No Limite 1

No Limite 1
Season Information
Version	Brazil
Season No.	1
Filming Location	Ceará, Brazil
Filming Dates	July 2000 – August 2000
Season Run	July 23, 2000 – September 10, 2000
No. of Episodes	8
No. of Days	24
No. of Castaways	12
Winner	Elaine de Melo
Runner(s)-Up	Pipa Diniz
Tribes	Lua Sol Solua
Prize for Winner	R$300,000
Season Chronology
Next	No Limite 2

No Limite 1 is the first season of the Brazilian reality show No Limite. The season was broadcast from July 23 to September 10, 2000. It was the first reality show produced by a Brazilian television network.

Elaine de Melo defeated Pipa Diniz in a final challenge to become the Sole Survivor.

Production

With the resounding success of Survivor: Borneo, the Brazilian television network Rede Globo decided to make its own version of Survivor.

Twelve contestants were chosen by the producers to participate in the show, of which filming took place between July and August of 2000. They were marooned on the coast of the state of Ceará in north-eastern Brazil, where they would live for 24 days before one person would be crowned the Sole Survivor.

Format

• Tribe Composition: The twelve castaways were divided into two tribes of six.
• Merge: The merged tribe was composed of seven members.
• Semi-Finals: At the final four, the castaways were divided into two pairs to compete in a challenge. The losing pair would be automatically eliminated, leaving the winning pair as the Final Two.
• Final Trial: The Final Two would compete in a final challenge, where the winner would be crowned the Sole Survivor.

Castaways

Contestant		Tribe Affiliation		Finish	Votes Against
		Original Tribe	Merged Tribe
	Hilca Maria 21, Salvador, BA	Sol		1st Voted Out Day 3	5
	Amendoim Martins 42, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Sol		2nd Voted Out Day 6	4
	Marcus Werner 27, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Sol		3rd Voted Out Day 9	3
	Chico Salles 51, São Paulo, SP	Lua		4th Voted Out Day 12	3
	Ilma Arakawa 54, São Paulo, SP	Sol		5th Voted Out Day 15	5
	Jeferson Schmengler 31, Porto Alegre, RS	Lua	Solua	6th Voted Out Day 18	3
	Vanderson Souza 20, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Lua		7th Voted Out Day 21	6
	Thiago Toqueton 20, São Paulo, SP	Sol		8th Voted Out Day 21	5
	Juliana Marques 23, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Eliminated Day 22	0
	Andréa Baptista 29, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Eliminated Day 22	5
	Pipa Diniz 29, Porto Alegre, RS	Sol		Runner-Up	1
	Elaine de Melo 35, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Sole Survivor	0

Season Summary

Episode	Air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
1	July 23, 2000	Lua	Lua	Hilca (5-1)	1st Voted Out Day 3
2	July 30, 2000	Sol	Lua	Amendoim (4-1)	2nd Voted Out Day 6
3	August 6, 2000	Sol	Lua	Marcus (3-1)	3rd Voted Out Day 9
4	August 13, 2000	Sol	Sol	Chico (3-3); (4-0)	4th Voted Out Day 12
5	August 20, 2000	None	Lua	Ilma (2-1)	5th Voted Out Day 15
6	August 27, 2000	Andréa		Jefferson (3-2-2)	6th Voted Out Day 18
7	September 3, 2000	Elaine, Juliana, Pipa	Elaine, Juliana, Pipa	Vanderson (4-1-1)	7th Voted Out Day 21
				Thiago (2-1)	8th Voted Out Day 21
8	September 10, 2000	None	Elaine, Pipa	Juliana (No Vote)	Eliminated Day 22
				Andréa (No Vote)
		Final Trial		Pipa	Runner-Up
				Elaine	Sole Survivor

Voting History

No Limite 1 Voting History
		Original Tribes						Merged Tribe
Episode #		1	2	3	4		5	6	7		8
Eliminated:		Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus	Tie	Chico	Ilma	Jeferson	Vanderson	Thiago	Juliana	Andréa	Pipa	Elaine
Votes:		5-1	4-1	3-1	3-3	4-0	2-1	3-2-2	4-1-1	2-1	No Vote2		Final Trial
►	Elaine	—	—	—	Andréa	Chico	—	Vanderson	Vanderson	Thiago	—
►	Pipa	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus	—	—	Ilma	Vanderson	Vanderson	Andréa	—
►	Andréa	—	—	—	Chico	None	—	Jeferson	Vanderson	None1	Eliminated
►	Juliana	—	—	—	Chico	Chico	—	Jeferson	Vanderson	Thiago
►	Thiago	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus	—	—	Ilma	Jeferson	Andréa	None1
►	Vanderson	—	—	—	Andréa	Chico	—	Thiago	Thiago
►	Jefferson	—	—	—	Chico	Chico	—	Thiago
	Ilma	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus	—	—	Pipa
	Chico	—	—	—	Andréa	None
	Marcus	Hilca	Amendoim	Ilma
	Amendoim	Hilca	Ilma
	Hilca	Ilma
Notes: ^1 As they are members of the losing team, Andréa and Thiago were not eligible to vote in the second Tribal Council vote. ^2 At Day 22, a Semi-Finals challenge was held instead of a Portal vote, where Andréa & Juliana and Elaine & Pipa were paired. The pair that loses the challenge would be eliminated.

Trivia

• As this was the first example of a reality show in Brazil, sociologists and psychologists questioned what they saw as the lack of commitment of the show with human rights and accused the production of being "sadistic" and "irresponsible". The program was also accused of being futile for exploiting the participants' narcissism.