Survivor: The Amazon

Survivor: The Amazon
Season Information
Season No.	6
Filming Dates	November 7, 2002 – December 15, 2002
Season Run	February 13, 2003 – May 11, 2003
Winner	Jenna Morasca
Viewership (in Millions)	19.97

Survivor: The Amazon is the sixth season of the reality show Survivor.

The winner was Jenna Morasca, a 21-year-old swimsuit model from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who defeated Matthew von Ertfelda by a vote of 6-1. The live season finale, including the announcement of the winner and a live reunion of all the season's contestants, took place at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, on David Letterman's Late Show stage, which was decorated to look like the set in the Amazon. The live reunion was supposed to be held at Madison Square Garden, but due to heavy rain and lack of roof, the set was immediately changed.

The season is noted for having the first reality show contestant with a disability, the hearing impaired Christy Smith.

Development

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Twists/Changes

• Battle of the Sexes: For the first time, the castaways are divided into tribes based on gender.
• Tribe Switch: After 13 days of gender wars, three members from both tribes were sent to the other tribe, creating mixed tribes.

Castaways

Contestant		Tribe Affiliation			Finish	Votes Against
		Original Tribe	Switched Tribe	Merged Tribe
File:S6 ryan t.jpg	Ryan Aiken 23, Ellicott City, MD	Tambaqui			1st Voted Out Day 3	4
File:S6 janet t.jpg	Janet Koth 46, Manchester, MO	Jaburu			2nd Voted Out Day 6	5
File:S6 daniel t.jpg	Daniel Lue 26, Houston, TX	Tambaqui			3rd Voted Out Day 9	7
File:S6 joanna t.jpg	Joanna Ward 31, Orangeburg, SC	Jaburu			4th Voted Out Day 12	4
File:S6 jeanne t.jpg	Jeanne Hebert 40, North Attleboro, MA	Jaburu	Tambaqui		5th Voted Out Day 15	5
File:S6 shawna t.jpg	Shawna Mitchell 23, Redwood City, CA	Jaburu	Jaburu		6th Voted Out Day 18	6
File:S6 roger t.jpg	Roger Sexton 56, Valencia, CA	Tambaqui	Tambaqui	Jacaré	7th Voted Out Day 21	11
File:S6 dave t.jpg	Dave Johnson 23, Pasadena, CA	Tambaqui	Tambaqui		8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	8
File:S6 deena t.jpg	Deena Bennett 35, Riverside, CA	Jaburu	Jaburu		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	6
File:S6 alex t.jpg	Alex Bell 32, Los Angeles, CA	Tambaqui	Jaburu		10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	6
File:S6 christy t.jpg	Christy Smith 24, Basalt, CO	Jaburu	Tambaqui		11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	9
File:S6 heidi t.jpg	Heidi Strobel 24, Buffalo, MO	Jaburu	Tambaqui		12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	3
File:S6 butch t.jpg	Butch Lockley 50, Olney, IL	Tambaqui	Tambaqui		13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	5
File:S6 rob t.jpg	Rob Cesternino 24, Wantagh, NY	Tambaqui	Jaburu		14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	4
File:S6 matthew t.jpg	Matthew von Ertfelda 33, Washington, D.C.	Tambaqui	Jaburu		Runner-Up	6
File:S6 jenna t.jpg	Jenna Morasca 21, Pittsburgh, PA	Jaburu	Jaburu		Sole Survivor	3

Season Summary

The season began with the contestants divided into tribes split by gender for the first time in Survivor history. The all-male Tambaqui tribe flourished early on, creating a sturdy shelter and fire during the first two days, while the all-female Jaburu tribe couldn't get anything done. This early success led the men to believe they would easily beat the women in challenges as well. However, the Tambaqui tribe lost to Jaburu at the inaugural Immunity Challenge. The men blamed Ryan Aiken and Daniel Lue for the loss and eliminated them in their first Tribal Councils. Despite winning four out of the first five challenges, Jaburu quickly became a very dysfunctional tribe. Janet Koth, the eldest member of the women's tribe, began to weaken, and the discovery of a Granola bar wrapper in their tribe crate led to further controversy around her and to her elimination. After Tambaqui lost another Immunity Challenge, Daniel was voted out due to his lack of cohesiveness and work ethic. As the women lost once more, the tribal numbers were evened out after Joanna Ward's elimination.

On Day 13, the youngest members of both tribes (Dave Johnson and Jenna Morasca) traveled to an isolated location to act as ambassadors for their tribes. The next day, they were forced to choose new tribes, equally distributing the men and the women. After the picks were made, Tambaqui consisted of Dave, Butch Lockley, Roger Sexton, Jeanne Hebert, Christy Smith, and Heidi Strobel, while Jaburu consisted of Jenna, Deena Bennett, Shawna Mitchell, Alex Bell, Rob Cesternino, and Matthew von Ertfelda. Losing their first Immunity Challenge as a new tribe, Tambaqui was split through gender lines until Heidi jumped ship. Holding a grudge against Jeanne, she helped the men to vote her out. After the Tribe Switch, Shawna, who was depressed and even considered quitting, sparked up, but it wasn't enough to convince Jenna, Deena, Rob and Matthew that she will be with them for the rest of the game. Shawna became the last person to be voted out before the merge.

The merge occurred on Day 19, and the new tribe got the name Jacaré. Entering the merge, the men had the numbers needed to eliminate all the women, which led to Roger becoming overconfident. Deena and Rob, however, had other plans, instigating a continuation of the new Jaburu tribe, picking up the two remaining women; Heidi and Christy, from Tambaqui. The new alliance decided to eliminate the bossy and chauvinistic Roger immediately, so he will not be on the Jury (they were sure Roger would never vote for a woman to win). Roger, who never saw it coming, was sent home at the first post-merge Tribal Council. Dave, who was a physical threat, was sent home next.

Convinced she had control over the game, Deena proceeded to change the pecking order from Butch to Alex - another physical threat. Unaware of the control Alex had over the women, Deena approached Jenna, Heidi, Christy, and Rob with her new plan, convincing Christy, but leaving Jenna and Heidi shocked. They immediately turned to Alex to inform him of the betrayal. Alex, in turn, organized a counter-blindside, pulling in the remaining men, along with Heidi and Jenna. Rob, Butch, and Matthew could have turned either way, and thus found themselves in a powerful position, with Rob dictating the moves. He eventually sided with Alex and took out Deena, much to her surprise.

With Deena gone, Alex was convinced he was solid in an alliance of four with Jenna, Heidi, and Rob. Valuing his friendship with Rob, he revealed to him that his plan was to vote him out once at the final four, to avoid a tie with Heidi and Jenna. Rob, offended, rallied a counter-alliance with Matthew, Butch and Christy, against Alex, and voted him out, leaving Heidi and Jenna in the minority for the first time. Christy then became a swing vote with the men and women vying for her support. Her indecisiveness, however, cost her, and when she failed to give Rob a straight answer about her vote, he approached Jenna and Heidi, and turned them against her. Still in the majority, Rob and his alliance eliminated Heidi, leaving Jenna the last woman in the game, and without an alliance.

By Day 37, knowing it was do or die, Jenna won the next two Immunity Challenges, forcing the men to turn on each other. Faced with a choice of avenging Alex and Heidi by eliminating Rob or disposing of an ever deteriorating Butch (whose obsession with collecting firewood led to a fire, that completely destroyed the camp), Jenna sided with Rob and Matthew to send Butch to the Jury. At the final Immunity Challenge, Matthew threw the challenge hoping he would be judged as less of a threat to Rob and Jenna. Rob tried to convince Jenna that if he win, he would take her but Jenna wouldn't budge. In the end Jenna won the final immunity and despite stating she would take the strongest oppenent, she cast her vote for Rob who became the last jury member.

Facing the Jury, Matthew was praised for his unmatched survival skills and strong work ethic, but he was castigated for hypocrisy and lack of strategic gameplay for the majority of the game, combined with his poor answers to the Jury. On the other hand, Jenna was criticized for her lack of work ethic, snobbish demeanor, and lack of desire to win in the earlier part of the game; however, she was seen as playing the game more strategically from the beginning and having better relations on the Jury. As a result, Jenna was crowned as the sixth Sole Survivor in a lopsided 6-1 vote, only losing Butch's vote.

Episode Guide

Episode		Air date	Challenges		Eliminated (Vote)	Finish	Viewers (in millions)	Rating/Share (18-49)
			Reward	Immunity
1	"Boys vs Girls"	February 13, 2003	None	Jaburu	Ryan (4-3-1)	1st Voted Out Day 3	23.30	9.1/24
2	"Storms"	February 20, 2003	Jaburu	Tambaqui	Janet (5-1-1-1)	2nd Voted Out Day 6	20.30	7.7/19
3	"Girl Power"	February 27, 2003	Jaburu	Jaburu	Daniel (6-1)	3rd Voted Out Day 9	22.40	8.4.22
4	"Trapped"	March 6, 2003	Tambaqui		JoAnna (4-2-1)	4th Voted Out Day 12	23.30	9.3/23
			Tambaqui1
5	"Pick-Up Sticks"	March 13, 2003	None	Jaburu	Jeanne (4-2)	5th Voted Out Day 15	21.10	8.1/21
6	"More than Meats the Eye"	March 19, 2003	Tambaqui	Tambaqui	Shawna (4-2)	6th Voted Out Day 18	16.40	6.1/14
7	"Girls Gone Wilder"	March 26, 2003	None	Deena	Roger (7-3)	7th Voted Out Day 21	16.70	6.3/16
8	"Sleeping with the Enemy"	April 3, 2003	Dave [Deena]	Jenna	Dave (8-1)	8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	19.80	7.3/19
9	"The Chain"	April 10, 2003	Alex [Jenna]	Matthew	Deena (6-2)	9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	19.10	7.1/20
10	"The First 27 Days"	April 17, 2003	Recap Episode				N/A	N/A
11	"Q and A"	April 24, 2003	Survivor Auction	Rob	Alex (4-3)	10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	18.09	6.5/19
12	"Sour Grapes"	May 1, 2003	Matthew [Butch, Christy, Heidi, Jenna, Rob]	Jenna (Heidi)2	Christy (4-2)	11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	17.70	6.5/19
13	"The Amazon Heats Up"	May 8, 2003	Matthew [Rob]	Matthew	Heidi (3-2)	12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	19.00	7.0/20
14	"And Then There Were Four"	May 11, 2003	None	Jenna	Butch (3-1)	13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	22.3	8.9/22
				Jenna	Rob (1-0)	14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38
			Jury Vote		Matthew (6-1)	Runner-Up
					Jenna (6-1)	Sole Survivor
15	"Reunion"						17.60	8.2/21
Notes: ^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge. ^2 Jenna gave up her immunity to Heidi at Tribal Council.

Voting History

		Original Tribes				Switched Tribes		Merged Tribe
Episode		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	11	12	13	14
Voted Out		Ryan	Janet	Daniel	JoAnna	Jeanne	Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Alex	Christy	Heidi	Butch	Rob	Matthew	Jenna
Vote		4-3-1	5-1-1-1	6-1	4-2-1	4-2	4-2	7-3	8-1	6-2	4-3	4-2	3-2	3-1	1-01	6-1
►►	Jenna	—	Janet	—	JoAnna	—	Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew	Christy	Rob	Butch	Rob	Jury Vote
►►	Matthew	Roger	—	Daniel	—	—	Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Alex	Christy	Heidi	Butch	None
►►	Rob	Ryan	—	Daniel	—	—	Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Alex	Christy	Heidi	Butch	None		Jenna
►►	Butch	Ryan	—	Daniel	—	Jeanne	—	Christy	Dave	Deena	Alex	Jenna	Heidi	Rob		Matthew
►►	Heidi	—	Janet	—	JoAnna	Jeanne	—	Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew	Christy	Rob				Jenna
►►	Christy	—	Jenna	—	JoAnna	Butch	—	Roger	Dave	Alex	Alex	Jenna					Jenna
►►	Alex	Ryan	—	Daniel	—	—	Matthew	Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew						Jenna
►►	Deena	—	Janet	—	JoAnna	—	Shawna	Roger	Dave	Alex							Jenna
►►	Dave	Daniel	—	Daniel	—	Jeanne	—	Christy	Matthew								Jenna
►►	Roger	Ryan	—	Daniel	—	Jeanne	—	Christy
►	Shawna	—	Janet	—	Christy	—	Matthew
►	Jeanne	—	Janet	—	Shawna	Butch
	JoAnna	—	Christy	—	Shawna
	Daniel	Roger	—	Roger
	Janet	—	Jeanne
	Ryan	Roger
Notes: ^1 Matthew and Rob did not vote as they could only vote for each other. By virtue of winning the Final Immunity Challenge, only Jenna voted.

Trivia

• For the first time, the contestants were divided with a theme, featuring a Battle of the Sexes format.
• For the first time, and the only time pre-All-Stars, all contestants received a vote against them at one point during the game.
• For the first time, a contestant gave up an Immunity Necklace and gave it to another contestant.
  • This is the only occasion in which the original holder of individual immunity was not voted out after giving it up, as Erik Reichenbach and Brandon Hantz were both voted out immediately after giving up immunity in Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: South Pacific respectively.
  • This is also the only time in which the person who gave up immunity was a woman.
• For the first time, the merged tribe has an accented letter (Jacaré).
• This is the first season to not feature Pagonging.
• This is the only season represented in Survivor: All-Stars to not have someone make that season's final six.
• This is the first season not to introduce a new tribe color, as all three colors (yellow, blue and red) had been used in previous seasons.