Survivor: Borneo is the first season of the United States version of Survivor. It was originally broadcast under the name Survivor, but its official title has been changed to Survivor: Borneo to distinguish it from its future seasons. Prior to the change to Survivor: Borneo, the season was retroactively known as Survivor: Pulau Tiga. The change of name became official in Survivor: All-Stars.
Among Survivor fans, the term "Pagonging" has been used to describe the systematic elimination of the other tribe.
The show was released on DVD on May 11, 2004.
Development
Due to overwhelming interest in the show's format, more than 6,000 people applied for it. 800 of them were interviewed in 16 cities. 48 made it to the shortlist, which was whittled down to the final 16 players and 2 replacements.[2]
Castaways
Contestant | Tribe Affiliation | Finish | Votes Against | ||
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Original Tribe | Merged Tribe | ||||
File:S1 sonja t.jpg | Sonja Christopher 63, Walnut Creek, CA |
Tagi | 1st Voted Out Day 3 |
4 | |
File:S1 bb t.jpg | B.B. Andersen 64, Mission Hills, KS |
Pagong | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
6 | |
File:S1 stacey t.jpg | Stacey Stillman 27, San Francisco, CA |
Tagi | 3rd Voted Out Day 9 |
6 | |
File:S1 ramona t.jpg | Ramona Gray 29, Edison, NJ |
Pagong | 4th Voted Out Day 12 |
6 | |
File:S1 dirk t.jpg | Dirk Been 23, Spring Green, WI |
Tagi | 5th Voted Out Day 15 |
4 | |
File:S1 joel t.jpg | Joel Klug 27, Sherwood, AR |
Pagong | 6th Voted Out Day 18 |
4 | |
File:S1 gretchen t.jpg | Gretchen Cordy 38, Clarksville, TN |
Pagong | Rattana | 7th Voted Out Day 21 |
4 |
File:S1 greg t.jpg | Greg Buis 24, Gold Hill, CO |
Pagong | 8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24 |
6 | |
File:S1 jenna t.jpg | Jenna Lewis 22, Franklin, NH |
Pagong | 9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27 |
11 | |
File:S1 gervase t.jpg | Gervase Peterson 30, Willingboro, NJ |
Pagong | 10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30 |
6 | |
File:S1 colleen t.jpg | Colleen Haskell 23, Miami Beach, FL |
Pagong | 11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33 |
7 | |
File:S1 sean t.jpg | Sean Kenniff 30, Brooklyn, NY |
Tagi | 12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36 |
9 | |
File:S1 susan t.jpg | Susan Hawk 38, Palmyra, WI |
Tagi | 13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37 |
7 | |
File:S1 rudy t.jpg | Rudy Boesch 72, Richmond, VA |
Tagi | 14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38 |
8 | |
File:S1 kelly t.jpg | Kelly Wiglesworth 22, Las Vegas, NV |
Tagi | Runner-Up | 0 | |
File:S1 richard t.jpg | Richard Hatch 39, Middletown, RI |
Tagi | Sole Survivor | 6 |
Season Summary
The series premiere began with sixteen people divided into two tribes, Pagong and Tagi. After 18 days of competition, the tribes found themselves alternating visits to Tribal Council. Tagi sacrificed Sonja, Stacey, and Dirk for being old, weak and lacking work ethic respectively; while Pagong eliminated B.B., Ramona, and Joel for abrasiveness, illness and perceived egotism respectively.
By Day 20, the ten remaining castaways were merged into one tribe - Rattana, and began competing as individuals. When the merge came around, a voting alliance made by ex-Tagi members, Richard, Kelly, Rudy, and Sue, solidified. This proved fatal for the other six survivors, who were eliminated one by one, starting with the five ex-Pagong members, Gretchen, Greg, Jenna, Gervase, and Colleen, and Sean, the only Tagi member who was not a member of the alliance. As the alliance neared victory, Richard, Sue, and Rudy saw Kelly as trying to look more favorable in front of the jury, which seats were filled by mostly former Pagong members. However, Kelly dominated in the Immunity Challenges, denying the three of any chance to vote her off.
On Day 37, Richard and Sue received two votes each, forcing a revote. As Kelly and Rudy voted again, Kelly switched her vote from Richard to Sue, and Sue became the sixth member of the jury. At the Final Immunity Challenge on Day 38, Richard voluntarily stepped out of the challenge on the assumption that whoever was to win would take him to the Final Tribal Council. After Kelly won immunity yet again, Richard's assumptions were proven correct when she voted Rudy to be the seventh and final member of the jury.
At the Final Tribal Council, Kelly was accused of being two-faced and manipulative, while Richard was barbed for his perceived arrogance and duplicitous game play for establishing an alliance. But with four votes to three, Richard Hatch's strategy won him the very first Sole Survivor title.
Episode Guide
Episode | Air date | Challenges | Eliminated (Vote) |
Finish | Viewers (in millions)[3] |
Rating/Share (18-49)[3] | ||
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Reward | Immunity | |||||||
1 | "The Marooning" | May 31, 2000 | Pagong1 | Sonja (4-3-1) |
1st Voted Out Day 3 |
15.51 | 6.1/20 | |
2 | "The Generation Gap" | June 7, 2000 | Pagong2 | Tagi | B.B. (6-2) |
2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
18.10 | 7.5/25 |
3 | "Quest for Food" | June 14, 2000 | Tagi | Pagong | Stacey (5-2) |
3rd Voted Out Day 9 |
23.25 | 9.4/29 |
4 | "Too Little, Too Late?" | June 21, 2000 | Tagi | Tagi | Ramona (4-2-1) |
4th Voted Out Day 12 |
24.20 | 9.8/33 |
5 | "Pulling Your Own Weight" | June 28, 2000 | Pagong | Pagong | Dirk (4-1-1) |
5th Voted Out Day 15 |
23.98 | 9.6/31 |
6 | "Udder Revenge" | July 5, 2000 | Pagong | Tagi | Joel (4-2) |
6th Voted Out Day 18 |
24.50 | 10.6/33 |
7 | "The Merger" | July 12, 2000 | None | Greg | Gretchen (4-1-1-1-1-1-1) |
7th Voted Out Day 21 |
24.50 | 10.4/34 |
8 | "Thy Name Is Duplicity" | July 19, 2000 | Greg | Gervase | Greg (6-3) |
8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24 |
26.15 | 11.4/35 |
9 | "Old and New Bonds" | July 26, 2000 | Colleen [Jenna] |
Rudy | Jenna (4-3-1) |
9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27 |
27.18 | 11.9/36 |
10 | "Crack in the Alliance" | August 2, 2000 | Gervase | Richard | Gervase (5-2) |
10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30 |
24.41 | 11.9/38 |
11 | "Long Hard Days" | August 9, 2000 | Sean [Richard] |
Kelly | Colleen (4-2) |
11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33 |
28.00 | 12.1/38 |
Colleen3 [all] | ||||||||
12 | "Death of an Alliance" | August 16, 2000 | Kelly | Kelly | Sean (4-1) |
12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36 |
22.67 | 12.7/38 |
13 | "The Final Four" | August 23, 2000 | None | Kelly | Susan (2-2; 2-0)4 |
13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37 |
51.69 | 22.8/54 |
Kelly | Rudy (1-0) |
14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38 | ||||||
Jury Vote | Kelly (4-3) |
Runner-Up | ||||||
Richard (4-3) |
Sole Survivor | |||||||
14 | "Survivor: The Reunion" | N/A | N/A | |||||
Notes: ^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.
^2 An unaired Reward Challenge was held on Day 4, where the tribes competed for a map to a closer water hole. ^3 According to the season's DVD release, an unaired Reward Challenge was held on Day 32. The winner, Colleen, shared her reward to the rest of the tribe. ^4 The vote resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote would commence. |
Voting History
Original Tribes | Merged Tribe | |||||||||||||||||
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Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||||
Voted Out | Sonja |
B.B. |
Stacey |
Ramona |
Dirk |
Joel |
Gretchen |
Greg |
Jenna |
Gervase |
Colleen |
Sean |
Tie | Susan |
Rudy |
Kelly |
Richard | |
Vote | 4-3-1 | 6-2 | 5-2 | 4-2-1 | 4-1-1 | 4-2 | 4-1-1-1-1-1-1 | 6-3 | 4-3-1 | 5-2 | 4-2 | 4-1 | 2-21 | 2-0 | 1-02 | 4-3 | ||
► | Richard | Stacey | — | Stacey | — | Dirk | — | Gretchen | Greg | Jenna | Gervase | Colleen | Sean | Susan | None | None | Jury Vote | |
► | Kelly | Rudy | — | Rudy | — | Dirk | — | Gretchen | Greg | Sean | Gervase | Sean | Sean | Richard | Susan | Rudy | ||
► | Rudy | Sonja | — | Stacey | — | Dirk | — | Gretchen | Greg | Jenna | Gervase | Colleen | Sean | Susan | Susan | None | Richard | |
► | Susan | Sonja | — | Stacey | — | Dirk | — | Gretchen | Greg | Jenna | Gervase | Colleen | Sean | Richard | None | Richard | ||
► | Sean | Sonja | — | Stacey | — | Rudy | — | Colleen | Greg | Jenna | Gervase | Colleen | Susan | Richard | ||||
► | Colleen | — | B.B. | — | Ramona | — | Joel | Richard | Jenna | Richard | Sean | Sean | Kelly | |||||
► | Gervase | — | B.B. | — | Colleen | — | Jenna | Susan | Jenna | Richard | Sean | Kelly | ||||||
► | Jenna | — | B.B. | — | Ramona | — | Joel | Gervase | Greg | Richard | Kelly | |||||||
► | Greg | — | Ramona | — | Jenna | — | Joel | Jenna | Jenna | Richard | ||||||||
► | Gretchen | — | B.B. | — | Ramona | — | Joel | Rudy | ||||||||||
Joel | — | B.B. | — | Ramona | — | Jenna | ||||||||||||
Dirk | Sonja | — | Stacey | — | Susan | |||||||||||||
Ramona | — | B.B. | — | Colleen | ||||||||||||||
Stacey | Rudy | — | Rudy | |||||||||||||||
B.B. | — | Ramona | ||||||||||||||||
Sonja | Rudy | |||||||||||||||||
Notes: ^1 The vote resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote was held where the castaways involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining castaways could only vote for those involved in the tie.
^2 Richard and Rudy did not vote as they could only vote for each other. By virtue of winning the Final Immunity Challenge, only Kelly voted. |
Reception
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Trivia
- This is the first season in which both tribes alternated winning immunity before the merge. This would later happen in Survivor: The Amazon and Survivor: South Pacific.
- This was the only season in which the final jury votes were revealed immediately after being cast, rather than months later in front of a live television studio audience.
- Borneo was the only season to air on Wednesdays until Survivor: Nicaragua.
- In 2006, Richard was found guilty of tax evasion connected with his $1,000,000 prize and sentenced to 51 months in prison. Because of this, he was unable to participate in seasons such as Survivor: Micronesia, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, and Survivor: Redemption Island for which he was considered.
- The Survivor: Borneo finale received the highest ratings of any Survivor episode to date, with more than 50 million viewers.[4]
- This season is tied with Survivor: Worlds Apart for the record of the fewest eliminations by a unanimous vote, with one. Coincidentally, in both seasons, the only unanimous vote happened at the final five Tribal Council.
- This is the only season to have castaways who were born in the 1920s and 1930s. They are Rudy, B.B., and Sonja.
- During the Day 36 Immunity Challenge, Jeff Probst noted that since the merge, every eliminated player had the fire in their torches blown out by the wind prior to being voted out.[5]
- In a poll that was taken during the reunion show asking viewers who they would've voted for to win, 45% of the people said Rudy, 42% said Kelly, 11% said Richard, and 2% said Susan.
- The font used for the tribe flags is "Template Gothic."[6]
- Survivor: Borneo were referenced numerous times in the Disney show Lizzie McGuire. In one episode, the tribe names Pagong and Tagi were used as team names at an outdoor camp. In another episode, Lizzie's mother claims she knew Richard Hatch would win the series.[7]
- After Kelly was voted out on Survivor: Cambodia, all of the castaways from this season have been voted out at some point. This was the first season to gain this distinction, followed by Cambodia itself, and later Heroes vs. Villains. However, Borneo is still the only original cast season with this distinction.
- This season is one of three to have all final four contestants return in future seasons. The other two are Survivor: Panama and Survivor: Cagayan.
References
- ↑ http://www.eonline.com/news/40895/survivor-sequel-takes-on-friends
- ↑ http://www.eonline.com/news/39549/cbs-survivor-welcome-to-the-jungle
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.spottedratings.com/2011/12/spotvault-survivor-cbs-summer-2000.html
- ↑ http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.survivor/browse_thread/thread/1cc03d896fa831eb/9054cb6ca2952f77?lnk=st&q=%22Survivor+Finale+Racks+Up+Phenomenal+Ratings%22&rnum=1&hl=en#9054cb6ca2952f77
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDC0C8KN4DM&list=PL9FD538CCAD208FA1
- ↑ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/emigre/template-gothic-ot/bold/
- ↑ http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~lpitcher/Survivor/seasons.html
Survivor (U.S.) Seasons |
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Borneo • The Australian Outback • Africa • Marquesas • Thailand • The Amazon • Pearl Islands • All-Stars • Vanuatu • Palau • Guatemala • Panama • Cook Islands • Fiji • China • Micronesia • Gabon • Tocantins • Samoa • Heroes vs. Villains • Nicaragua • Redemption Island • South Pacific • One World • Philippines • Caramoan • Blood vs. Water • Cagayan • San Juan del Sur • Worlds Apart • Cambodia • Kaôh Rōng • Millennials vs. Gen X • Game Changers • Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers • Ghost Island • David vs. Goliath • Edge of Extinction • Island of the Idols • Winners at War • Survivor 41 • Survivor 42 • Survivor 43 • Survivor 44 • Survivor 45 • Survivor 46 |