolin	1/08	1	1
Xu Zheng	1/10	1	1
Song Xiaobao (宋小宝)	2/01,3/09	2	2
Yue Yunpeng (岳云鹏)	2/01	1	1
Joker Xue	2/01	1	1
Lin Chi-ling	2/04, 3/05, 3/06	3	3
Xie Na	2/10	1	1
Jiang Jinfu	2/10	1	1
Darren Wang	2/10, 3/02	2	2
Phoenix Legend	2/12, Concert	2	2
JJ Lin	2/12, Concert	2	2
Jolin Tsai	2/12, Concert	2	2
Harlem Yu	2/12, Concert	2	2
Sha Yi (沙溢)	3/02, 3/09	2	2
Eric Tsang	3/03	1	1
Bosco Wong	3/03	1	1
Elvis Tsui	3/03	1	1
Kingdom Yuen	3/03	1	1
Ronald Cheng	3/03	1	1
Lin Gengxin	3/04	1	1
Wang Luodan	3/05, 3/06	2	2
Yao Chen	3/05, 3/06	2	2
Jiang Yiyan	3/05, 3/06	2	2
Zhang Xinyi (张歆艺)	3/05, 3/06	2	2
Xia Yu	3/07	1	1
Jackson Wang	3/09	1	1
Li Liqun (李立群)	3/11	1	1
Liu Hua	3/11	1	1
Han Xue	3/12	1	1
Henry Lau	5/11, 5/12	2	2

Ratings

First Season

China Dragon Television premiere ratings (CSM50)
Episode	Date	Rating	Share	Ranking
1/01	June 14, 2015	1.191	4.55	2
1/02	June 21, 2015	1.650	5.26	2
1/03	June 28, 2015	1.854	6.21	1
1/04	July 5, 2015	2.127	6.83	1
1/05	July 12, 2015	2.379	7.90	1
1/06	July 19, 2015	2.742	9.24	1
1/07	July 26, 2015	2.570	8.75	1
1/08	August 2, 2015	2.718	8.54	1
1/09	August 9, 2015	2.900	8.73	1
1/10	September 6, 2015	1.540	4.73	3
1/11	September 13, 2015	2.026	6.71	1
1/12	September 20, 2015	2.110	6.82	1

1. The data determined by CSM.
2. Ratings ranked above not including CCTV.
3. Information source:卫视小露电.

Second Season

China Dragon Television premiere ratings (CSM52)
Episode	Date	Rating	Share	Ranking
2/01	April 17, 2016	2.076	6.73	1
2/02	April 24, 2016	2.025	6.42	1
2/03	May 1, 2016	2.472	7.74	1
2/04	May 8, 2016	2.419	7.69	1
2/05	May 15, 2016	2.099	6.60	1
2/06	May 22, 2016	1.991	6.34	1
2/07	May 29, 2016	2.052	6.60	1
2/08	June 5, 2016	2.079	6.34	1
2/09	June 12, 2016	1.875	6.08	1
2/10	June 19, 2016	1.862	6.45	2
2/11	June 26, 2016	2.394	7.81	1
2/12	July 3, 2016	2.969	9.60	1

1. The data determined by CSM.
2. Ratings ranked above not including CCTV.
3. Information source:卫视小露电.

Third season

China Dragon Television premiere ratings (CSM50)
Episode	Date	Rating	Share	Ranking
3/01	July 9, 2017	1.606	7.73	1
3/02	July 16, 2017	1.587	7.69	2
3/03	July 23, 2017	1.436	7.12	1
3/04	July 30, 2017	1.506	7.46	1
3/05	August 6, 2017	1.615	8.56	1
3/06	August 13, 2017	1.314	6.85	1
3/07	August 20, 2017	1.190	6.24	1
3/08	August 27, 2017	1.095	6.80	1
3/09	September 3, 2017	1.124	7.10	3
3/10	November 3, 2017	0.580	3.91	7
3/11	November 10, 2017	0.447	2.69	9
3/12	November 17, 2017	0.474	2.54	9

1. The data determined by CSM.
2. Ratings ranked above not including CCTV.
3. Information source:卫视小露电.

Fourth Season

China Dragon Television premiere ratings (CSM52)
Episode	Date	Rating	Share	Ranking
4/01	April 29, 2018	1.120	4.22	2
4/02	May 6, 2018	1.000	3.84	2
4/03	May 13, 2018	1.269	5.41	1
4/04	May 20, 2018	1.245	6.62	1
4/05	May 27, 2018	1.146	4.71	2
4/06	June 3, 2018	1.175	4.82	2
4/07	June 10, 2018	1.197	5.19	2
4/08	June 17, 2018	1.134	4.28	1
4/09	June 24, 2018	1.482	5.60	1
4/10	July 1, 2018	1.800	6.68	1
4/11	July 8, 2018	1.805	6.98	1
4/12	July 15, 2018	1.484	5.56	1

1. The data determined by CSM.
2. Ratings ranked above not including CCTV.
3. Information source:卫视小露电.

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Results	Ref.
2015	Asian Influence Awards Oriental Ceremony (2015亚洲最具影响力综艺节目)	Best Variety Show in Asia	Won	[8]
2016	2016ENAwards (2016中国泛娱乐指数盛典)	Weibo Special Marketing Award	Won	[9]

Controversy

Season 1 of Go Fighting was accused of plagiarizing popular Korean variety show Infinite Challenge, causing a halt in production for almost a month, with episode 10 airing on September 6, 28 days after episode 9.

Season 3 of Go Fighting was pulled from air by SARFT a few days before Episode 10 was due to broadcast, and it was reportedly due to the promotion of undesirable social attitudes and a heavy focus on entertainment that didn't reflect the lives of ordinary people.^[10]