Survivor: The Amazon

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Survivor: The Amazon
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Filming location	Floresta da Vida, Rio Negro, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
Winner	Jenna Morasca (6-1)
Original run	February 13, 2003 – May 11, 2003
Filming dates	November 07, 2002 – December 15, 2002
No. of episodes	13
No. of days	39
No. of survivors	16
Tribes	Jaburu Tambaqui Jacare
All-Stars	Jenna Morasca, Rob Cesternino
Season chronology
Previous	Survivor: Thailand
Next	Survivor: Pearl Islands

Survivor: The Amazon was the sixth incarnation of the popular television reality show Survivor. It was filmed in 2002 and 13 episodes aired weekly in the United States on CBS from February 13 - May 11, 2003.

Sixteen people were sent to the Amazon to win one million dollars. The two initial tribes were the all-female Jaburu (named for a native stork) and the all-male Tambaqui (a native fish). They were eventually merged into the Jacaré (a type of Caiman Alligator) tribe. It started out and ended as a battle of the sexes. The winner of Survivor: The Amazon was Jenna Morasca, a 21-year-old swimsuit model from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania defeating Matthew Von Ertfelda by a vote of 6-1. The season finale including the announcement of the winner and a live reunion of all the season's contestants 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 season is noted for having the first reality show contestant with a disability, the hearing impaired Christy Smith.

Another notable moment in this season was a challenge that tested players' endurance against temptation. While all the players were standing on a pillar, in a typical endurance Immunity challenge, the players were told that they'd be tempted with various rewards for hopping off voluntarily. Almost immediately, Jenna Morasca and Heidi Strobel offered to take off all of their clothes if they were provided with chocolate and peanut butter. Probst complied with their request, and a very naked (and very blurry) Jenna and Heidi exited the challenge and ate a plate of Oreo cookies and peanut butter. Their escapades earned them a cover shot and a nude pictorial in Playboy.

Sommaire 1 Contestants 2 The Game 3 Voting history 3.1 Elimination notes 4 Records and firsts 5 External links

Contestants

Contestant	Starting Tribe	Episode 5 Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Ryan Aiken 23, Ellicott City, MD	Tambaqui			<center>1st Voted Out Day 3	<center>4
Janet Koth 47, Manchester, MO	<center>Jaburu			<center>2nd Voted Out Day 6	<center>5
Daniel Lue 27, Houston, TX	<center>Tambaqui			<center>3rd Voted Out Day 9	<center>7
Joanna Ward 31, Orangeburg, SC	<center>Jaburu			<center>4th Voted Out Day 12	<center>4
Jeanne Hebert 41, North Attleboro, MA	<center>Jaburu	<center>Tambaqui		<center>5th Voted Out Day 15	<center>5
Shawna Mitchell 23, Redwood City, CA	<center>Jaburu	<center>Jaburu		<center>6th Voted Out Day 18	<center>6
Roger Sexton 56, Valencia, CA	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Tambaqui	Jacare	<center>7th Voted Out Day 21	<center>11
Dave Johnson 24, Pasadena, CA	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Tambaqui		<center>8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	<center>8
Deena Bennett 35, Riverside, CA	<center>Jaburu	<center>Jaburu		<center>9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	<center>6
Alex Bell 32, Los Angeles, CA	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Jaburu		<center>10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	<center>6
Christy Smith 24, Basalt, CO	<center>Jaburu	<center>Tambaqui		<center>11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	<center>9
Heidi Strobel 24, Buffalo, MO	<center>Jaburu	<center>Tambaqui		<center>12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	<center>3
Butch Lockley 50, Olney, IL	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Tambaqui		<center>13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	<center>5
Rob Cesternino 24, Wantagh, NY	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Jaburu		<center>14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	<center>4
Matthew Von Ertfelda 33, Washington, D.C.	<center>Tambaqui	<center>Jaburu		<center>Runner-Up	<center>6
Jenna Morasca 21, Pittsburgh, PA	<center>Jaburu	<center>Jaburu		<center>Sole Survivor	<center>3

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 title	Air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
Boys vs. Girls	February 132003	None	Jaburu	<center>Ryan	4-3-1	<center>1st Voted Out Day 3
Storms	February 202003	Jaburu	Tambaqui	<center>Janet	5-1-1-1	<center>2nd Voted Out Day 6
Girl Power	February 272003	Jaburu	Jaburu	<center>Daniel	6-1	<center>3rd Voted Out Day 9
Trapped	March 62003	Tambaqui	Tambaqui	<center>Joanna	4-2-1	<center>4th Voted Out Day 12
Pick-up Sticks	March 132003	None	Jaburu	<center>Jeanne	4-2	<center>5th Voted Out Day 15
More Than Meats the Eye	March 192003	Tambaqui	Tambaqui	<center>Shawna	4-2	<center>6th Voted Out Day 18
Girls Gone Wilder	March 262003	None	Deena	<center>Roger	7-3	<center>7th Voted Out Day 21
Sleeping With the Enemy	April 32003	Dave	Jenna	<center>Dave	8-1	<center>8th Voted Out Day 24
The Chain	April 102003	Alex	Matthew	<center>Deena	6-2	<center>9th Voted Out Day 27
Q and A	April 242003	Survivor Auction	Rob	<center>Alex	4-3	<center>10th Voted Out Day 30
Sour Grapes	May 12003	Matthew	Jenna	<center>Christy	4-2	<center>11th Voted Out Day 33
The Amazon Heats Up	May 82003	Matthew	Matthew	<center>Heidi	3-2	<center>12th Voted Out Day 36
...And Then There Were Four	May 112003	None	Jenna	<center>Butch	3-1	<center>13th Voted Out Day 37
			Jenna	<center>Rob	1-0	<center>14th Voted Out Day 38
The Reunion	May 112003	<center>Jury Vote		<center>Matthew	6-1	<center>Runner-Up
				<center>Jenna		<center>Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Starting Tribes				Mixed Tribes		Merged Tribe
Episode #:	<center>1	<center>2	<center>3	<center>4	<center>5	<center>6	<center>7	<center>8	<center>9	<center>10	<center>11	<center>12	13		<center>Reunion
Eliminated:	Ryan 4/8 Votes	Janet 5/8 Votes	Daniel 6/7 Votes	Joanna 4/7 Votes	Jeanne 4/6 Votes	Shawna 4/6 Votes	Roger 7/10 Votes	Dave 8/9 Votes	Deena 6/8 Votes	Alex 4/7 Votes	Christy 4/6 Votes	Heidi 3/5 Votes	Butch 3/4 Votes	Rob 1 Vote	Matthew 1/7 Votes	Jenna 6/7 Votes
Voter	Vote
Jenna		<Center>Janet		<Center>Joanna		<Center>Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew	Christy	Rob	Butch	Rob	Jury Vote
Matthew	<Center>Roger		<Center>Daniel			<Center>Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Alex	Christy	Heidi	Butch
Rob	<Center>Ryan		<Center>Daniel			<Center>Shawna	Roger	Dave	Deena	Alex	Christy	Heidi	Butch			Jenna
Butch	<Center>Ryan		<Center>Daniel		<Center>Jeanne		Christy	Dave	Deena	Alex	Jenna	Heidi	Rob		Matthew
Heidi		<Center>Janet		<Center>Joanna	<Center>Jeanne		Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew	Christy	Rob				Jenna
Christy		<Center>Jenna		<Center>Joanna	<Center>Butch		Roger	Dave	Alex	Alex	Jenna					Jenna
Alex	<Center>Ryan		<Center>Daniel			<Center>Matthew	Roger	Dave	Deena	Matthew						Jenna
Deena		<Center>Janet		<Center>Joanna		<Center>Shawna	Roger	Dave	Alex							Jenna
Dave	<Center>Daniel		<Center>Daniel		<Center>Jeanne		Christy	Matthew								Jenna
Roger	<Center>Ryan		<Center>Daniel		<Center>Jeanne		Christy
Shawna		<Center>Janet		<Center>Christy		<Center>Matthew
Jeanne		<Center>Janet		<Center>Shawna	<Center>Butch
Joanna		<Center>Christy		<Center>Shawna
Daniel	<Center>Roger		<Center>Roger
Janet		<Center>Jeanne
Ryan	<Center>Roger

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Elimination notes

• Ryan - Along with Daniel, was given most of the blame for losing immunity for Tambaqui on the balance beam. He was also viewed (again along with Daniel) as being too lazy around camp, but since Daniel was considered the lesser of two evils, Ryan was voted off (4-3-1).
• Janet - Janet struggled with feeling ill during the very first episode, and it seemed to carry into the second. Additionally, a granola bar was discovered at camp, and Janet was accused(by tribemate Jeanne) of smuggling it into camp (5-1-1-1).
• Daniel - He didn't get along with Roger and some of the other men. He never redeemed himself from the lazy image he had garnered in the first episode (6-1).
• Joanna - An alliance of four was spawned (Jenna-Heidi-Shawna-Deena) that didn't include Joanna. Some of the younger girls felt they were being persecuted by Joanna for being good-looking, while Deena considered her a physical threat. Her religious preaching and rudeness to Christy annoyed some tribe members. Even though Shawna implored her alliance to vote her out, Joanna took the fall (4-2-1).
• Jeanne - The tribes were shuffled and the new Tambaqui tribe lost immunity. It appeared that the women were sticking together to vote off Butch and the men planned on ousting Jeanne. Though Heidi had agreed to vote with the girls, Dave convinced Heidi to join the men in voting off Jeanne, whom Heidi felt she could not trust (4-2).
• Shawna - Shawna's demise truly began when she wanted to throw in the towel. This seemed to diminish the loyalty Jenna, Heidi and Deena had for her. Though she recovered at the tribal switch, she was beginning to form a relationship with Alex with the objective of eliminating Matt. Deena and Rob formed an alliance, voting out Shawna (4-2).
• Roger - Before the merge, the new Jaburu tribe made an alliance (also to include Heidi) to take out the Tambaqui men. When both tribes merged, Roger irritated the women with his sexist views and annoyed many of the men with his arrogance. Even though Dave was the first target, Jenna and Heidi convinced Deena to take out Roger due to the fact that he may not vote for a woman in a man/woman final two scenario. Therefore, he was voted off (7-3).
• Dave - One of the remaining two who didn't vote for Roger, Dave was both outside the alliance and seen as an incredible physical and social threat. He was the first member of the jury (8-1).
• Deena - Though she was part of the majority alliance, and the group planned on voting for Matt, Deena plotted against Alex to have him voted out. This angered Jenna, Heidi and Alex. She threw the final round of the immunity challenge to Matt, and was voted off and the second member of the jury (6-2)
• Alex - In a final four alliance with Rob, Jenna, and Heidi, Alex told Rob that when it got down to four, Alex would join the women and vote off Rob. In response, Rob got together with Matt, Christy, and Butch to take out his former alliance. He was seen as a threat, was voted off and became the third member of the jury (4-3).
• Christy - Christy refused to quickly commit to either the men or the women. When Jenna gave Heidi immunity at tribal council, Matt and Rob decided to side with the girls to vote out the wild card. To her surprise, Christy was voted off and was the fourth member of the jury (4-2).
• Heidi - Neither of the women helped the men rebuilding the burned shelter, which angered the men. However, Heidi appeared to be better in the challenges than an increasingly sick Jenna. Heidi was voted off and became the fifth member of the jury (3-2).
• Butch - When Jenna won immunity, Matt and Rob decided to stick to their alliance and vote for Butch. Even though Jenna said that she was interested in siding with Butch, she turned to the two other men and ousted Butch to be the sixth member of the jury (3-1).
• Rob - Jenna won the final immunity despite Rob's attempts to make a deal with her. She professed she was "taking the threat with her," as she wanted the jury to believe she was bold, but she eliminated Rob on the grounds that she knew he would beat her. Jenna took Matt to the finals while Rob became the seventh and final member of the jury (1-0).
• Matthew - Matt was considered by the jury to be dependent on Rob and played more of a survival game than a strategic one. His responses to most of the questions weren't direct or well-spoken. Only Butch voted for him.
• Jenna - Jenna, the only female in the final 4, was considered to be the smarter, more strategic player. Her responses to the questions were strong and clear. She won in an overwhelming 6-1 victory with the votes of Rob, Heidi, Christy, Alex, Deena, and Dave, making her the youngest person ever to win the game (21 years old).

Records and firsts

• With four individual immunity challenge wins, winner Jenna Morasca is tied with runner-up Kelly Wiglesworth from Borneo for the most immunity wins by a female contestant in one season.

External links

• Official CBS Survivor The Amazon Website

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