Meet the contestants for ‘The Block 2018’ THE five teams who will compete on the latest season of The Block have been revealed, and there’s a couple of famous faces among them. It was never meant to bring in much traffic but low and behold, it blew up and started to take on a life of its own. THIS year's batch of exhausted contestants are approaching the finish line of season 13 of The Block, having worked tirelessly for 12 weeks on renovating their five massive Elsternwick houses. So I decided to give the list of Shark Tank Contestants its own home. Over the last few years, I've been maintaining this list on my agency website. August 4th, 2018 By David Knox 9 comments Filed under: News, Top Stories, Five new teams take on The Block at The Gatwick, St. Kilda, hosted by Scott Cam & Shelley Craft. The Block Australia is shortly due to air over the ditch, and while we don't yet have an air date in New Zealand, we're hoping it will make its way onto screens over here. Jul 20, 2018 11:26am . The first season of The Block began airing on 1 June 2003 on the Nine Network, replacing Backyard Blitz and Location Location in the network's flagship timeslot of Sunday at 6:30 to 7:30 pm . The series was presented by Backyard Blitz host Jamie Durie and filmed in Bondi, New South Wales , with the majority of filming being completed prior to the series airing for editing purposes. Husband Gordon said it "goes to show" that even with the boys' building skills The Block was no cake walk. We check in with all the memorable faces. To find out how past teams managed in times of financial strife, we asked them to tell us some of the weird and wacky things they did to save money. The Block 2018: meet the cast. List of Shark Tank Contestants. Twins Lysandra and Alisa Fraser won The Block Sky High last year, Brad Cranfield and Dale Vine were past contestants, and fellow first-timers Kyal and Kara Demmrich have renovated a house together. Our favourite contestants from The Block Australia: Where are they now. MEDIAWORKS The judges have been unfairly hard on Lisa and Ribz, the Wellington couple says.