Canadian Survivor: Borneo

*****Canadian Survivor: Borneo***** is the second season of *Canadian Survivor*.

Malik Hussain became the very first male and Asian-Canadian male Sole Survivor, defeating Stew Harris in a 4-3 vote.

## Production

After the immensely successful first season, *Canadian Survivor* took the game overseas, to where *Survivor (USA)* launched - on the tiny island of Borneo in the South China Sea. Tribes set up on different beaches to showcase more of the island.

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The sixteen castaways were divided into two tribes of eight.
* **Merged Tribe Composition:** The merged tribe was composed of ten members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** Two finalists faced a jury of seven. The jurors individually addressed the finalists.
* **Tiebreaker:** In an event of a tie vote, a revote would take place. If a deadlock occurs, the votes cast against the players in question from previous Tribal Councils will be taken into account. The castaway that had more votes would be eliminated from the game.

## Season Summary

The sixteen castaways were divided into two tribes, Larai and Ramis. While Larai began the game strong by winning the first Immunity Challenge, Ramis quickly rebounded and won four of the six Immunity Challenges, reducing Larai to four members. Meltdowns and fights dictates the pre-merge, as both tribes worked for tribal unity.

On Day 19, tribes merged into Satu, Ramis entering with a 6-4 advantage. Finley feeling left out of Ramis joined Larai to force a 5-5 stalemate between Ting and Stew, but Finley wasn't prepared for the deadlock and flipped his vote, bounding the former Larai to extinction. Four of the six former Ramis, Diane, Malik, Mili and Stew, became the deciding factor in most of the votes, even eliminating to of their own when they could afford to before finishing off the remaining Larai to make themselves the final four castaways. Stew, who had dominated in the challenges and was known for his chivalry, chose the strategic genius, Malik, over the flip-flopping Mili, sending the latter to the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury was torn between Stew's six challenge wins and Malik's quiet control over the Ramis Five Alliance. In the end, with four votes to three, Malik's strategy won him the title of Sole Survivor.

## Trivia

* *Borneo* is the first season to be set on the Asian continent.
* *Borneo* is the first season in which the first two eliminated contestants are of the same gender.
* The Ramis tribe won the four challenges in a row, setting the record for most consecutive tribal challenges won. This record stood until the Arusha tribe in *Tanzania* topped this feat by winning ten challenges in a row.
* *Borneo* is the first season of *Canadian Survivor* to have a Final Two without any evacuation or quit.
* *Borneo* is the first to have two men in the Final Two.
* *Borneo* is the first season in which the winner was decided by one vote.
* After Malik was voted out on *Solomon Islands*, all of the castaways from *Borneo* have been voted out at some point. Becoming the first season to gain this distinction. It would be followed by *Bahamas* and *Egypt*.
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*Kootenays* • ***Borneo*** • *Tanzania* • *New Caledonia* • *India* • *Peru*

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*Solomon Islands* • *Bahamas* • *Greece* • *Marshall Islands* • *Belize* • *Egypt*

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*Norway* • *Dominica* • *Japan* • *Tonga* • *Madagascar*