Survivor: Micronesia

Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites is the sixteenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor (U.S. TV series). Pitting die-hard Survivor fans against some of the series' past contestants, this season is the show's third to include contestants from past seasons, after the all-returning contestant pool from Survivor: All-Stars and Survivor: Guatemala in which two contestants from Survivor: Palau returned for a second chance.

Applications were due on July 7, 2007. Around August 2007, 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 September 2007. From these semi-finalists, 10 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late October and mid-December 2007. The full cast of 20 contestants were revealed on January 32008 by Entertainment Weekly. In the same article, it was also revealed that Palau winner, Tom Westman, was invited to participate, but declined. In other interviews, host Jeff Probst revealed that a list of 20 Favorites was put together (enough for an entire game) and then 10 of them were cut. The contestants were split into two tribes, fans and favorites, named Airai and Malakal Island respectively. Both tribes were named after islands in Palau.

The season was filmed in Palau, marking the second time Survivor has filmed there (the Survivor: Palau being 2005). The filming locations for this season were the same as those used in Survivor: Palau. Exile Island returned this season after being absent from Survivor: China, with a new twist of one castaway from each tribe being sent to Exile Island where they had to compete to find the Hidden Immunity Idol.

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Episode 5 Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Jon Dalton 33, Danville, Virginia Formerly of Survivor: Pearl Islands	Malakal		1st Voted Out Day 3	9
Mary Sartain 29, Emeryville, California	Airai		2nd Voted Out Day 6	6
Yau-Man Chan 55, Martinez, California Formerly of Survivor: Fiji	Malakal		3rd Voted Out Day 8	6
Michael Bortone 34, Los Angeles	Airai		4th Voted Out Day 11	6
Joel Anderson 32, Avondale, Arizona	Airai	Malakal	5th Voted Out Day 14	6
Jonathan Penner 45, Los Angeles, California Formerly of Survivor: Cook Islands	Malakal	Airai	Removed Due to Injury Day 15	0
Chet Welch 48, Ford City, Pennsylvania	Airai	Malakal	6th Voted Out Day 17	12
Alexis Jones 24, Los Angeles, California	Airai	Airai
Amanda Kimmel 23, Los Angeles, California Formerly of Survivor: China	Malakal	Malakal
Ami Cusack 34, Golden, Colorado Formerly of Survivor: Vanuatu	Malakal	Malakal
Cirie Fields 37, Norwalk, Connecticut Formerly of Survivor: Panama	Malakal	Malakal		1
Eliza Orlins 25, New York, New York Formerly of Survivor: Vanuatu	Malakal	Airai
Erik Reichenbach 22, Pinckney, Michigan	Airai	Malakal		2
James Clement 30, Lafayette, Louisiana Formerly of Survivor: China	Malakal	Airai
Jason Siska 22, Fox River Grove, Illinois	Airai	Airai
Kathleen Sleckman 45, Glen Ellyn, Illinois	Airai	Airai
Natalie Bolton 32, Los Angeles, California	Airai	Airai
Ozzy Lusth 26, Venice, California Formerly of Survivor: Cook Islands	Malakal	Malakal		1
Parvati Shallow 25, Los Angeles, California Formerly of Survivor: Cook Islands	Malakal	Airai		2
Tracy Hughes-Wolf 43, Fredericksburg, Virginia	Airai	Malakal		2

The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaways 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.

The game

Episode Titles	Air Date	Challenges		Exiled	Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
#Episode 1: You Guys Are Dumber Than You Look	February 72008	Airai 1		None 2	Jon	9-1	1st Voted Out Day 3
#Episode 2: The Sounds of Jungle Love	February 142008	Malakal 1		Kathleen [Cirie]	Mary	6-2-2	2nd Voted Out Day 6
#Episode 3: I Should Be Carried on the Chariot-Type Thing!	February 212008	Malakal	Airai	Kathleen [Ami]	Yau-Man	6-2-1	3rd Voted Out Day 8
#Episode 4: That's Baked, Barbecued and Fried!	February 282008	Malakal	Malakal	Kathleen [Ozzy]	Mikey B	6-3	4th Voted Out Day 11
#Episode 5: He's a Ball of Goo!	March 6, 2008	Airai	Airai	None3	Joel	6-2	5th Voted Out Day 14
#Episode 6: It Hit Everyone Pretty Hard	March 13, 2008	Airai	Airai	Chet [Jason]	Jonathan	No Vote	Removed Due to Injury Day 15
					Chet	5-2	6th Voted Out Day 17
Like a Wide-Eyed Kid in the Candy Store	March 19, 2008

In the case of multiple tribes or people who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one player won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.

^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.

^2 Exile Island was not yet known to the castaways.

^3 Due to the tribal switch, nobody was sent to Exile Island.

Episode 1: You Guys Are Dumber Than You Look

• Reward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes are to assemble four puzzle wheels, attach them to a cart, and push the cart through a series of wooden fences. Upon reaching a sandpit with the cart, they then must dig up a set of planks to make a bridge. The tribes are to then push the cart over the bridge to a turnstile. The wheels are then removed and the pieces reassembled to complete the turnstile. The turnstile raised a fire wok on a pulley which lit the top of a platform.
• Reward: The winning team will win Tribal Immunity and a flint.

In a pouring rain, the ten fans arrived on the island unaware that they would be facing past castaways and were shocked when Jeff introduced the favorites. Jeff then pointed to a beach on an island across the way with two boats and told the tribes to swim across. Two individual Immunity Idols were there for the first castaway on each tribe to find them, with the stipulation that they were only good for the first time they went to Tribal Council. Jonny was the first to find the idols tied to the boat's prows, but Yau-Man noticed that Jonny took the other tribe's idol and raced over to the correct boat, tackling Jonny and grabbing the correct idol. Kathy got her tribe's idol after Yau-Man pointed it out to her. Two alliances were formed in the favorites tribe: one between Ami, Eliza, Jonathan, and Yau-Man and another consisting of the couples of James and Parvati and Ozzy and Amanda. Both groups courted Jonny and he played both sides. At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the fans took the lead early and won. After the challenge, Jonny told the tribe that he missed his girlfriend and unborn daughter and that he really wasn't in the game. Feelings were split about whether he was being truthful or if the story was part of his strategy, but in the end he was unanimously voted out 9-1. After the vote, the tribe was given a flint, although Yau-Man had already started a fire using water and his glasses.

Episode 2: The Sounds of Jungle Love

• Reward/Immunity Challenge: Five castaways are picked as swimmers who had to swim, one at a time, to a platform, grab an ax, and leap off the platform to smash a tile that released a key. The swimmer would then retrieve the key and swim back to shore with it, allowing the next tribemate to go out. Once the five keys were collected, another castaway will use the keys to open a locked box containing a set of puzzle pieces showing a map of Micronesia. Three other castaways put the puzzle together.
• Reward: The winning team will win Tribal Immunity, fishing gear, and a bamboo fishing boat.

Airai struggled with making fire and building a shelter. Chet, Kathy, and Tracy, feeling shunned by the other seven members of the tribe and upset that the others weren't making an attempt to build a decent shelter, built their own and then another was built for the other tribe members. At Malakal, the couples of Amanda/Ozzy and Parvati/James grew closer, much to the concern of Cirie and Jonathan. At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, Malakal won by a wide margin after Chet struggled to retrieve his key. Before the challenge, Jeff announced Exile Island and said there would be a twist revealed after the challenge. After Malakal selected Kathy to go to Exile Island, Jeff revealed the twist: the winning team also had to select one of their own to go to Exile Island. Cirie volunteered to go. Kathy and Cirie discovered a series of four clues at Exile Island that required them to crisscross between two islands, but did not find the Hidden Immunity Idol. After Chet's poor performance at the challenge, Mikey B wanted him to be voted out. Mikey B came up with a plan to split his alliance of seven's votes between Chet and Tracy to protect against potential Immunity Idols. Joel didn't like how Mikey B was trying to control the vote, so he plotted with Erik, Alexis, Natalie, Chet, Tracy, and Kathy to break up Mikey B's alliance with Mary. Joel's plan came together, even though he changed his vote to Tracy at Tribal Council, and Mary was voted out 6-2-2.

Episode 3: I Should Be Carried on the Chariot-Type Thing!

• Reward Challenge: In a playing area similar to a football field, the tribes start at opposite ends of the playing field with three canvas bags. The tribes would have to battle their way to their end zone. The challenge would end when one tribe had their three bags and two of the other tribe's bags in their end zone at the same time.
• Reward: The winning tribe will win three items chosen from a catalog.
• Immunity Challenge: Two women and two men from each tribe hold onto ropes that support a large net. The remaining castaways, one at a time, attempt to toss coconuts into the other tribe's net. The tribe who held up their net for the longest time wins the challenge.

Mikey B confronted Joel about Joel's plan at the last Tribal Council. The alliance of Amanda, Ozzy, Parvati, and James tried to swing Eliza over to their side. Cirie contemplated her options on which alliance to trust and join. At the Reward Challenge, the tribes, dressed in war paint, had a very physical battle in the rain with the reward of items chosen from a catalog. Malakal won the challenge, taking home a tarp, a lighting kit, and a survival kit. Kathy was selected to go to Exile Island for a second time along with Ami. Cirie struck an alliance with Amanda and Parvati to go all the way to the final three with them. On Exile Island, Ami tried to follow the clues without the help of Kathy, who refused to decode the clues that she already knew about from from her previous stay. The Immunity Challenge was won by Airai after Cirie, James, Jonathan, and Parvati could not outlast Erik, Joel, Natalie, and Tracy. There was open lobbying by both alliances for Cirie to join their side. Cirie wanted Yau-Man voted off because she feared that he would find a Hidden Immunity Idol. The alliance of Amanda, Ozzy, Parvati, and James wanted to vote out Eliza, but decided to follow Cirie's lead and Yau-Man was voted out 6-2-1.

Episode 4: That's Baked, Barbecued and Fried!

• Reward Challenge: Four members of each tribe would swim out to a floating platform. One at a time, a castaway would dive down to a 30 foot (9.1 m) long steel cage that contained coconuts painted in tribe colors and with letters on them. The coconuts would have to be placed in a floating bin and the bin pulled back to shore. The four remaining castaways would unscramble a word puzzle using the letters on the coconuts.
• Reward: The winning tribe will win three chicken hens and one rooster along with chicken feed.
• Immunity Challenge: Six tribe members would race to six point, sliding hub and harness themselves in. The six would then pass around a keyring to find a key their individual lock that secured the hub to a stand. Once unlocked, the hub would have to be maneuvered through the forest where six puzzle piece necklaces were hanging on trees. The two remaining tribemates would use the necklaces as keys on a decoding wheel, which would decrypt a three word phrase.

At Airai, Chet's lack of work around camp irritated his tribemates. At the Malakal campsite, Eliza was feeling sick and James criticized his alliance's decision to vote out Yau-Man instead of Eliza, whom he felt was the weakest member of the tribe. Malakal won the Reward Challenge after Ozzy's strategy of singlehandedly pushing his tribe's coconuts to the front of the steel cage made it easier for his tribemates to retrieve their coconuts. Kathy was sent to Exile Island for the third consecutive time with Ozzy joining her. On Exile Island, a disheartened Kathy did not want to look for the Hidden Immunity Idol, so Ozzy followed the clues on his own under the pretense of looking for food. He succeeded in finding the Idol and kept his discovery a secret from Kathy. Borrowing Yau-Man's strategy from Survivor: Fiji, Ozzy fashioned a false Idol and placed it where he found the real Idol. Eliza tried to keep herself in the game by talking to Parvati about voting out Jonathan, but Jonathan overheard them. At the Immunity Challenge, Airai struggled to unlock their hub and maneuver through the forest. Malakal won their second challenge in a row by a wide margin. Mikey B, feigning loyalty to Joel, lobbied to vote out Chet. Tracy approached Joel about a plan to use her alliance with Chet and Kathy to help vote out Mikey B. Tracy's plan came to fruition and Mikey B was voted out 6-3.

Episode 5: He's a Ball of Goo!

• Reward Challenge: The tribes would divide into pairs that are harnessed together. Taking turns in rounds, one pair from one tribe would chase a pair from the other tribe through an obstacle course in the forest and attempt to grab a flag attached to the the backs of the pair being chased. There would be a time limit of one minute to chase down the pair. If the chasing pair succeeded in grabbing the flag, their tribe would receive one point. If the chasing pair did not succeed, the other tribe would receive one point. The first tribe to score three points would win the challenge.
• Reward: The winning tribe would win steak, sausage, vegetables, spices, and wine.
• Immunity Challenge: Four members from each tribe would alternate at throwing rocks at hanging tiles. When the tile is broken, it would drop a bundle of puzzle pieces. Three tribe members and a direction caller would assemble a color-coded puzzle from the pieces.

At Malakal, Ozzy told Amanda, James, and Parvati that he found the Hidden Immunity Idol. Before the Reward Challenge began, Jeff announced a tribal switch. The tribes were divided by schoolyard pick. The new Airai was composed of Alexis, Eliza, James, Jason, Jonathan, Kathy, Natalie, and Parvati and Malakal composed of Amanda, Ami, Chet, Cirie, Erik, Joel, Ozzy, and Tracy. Airai won the physically punishing Reward Challenge with Parvati receiving a fat lip, Ami a tweaked knee, Jonathan a puncture wound to the knee, and Chet a blow to the head. Jeff announced that due to the tribal switch, nobody would go to Exile Island. After the challenge and back at the Airai beach, Jonathan's injured knee required attention from the Survivor medical team. On day 14, the Favorites at Airai took charge and fixed the tribe's camp site by moving it further inland and building a new shelter. While Airai fell far behind during the rock throwing stage of the Immunity Challenge, they caught up during the puzzle assembly stage and won Tribal Immunity. Joel and Erik approached the Favorites of Malakal about voting out who they perceived as the weakest members: Chet, Cirie, and Tracy. Cirie told Amanda and Ozzy that it would be better to vote out Joel instead of Chet as Joel was the bigger threat longer term through the game. Cirie's argument convinced the Favorites, and Joel was voted out 6-2.

Episode 6: It Hit Everyone Pretty Hard

• Reward Challenge: The tribes were to swim out to collect bundles of planks, sticks, and ropes. They would then have ten minutes to use these items to build a blockade of the other tribe's tunnel. The tribes would then race to tear apart the other team's blockade of their own tunnel and get all the members of their tribe through to the other side.
• Reward: The winning tribe would win a visit by two native Micronesians who would show them how to improve their campsite and catch crabs and fish.
• Immunity Challenge: The tribes were to use two stepping poles to transfer two tribes members from one platform to another out at sea. All the tribe members would then swim out to a smaller tower. To win immunity, the tribe has to get all seven of its members on the tower with both feet on or above the top deck.

On Malakal, Tracy started to regret her decision to help the Favorites vote out Joel. Airai won the Reward Challenge and elected to send Chet to Exile Island along with Jason. After the challenge, Jeff announced that the Survivor medical team wanted to look at Jonathan's knee. The doctor recommended that he be evacuated and taken to the hospital for treatment as the knee became infected. Jonathan accepted the recommendation and left on day 15. The two Micronesians who showed up at Airai brought fishing line, an extra machete, two knives, a fishing net, vegetables, fruit, and taught the castaways how to fish and hunt for crabs. At Malakal, Ami approached Tracy and Erik about forming an alliance with them after she felt that she could not trust Cirie. On Exile Island, Jason found the false Hidden Immunity Idol that Ozzy left. Airai continued their winning streak at the Immunity Challenge by using a strategy of carrying Eliza and Parvati on a single stepping pole instead of using both poles. After the Immunity Challenge, Chet told his tribe to vote him out because he had given up and had an injured foot. Erik and Tracy tried to convince Chet to help vote out Ozzy, but the tribe honored Chet's request and he was voted out 5-2.

Voting History

	Original Tribes				Switched Tribes
Episode #:	1	2	3	4	5	6
Eliminated:	Jon 9/10 Votes	Mary 6/10 Votes	Yau-Man 6/9 Votes	Mikey B 6/9 Votes	Joel 6/8 Votes	Jonathan No Vote	Chet 5/7 Votes
Voter	Vote
Alexis		Mary		Chet
Amanda	Jon		Yau-Man		Joel		Chet
Ami	Jon		Cirie		Joel		Chet
Cirie	Jon		Yau-Man		Joel		Chet
Eliza	Jon		Yau-Man
Erik		Mary		Mikey B	Chet		Chet
James	Jon		Yau-Man
Jason		Chet		Chet
Kathleen		Mary		Mikey B
Natalie		Mary		Mikey B
Ozzy	Jon		Yau-Man		Joel		Chet
Parvati	Jon		Yau-Man
Tracy		Mary		Mikey B	Joel		Erik
Chet		Mary		Mikey B	Joel		Erik
Jonathan	Jon		Parvati
Joel		Tracy		Mikey B	Chet
Mikey B		Chet		Chet
Yau-Man	Jon		Parvati
Mary		Tracy
Jon	Ozzy

External Links

• Official CBS Survivor Micronesia Website