Survivor Philippines season 1

Template:Contains Indic text Template:Infobox Television Survivor Survivor Philippines is the Philippine version of the reality television series Survivor. Veteran TV host Paolo Bediones has been chosen to host the show. At the first audition in Davao, Bediones revealed that the prize money would be the largest in the history of reality shows in the Philippines: in addition to the title of Sole Survivor, the contestant who lasts the longest will also win 3,000,000 pesos (around US$65,000).

Auditions were held in six Philippine cities in May 2008. From these interviews, 18 contestants (16 was initially announced number) were be selected to participate on the show in June 2008. The show was shot in Ko Tarutao, the same island where Survivor: Thailand took place, from July to August, 2008.

This series premiered on September 15, 2008. While the show is aired on a daily basis rather than once a week, all elements of the Survivor franchise are otherwise present. The names of the tribes are derived from the Thai language: Naak (นาค) and Jarakay (จระเข้), meaning snake and crocodile respectively. The tribes were initially divided by gender, with Jarakay composed of the nine male contestants, and Naak of the females.

Also unique is the use of theme music for the British version composed by Russ Landau, who made the Ancient Voices series of theme scores for the American version. It has further been re-arranged and added with tribal and ethnic flavors by local Filipino composer Diwa de Leon and chant vocals were performed by Evan Britanico. The song Pure Shores by All Saints was also used in the show as background music.

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Episode 4 Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Chevyline "Chev" Macias 26, Iloilo City	Naak	Naak		1st Voted Out Day 3	8
Emerson Dino 31, Caloocan	Jarakay	Naak		2nd Voted Out Day 6	6
Anna Charisse Yacapin 26, Makati	Naak	Jarakay
Crisanto "Cris" Cartagenas 30, Manila	Jarakay	Naak
Cesar "Gigit" Sulit 49, Quezon City	Jarakay	Jarakay
Reynaldo "Jace" Chanco Flores Jr. 19, Hawaii, USA	Jarakay	Jarakay
John Carlo "JC" Tiuseco 23, Manila	Jarakay	Naak
John Anthony Lopez 27, Bicol	Jarakay	Jarakay
Kristina "Kaye" Alipio 20, Calamba, Laguna	Naak	Naak			2
Raymund Francis "Kiko" Rustia 27, Quezon City	Jarakay	Naak
Marlon Carmen 30, Parañaque	Jarakay	Jarakay
Leona Rica "Nikki" Dacullo 21, Tacloban	Naak	Jarakay
Maria Nona "Niña" Ortiz 40, Quezon City	Naak	Jarakay
Jervy "Patani" Daño 20, Talisay, Cebu	Naak	Jarakay
Robert Vincent "Rob" Sy 30, Davao City	Jarakay	Naak
Veronica "Vern" Domingo 29, Cavite	Naak	Jarakay
Vevherly Gador 20, Alcantara, Cebu	Naak	Naak			1
Zita Ortega 40, Pasay	Naak	Naak

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.

The game

Week no.	Air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
01	September 15 to September 192008	Jarakay *	Jarakay	Chev	8-1	1st Voted Out Day 3
02	September 22 to September 262008	Jarakay	Jarakay	Emerson	6-1-1	2nd Voted Out Day 6
03	September 29 to October 032008	Jarakay	Naak

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

^* The original Jarakay tribe composed by male castaways won the first reward challenge.

Week 1: Days 1-3

• Reward Challenge: Eight of the nine castaways are harnessed together while the ninth will be the "keykeeper" who will release their tribemates. The tribes will cross an obstacle course composed of a one-pole bridge and a zip line, and the end of each is a pole containing a set of keys that will release the restraints of each tribe member. At the end of the obstacle course, tribes will gather puzzle pieces from bags hanging on a large web. Once all puzzle pieces are retrieved, one tribe member should solve the puzzle, which is a picture of an eagle. First tribe with a solved puzzle wins the reward.
• Reward: Additional materials for setting up camp
• Punishment: The members of the entire tribe would be harnessed together until the next day
• Immunity Challenge: One tribe member would sit inside a portable "spirit house", to be transported by six others. The eighth tribe member would be the puzzle solver, while the ninth acts a reserve who will take over a transporter who wants to rest. The seven tribe members transporting the spirit house will cross a course. Along the way are six stations, each with a bag of puzzle pieces for each tribe. Once at the station, the spirit house passenger must retrieve the tribe's bag. Once all puzzle pieces are gathered and the spirit house brought to the tribe's mat, the puzzle solver picks up the puzzle pieces and solves the puzzle: a Thai stupa. The puzzle solver who constructs their stupa first wins immunity for their tribe.

Day 1: The castaways were brought to the island by boat, but stopped several meters from shore. They were then told to jump out of the boat with the clothes they were wearing and swim to shore, which the castaways did. Moreover, Paolo said that only those castaways who can swim to the shore will make it to Survivor. After all castaways arrive on shore. Paolo separated the castaways into tribes by gender: the men make up Jarakay while the women compose Naak. Since Jace was the one who arrived to shore first, the Jarakay tribe would have the bigger camp. The Reward Challenge then took place, in which the men lead the entire time and won, although the women slowly caught up with the men. After the challenge, the both tribes head to their camps and each opened the tribal boxes which contained additional clothes and footwear and some raincoats. Though there was some effort, the members of both tribes slept in their raincoats on the sand in the pouring rain without setting up their shelters.

Day 2: Work on the Jarakay men's camp started while the Naak women divided their work on building their shelter, gathering food, and starting fire. Later, several of the Jarakay men finally found their water source, while Naak rested with Patani imitating the StarStruck spiel. After the women were relieved of their harnesses, they went back to work. Back in Jarakay, after finally deciding that Gigit would be the "mediator" of the tribe and some heated discussion on where to place the shelter, the shelter was finally built at the shore line near the water source. Later, Marlon complained to Cris about them and Emerson being easy pickings by being the hunters of the tribe. After the shelter was finished, Gigit announced that he would relinquish his "mediator" role to Kiko, which the entire tribe accepted, although Jace thought of it as a ploy for votes. In Naak, most of the women rested more, leaving the harder work to Patani and Zita. Meanwhile, in Jarakay, everyone feasted on raw fish. Food-sensitive JC, after having a nip of his piece, vomitted afterwards.

Day 3: During the distribution of the tribal buffs, it was revealed that Emerson, Rob, Cris, Kiko, and JC were transferred to Naak, while Veronica, Nikki, Patani, Charisse, and Niña went to Jarakay. The Immunity Idol, a statue of the god Garuda, was then revealed. During the Immunity Challenge, Naak led initially but strayed and later stopped because JC asked to be replaced by Emerson in carrying the spirit house, saying he was tired. Jarakay took the lead and was the first team to start their puzzle. Naak slowly caught up, but lost because Kaye, Naak's puzzle solver, was unable to pull out the final piece of the puzzle from the bag, enabling Jarakay's puzzle solver Niña to win immunity for her tribe. Upon return to the Jarakay tribe, the new women were amazed at the organization of the camp and of the chores. Attempts of making fire were futile. A budding relationship was also formed between Jace and Veronica. In Naak, work on the shelter finally went underway. There were also rumors about either JC or Chev being slated to be voted out. Emerson and Kiko formed an alliance and Emerson influenced his tribemates on how they would vote. It seemed to work as Chev was unanimously voted out 8-1.

Week 2: Days 4-6

• Reward Challenge: Carrying a torch, the tribe must row their boat toward a lighted lotus, from which they would get their flame using their torch. They will use their flame to light the next six lotuses. Afterwards, they will row their boat to a flag and swim underwater in two groups of three to untie two foot stools. The foot stools will be used as transport to bring two assigned crossers from the tower with the large platform to the one with the medium platform, and then to the one with small platform. Once both crossers are on the small platform, the entire tribe must gather on top of the tower with their feet on the small platform. The first tribe that does this wins the reward.
• Reward: A piece of flint.
• Mini-Reward Challenge: After losing in the Reward Challenge, the members of Naak swam out on a deep part of the water and floated on its surface each keeping a matchstick dry. Any tribe member who sank, touched the body of the boats, or deliberately quit was out of the challenge. Any tribe member who kept the matchstick dry for 15 minutes could take those matchsticks back to camp. Naak took home six such matchsticks.
• Immunity Challenge: There are five rings, each with a "Thai pillow" (a triangular prismic pillow) buried under the sand. In each round, one or more members of each tribe must unearth the pillow from one ring and bring it to their tribal mat. While wrangling is inevitable, inflicting injury is not allowed. Once the pillow is brought to one tribe's mat, that tribe gains one point; even touching the mat, regardless of whose foot is touching it, counts. The first tribe that wins three points also wins Immunity.

Night of Day 3: The Naak tribe returned to their camp from Tribal Council as they started to doubt Emerson's actions, causing distrust on him because of his claim that he had no idea how to definitely play the game.

Day 4: Still with no fire, the Jarakay tribe started to talk about food, considering that they haven't eaten properly for days. In the Reward Challenge, because of some steering problems and tight ropes in Naak's front, Jarakay easily won the challenge just as Naak started to catch up. After Jarakay returned to camp, they started attempting to have fire with their new flint. Meanwhile in Naak, Cris and Kiko discussed the confusion over who sits where and over steering the boat that caused Naak to lose the Reward Challenge, particularly on Cris's career as a professional driver and Kiko's experience as a dragon boat racer. The discussion became heated that Rob stepped in to pacify the situation. Three of Naak's strike-anywhere matchsticks were used up without success.

Day 5: After several attempts, Jarakay finally had fire, enabling the tribe to cook food and boil water. In an aspiration to gain allies, Marlon showed off his cooking prowess. Meanwhile, Zita's efforts to bring flame to Naak also paid off when she lighted the tribe's penultimate matchstick. Back in Jarakay, Marlon and Jace talked about a secret voting alliance composed of the men and Veronica. Later, after much discussion of taking Niña's suggestion, the roof of Jarakay's shelter was finally made waterproof using bamboo. During the fourth round of the Immunity Challenge, when all of Naak and all of Jarakay (save for Niña) faced off, Veronica's nose bled and John's arm was almost twisted. After Vevherly and Cris were sent back to their tribal mat, Vevherly complained to Cris about Emerson's treatment of her, especially during the match-up. In the end, Jarakay won 3-1. After both tribes returned to their camps, each discussed to each other what had just happened in the Immunity Challenge. Additionally, Patani also related her desire for exposure, even showing her acting prowess.

Day 6: Despite Emerson's efforts to redeem himself by helping around the camp, it was already apparent that he was the next one to leave the camp. As the day progressed, emotions soared to the point that Zita and Vevherly hugged each other (as Zita thought she would be the next to be voted out); the others shared their sympathy as Emerson expressed his amazement at the Survivor concept. During Tribal Council, discussions were made about the Immunity Challenge and the hostilities that have happened. After the votes were tallied, Emerson was eliminated as expected, 6-1-1.

Week 3: Days 7-9

• Reward Challenge: Three "Muscles," both sexes represented, hold on to their tribe's own basket using ropes while four "shooters" shoot coconuts at the opposing tribe's basket. Because the number of coconuts are limited, the shooters are given thirty seconds to recover coconuts that miss the baskets to be re-used upon resumption of the challenge. Once one tribe's basket touches the ground, the other tribe wins the Reward.
• Reward: Two large fish in addition to the tribe's luxury items.
• Immunity Challenge: A giant roulette is used to determine what a pair of tribe members, one from each tribe, will eat from a selection of so-called "creepy crawlies." Each pair will eat the selected food. The first person to finish the selected food and show an empty mouth wins a point for their tribe. First tribe to receive five points wins immunity.

Night of Day 6: After returning to camp, the Naak discussed how Emerson's overall strategy, especially during the Immunity challenge, backfired on him, causing his elimination.

Day 7: While the rest of Naak were having fun, Rob noticed Zita in her moment of solitude, confused after voting against Kaye at Tribal Council. Meanwhile, during Jarakay's pre-challenge meal, Marlon divulged to his tribemates on how to deal with Kiko, leading John to believe that Marlon had issues with Kiko. They then smothered parts of their bodies with crude designs using charcoal in what Marlon later described to Paolo as "Spartan." During the Reward Challenge, Jarakay was able to shoot 37 coconuts against Naak's 27 bringing the latter's basket to the ground. Thus, the Reward went to Jarakay. Both tribes, however, received their luxury items. After returning to camp, the Jarakay tribe started on how to cook one of their new fish. Meanwhile, the other women in Jarakay formed their own alliance. At Naak, the members of the tribe were also enamored at their luxury items, especially Kaye's mirror. Later in the evening at Jarakay, after showing their luxury items, Patani showed her scapular to her tribemates, then went on another acting binge. Meanwhile in Naak, Kiko was alerted by an appearance of a snake in camp, which he handled and planned to release in the morning.

Day 8: Kiko played around with the snake and made it the unofficial tribal pet, since Naak's tribal flag has a snake on it. In Jarakay, the two alliances started plotting on who to vote out from Jarakay first, with Niña being targeted by the men and Veronica, and Gigit by the other women. Marlon admitted that was already torn between the two alliances, thus enabling to balance the situation and confuse both alliances. In the Immunity Challenge, the win-hungry Naak won easily over Jarakay, 5-0, handing the other tribe their first trip to Tribal Council. Naak went back to their camp happy and frolicking after winning their first ever challenge. Meanwhile in Jarakay, the men's alliance, which includes Veronica, decided to shift their focus from Niña to Patani. Nikki also cried because of homesickness. John laid down at the shelter and complained that he was not feeling well, probably because of the fumes from the camp fire. Emergency personnel were alerted and John was rushed to the nearest hospital.

Voting history

It should be noted that there is no "Original Tribes" column because the tribal switch occured on Day 3 before the first Tribal Council.

	Switched Tribes
Week #:	1	2
Eliminated:	Chev 8/9 Votes	Emerson 6/8 Votes
Voter	Vote
Charisse
Cris	Chev	Emerson
Gigit
Jace
JC	Chev	Emerson
John
Kaye	Chev	Emerson
Kiko	Chev	Emerson
Marlon
Nikki
Niña
Patani
Rob	Chev	Emerson
Veronica
Vevherly	Chev	Emerson
Zita	Chev	Kaye
Emerson	Chev	Vevherly
Chev	Kaye

External links

• Official Survivor Philippines Website
• Official Blog of Survivor: Philippines
• Survivor Philippines News and Blog
• Badong's Post in Multiply.com