Survivor: Borneo
Survivor: Borneo was the first season of the
United States reality show Survivor. It was originally broadcast under the name
Survivor but its official title has been changed to
Survivor: Borneo to distinguish it from subsequent installments of the series. The show was filmed during
2000 and aired later that year on
CBS. It was set on the island of
Pulau Tiga in the state of
Sabah, off the coast of Borneo, Malaysia. The show was released on
DVD on
May 11 2004.
Contestants were divided into two initial tribes--Pagong and Tagi. Later they merged into a tribe called Rattana. After the tribal merge, all of the Pagong contestants were eliminated before the Tagi tribe voted out its own members. In Survivor fandom, the term "
Pagonging" has been used to describe the same pattern.
| Challenges | | Tribes | - | Episode Title | Air Date | Reward | Immunity | Voted Out | Original | Merged | Finish | | The Marooning | 2000-05-31 | Pagong | Sonja Christopher | Tagi | Voted out 1st- Day 3 |
| The Generation Gap | 2000-06-07 | Pagong | Tagi | B.B. Andersen | Pagong | Voted out 2nd- Day 6 |
| Quest For Food | 2000-06-14 | Tagi | Pagong | Stacey Stillman | Tagi | Voted out 3rd- Day 9 |
| Too Little, Too Late? | 2000-06-21 | Tagi | Ramona Gray | Pagong | Voted out 4th- Day 12 |
| Pulling Your Own Weight | 2000-06-28 | Pagong | Dirk Been | Tagi | Voted out 5th- Day 15 |
| Udder Revenge | 2000-07-05 | Pagong | Tagi | Joel Klug | Pagong | Voted out 6th- Day 18 |
| The Merger | 2000-07-12 | -- | Greg | Gretchen Cordy | Pagong | Rattana | Voted out 7th- Day 21 |
| Thy Name Is Duplicity | 2000-07-19 | Greg | Gervase | Greg Buis | Pagong | Voted out 8th- Day 24 |
| Old And New Bonds | 2000-07-26 | Colleen | Rudy | Jenna Lewis | Pagong | Voted out 9th- Day 27 |
| Crack In The Alliance | 2000-08-02 | Gervase | Rich | Gervase Peterson | Pagong | Voted out 10th- Day 30 |
| Long Hard Days | 2000-08-16 | Sean | Kelly | Colleen Haskell | Pagong | Voted out 11th- Day 33 |
| Death Of An Alliance | 2000-08-16 | Kelly | Sean Kenniff | Tagi | Voted out 12th- Day 36 |
| The Final Four | 2000-08-23 | -- | Kelly | Sue Hawk | Tagi | Voted out 13th- Day 37 |
| Kelly | Rudy Boesch | Tagi | Voted out 14th- Day 38 |
| -- | Kelly Wiglesworth | Tagi | Runner-up |
| -- | Richard Hatch | Tagi | Sole Survivor |
The first challenge was a combined reward/immunity challenge. The winning team received immunity and matches.
Sometime between day 4 and 6, a reward challenge took place that was not shown during the episode. The challenge involved holding weight on poles. Richard and Joel held the weight for their tribes. The reward was a map to a closer water hole.
Elimination notes
*
Sonja Christopher - Stumbled in the immunity challenge and was the oldest member of Tagi. (voted out 4-3-1)
*
B.B. Andersen - Clashed with tribemates and asked to be voted out. (voted out 6-2)
*
Stacey Stillman - Later claimed producers persuaded two of her tribemates to vote against her; allegations were settled out of court. (voted out 5-2)
*
Ramona Gray - Weak and sick for most of her time in camp. (voted out 4-2-1)
*
Dirk Been - Was a victim of the alliance between Richard, Sue, Kelly and Rudy. (voted out 4-1-1)
*
Joel Klug - Some of his teammates felt he was sexist. (voted out 4-2)
*
Gretchen Cordy - Tagi targeted Gretchen, seeing her as Pagong's leader. (voted out 4-1-1-1-1-1-1)
*
Greg Buis - Targeted by the Tagi alliance. (voted out 6-3)
*
Jenna Lewis - (voted out 4-3-1)
*
Gervase Peterson - (voted out 5-2)
*
Colleen Haskell - The Tagi alliance had split with Kelly, but Kelly won immunity, so they voted out Colleen. (voted out 4-2)
*
Sean Kenniff - Kelly again won immunity. (voted out 4-1)
*
Sue Hawk - Kelly won immunity again. Kelly and Sue voted for Richard and Richard and Rudy voted for Sue. Jeff made them vote again, and Kelly changed her vote to Sue. (eliminated by tie-breaker)
*
Rudy Boesch - Kelly won the final immunity challenge and voted out Rudy. (voted out 1-0)
*
Kelly Wiglesworth - Received votes from Colleen, Gervase and Jenna.
*
Richard Hatch - Sole survivor. Received votes from Sue, Rudy, Sean and Greg.
* Gervase was featured in a 2004 Sunkist commercial.
* Survivor: Borneo has been referenced a number of times in the Disney show
Lizzie McGuire. In one episode, the tribe names
Pagong and
Tagi are used as team names at an outdoor camp. In another episode, Lizzie's mother claims she knew Richard Hatch would win the series.
* 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 audience.
* In
2006, Richard was found guilty of tax evasion connected with his $1,000,000 prize and sentenced to 51 months in prison.
*
Official CBS website
