Survivor: Vanuatu
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| Survivor: Vanuatu | |
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| Filming Location | Vanuatu |
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| Winner | Chris Daugherty (5-2) |
| Season run | 2004-09-16 – 2004-12-12 |
| Filming Dates | 2004-06-28 – 2004-08-05 |
| Number of episodes | 14 |
| Number of days | 39 |
| Number of survivors | 18 |
| Tribes | Lopevi Yasur Alinta |
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| Previous season | Survivor: All-Stars |
| Next season | Survivor: Palau |
Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire is the ninth installment of the reality television game show series Survivor. Filmed in summer 2004, the game took place on Vanuatu, a chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific. Survivor: Vanuatu debuted on September 16, 2004. Also debuting that day was Survivor Live, an hour-long Internet talk show hosted by the original Sole Survivor Richard Hatch and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Chris Booker. The talk show, airing every Thursday and Friday on the CBS website, interviews former contestants and reviews the players' gameplay. On December 12, 2004, Chris Daugherty became the Sole Survivor of the Vanuatu series. The DVD for this season was released on December 5, 2006.
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[edit] Contestants
For the first time outside of the All Star edition that preceded it, there were 18 contestants. In the first seven seasons, there were only 16 contestants. This was the second season to initially divide the tribes by gender. It was also the first season to feature an amputee (Chad Crittenden, who had lost a foot to cancer).
The season began like Survivor: The Amazon in that the tribes were divided by gender. The male tribe was Lopevi; the female tribe was Yasur, after Mount Yasur. On Day 11, there was a "tribal shuffle" like in other seasons, which ended up moving two people from each tribe over to the other tribe.
On Day 20, the tribes were merged; the tribe was christened Alinta, a name proposed by Scout meaning "people of fire".
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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| They Came at Us With Spears | 2004-09-16 | Yasur | Yasur | Brook Geraghty | Lopevi | Voted out 1st - Day 3 | ||
| Burly Girls, Bowheads, Young Studs and the Old Bunch | 2004-09-23 | Yasur | Lopevi | Dolly Neely | Yasur | Voted out 2nd - Day 6 | ||
| Double Tribal, Double Trouble | 2004-09-30 | Lopevi | John Kenney | John "J.P." Palyok | Lopevi | Voted out 3rd - Day 7 | ||
| Mia Galeotalanza | Yasur | Voted out 4th - Day 7 | ||||||
| Now That's a Reward | 2004-10-07 | Yasur | Yasur | Brady Finta | Lopevi | Voted out 5th - Day 10 | ||
| Earthquakes and Shake Ups! | 2004-10-14 | Lopevi | Lopevi | Travis "Bubba" Sampson | Lopevi | Yasur | Voted out 6th - Day 12 | |
| Hog Tied | 2004-10-21 | Lopevi | Lopevi | Lisa Keiffer | Yasur | Yasur | Voted out 7th - Day 15 | |
| Anger Threats, Tears...and Coffee | 2004-10-28 | Yasur | Yasur | John Kenney | Lopevi | Lopevi | Voted out 8th - Day 18 | |
| Now the Battle Really Begins | 2004-11-04 | Lopevi | Sarge | Rory Freeman | Lopevi | Yasur | Alinta | Voted out 9th - Day 21 |
| Gender Wars ... And It's Getting Ugly | 2004-11-11 | Leann | Ami | Lea "Sarge" Masters | Lopevi | Lopevi | Voted out 10th - Day 24 | |
| Culture Shock and Violent Storms | 2004-11-18 | Chad, Chris, Eliza, Ami | Twila | Chad Crittenden | Lopevi | Lopevi | Voted out 11th - Day 27 | |
| Surprise! And... Surprise Again! | 2004-11-25 | Eliza | Ami | Leann Slaby | Yasur | Yasur | Voted out 12th - Day 30 | |
| Now Who's in Charge Here?! | 2004-12-02 | Eliza(Car), Ami, Chris | Chris | Ami Cusack | Yasur | Yasur | Voted out 13th - Day 33 | |
| Eruptions of a Volcanic Magnitude! | 2004-12-09 | Julie | Eliza | Julie Berry | Yasur | Lopevi | Voted out 14th - Day 36 | |
| Spirits and the Final Four | 2004-12-12 | Chris | Eliza Orlins | Yasur | Yasur | Voted out 15th - Day 37 | ||
| Chris | Scout Cloud Lee | Yasur | Yasur | Voted out 16th - Day 38 | ||||
| The Reunion | 2004-12-12 | Twila Tanner | Yasur | Lopevi | Runner-up | |||
| Chris Daugherty | Lopevi | Lopevi | Sole Survivor | |||||
[edit] Elimination notes
- Brook - After the male tribe (Lopevi) had lost the first Immunity Challenge, the four young and athletic men immediately wanted to eliminate Chris, one of the five older men in the tribe. The young men saw Chris as their weakest link that had caused Lopevi to fall behind in the challenge and lost. However, the five older men felt that their best chance at winning the game was by sticking together and voting out the young men before a tribal shuffle or merge. The older men formed the "Fat Five" alliance and voted out Brook, one of the young men.
- Dolly - Dolly, a young farmgirl who was friendly with the older women in the female tribe (Yasur), was caught between the opposing alliances of five "youngins" (including Dolly) and four older women. Dolly indecisively wavered among several possible elimination targets and would not commit to a firm voting decision. When Eliza, another youngin, found out that Dolly intended to play both sides and could possibly vote with the older women against her in the next Tribal Council, Eliza betrayed her youngin alliance and joined the older women to pre-emptively vote out Dolly.
- John P. - The "Fat Five" alliance continued to vote out another young and athletic man, John P., in a double Tribal Council in which both tribes had to eliminate a member.
- Mia - At the Yasur camp, Mia (a youngin) became confrontational with Twila (an older woman.) While the youngins and older woman alliances held at 4 and 4, Lisa, the eldest woman in the youngin alliance, became distrustful of Eliza due to Eliza's earlier betrayal of Dolly. Lisa switched sides to join the older woman alliance and voted out Mia.
- Brady - Yet another young and athletic man, Brady became the third casualty of the "Fat Five" alliance.
- Travis - After a tribal shuffle, two males, Travis and Rory, landed in the female-ruled Yasur tribe. Travis and Rory felt that their new tribe did not accept them, and Travis worried that the women would eliminate the two male minority and make the tribal merge with majority. When the two tribes met again at the next immunity challenge, Travis attempted to send a signal to warn the male-ruled Lopevi tribe to get rid of their female members before the merge, and Ami caught him. Although the Yasur women had originally planned to vote out Rory first, Ami led the women to vote out Travis.
- Lisa - Lisa made a comment that she would like Ami to show her where to find maniocs in case that Ami would not be around, leading Ami to assert that Lisa was sneaky and disloyal towards her. Lisa's past actions had also come back to haunt her as she was seen as someone who was untrustworthy and would betray anyone to get ahead in the game. Although Ami had told Rory that he would be going, Ami changed her decision and led the women to vote out Lisa at Tribal Council.
- John K. - As a merge was coming, the four remaining "Fat Five" members in Lopevi felt that they could trust their two female tribemates (Julie and Twila) but not John K., the last young and athletic man. Lea, Chad, and Chris made a promise to Twila that they would ally with her after the merge. Julie, wanting to protect herself, told Twila in a private conversation that the three men made the same promise to her (which they hadn't). This planted a seed of doubt in Twila as to whether or not to stay with the men. Julie also began to openly flirt (mainly with Lea), at one point taking off her swimsuit while sunbathing with the men so she could tan her back. John K. become very distrustful of the older men after they had systematically eliminated all other young men, and the older men didn't like his laziness, so he was the next to go. It would have been more advantageous to eliminate Julie (or Twila), so that there would be five men and five women after the merge, but it didn't work out that way.
- Rory - At the merge, Ami and Julie enticed Twila to betray Lopevi. Julie and Twila joined the Yasur women to form a six-woman alliance and pick off the four men one-by-one. Because the male leader and original target (Lea) won Individual Immunity, the women voted out another man, Rory, and blindsided the men at Tribal Council.
- Lea - Lea was the next man in line and the strongest challenge threat. Chris, knowing that it's hopeless to stay with the dwindling men, joined the women in voting off Lea. In Chris' dramatic voting confession, he said that his vote was for, not against, Lea, and he swore that he would find a backdoor to the woman alliance and burn all the women to avenge Lea.
- Chad - Continuing the elimination of the men, Chad was voted off after Ami maneuvered to keep the woman alliance's momentum going. Most noteworthy is that, after everybody got back to camp after Lea was voted out at Tribal Council, Chris stated that Lea whispered and told him on to go ahead and vote for him while they were walking to the Council site (which was a lie). This turned out to buy Chris some time, as either he or Chad were next to go. Also, Scout's and Twila's plan to turn the tables on Ami and Leann actually took root in this episode; they at first invited Chad and Chris to join them. However, Twila and Scout could not convince either Julie or Eliza to go along with it and neither wanted to risk a tie vote at Tribal Council, and so they continued to vote with the rest of the women.
- Leann - In a surprise twist, Leann got voted off due to two main factors: (1) Twila and Scout's decision to overturn Ami and Leann's cocky and dictatorial leadership after Ami and Leann told Scout that they had excluded Scout from their Final Four plan, and (2) Ami and Leann's decision to vote out Eliza before Chris because they felt he was more deserving than her. Although Scout and Twila hated Eliza and vice versa, Chris persuaded Eliza to joined him, Twila and Scout to save herself from being eliminated next. When Ami won Individual Immunity, the four ragtag rebels came together to target her loyal ally, Leann. The four overpowered the other three female votes for Eliza. The most powerful woman alliance in Survivor history crumbled as Leann was voted off and Ami was blindsided.
- Ami - Chris, Scout and Twila again banded together to usurp Ami, the "Queen" of the former six-woman alliance. Ami tried to save herself in the game by attempting to convince Eliza to reform the alliance between the two of them and Julie. As the swing vote, Eliza again joined Chris, Scout, and Twila due to her fear of a "Purple Rock" scenario in case of a tie at Tribal Council. The Queen of the woman alliance was dethroned by 4-2 votes. In case of a deadlock tie, everyone whose name did not appear on the vote ballots would have to randomly draw rocks from a bag, and the unlucky person who drew the color rock (aka the "Purple Rock of Death") would be eliminated.
- Julie - The four-person alliance that overthrew Ami and Leann began to splinter as the two remaining youngins (Eliza and Julie) realigned themselves against the two remaining older women (Scout and Twila). Chris seized control of the game and became the swing vote at the Tribal Council. He joined Scout and Twila to vote out Julie because she led the betrayal of the Lopevi men and was too well-liked by Ami and Leann on the jury.
- Eliza - Chris again joined Scout and Twila to vote out Eliza, breaking his promise to her, because she would be too strong a physical and mental threat for the Final Immunity Challenge.
- Scout - After winning the Final Immunity, Chris eliminated Scout and chose Twila for the Final Two because he had a Final Two agreement with Twila and he believed he could more easily defeat Twila.
- Twila - Prior to facing the Final Tribal Council, Chris prepared Twila for the jury by telling her not to "not take any crap" from the jury, and he told Twila that he would do the same. At the council, Eliza demanded apologies from Twila and Chris. Twila followed Chris' suggestion and got into an angry argument with Eliza, but Chris readily apologized to Eliza for breaking their pact. Twila lost Eliza's jury vote for insulting Eliza. She lost the two male jury members' votes for betraying Lopevi at the merge. She lost Leann's jury vote for swearing on her son's name and then betraying the women's alliance. She received two jury votes from Ami (who thought that Twila was being honest to the jury and Chris wasn't) and Scout (who had an alliance with Twila since the day 1.)
- Chris - Received five jury votes (at least four out of seven needed to win) at the Final Tribal Council to become the Sole Survivor. The two male jury members (Lea and Chad) and Leann were impressed that he became the last man standing to break through the female alliance of six women. The two men also voted against Twila for betraying them at the merge. Eliza voted against Twila because Twila insulted her in front of the jury and then refused to apologize to her. Julie voted for Chris because he apologized to her for hurting her feelings. Chris won the game by 5-2 votes.
Note: The "Fat Five" alliance consisted of Sarge (Lea), Rory, Bubba (Travis), Chad, and Chris.
[edit] Voting History
Here is a chart showing who voted for who at each tribal council. Here is how tribes will be indicated:
Beginning of game - Episode 4: The person's name will indicate whether they were male or female, thus indicated Lopevi or Yasur. If the person did not make it to Episode 5, their background will be red (indicating Lopevi) or yellow (indicating Yasur).
Episode 5 - Merge: Red signifies Lopevi; yellow signifies Yasur.
Merge - Orange (Alinta)
Black squares signify that that person has been voted out.
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| Episode: | Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Episode 13 | Episode 14 | Third Place | Runner- Up |
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| Eliminated: | Brook 5/9 votes |
Dolly 5/9 votes |
John P 5/8 votes |
Brady 6/7 votes |
Travis 6/7 votes |
Lisa 4/6 votes |
John K 5/6 votes |
Rory 6/10 votes |
Lea 7/9 votes |
Chad 6/8 votes |
Leann 4/7 votes |
Ami 4/6 votes |
Julie 3/5 votes |
Eliza 3/4 votes |
Scout 1 vote |
Twila 2/7 jury votes |
Chris 5/7 jury votes |
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[edit] Trivia
- It was recently discovered Chris lied to get time off work to be on Survivor, saying he was depressed.
[edit] External link
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| Seasons |
| Borneo (2000) · Australia (2001) · Africa (2001) · Marquesas (2002) Thailand (2002) · Amazon (2003) · Pearl Islands (2003) · All-Stars (2004) Vanuatu (2004) · Palau (2005) · Guatemala (2005) · Panama (2006) Cook Islands (2006) · Fiji (2007) · Survivor 15 (TBA) |
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