Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 1

Blog post by Arthur

This season started off with 16 contestants and they are all women. Here's what happened in the first episode:

The women were divided in two teams: team Noord were Bea, Birgit, Carolien, Lianne, Marina, Marjolein, Sabine and Simone, team Zuid were Carine, Doreen, Esmeralda, Esther, Eva, Jill, Rita en Yolanda.

24 hours after they met eachother (which they did at the plane and during the trip to the island, so before they actually set foot on the island), the women had to vote one of their own off.

In team Noord, Birgit had 1 vote, Bea and Marina 2 and Simone 3 votes. In team Zuid Doreen had 2 votes, Carine and Yolanda had 3. The six other women had to decide who of Carine and Yolanda had to leave and they voted for Carine because Yolanda was more optimistic.

Of course Simone and Carine didn't have to leave, they went to the islands first and got a special task to do. In the meanwhile, the other 14 women competed in a challenge to decide who would be the first finalist of Expeditie Robinson. Third was Carolien, second was Simone and winner was Marina.

After the challenge all women went to the islands, saw the person they just voted off and did their jobs. After two days the two women who were voted out had to do their task: they had to rank the other women in their camp on base of who was the strongest.

In team Noord, Sabine said that Simone was the strongest person and Bea was the weakest (other results not known).

In team Zuid, Carine ranked the other women as follows: 1. Esmeralda (strongest) / 2. Jill / 3. Esther / 4. Yolanda / 5. Rita / 6. Doreen / 7. Eva (weakest)

After this, there was an elimination challenge and the team who lost the challenge would loose one member: the person who was put last on the strength-list. The challenge was won by team Zuid, which means that Bea of team Noord had to leave the show.

After this, it was announced that five men would have to do a task and if they succeed, they will become participants as well. Whether they will succeed, will be known in episode 2.