Survivor: Panama
Season	12
Filming Location	Pearl Islands, Panama
Season Run	February 2, 2006 – May 14, 2006
Filming Dates	October 31, 2005 – December 8, 2005
Survivors	16
Winner	Aras Baskauskas
Runner(s)-up	Danielle DiLorenzo
Tribes	██ Bayoneta ██ Casaya ██ La Mina ██ Viveros ██ Gitanos
Opening Sequence
Series Chronology
Previous Season	Guatemala
Next Season	Cook Islands

Survivor: Panama - Exile Island is the 12th season of Survivor.

Production/CastingEdit

Applications were due on June 17, 2005. Around August 2005, 800 applicants were invited for an interview by CBS. Out of these 800, 48 of them were selected as semi-finalists and they were invited to Los Angeles in September 2005. From these semi-finalists, 16 were chosen the show and filming took place in November to December 2005.

Twists/ChangesEdit

• Exile Island: After a Reward Challenge, players may banish a player from the rival tribe to Exile Island. This island (entirely separate from the existing camps) will force the banished player to fend for him/herself until the upcoming Immunity Challenge (unless stated otherwise). The player would not be left in despair, for he/she will be given clues to a Hidden Immunity Idol that is hidden somewhere on the island.
• Rehashed Hidden Immunity Idol Mechanism: Unlike the previous season where the Hidden Immunity Idol is used like the Immunity Necklace, the mechanism of using the Idol was now changed. Instead of revealing the Idol before voting, the owner must draw it when he/she had enough votes to eliminate him/her. The votes cast against that player will be considered spoilt, while the person that gets the second highest amount of votes will be eliminated instead. The Idol is useable until the Day 36 Tribal Council.
• Four Tribes: For the first time in the series, the castaways were divided in four tribes of four.
• Tribe Division: These four tribes are defined according to age and gender, thus having tribes of Older Men (La Mina), Younger Men (Viveros), Younger Women (Bayoneta), and Older Women (Casaya)
• Tribe Shuffle: On Day 4, the tribes were mixed up. Viveros and Bayoneta were disbanded, while the contestants were randomly divided into the new Casaya and La Mina tribes. But because of odd numbers, the last unpicked player was sent to Exile Island and was given immunity. He/she will stay there until the tribe that loses the next Immunity Challenge already finished the task of voting out one of their own. After the vote, the exiled player will join that tribe.

CastawaysEdit

Contestant		Original Tribe	Switched Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Votes Against
	Tina Scheer 44, Hayward, WI	Casaya			1st Voted Out Day 3	3
	Melinda Hyder 32, Sevierville, TN	Casaya	Casaya		2nd Voted Out Day 6	5
	Misty Giles 24, Dallas, TX	Bayoneta	La Mina		3rd Voted Out Day 8	5
	Ruth-Marie Milliman 48, Greenville, SC	Casaya	La Mina		4th Voted Out Day 11	6
	Bobby Mason 32, Los Angeles, CA	Viveros	Casaya		5th Voted Out Day 14	3
	Dan Barry 51, South Hadley, MA	La Mina	La Mina		6th Voted Out Day 15	3
	Nick Stanbury 25, Tempe, AZ	Viveros	La Mina	Gitanos	7th Voted Out Day 18	6
	Austin Carty 24, High Point, NC	Viveros	La Mina		8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 21	7
	Sally Schumann 27, Chicago, IL	Bayoneta	La Mina		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 24	8
	Bruce Kanegai 57, Simi Valley, CA	La Mina	Casaya		Evacuated 3rd Jury Member Day 25	2
	Courtney Marit 31, Los Angeles, CA	Bayoneta	Casaya		10th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 30	4
	Shane Powers 35, Los Angeles, CA	La Mina	Casaya		11th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 33	9
	Cirie Fields 35, Walterboro, SC	Casaya	Casaya		12th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 36	3
	Terry Deitz 46, Simsbury, CT	La Mina	La Mina		13th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	1
	Danielle DiLorenzo 24, Pompano Beach, FL	Bayoneta	Casaya		Runner-Up	4
	Aras Baskauskas 24, Santa Monica, CA	Viveros	Casaya		Sole Survivor	9

Season SummaryEdit

Episode GuideEdit

Notes:

^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.
^2 With a deadlock tie between Cirie and Danielle, a fire-making challenge was held to determine the elimination, which Cirie lost.

Voting HistoryEdit

Survivor: Panama Voting History
		Original Tribes	Switched Tribes					Merged Tribe
Episode #:		1	2	3	4	5	6	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Eliminated:		Tina	Melinda	Misty	Ruth-Marie	Bobby	Dan	Nick	Austin	Sally	Bruce	Courtney	Shane	Cirie	Terry	Danielle	Aras
Vote:		3-1	5-2	5-2	4-2	3-2-1-1	3-1	6-4	6-3	6-2	No Vote	3-2-1	3-1-1	2-2	1-0	5-2
►►	Aras	—	Melinda	—	—	Bruce	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	—	Courtney	Shane	Danielle	—	Jury Vote
►►	Danielle	—	Melinda	—	—	Bobby	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	—	Courtney	Shane	Cirie	Terry
►►	Terry	—	—	Misty	Ruth-Marie	—	Dan	Shane	Aras	Aras	—	Aras	Aras	Cirie	—		Aras
►►	Cirie	Tina	Shane	—	—	Bobby	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	—	Courtney	Shane	Danielle			Aras
►►	Shane	—	Melinda	—	—	Aras	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	—	Danielle	Danielle			Danielle
►►	Courtney	—	Melinda	—	—	Bobby	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	—	Aras					Aras
►►	Bruce	—	Exiled	—	—	Courtney	—	Nick	Austin	Sally	Evacuated					Danielle
►►	Sally	—	—	Ruth-Marie	Ruth-Marie	—	Exiled	Shane	Aras	Aras							Aras
►►	Austin	—	—	Misty	Ruth-Marie	—	Dan	Shane	Aras								Aras
►►	Nick	—	—	Misty	Ruth-Marie	—	Dan	shane
►	Dan	—	—	Misty	Sally	—	Austin
►	Bobby	—	Melinda	—	—	Bruce
►	Ruth-Marie	Tina	—	Misty	Sally
►	Misty	—	—	Ruth-Marie
►	Melinda	Tina	Shane
	Tina	Cirie

Notes:

• With a deadlock tie between Cirie and Danielle, a fire-making challenge was held to determine the elimination, which Cirie lost.

TriviaEdit

• All four original tribes were represented in the final 4.
• This is the first season to have Exile Island as a season-long twist.
• This season's eliminations occurred in a pattern. The first four were women, the next four were men, and the rest alternated between women and men.
• This season has the fewest castaways comprising their original tribes with 4.
• Each of the final 3 won Individual Immunity. Terry won the first 5, then Aras won 1, and Danielle won the last immunity challenge.
• This season ties with Survivor: Cook Islands for the most starting tribes with 4.
• First season to have an episode end with a Tribal Council vote, but no elimination, as Call the Whambulence! ended with Danielle and Cirie preparing to start the fire-building tiebreaker, but its result was not featured until the finale.
• This season marks the second time the youngest castaway in the game won, the first being Jenna Morasca of Survivor: The Amazon.
• First season to have a contestant (Terry) find a Hidden Immunity Idol at Exile Island.
• This is the second season with an evacuation.
• This is the second season to have an episode end To Be Continued, following Survivor: Pearl Islands
• This was the last season in which the first person voted out of the merged tribe wasn't a member of the jury, until Survivor: Caramoan. 

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External linksEdit

Survivor Seasons
Borneo · The Australian Outback · Africa · Marquesas · Thailand · The Amazon · Pearl Islands · All-Stars · Vanuatu · Palau · Guatemala · Panama · Cook Islands · Fiji · China · Micronesia · Gabon · Tocantins · Samoa · Heroes vs Villains · Nicaragua · Redemption Island · South Pacific · One World · Philippines · Caramoan · Blood vs Water