Expeditie Robinson 6 (2005) - Belgium/Netherlands - Part 1

This season took place in Panama and the tribes were divided in a young team (people under 30, team Noord) and an old team (people over 40, team Zuid).

First episode
The game started of in a controversial way: all players took part in the first individual/tribal challenge where they were hanging on a cross. The person who hang the longest would win a white vote for a tribal council (with which [s]he can eliminated a vote) and wins immunity for their tribe. The players got eliminated in this order:

Douwe = 1st (old)
Annita = 2nd (old)
John = 3rd (old)
Emma = 4th (young)
Nicole = 5th (young)
Fleur = 6th (young)
Johnny = 7th (young)
Tom = 8th (young)
Wim = 9th (young)
Meredith = 10th (young)

So now, there are five older people and one younger person left. Continuing:

Marleen = 11th (old)
Margriet = 12th (old)
Carl = 13th (old)
Elbert = 14th (old)
Elsje = 15th (old)

Which means the winner is Maxime (young). He gets a white vote, extra food and their team goes to the beach. The older people first have to do something difficult: they have to vote one of them of, without they had ever talked to each other. They get one hour to make their decision. Nobody volunteers, so Margriet first mentions a name: Douwe, because he was the first one to be eliminated in the challenge. The others follow Margriet and all vote out Douwe, who is the first person eliminated from the show.

After the vote, the old team also goes to their island, where they build a shelter and catch food. The youngsters haven't build anything and spend their time playing a ballgame. That night, the old team faces a setback when Elbert tries to cut a coconut, but accidentally cuts his own hand. He gets stitches, but is not allowed to take part in the challenges. John is angry at Elbert because he is their strongest person and they need him in the challenges.

However, after this first day it turns out these two teams are not the only people on the island. At Harimau, a secret island in the middle of the sea, two other people are living. These are the two people in their 30s in the show. They live in a cave and have no idea who the other participants are.

These two people Esther and Marnix. They live on snails, which upsets Esther because she is a vegetarian and she hates to kill animals. She thinks Marnix and she will be dead in a couple of days because there is so little to eat.

The next day, Johnny tries to lead their team in a hunt for food, but the team rather follows Maxime. He gets angry when Maxime, Emma, Tom and Wim to search for food and he has to stay behind. He is so angry that he doesn't want to take part in the immunity challenge, but the others convince him to take part anyhow. The challenge is won by the youngsters, which upsets Elbert because he is sure their team would have won had he taken part. Later there is some drama at the island when Elsje thinks John doesn't contribute the food fairly and that he eats more than the others do, while John thinks that Elsje shouldn't be on the island because she acts like it is some beauty resort. Also, Margriet notices she isn't fitting in with the team. When she is swimming with Elsje and Marleen, the two women only talk to each other and ignore Margriet. The voting goes this way:

Margriet = 4 (Elbert, Marleen, Annita, Carl)
John = 1 (Elsje)
Elsje = 1 (John)
Annita = 1 (Margriet)

Margriet is the second oldster to be voted out and leaves the game.


Second episode
The two 30s at Hirimau get the shock of their life when suddenly a big guy with a huge beard stands in their cage. This is Douwe, who gets a second chance after he was voted out by his tribemates. He is the only one who gets a second chance, Margriet is really eliminated. Douwe brings Maxime and Esther a mission: they get a few days to build a raft and to paddle to the island Messirip. If they succeed, both of them and Douwe will return/enter the game. As Douwe is a skipper, he takes the lead with building the shelter.

At the youngsters team, Johnny is still not feeling well. He is angry because nobody listens to him and he cannot be the leader. He gets homesick and wants to visit his wife again. Fleur tries to support him, but doesn't succeed and Johnny decides to leave the game.

For the reward challenge, the people get to pick their own rewards. The challenge is won by the youngsters, who take some food. They don't enjoy this, because there is some drama at camp when Maxime goes cut some bamboo and takes all the tools with him. Nicole and Fleur also want to look for food, but cannot do this because Maxime has all the tools. When they talk about this, Maxime gets support by the Belgian people. This leads to a split in the team between the Dutch and Belgian people. The oldsters also have trouble. Elsje goes looking for shells, but while she does a huge wave gets her, so she falls and breaks her leg. Elsje has to leave the show because of this.

The immunity challenge is won by the oldsters, thanks to Elbert who can finally take part in a challenge. It's a challenge where one person has to hold as much weight as possible, which is really easy for bodybuilder Elbert. He acts obnoxious to the youngsters and makes fun of their efforts when they try to win the game. Back at camp, John is angry at Elbert for acting so childish, which upsets Elbert who was so happy he finally took part in a game.

The youngsters vote one of their own out, which goes this way:

Tom = 3 (Fleur, Nicole, Maxime)
Nicole = 2 (Emma, Meredith)
Fleur 1 (Wim)
Maxime = 1 (Tom)

Strong guy Tom is the third person to be voted out and the third person to leave in this episode.


Third episode
The people at Harimau keep trying to build a raft, but their efforts fail constantly because the sea is too wild to test their raft. Douwe gets annoyed by Esther and Marnix who spend more time giggling than working.

At the young team, Nicole and Fleur are worried by the Belgian people (but these smartasses voted out a Dutch person last tribal council...) and don't like Maxime. But they are more angry with Emma, Meredith and Wim who never have an opinion and always follow Maxime. At the old team, Annita and Marleen form a friendship and spend a lot of time looking for food. Elbert is building a raft to prove he deserves to be on the island. Carl and John make fun of him and say it takes too much time to build a raft.

For the reward challenge one person of both tribes stays behind. They later go to the shelter of the other tribe and will try to steal as much as possible in five minutes: whatever they steal will be their reward if they win. John takes a lot of food from the youngsters, but Nicole can't find any food. The oldsters hid all their stuff before the reward challenge because they were worried something like this would happen. The challenge is won by the oldsters.

During the challenge, the three people at Harimau take their last chance to return in the game: they swim with the raft to the other island. Esther is kinda worried because she thinks there are sharks in the sea who will eat her. But she is lucky: all sharks had a day off and the three of them make it to Mensirip and will therefore return in the game next episode. They spend their time by building a shelter at the new beach (Esther & Marnix) and lie on their ass (Douwe).

The immunity challenge is won by the oldsters. The young people have to vote one out. Nicole and Fleur think they are in danger and try to make an alliance with Maxime by convincing him Huey, Dewey and Louie (Wim, Meredith & Emma) don't deserve to be on the island. Unfortunately, they fail and the voting goes like this:

Nicole = 3 (Emma, Meredith, Wim)
Meredith = 2 (Fleur, Nicole)
Fleur = 1 (Maxime)

Nicole is the next person to leave the show.


Fourth episode
At the old team, Elbert spends his time lying on the beach. He doesn't want to work anymore because he is angry with John & Carl. John calls him a big child who quits when things don't go their way. At the young team, Fleur is on the outs. She is very sad that Nicole is voted out and even wanted to switch places with Nicole because she thinks Nicole deserves to be on the island more.

Instead of a reward challenge, there is a tribal reshuffle. Marnix and Esther, who don't know the other people and have only seen pictures of them, both select a new tribe. Douwe gets to choose in which team he will be and chooses Marnix' team because he didn't get along well with Esther. Marnix further chooses Annita and Elbet from the olders and Emma, Fleur & Maxime from the youngsters. Esther gets Carl, John and Marleen from the olders and Meredith and Wim from the youngsters. But there is a little twist: because the teams have to be even, Nicole returns in the game and joins Esther's team. The new teams are thus:

Team Noord (former Oud) = Annita, Douwe, Emma, Elbert, Fleur, Marnix, Maxime
Team Zuid (former Jong) = Carl, Esther, John, Marleen, Meredith, Nicole, Wim

Maxime and Esther become the leaders of their team and receive immunity until the merge. After this, there is a reward challenge won by Marnix for team Noord.

Team Zuid goes back to their beach, where there is a surprise. There is an extra hut for Esther. As team leader she gets her own place to sleep. Esther doesn't like this and proposes that every night another person sleeps in the hut. John refuses this offer and says Esther has to sleep there alone. After this, there is a rainstorm and all of Zuid stay in the shelter they build earlier. Esther wants to join them but John won't let her. He says their team doesn't need a leader and wants her to stay in her own hamper, as she is a dog. At night there is the same problem: John doesn't want her to sleep in their shelter and keeps sending her away. The only person who feels sorry for Esther is Nicole, but she doesn't dare to say so because she is worried this will cost her her place in the game. The next day, John and Carl decide that they don't believe Esther really spend two weeks in a cage because she doesn't look bewildered.

The immunity challenge is won by team Noord. Back at camp, John and Carl tell Esther that she has to give up her immunity so they can vote her out. Esther wants to give up her leaders position, but that isn't enough for John. He is angry that someone else has to be voted out while they all want to vote for Esther (actually, he wants to vote for her and Carl, Huey and Dewey follow him). When Esther says this is unfair, John says that is not his problem. At tribal council, the host asks the team whether they think Esther should still be a leader. To the surprise of John, Marleen, Meredith, Wim and Nicole all say she should be. That means she can keep her immunity. The voting goes this way:

Nicole = 5 (Carl, John, Marleen, Meredith, Wim)
John = 2 (Esther, Nicole)

So for the second week in a row, Nicole gets voted out. This time she surely won't come back in the show.