Thailand
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Template:Expand Template:Contains Indic text Template:Infobox Television Survivor Survivor: Thailand was the fifth installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in the summer of 2002 and aired from September 19 – December 19, 2002 on CBS. It was set on the island of Ko Tarutao in Thailand. Fourteen episodes aired weekly. The two initial tribes were Chuay Gahn (Thai: ช่วยกัน "to help one another") and Sook Jai (Thai: สุขใจ "happy heart" ). They eventually merged into the Chuay Jai tribe. On December 19, 2002, Brian Heidik defeated Clay Jordan by a vote of 4-3 to become the sole survivor.
The season introduced several new gameplay twists. The first occurred on Day 1, when the two eldest contestants, Jake Billingsley and Jan Gentry, were each given the power to pick their own tribes. This was the first time in Survivor history that the two initial teams were not preselected by the producers. The second was an offer of mutiny: each of the twelve remaining contestants were given the chance to leave their tribe and join the other if they wished. No one took the offer (the twist was re-used in the later season Survivor: Cook Islands, that time successfully). It has never been confirmed if there was going to be an actual mutiny, or if it would have happened if any had offered to jump ship.
The major twist of the season was the "fake merge": when only 10 players remained, the usual time for a merge, the two tribes moved onto one beach, with a feast awaiting them. The two tribes took this to mean that they were merging, and Shii Ann Huang attempted to use this to her advantage by openly trying to ally herself with the "former" opposing tribe. At the next challenge they attended, however, the two tribes were informed that they were living on one beach, but were not merged. This backfired on Huang as her tribe lost the Immunity Challenge, and she was voted off for her excessive scheming.
Jeff Probst stated that he was not fond of the season, going as far as calling it his least favorite. He described the season as mean-spirited and marred with hostility and ugliness, even calling Brian, Clay, Helen, and Jan the "the least likeable final four ever." [1]
Shii Ann was the only representative of Thailand to appear as a contestant on Survivor: All-Stars. This choice was widely criticized not only by Shii Ann's fellow Thailand castmembers, but also members of many other previous seasons, all whom believed Shii Ann did not deserve to be an All-Star
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[edit] Contestants
| Contestant | Original Tribe | Merged Tribe | Finish | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Raymond 40, Slidell, LA | <center>1st Voted Out Day 3 | <center>6 | ||
| Tanya Vance 27, Kingsport, TN | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>2nd Voted Out Day 6 | <center>5 | |
| Jed Hildebrand 25, Dallas, TX | <center>Sook Jai | <center>3rd Voted Out Day 9 | <center>5 | |
| Ghandia Johnson 33, Denver, CO | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>4th Voted Out Day 12 | <center>5 | |
| Stephanie Dill 29, Fayetteville, AR | <center>Sook Jai | <center>5th Voted Out Day 15 | <center>5 | |
| Robb Zbacnik 23, Scottsdale, AZ | <center>Sook Jai | <center>6th Voted Out Day 18 | <center>5 | |
| Shii Ann Huang 28, New York City, NY | <center>Sook Jai | <center>7th Voted Out Day 21 | <center>10 | |
| Erin Collins 26, Austin, TX | <center>Sook Jai | <center>8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24 | <center>3 | |
| Ken Stafford 30, Brooklyn, NY | <center>Sook Jai | <center>Chuay Jai | <center>9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27 | <center>6 |
| Penny Ramsey 27, Plano, TX | <center>Sook Jai | <center>10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30 | <center>5 | |
| Jake Billingsley 60, McKinney, TX | <center>Sook Jai | <center>11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33 | <center>7 | |
| Ted Rogers, Jr. 37, Durham, NC | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36 | <center>7 | |
| Helen Glover 47, Middletown, RI | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37 | <center>5 | |
| Jan Gentry 53, Tampa, FL | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38 | <center>5 | |
| Clay Jordan 46, Monroe, LA | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>Runner-Up | <center>3 | |
| Brian Heidik 34, Quartz Hill, CA | <center>Chuay Gahn | <center>Sole Survivor | <center>0 |
- 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.
[edit] The game
| Episode title | Air Date | Challenges | Eliminated | Vote | Finish | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reward | Immunity | |||||
| "The Importance of Being Eldest" | September 19, 2002 | None | Sook Jai | John | 6-1-1 | <center>1st Voted Out Day 3 |
| "The Great Divide" | September 26, 2002 | Sook Jai | Sook Jai | Tanya | 5-2 | <center>2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
| "Family Values" | October 3, 2002 | Chuay Gahn | Chuay Gahn | Jed | 5-3 | <center>3rd Voted Out Day 9 |
| "Gender Bender" | October 10, 2002 | Sook Jai | Sook Jai | Ghandia | 4-2 | <center>4th Voted Out Day 12 |
| "The Ocean's Surprise" | October 17, 2002 | Survivor AuctionTemplate:Ref | Chuay Gahn | Stephanie | 5-2 | <center>5th Voted Out Day 15 |
| "The Power of One" | October 24, 2002 | Sook Jai | Chuay Gahn | Robb | 5-1 | <center>6th Voted Out Day 18 |
| "Assumptions" | October 31, 2002 | None | Chuay Gahn | Shii Ann | 4-1 | <center>7th Voted Out Day 21 |
| "Sleeping with the Enemy" | November 7, 2002 | None | Chuay Gahn | <center>Erin | 3-1 | <center>8th Voted Out Day 24 |
| "Desperate Measures" | November 14, 2002 | Brian | Clay | Ken | 5-3 | <center>9th Voted Out Day 27 |
| "While the Cats are Away" | November 21, 2002 | Brian | Helen | Penny | 4-2-1 | <center>10th Voted Out Day 30 |
| "A Big Surprise... and Another" | December 5, 2002 | HelenTemplate:Ref | TedTemplate:Ref | Jake | 5-1 | <center>11th Voted Out Day 33 |
| "The Tides are Turning" | December 12, 2002 | Ted | Brian | Ted | 4-1 | <center>12th Voted Out Day 36 |
| "Slip Through Your Fingers" | December 19, 2002 | None | Brian | Helen | 3-1 | <center>13th Voted Out Day 37 |
| Brian | Jan | 1-0 | <center>14th Voted Out Day 38 | |||
| "The Reunion" | December 19, 2002 | Jury Vote | Clay | 4-3 | <center>Runner-Up | |
| Brian | <center>Sole Survivor | |||||
- In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.
Template:Refbegin Template:Note For the first time, the players would be bidding for items as tribes. Sook Jai and Chuay Gahn each recieved $500 in American Currency.
Template:Note In a twist, the Survivors' family members competed in an insect food eating challenge to see their loved one. Helen's husband Jim actually won the challenge and he spent 24 hours at the Chuay Jai camp with her.
Template:Note In another twist, the players and their loved ones competed for immunity. Ted and his younger brother Aljuan won and Ted won immunity. Template:Refend
[edit] Elimination notes
- John - John created friction with several tribe members early, seen as the self-proclaimed leader of the Chuay Gahn tribe. Additionally, his joke about the water source being a swamp was not well-received. He was ultimately voted out 6-1-1.
- Tanya - Tanya was noted several times as being well-liked, even being dubbed "the favorite of the tribe" by fellow contestant Helen. However, her illness detracted strongly from her contribution to the group, and she was eliminated 5-2.
- Jed - Jed and Stephanie emerged early on as loners, choosing to worry more about water and fire than the group's main focus, shelter. Jed's devotion to this, as well as his exclusion from the majority alliance, led to his 5-3 elimination.
- Ghandia - Ghandia was perceived as being very weak in challenges (especially when she blew her tribe's huge lead in the first challenge struggling to solve the sliding puzzle), as well as divisive at camp (she wanted Clay out by the means of a women's alliance). She was also the self-claimed "victim" of the "Grindgate Scandal". The women's alliance was not to be for Helen sided with the men in voting Ghandia out 4-2.
- Stephanie - Stephanie faced continued isolation from her early relationship with Jed. Despite the offer to jump tribes, Stephanie (as well as Shii Ann) stayed with Sook Jai, and was the next to go by a 5-2 vote.
- Robb - The sole remaining outcast from Sook Jai's majority alliance, Robb's personality was perceived as abrasive by many. His consumption of the tribe's bananas raised some controversy, while his later epiphany during a wine-drinking night raised some deep thought. Despite this, he was voted out 5-1.
- Shii Ann - The tribes were told they would be living together on the same beach, given similar conditions to the previously typical merge. On the lowest rung of her alliance, Shii Ann jumped to the other team when they began living together. Ultimately, she was informed the tribes had not actually merged, but merely lived together. Sook Jai lost immunity again, which immediately turned on Shii Ann for her betrayal, voting her out 4-1. For botching the merge, Shii Ann would later be named the winner of the 2006 Survivor Games Gold Medal for "Biggest Mistake in Survivor HIstory". She was also nominated for "Most Disliked"
- Erin - When Sook Jai lost yet another Immunity challenge, it came down to the core four of the tribe. Penny offered the opportunity to let "the one" to know he or she was leaving, but Erin did not want to do so, believing the vote to be for Ken. Erin was blindsided, but left in good spirits after a 3-1 vote. Erin became the first person to become a jury member before the merge.
- Ken - Following the merge, Ken was the first of the minority Sook Jai original tribe members to go, deemed a physical threat.
- Penny - Seen as manipulative and unpredictable, Penny was chosen as the next to go, despite her own maneuvering to get Jake out before herself (at the immunity challenge, she snuffed Jake's torch first to try to fool the others into thinking she didn't have an alliance with him, but it failed). She was voted out 4-2-1.
- Jake - The final member of Sook Jai, he did all that he could to arouse suspicion within the solid alliance, including his presentation of what he believed to be the Chuay Gahn chopping order. The final two, he claimed (correctly, as it turned out) would be Brian and Clay. Despite his pleas, he was sent home 5-1.
- Ted - Seen as a threat in the final physical challenges, Ted was the target for many of the remaining members. Brian also became upset with his "longtime ally" for chatting with Helen in the sand. Ted was voted out 4-1.
- Helen - Helen was generally perceived as being well-liked amongst the jury members. Jan told Brian and Clay that she'd seen Helen and Ted writing in the sand with a stick when they thought the others weren't watching. Thinking Helen had been making plans with Ted, Brian got Clay and Jan to vote Helen out in a 3-1 vote.
- Jan - On the fringe of the dominant alliance for most of the game, Jan was persuaded to join Brian and Clay in the Final 3, likely because she was not seen as a challenge threat. This proved true when she was the first to concede in the final challenge, Clay following soon afterwards. Jan was voted out by Brian, presumably because she was considered more likable than Clay.
- Clay - Clay battled accusations of laziness, duplicity, and racism at the heated final tribal council. He won the votes of 3 of the 4 Sook Jai jurors (Erin, Ken, and Penny).
- Brian - In spite of some anger from Ted and Helen, he won four votes, from all three Chuay Gahn jurors (Ted, Helen, Jan) and Sook Jai juror Jake. He never had a single vote cast against him during the game, despite being a strong physical competitor and playing both sides.
[edit] Challenges
| Episode #: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Challenge: | RC/IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | IC | IC |
| Tribe | Result | ||||||||||||
| Chuay Gahn | Loser | Loser | Loser | Winner | Winner | Loser | Loser | Auction | Winner | Loser | Winner | Winner | Winner |
| Sook Jai | Winner | Winner | Winner | Loser | Loser | Winner | Winner | Auction | Loser | Winner | Loser | Loser | Loser |
| Merged Tribe | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode #: | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||
| Challenge: | RC | IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | RC | IC | IC#1 | IC#2 | |
| Contestant | Result | ||||||||||
| Brian | Winner | Loser | Winner | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Winner | Winner | Winner | |
| Clay | Loser | Winner | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | |
| Jan | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | |
| Helen | Loser | Loser | Loser | Winner | Winner | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | ||
| Ted | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Winner | Winner | Loser | |||
| Jake | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | |||||
| Penny | Loser | Loser | Loser | Loser | |||||||
| Ken | Loser | Loser | |||||||||
[edit] Voting history
| Starting Tribes | Merged Tribe | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Runner- Up | Winner | ||
| Eliminated: | John 6/8 votes | Tanya 5/7 votes | Jed 5/8 votes | Ghandia 4/6 votes | Stephanie 5/7 votes | Robb 5/6 votes | Shii.Ann 4/5 votes | Erin 3/4 votes | Ken 5/8 votes | Penny 4/7 votes | Jake 5/6 votes | Ted 4/5 votes | Helen 3/4 votes | Jan 1 vote | Clay 4/7 votes | Brian 4/7 votes | |
| Voter | Vote | ||||||||||||||||
| Brian | <Center>John | Tanya | Ghandia | Ken | Penny | Jake | Ted | Helen | Jan | Jury Vote | |||||||
| Clay | John | Tanya | Ghandia | Ken | Jake | Jake | Ted | Helen | |||||||||
| Jan | John | Tanya | Clay | Ken | Penny | Jake | Ted | Helen | Brian | ||||||||
| Helen | Clay | Tanya | Ghandia | Ken | Penny | Jake | Ted | Jan | Brian | ||||||||
| Ted | John | Tanya | Ghandia | Ken | Penny | Jake | Jan | Brian | |||||||||
| Jake | Jed | Stephanie | Robb | Shii Ann | Erin | Ted | Jan | Jan | Brian | ||||||||
| Penny | Jed | Stephanie | Robb | Shii Ann | Erin | Ted | Jake | Clay | |||||||||
| Ken | Jed | Stephanie | Robb | Shii Ann | Erin | Ted | Clay | ||||||||||
| Erin | Jed | Stephanie | Robb | Shii Ann | Ken | Clay | |||||||||||
| Shii Ann | Jed | Stephanie | Robb | Penny | |||||||||||||
| Robb | Shii Ann | Shii Ann | Shii Ann | ||||||||||||||
| Stephanie | Shii Ann | Shii Ann | |||||||||||||||
| Ghandia | John | Helen | Clay | ||||||||||||||
| Jed | Shii Ann | ||||||||||||||||
| Tanya | John | Helen | |||||||||||||||
| John | Ghandia | ||||||||||||||||
