Survivor: Borneo

***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 13, 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  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.

|Player|Starting tribe|Merged tribe|Finish|Total Votes||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|**Sonja Christopher** <small>63, Walnut Creek, CA</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|||4||
|align="left"|**B.B. Andersen** <small>64, Mission Hills, KS</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|||6||
|align="left"|**Stacey Stillman** <small>27, San Francisco, CA</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|||6||
|align="left"|**Ramona Gray** <small>29, Edison, NJ</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|||6||
|align="left"|**Dirk Been** <small>23, Spring Green, WI</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|||4||
|align="left"|**Joel Klug** <small>27, Sherwood, AR</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|||4||
|align="left"|**Gretchen Cordy** <small>38, Clarksville, TN</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#04a43c" align=center rowspan=10|<span style="color:white;">Rattana</span>||4|
|align="left"|**Greg Buis** <small>24, Ridgewood, NJ</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong||6|||
|align="left"|**Jenna Lewis** <small>22, Franklin, NH</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong||11|||
|align="left"|**Gervase Peterson** <small>30, Willingboro, NJ</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong||6|||
|align="left"|**Colleen Haskell** <small>23, Miami Beach, FL</small>|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong||7|||
|align="left"|**Sean Kenniff** <small>30, Carle Place, NY</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi||9|||
|align="left"|**Susan "Sue" Hawk** <small>38, Palmyra, WI</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi||5|||
|align="left"|**Rudy Boesch** <small>72, Virginia Beach, VA</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi||8|||
|align="left"|**Kelly Wiglesworth** <small>22, Las Vegas, NV</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi||0|||
|align="left"|**Richard Hatch** <small>39, Middletown, RI</small>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi||6|||

## Episodes

|rowspan=2|Episode name|rowspan=2|Date shown on TV|colspan=2|Challenges|rowspan=2|Eliminated|rowspan=2|Finish||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|"The Marooning"|align="left"|May 31, 2000|colspan=2 bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja|1st Voted Out Day 3|||
|align="left"|"The Generation Gap"|align="left"|June 7, 2000|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.|2nd Voted Out Day 6|
|align="left"|"Quest for Food"|align="left"|June 14, 2000|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey|3rd Voted Out Day 9|
|align="left"|"Too Little, Too Late?"|align="left"|June 21, 2000|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona|4th Voted Out Day 12|
|align="left"|"Pulling Your Own Weight"|align="left"|June 28, 2000|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk|5th Voted Out Day 15|
|align="left"|"Udder Revenge"|align="left"|July 5, 2000|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Pagong|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Tagi|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel|6th Voted Out Day 18|
|align="left"|"The Merger"|align="left"|July 12, 2000|None|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>|7th Voted Out Day 21||
|align="left"|"Thy Name Is Duplicity"|align="left"|July 19, 2000|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|8th Voted Out Day 24|
|align="left"|"Old and New Bonds"|align="left"|July 26, 2000|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen [Jenna]</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|9th Voted Out Day 27|
|align="left"|"Crack In the Alliance"|align="left"|August 2, 2000|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|10th Voted Out Day 30|
|align="left"|"Long Hard Days"|align="left"|August 9, 2000|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span> <span style="color:white;">[Richard]</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|11th Voted Out Day 33|
|align="left"|"Death of an Alliance"|align="left"|August 16, 2000|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|12th Voted Out Day 36|
|rowspan=4 align="left"|"Season Finale"|rowspan=4 align="left"|August 23, 2000|rowspan=2|None|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|13th Voted Out Day 37|
|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy</span>|14th Voted Out Day 38|||||||
|rowspan=2 colspan=2 bgcolor="darkgray"|Jury Vote|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|Runner-Up|||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|Sole Survivor|||||||||

### Voting history

||colspan=6|Starting tribes|colspan=11|Merged Tribe||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|Episode #:|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|colspan=5|Finale|||||||||||||||||||||
|align="left"|Eliminated:|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja 4/8 votes|bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B. 6/8 votes|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey 5/7 votes|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona 4/7 votes|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk 4/6 votes|bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel 4/6 votes|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen 4/10 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg 6/9 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna 4/8 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase 5/7 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen 4/6 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean 4/5 votes</span>|bgcolor="black"|<span style="color:white;">Tie</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan 2/4 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy 1 vote</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly 3/7 votes</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard 4/7 votes</span>|
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="black"|<span style="color:white;">None</span>||colspan=2 rowspan=2|Jury Vote|||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy</span>||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy</span>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Dirk||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="black"|<span style="color:white;">None</span>|bgcolor="darkgray"|||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=3|||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Colleen</span>||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=4||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Colleen||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Jenna|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Susan</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Sean</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=5||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Gervase</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=6||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Kelly</span>||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Greg</span>||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Jenna||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Jenna</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=7|||bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Richard</span>|||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#04a43c" align="left"|<span style="color:white;">Gretchen</span>||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Joel|bgcolor="#04a43c"|<span style="color:white;">Rudy</span>|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=10|||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#FFE105" align="left"|Joel||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Jenna|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=11|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#ff9900" align="left"|Dirk|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Sonja||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Stacey||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Susan|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=12||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#FFE105" align="left"|Ramona||bgcolor="#FFE105"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Colleen|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=14||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#ff9900" align="left"|Stacey|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy||bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=15|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#FFE105" align="left"|B.B.||bgcolor="#FFE105"|Ramona|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=16|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#ff9900" align="left"|Sonja|bgcolor="#ff9900"|Rudy|bgcolor="darkgray" colspan=17||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

## References

- Notes
- 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.
- 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.
- The first challenge was a combined reward/immunity challenge. The winning team got immunity and waterproof matches.
- 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.
- 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.
- There was no reward challenge because of the tribal merge.
- Richard and Susan were not able to vote in the second Tribal Council vote.

- General

- Specific

## Other websites

- Official CBS Survivor Borneo Website

## Infobox (television survivor)

- **season name**: Survivor: Borneo
- **filming started**: March 13, 2000
- **filming completed**: April 20, 2000
- **location**: Pulau Tiga, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- **winner**: Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant), Richard Hatch
- **final vote**: 4-3
- **number survivors**: 16
- **number days**: 39
- **number episodes**: 13
- **next season**: Survivor: The Australian Outback
- **tribes**: Tagi
 Pagong
 Rattana
- **all stars**: Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant), Richard Hatch,
Rudy Boesch,
Susan Hawk, Susan "Sue" Hawk,
Jenna Lewis