Survivor: Borneo

Production
Production location(s)	Pulau Tiga, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Filming dates	March 13 – April 20, 2000
Release
Original release	May 31 – August 23, 2000
Chronology
Followed by	Survivor: The Australian Outback

Survivor: Borneo was the first season of the American reality show Survivor. When it was first being shown, it was simply called Survivor but its official name has been changed to Survivor: Borneo, so viewers can tell which season they are watching. Before the change to Survivor: Borneo, the season was known as Survivor: Pulau Tiga, but it was changed again to its current name so viewers would not get this season confused with the tenth season, Survivor: Palau. The show began filming on March 31, 2000 and ended on April 20, 2000. It was shown later that year on CBS. It was set in the South China Sea on the Malaysian island of Pulau Tiga in the state of Sabah, about 6 miles (9.7 km) off the north coast of Borneo, Malaysia. The show became available on DVD on May 11, 2004.

At the beginning, the sixteen players were divided into two tribes, an orange tribe, Tagi, and a yellow tribe, Pagong, which the producers named after their beaches. When ten players were left, the two tribes merged, becoming one tribe. Players Sean Keniff and Jenna Lewis named the new tribe "Rattana". After 39 days of playing, Richard Hatch was named the Sole Survivor, winning against Kelly Wiglesworth in a 4–3 jury vote. In 2006, it was revealed that Hatch did not declare his winnings, among other earnings, in his tax return and was sentenced to 51 months in prison.

The Survivor: Borneo finale (last episode) got the highest ratings of any Survivor episode to date. Richard Hatch, Jenna Lewis, Rudy Boesch, Susan Hawk and Colleen Haskell were asked to return in the eighth season of Survivor, Survivor: All-Stars. Haskell was the only one who did not return, while Hatch, Lewis, Boesch and Hawk placed 14th, 3rd, 17th and 13th.

Players

The game had sixteen players, divided into two tribes, Pagong and Tagi. After six players were voted off, the tribes were combined, or merged, to make one tribe, Rattana. Seven players made up the jury, who chose who would win the game, and the $1 million prize.

Jenna Lewis came in eighth place and was the second jury member.

Rudy Boesch came in third place and was the seventh jury member.

Player	Starting tribe	Merged tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Sonja Christopher 63, Walnut Creek, CA	Tagi		01 1st Voted Out Day 3	4
B.B. Andersen 64, Mission Hills, KS	Pagong		02 2nd Voted Out Day 6	6
Stacey Stillman 27, San Francisco, CA	Tagi		03 3rd Voted Out Day 9	6
Ramona Gray 29, Edison, NJ	Pagong		04 4th Voted Out Day 12	6
Dirk Been 23, Spring Green, WI	Tagi		05 5th Voted Out Day 15	4
Joel Klug 27, Sherwood, AR	Pagong		06 6th Voted Out Day 18	4
Gretchen Cordy 38, Clarksville, TN	Pagong	Rattana	07 7th Voted Out Day 21	4
Greg Buis 24, Ridgewood, NJ	Pagong		08 8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	6
Jenna Lewis 22, Franklin, NH	Pagong		09 9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	11
Gervase Peterson 30, Willingboro, NJ	Pagong		10 10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	6
Colleen Haskell 23, Miami Beach, FL	Pagong		11 11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	7
Sean Kenniff 30, Carle Place, NY	Tagi		12 12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	9
Susan "Sue" Hawk 38, Palmyra, WI	Tagi		13 13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	5
Rudy Boesch 72, Virginia Beach, VA	Tagi		14 14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	8
Kelly Wiglesworth 22, Las Vegas, NV	Tagi		15 Runner-Up	0
Richard Hatch 39, Middletown, RI	Tagi		16 Sole Survivor	6

Episodes

Episode name	Date shown on TV	Challenges		Eliminated	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
"The Marooning"	May 31, 2000	Pagong		Sonja	1st Voted Out Day 3
"The Generation Gap"	June 7, 2000	Pagong	Tagi	B.B.	2nd Voted Out Day 6
"Quest for Food"	June 14, 2000	Tagi	Pagong	Stacey	3rd Voted Out Day 9
"Too Little, Too Late?"	June 21, 2000	Tagi	Tagi	Ramona	4th Voted Out Day 12
"Pulling Your Own Weight"	June 28, 2000	Pagong	Pagong	Dirk	5th Voted Out Day 15
"Udder Revenge"	July 5, 2000	Pagong	Tagi	Joel	6th Voted Out Day 18
"The Merger"	July 12, 2000	None	Greg	Gretchen	7th Voted Out Day 21
"Thy Name Is Duplicity"	July 19, 2000	Greg	Gervase	Greg	8th Voted Out Day 24
"Old and New Bonds"	July 26, 2000	Colleen [Jenna]	Rudy	Jenna	9th Voted Out Day 27
"Crack In the Alliance"	August 2, 2000	Gervase	Richard	Gervase	10th Voted Out Day 30
"Long Hard Days"	August 9, 2000	Sean [Richard]	Kelly	Colleen	11th Voted Out Day 33
"Death of an Alliance"	August 16, 2000	Kelly	Kelly	Sean	12th Voted Out Day 36
"Season Finale"	August 23, 2000	None	Kelly	Susan	13th Voted Out Day 37
			Kelly	Rudy	14th Voted Out Day 38
		Jury Vote		Kelly	Runner-Up
				Richard	Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Starting tribes						Merged Tribe
Episode #:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Finale
Eliminated:	Sonja 4/8 votes	B.B. 6/8 votes	Stacey 5/7 votes	Ramona 4/7 votes	Dirk 4/6 votes	Joel 4/6 votes	Gretchen 4/10 votes	Greg 6/9 votes	Jenna 4/8 votes	Gervase 5/7 votes	Colleen 4/6 votes	Sean 4/5 votes	Tie	Susan 2/4 votes	Rudy 1 vote	Kelly 3/7 votes	Richard 4/7 votes
Voter	Vote
Richard	Stacey		Stacey		Dirk		Gretchen	Greg	Jenna	Gervase	Colleen	Sean	Susan	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			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

References

Notes

• ^A  The Total Votes is the number of votes a player got during Tribal Councils where the player is able to be voted out of the game. It does not count the votes they got during the final Tribal Council.
• ^B  If more than one tribe or player wins reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically if it was teamwork, or if one player won and invited others, the players they invited are in brackets.
• ^C  The first challenge was a combined reward/immunity challenge. The winning team got immunity and waterproof matches.
• ^D  Sometime between day four and six, a reward challenge took place that was not shown on TV. The challenge involved holding weight on poles. Richard held the weight for Tagi, as Joel for Pagong. The reward was a map to a closer water hole.
• ^E  The final four vote was tied with Richard and Sue each getting two votes. In the tie-breaker vote, Rudy voted for Sue again while Kelly changed her vote from Richard to Sue.
• ^F  There was no reward challenge because of the tribal merge.
• ^G  Richard and Susan were not able to vote in the second Tribal Council vote.

General

• "Survivor: Borneo contestants (Archived copy)". CBS.com. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
• Burnett, Mark; Martin Dugard (2000). Survivor: The Ultimate Game. New York, New York: TV Books. p. 237. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Specific

Other websites

• Official CBS Survivor Borneo Website