Survivor: Africa

Template:Infobox Television Survivor Survivor: Africa was the third installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed during 2001 and aired from October 11, 2001 - January 10, 2002 on CBS. It was set in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve on the African continent.

The two initial tribes were Boran and Samburu (named for the real-life Borana and Samburu tribes). In the fifth episode, after 12 days, three members from each team were switched to the other team, in what became known as the first "twist" in the Survivor series. This emphasized that the players must be ready for the most sudden changes; future seasons would have similar twists. Eventually the two tribes merged into the Moto Maji tribe.

There was some controversy surrounding an immunity challenge in the finale episode. In a "Fallen Comrades" challenge, in which the contestants were quizzed on trivia regarding other players in the game who had been voted out, the final question was "Which female contestant has no piercings?" The official answer was Kelly Goldsmith, which eventual runner-up Kim Johnson answered and received the win for. Unbeknownst to the producers, however, contestant Lindsey Richter fit the question as well, which eventual third-place finisher Lex van den Berghe answered and was incorrectly marked wrong for. After this producer mistake had been found out, both van den Berghe and fourth place finisher Tom Buchanan were awarded with the $100,000 runner-up fee instead of the traditional third and fourth place earnings.

Thirteen episodes were aired, plus a mid-season recap, a live reunion/interview with Bryant Gumbel after the finale, and a "where are they now" show. The winner, Ethan Zohn, was revealed on January 10, 2002.

This is also the first season in which Jeff didn't read all of the votes right before the winner was revealed (5-2).

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Episode 4 Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total votes
Diane Ogden 42, Lincoln, NE	Boran			1st Voted Out Day 3	6
Jessie Camacho 27, Orlando, FL	Boran			2nd Voted Out Day 6	5
Carl Bilancione 46, Winter Springs, FL	Samburu			3rd Voted Out Day 9	7
Linda Spencer 44, Cambridge, MA	Samburu			4th Voted Out Day 12	4
Silas Gaither 23, Germantown, TN	Samburu	Boran		5th Voted Out Day 15	8
Lindsey Richter 27, Portland, OR	Samburu	Samburu		6th Voted Out Day 18	12
Clarence Black 24, Detroit, MI	Boran	Boran	Moto Maji	7th Voted Out Day 21	12
Kelly Goldsmith 22, Rancho Santa Fe, CA	Boran	Samburu		8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	5
Brandon Quinton 25, Dallas, TX	Samburu	Samburu		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Memmber Day 27	6
Frank Garrison 43, Odessa, NY	Samburu	Boran		10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	9
Kim Powers 29, Conshohocken, PA	Samburu	Samburu		11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	4
Teresa Cooper 42, Jackson, GA	Samburu	Boran		12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	4
Tom Buchanan 46, Rich Valley, VA	Boran	Samburu		13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	7
Lex van den Berghe 38, Santa Cruz, CA	Boran	Samburu		14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	10
Kim Johnson 57, Oyster Bay, NY	Boran	Boran		Runner-up	2
Ethan Zohn 27, Lexington, MA	Boran	Boran		Sole Survivor	5

The Game

		Challenges
Episode Title	Air Date	Reward	Immunity	Eliminated	Vote	Finish
Question of Trust	2001-10-11	None	Samburu	Diane	6-2	1st Voted Out Day 3
Who's Zooming Whom?	2001-10-18	Samburu	Samburu	Jessie	5-2	2nd Voted Out Day 6
The Gods Are Angry	2001-10-25	Boran	Boran	Carl	4-4	3rd Voted Out Day 9
The Young and Untrusted	2001-11-01	Samburu	Boran	Linda	4-3	4th Voted Out Day 12
The Twist	2001-11-08	Boran	Samburu	Silas	5-1	5th Voted Out Day 15
I'd Never Do It To You	2001-11-15	Samburu	Boran	Lindsey	3-3	6th Voted Out Day 18
Will There Be a Feast Tonight?	2001-11-22	None	Teresa	Clarence	8-2	7th Voted Out Day 21
Smoking Out the Snake	2001-12-06	Ethan	Ethan	Kelly	5-4	8th Voted Out Day 24
Dinner, Movie and a Betrayal	2001-12-13	Brandon, Frank	Lex	Brandon	6-2	9th Voted Out Day 27
We Are Family	2001-12-20	Survivor Auction	Lex	Frank	6-1	10th Voted Out Day 30
The Big Adventure	2001-12-27	Lex	Tom	Kim P	4-2	11th Voted Out Day 33
Truth Be Told	2002-01-03	Lex	Lex	Teresa	4-1	12th Voted Out Day 36
The Final Four: No Regrets	2002-01-10	None	Kim J	Tom	3-1	13th Voted Out Day 37
			Kim J	Lex	1-0	14th Voted Out Day 38
The Reunion	2002-01-10	Jury Vote		Kim J	5-2	Runner-Up
				Ethan		Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Starting Tribes				Mixed 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:	Diane 6/8 votes	Jessie 5/7 votes	Carl 4/8 votes 1	Linda 4/7 votes	Silas 5/6 votes	Lindsey 3/6 votes 2	Clarence 8/10 votes	Kelly 5/9 votes	Brandon 6/8 votes	Frank 6/7 votes	Kim P. 4/6 votes	Teresa 4/5 votes	Tom 3/4 votes	Lex 1 Vote	Kim J. 2/7 votes	Ethan 5/7 votes
Voter	Vote
Ethan	Diane	Jessie			Silas		Clarence	Kelly	Brandon	Frank	Kim P.	Teresa	Tom		Jury Vote
Kim J.	Diane	Jessie			Silas		Clarence	Kelly	Brandon	Frank	Kim P.	Teresa	Tom	Lex
Lex	Diane	Jessie				Lindsey	Clarence	Kelly	Frank	Frank	Kim P.	Teresa	Tom			Ethan
Tom	Clarence	Clarence				Lindsey	Clarence	Kelly	Brandon	Frank	Kim P.	Teresa	Lex			Ethan
Teresa			Lindsey	Silas	Silas		Lex	Lex	Brandon	Frank	Lex	Tom				Ethan
Kim P.			Carl	Linda		Tom	Clarence	Lex	Brandon	Frank	Lex				Kim J.
Frank			Lindsey	Silas	Silas		Clarence	Lex	Brandon	Kim J.						Ethan
Brandon			Carl	Linda		Tom	Clarence	Kelly	Frank						Kim J.
Kelly	Diane	Jessie				Lindsey	Clarence	Lex								Ethan
Clarence	Diane	Jessie			Silas		Lex
Lindsey			Carl	Linda		Tom
Silas			Carl	Linda	Frank
Linda			Lindsey	Silas
Carl			Lindsey
Jessie	Diane	Clarence
Diane	Clarence

Template:Fnb Lindsey and Carl competed in a nature quiz tiebreaker, and Carl lost.
Template:Fnb Lindsey was eliminated because she had four previous votes against her.

Elimination notes

• Diane Ogden - She was voted off for being seriously dehydrated especially during the immunity challenge. The vote was 6-2.
• Jessie Camacho - Although she was well-liked, she was voted off for the same reasons as Diane. The vote was 5-2.
• Carl Bilancione - The Samburu tribe divided 4-4 with the older Carl, Linda, Teresa and Frank deadlocked with younger Lindsey, Brandon, Kim P and Silas at Tribal Council. Unlike Season 2 where previous votes broke the tie, this was the first tribal council for Samburu. So Lindsey and Carl competed in a nature quiz tiebreaker, and Carl lost.
• Linda Spencer - She was voted off for being seen as a weak link. The fact that she was part of the old Samburu alliance played as another contribution to her departure, making her an easy target for the young Samburu alliance. The vote was 4-3.
• Silas Gaither - The first ever Survivor switch sent Silas, Frank and Teresa to a new team. Feeling Silas had an abrasive personality, Boran deliberately lost the immunity challenge and voted him out 5-1.
• Lindsey Richter - Samburu had three original Boran and three original Samburu. Their votes deadlocked and Lindsey was eliminated because she had four previous votes against her. Lex, Kelly, and Tom voted for Lindsey because Kim J. had sent them a signal at a challenge that Lindsey had votes against her.
• Clarence Black - His threat status finally got the best of him, and in the first tribal council for Moto Maji, he was voted off in an 8-2 vote. He also sealed his fate in the first episode when, while feeding Diane beans to try to combat her dehydration, he helped himself to some as well and was caught by Tom. Tom also saw him eat some canned cherries as well. From then until Clarence was eliminated, Tom would always cast a vote for Clarence as a message for his stealing food. The only reason Clarence survived as long as he did is because he was useful to his tribe in challenges.
• Kelly Goldsmith - In the previous Tribal Council, Lex received two votes against him (one of them cast by Clarence). He thought Kelly had cast the other vote and targeted her as a threat (When it was in fact cast by Teresa). Kelly made a pact with Kim P, Frank and Teresa, but Brandon sided with Ethan, Kim J, Tom and Lex to vote out Kelly 5-4.
• Brandon Quinton - Brandon alienated his tribemates following his decision to side against Kelly and his former original Samburu tribemates in the previous tribal council. Even the people that he sided with disapproved, and began to think he was untrustworthy (with the exception of Lex). He was voted off in a 6-2 vote.
• Frank Garrison - He was an original member of the Samburu tribe, and also he wanted to go. The fact that was a social outcast didn't help him either. He was voted off in a 6-1 vote.
• Kim Powers - She was an original member of the Samburu tribe. She was voted off in a 4-2 vote.
• Teresa Cooper - She was the last remaining member of the original Samburu tribe. She was voted off in a 4-1 vote, but not before trying to get Lex to turn on Tom.
• Tom Buchanan - He was considered too untrustworthy. He was voted off in a 3-1 vote.
• Lex Van Den Berghe - His threat status finally caught up with him when he lost the final immunity challenge. He was voted off by the final immunity winner, Kim Johnson. Had she kept him in the game, she probably could have won.
• Kim Johnson - Arguably the first player to lose the final vote as a result of the "most deserving" school of thought. The jury did not feel her body of work in the game was enough to warrant a majority vote. Gained the votes of Brandon and Kim Powers.
• Ethan Zohn - He managed to play the game without upsetting anyone, and also always did well in challenges. The jury also felt he was more deserving of the win. He Won 5-2, with the votes of Frank, Teresa, Tom, Lex and Kelly.

Trivia

• This is the first time that the temperature is shown in any challenge. This was done in the final immunity challenge. In an immunity challenge in Guatemala, however, Jeff did reveal that the temperature was a whopping 114 degrees marking the second time this has happened.
• The final immunity challenge was also used as the final immunity challenge in Survivor: All Stars.
• Ethan is currently dating Jenna Morasca, the winner of Survivor: Amazon.
• Usually at the end of each Survivor season, the first vote revealed by viewers during the live finale would be for the true winner. Africa is the first time the first vote revealed is for the runner up (Kim J.).

Other notes

• During the finale, the CBS producers pulled a fast one after the final votes were cast. Jeff Probst went to get the voting urn and, when he returned, it appeared he had returned directly to the Tribal Council site to read the votes. However, he was actually on a CBS soundstage in Hollywood (with a live audience) that was made up to look like the site. This was revealed after he read the votes and announced Ethan Zohn as the winner. CBS had the telecast switch immediately from the taped Final Tribal Council to the live set, rather than Jeff announcing he would take the votes and hold them until the live portion of the finale. The contestants were told to try to make themselves appear as they had looked during the last Tribal Council and the audience was told to hold any cheering or applause until after the winner was announced. To the discerning eye, it was evident that the location of the vote reveal was taking place in a professionally lit television studio (rather than the Kenyan locale), and that several of the jury members and finalists, most obviously Kim Johnson, were wearing makeup.

External links

• Official CBS Survivor Africa Website
• Survivor Fever
• Survivor Maps