Survivor: All-Stars

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Survivor: All-Stars
Filming location	Pearl Islands, Panama
Winner	Amber Brkich (4–3)
Original run	February 1, 2004 – May 9, 2004
Filming dates	November 3, 2003 – December 11, 2003
No. of episodes	16
No. of days	39
No. of survivors	18
Tribes	Chapera      Mogo Mogo      Saboga      Chaboga Mogo
Heroes vs. Villains	Rob Mariano, Rupert Boneham, Jerri Manthey, Colby Donaldson
Season chronology
Previous	Survivor: Pearl Islands
Next	Survivor: Vanuatu

Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was taped in 2003 and debuted in the United States on CBS on February 1, 2004 after Super Bowl XXXVIII. It was set on the Pearl Islands of Panama, where the previous Survivor: Pearl Islands had just finished. The winner of this series was Amber Brkich, whose 4–3 victory over Rob "Boston Rob" Mariano was announced on live television on May 9, 2004. At the end of the series a twist called America's Tribal Council was broadcast live on May 13, 2004. It involved the public voting for whom they wanted to win a second million-dollar prize. When the show was broadcast, Rupert Boneham won the million dollars.

This season was released on DVD on September 14, 2004.

[edit] Casting

Producer Mark Burnett has confirmed that two people turned down formal offers to appear on the All-Stars edition of Survivor — Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck from The Australian Outback, who had recently taken a job as a co-host of The View, and Colleen Haskell of the show's premiere season, who "had moved on with her life and just genuinely didn't want to go through that again." There has also been speculation that Brian Heidik was asked to appear on the show, but he would only do so on the condition that he be paid a substantial sum for his appearance regardless of his standing in the game. Survivor: Pearl Islands winner Sandra Diaz-Twine also confirmed that she turned down an offer to join the show, saying that she was still recovering from parasites that she received at Pearl Islands.^[1] Jon Dalton has claimed that he also turned down an offer to appear. ^[2] Jenna Morasca, winner Survivor: The Amazon recently stated that her fellow tribemate Heidi Strobel had also turned down the offer to appear on the show.^[3]

Burnett jokingly said that "the casting was really, really scientific. I got a yellow legal pad and wrote down 24 names, and [then] cut down to 18. It was that quick."^[4]

[edit] Season summary

This season of the series featured the return of eighteen players from previous seasons, divided into three tribes: Chapera, Mogo Mogo, and Saboga. Each tribe was named after an island of the Pearl Islands. During the fifth episode Reward Challenge, the Saboga tribe was dissolved and its members divided between the other two tribes. During this period, an alliance between Rob M. and Amber (who had formed their own alliance early in the game) and Rupert and Jenna L. would become dominate for Chapera. Also, during this time, two players voluntarily left the game. Jenna Morasca, fearing for her mother's health, decided to drop out, returning to her mother's side; her mother passed away eight days later from cancer. Susan "Sue" Hawk left distraught in episode six, one day after an incident during an immunity challenge in which a naked Richard Hatch had brief but inappropriate bodily contact with her.

With ten players remaining, a tribal switch was held where players drew new buffs out of a bag. By chance, each player drew a buff of the opposite tribe color except Amber, with the net effect of having Amber forced into the old Mogo Mogo tribe under the Chapera name. When Chapera lost the next immunity challenge, Rob whispered a deal to Lex to save Amber, promising that he will make it up to him later in the game. Lex convinced the rest of Chapera to vote out Jerri instead of Amber. The next day, the remaining players were merged under the tribe name Chaboga Mogo (a combination of the former tribe names), and Rob found it necessary to vote off Lex much to his anger of breaking the promise.

Rob's four-player alliance continued to dominate the rest of the game. When down to five players, Rob, Amber, Rupert, Jenna L., and Big Tom, Rob incited an argument between Rupert and Big Tom, ultimately leading to Big Tom being voted off at the next Tribal Council followed by Rupert. Rob won the final immunity challenge and took Amber into the final two with him. The jury was split, some recognizing that Rob played a strong game to get this far, while others, such as Lex, remained bitter over Rob's ploys. At the live show, prior to the reading of the votes, Rob proposed to Amber for her hand in marriage, which she accepted. Amber won the final vote, 4-3. As winner, Amber was given the ability to give a car to another player, and she selected Shii-Ann, considering her to be the swing vote on the jury. Also during the reunion show, contestant Jerri Manthey of Survivor: The Australian Outback attempted to insert herself into the discussion between Tom Buchanan and Mariano. She was greeted twice with a resounding round of boos from the 5,000-person audience, resulting in her storming out of the reunion show during a commercial break.^[5]

A week later, Rupert was announced as the winner of the "America Votes" contest, receiving 85% of the 38 million votes cast, winning a million dollars himself.

[edit] Contestants

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

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.

Note 1: Saboga chose to give some taste of reward to the other two tribes. They gave a flint and pot to all the tribes.
Note 2: Since Jenna M. left the game, no immunity challenge and no tribal council were shown during the episode.
Note 3: Saboga, having lost the reward challenge, was dissolved with two members sent to each of the Chapera and Mogo Mogo tribes.
Note 4: Despite Sue's resignation from the game, a reward challenge was still held.
Note 5: The challenge was combined Reward and Immunity. Chapera was able to chose one Mogo Mogo member for their reward. They selected Kathy, who was not permitted to go to tribal council with her tribe.
Note 6: A tribe reshuffling took place instead of a reward challenge. Improbably, Amber was the only one who did not switch tribes, but had new tribemates.
Note 7: Gray is used to indicate that the reward challenge is individual and not tribal. No merge color was given out at this point in the episode.
Note 8: Two were given immunity at the night's tribal council.
Note 9: Rob M. forewent seeing his video from home. He gave everybody their letters from home.

[edit] Voting history

Note 10: Jenna M. quit the game on day 9 to return home to her dying mother.
Note 11: Sue quit the game on day 17 after being outraged about the incident with Richard at the previous challenge.
Note 12: Kathy abstained from the vote, as she was chosen to enjoy the reward with the Chapera tribe.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Official CBS Survivor All Stars Website