Gabon
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Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor. The premiere aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back.
Applications were due on January 24, 2008. Around March 2008, 800 applicants were selected for an interview by CBS. Out of these 800, about 48 semi-finalists were selected to go to Los Angeles sometime during April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late June and mid-July 2008. This season, players sent to Exile Island will have a choice of receiving a clue to the location of a Hidden Immunity Idol or a comfort item.
On April 13, 2008 at the annual National Association of Broadcasters's NAB Show, it was announced that the 17th season would be the first to be shot in high definition, using Sony XDCAMs.
Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June. It marked the second season of the series that was filmed in Africa, after Survivor: Africa was filmed seven years prior in Kenya. Reports from Gabon indicate the show was filmed around the coastal towns of Nyonie and Ekwata in the Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve.
Host Jeff Probst mentioned that preproduction of the series was plagued by shipment delays, a crane toppling over and undesirable wild animals encroaching into the production area.
[edit] Contestants
| Contestant | Original Tribe | First Switch | Second Switch | Merged Tribe | Finish | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Chase | Fang | 1st Voted Out Day 3 | 8 | |||
| Gillian Larson | Fang | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 | 8 | |||
| Paloma Soto-Castillo | Kota | 3rd Voted Out Day 9 | 7 | |||
| Jacquie Berg | Kota | Fang | 4th Voted Out Day 12 | 5 | ||
| Danny "G.C." Brown | Fang | Fang | 5th Voted Out Day 15 | 6 | ||
| Kelly Czarnecki | Kota | Fang | 6th Voted Out Day 18 | 8 | ||
| Ace Gordon | Kota | Fang | 7th Voted Out Day 21 | 5 | ||
| Dan Kay | Fang | Kota | 8th Voted Out Day 21 | 4 | ||
| Marcus Lehman | Kota | Kota | Kota | 9th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24 | 3 | |
| Charlie Herschel | Kota | Kota | Fang | Nobag | 10th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27 | 5 |
| Randy Bailey | Fang | Kota | Fang | 11th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30 | 5 | |
| Corinne Kaplan | Kota | Kota | Fang | 12th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33 | 4 | |
| Crystal Cox | Fang | Fang | Kota | 13th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36 | 11 | |
| Ken "Kenny" Hoang | Fang | Fang | Kota | 14th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37 | 7 | |
| Matty Whitmore | Fang | Fang | Fang | 15th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38 | 5 | |
| Jessica "Sugar" Kiper | Kota | Fang | Fang | 2nd Runner-Up | 0 | |
| Susie Smith | Fang | Kota | Kota | Runner-Up | 7 | |
| Robert "Bob" Crowley | Kota | Kota | Kota | Sole Survivor | 2 |
- The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.
