Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown

Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown is the third season of the Philippine version of the reality television series Survivor.

Richard Gutierrez took over hosting duties after the show's previous host, Paolo Bediones, moved to TV5 a few months after the second season ended airing. Unlike the first two seasons, this installment would feature 18 celebrities from different fields of film, TV, sports and pop culture. Teasers of the castaways' identities were partially revealed between July and August 2010 before they were revealed on August 14, 2010.

The show would be the second time that the Philippine franchise would take place in Thailand (after the first season). Also, the edition took place for only 36 days (although some printed teasers put the duration at 40) instead of the usual 39. This would also be the first one in which castaways would live in a single camp before eventually splitting into two tribes. During the first episode's preview of succeeding episodes, any reference to tribes and tribe colors were shown in grayscale to keep viewers guess on tribal allegiances.

The show premiered on GMA Network on August 30, 2010. It is syndicated worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV except in North America, due to Castaway Television's contract with CBS that prevents other countries' versions of the series to be aired in that region.

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
Princess Snell StarStruck finalist	Template:SPTribe	Quit Day 2	0
Ahron Villena Actor	Template:SPTribe	Eliminted Day 2	0
Aira Bermudez SexBomb Girls member	Tarengganu
Akihiro Sato Model and TV Actor	Tarengganu
Aubrey Miles Film and TV actress	Tarengganu
Buhawi Meneses Parokya ni Edgar bassist	Tarengganu
Elma Muros-Posadas Athlete	Tarengganu
Jon Ervic Manalo Vijandre Basketball Player and model	Tarengganu
Ferdinand "Doc Ferdz" Recio Veterinarian and TV host	Tarengganu
Ian Batherson StarStruck finalist	Tarengganu
Jon Hall Model	Redang
Glomirose "Karen" delos Reyes Actress and commercial model	Redang
Michelle Madrigal Actress	Redang
Mico Aytona TV host	Redang
Moi Marcampo Commercial model	Redang
Myka Flores Comedienne	Redang
Ronaldo "Pretty Trizsha" Celso Stand-up comic	Redang
Solenn Heussaff Model and make-up artist	Redang

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

Cycles in this article refer to the three-day periods in the game (unless indicated), composed of at least the Immunity Challenge and the subsequent Tribal Council. Except on the first three days, a cycle begins at the end of the previous Tribal Council. So any events that occurred after a Tribal Council will be chronicled in the next cycle.

Cycle no.	Air dates	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
01	August 30, 2010 to September 3, 2010	Buhawi, AiraC1	None	Princess	None	Quit Day 2

^C1 Gray is used to indicate that the reward challenge is individual and not tribal. Tribes were not yet established at this point.

Cycle 1: Days 1-3

• Reward Challenge: In a challenge based on the four classical elements, the castaways would start by scaling a wall and traverse a cargo net. They would then run to a mud pit, retrieve at least three rings of the same color (red or yellow), emerge from the pit, walk over a bed of hot coals and shoot the rings to a pole. When the reserve of rings ran out, they could go back to the mud pit and retrieve at least another ring to repeat the process. Once three rings had been shot to the pole, they would then run to a platform and raise a flag. First two to raise their flag would win.
  • Reward: A scroll each. One to be opened on the spot and the other be opened on the holder's first Tribal Council.

Day 1: At a hotel in Ranong, Thailand, the celebrities, as well as Philippine and Thai media were assembled for an upcoming press conference. During the event, the celebrities, still in their formal attire, were dragged out of the hotel by several locals and whisked away in several small songthaews. Upon arrival at a designated spot, they were met by Richard and were told that the game had started there. To bring home the point of being on their own, their luggages were burned in front of them. They were also told that they would start as one tribe. The host even handed a piece of flint to Buhawi. They were also given a map to their camp, and told to arrive before sundown. Along the way, they gathered tags with their names on it. Meanwhile, Ian lost his nametag and went searching for it, with some of his fellow castaways helping as well. Ian's tag was eventually found by Doc Ferdz. Upon arrival at camp, several castaways already started making shelter and fire. After eating a meager amount of oysters, the castaways attempted to sleep amid the pouring rain and the swarming mosquitoes.

Day 2: Moi, Elma, and Buhawi started gathering more food, which the rest of the castaways shared. Meanwhile, Trizsha and Aubrey talked about the latter's past relations with Jon. Similarly, Jon was thinking of ways to use his past relationship with Aubrey to further himself in the game. The first Reward Challenge was first finished by Buhawi, followed by Aira. Buhawi opened the contents of his scroll, which said of him being designated as "tribe leader". Aira would open hers at her first Tribal Council. Meanwhile, Princess, who never advanced through the cargo net after the challenge had finished, stayed behind at the challenge area. Later that night, to pass the time, Trizsha, Ian, Aubrey, and Myka did some role playing. Princess talked about her grievances and troubles with the show's resident psychologist. It was during this talk that she expressed her declaration to quit the game altogether due to hunger.

Day 3: Talk was on the still-absent Princess and her apparent weaknesses in the game. Later, Buhawi, together with Doc Ferdz, started to organize the castaways to do certain chores. Aira, Elma, Moi and Myka did the gathering of food, while Buhawi, Doc Ferdz, and Jon subsequently built the new shelter. Meanwhile, Myka suggested that she, Buhawi and Elma form an alliance with Doc Ferdz. Talk about tribal council led to a consensus in voting out Princess, if she would return, or Triszha, who had suggested to Aubrey in voting out the strong. After what everyone felt was a full meal of crabs and oysters, they received Treemail saying there was something good waiting at a neighboring island. They heaved themselves there to find several live chickens, which they retrieved for food. The castaways later headed to Tribal Council. It was there the others knew about Princess's departure from the game. After some talk about their initial days at camp, Buhawi received a green armband as a sign of him being tribe leader. Aira opened her scroll, which said of three tribal leaders, her being the second leader, and all voting for that night determining the third. It further said that no one would be voted out. Because of it, Aira received her tribal leader armband, a yellow one. The vote resulted in Jon being installed as the third leader (wearing red) with 9 votes, Doc Ferdz at 5, Elma 2, and Trizsha 1. The castaways were further told to stay on for further activities.

Voting history

Tribal Council (TC) numbers are almost the same as Cycle numbers as a Tribal Council occurs at the end of each cycle; eliminations that happen outside a Tribal Council do not bear a Tribal Council number, but count towards a cycle. Episode numbers denote the episode(s) when the voting and subsequent revelation of votes and elimination during a Tribal Council took place. They can also denote the episode wherein a contestant officially left the game for any reason.

	Original Tribes
TC #:	—
Episode #:	4
Eliminated:	Princess No voteV1
Voter	Vote
Ahron
Aira
Akihiro
Aubrey
Buhawi
Doc Ferdz
Elma
Ervic
Ian
Jon
Karen
Michelle
Mico
Moi
Myka
Solenn
Trizsha
Princess

^V1 Princess declared herself to have quit the game completely due to hunger. Therefore no vote occurred for her removal from the game. Furthermore, the Tribal Council that occured after her departure involved no eliminations and instead concentrated on the election of tribal leaders.

External links

• Official website