Returning Players/Expedition Robinson

Returning Player seasons offer the opportunity to former contestants to play the game of Expedition Robinson again.
==Origins==
Expected to be the last season of Expedition Robinson, a telephone poll was held for to select 14 veterans to return out of a large pool of previous contestants. Since then, returning players have been featured on 7 more seasons.
===All-Stars===
This format features a full cast of returning players. The only season thus far to feature this format is which featured a cast of players who wanted 'revenge' for their previous mistakes.
===Returning Players v New Players===
This format features former castaways being assigned to one tribe in a season that is otherwise composed entirely of new players.
 featured 14 'Veterans' voted into the game by the public facing off against 10 'Challengers' who were new to the game entirely.
 featured 5 returning players who began the game on The Borderlands before forming their own tribe, the East Team. The rest of the cast were all new players.
===Other Formats===
In , an auction was held on Day 28 where a player was able to claim a sum of money to exit the game. Frida Lundell took this offer and, in return, former contestant Johnny Leinonen was revealed to be her replacement.
When began, a nation-wide competition was held that allowed two contestants to enter as jokers and tribe leaders. The winners of this competition were former contestant Robban Andersson along with his girlfriend Anna Wase.
Former player Nick Söderblom was revealed on Day 1 to be a surprise addition to the cast, starting the game on The Borderlands.
In , three contestants who had been evacuated in the previous season for contracting COVID-19 were given a second chance to play the game, similarly starting on The Borderlands.
Because he had to quit due to a family emergency the last time he played, Pelle Lilja was allowed to return in as a member of The Borderlands.
Contestants Alexander Strandberg and Helen Lindborg were revealed to be starting members of The Borderlands in the upcoming Robinson 2024.
==Returning Players by Season==
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==Trivia==
*Of the 36 returnees, 31 have competed twice, 4 have competed three times and 1 has competed four times.
*Kent Larsen and Pelle Lilja are the only returning players never to be voted out or eliminated in a game-related manner.
**Coincidentally, both men reached the finale of one season and quit another season, albeit in opposite orders.
*Sophie Uppvik and Susanne Rittedal Söderblom currently hold the record for the longest period between appearances on Expedition Robinson, with 13 seasons.
**Sophie, Susanne, and Mia Laaksonen also share the record for the longest period between their original and most recent appearance, all three originally appearing on and then competing on .
*Anna Frycklund is the only player to have attended their first Tribal Council on their second season, having started the game on Exile Island in her first season and being eliminated from both Exile Island and The Borderlands without ever having visited Tribal Council.
**However, Deniz Özen was only able to cast his first Tribal Council vote on his second season due to the pre-merge voting format of .
===Seasons and Twists===
* and currently have the most castaways return in future seasons, with five each.
** and have also introduced the highest number of eventual three-time players, with two each.
* currently has the most returning castaways also return for future seasons, with four.
*Contestants from have returned a combined eight times, the most out of contestants from other seasons.
*Currently, no season has had its winner return for another season.
**However, both Martin Melin from and Mats Kemi from both returned as temporary tribe leaders in .
*Throughout his Expedition Robinson career, Robban Andersson is the only person to compete in all four different types of seasons: an all-new players season, a season with one tribe of returning players, a season with an arbitrary number of returnees, and an all-returnees season.
*Every season prior to has produced at least one returning player.
**However, no players who debuted in or have returned. The only returnees from these seasons were returnees themselves.
*In both seasons featuring a sole tribe of returning players:
**A Tribe Switch occured, creating tribes with both new and returning players.
**The Borderlands was present as a twist.
**The first player with a game-related elimination was a returnee.
***However, although he was eliminated first, Jani Jokinen did not place last like Birgitta Åberg did due to Fran Robles quitting the game prior to Jani's elimination.
*In every season with a mix of both new and returning players, and are the only seasons to have a returnee reach the finale.
**Coincidentally, both seasons had said returnee win the season.
*Robban Andersson has received more votes over his Expedition Robinson career than any other contestant, with 40 total votes.
**Despite competing more seasons than any other contestant, Robban never actually received a vote in .
*Mirre Hammarling is the only contestant in Expedition Robinson history to reach Final Tribal Council (and, by extension, the finale of a season) twice.
**Mirre, Robban Andersson, and Anna Lundh are also the only contestants to reach the final episode of a season twice. However, the latter two were eliminated before making it to Final Tribal Council in at least one of those two seasons.
==References==
Category:Twists
Category:Gameplay
Category:Expedition Robinson
Category:Expedition Robinson 2003
Category:Expedition Robinson 2004
Category:Expedition Robinson 2005
Category:Robinson: Revanschen
Category:Robinson 2019
Category:Robinson 2022
Category:Robinson: Malaysia
Category:Robinson: Philippines
Category:Survivor (franchise)
Category:Survivor International Gameplay
Category:Statistics