Robinson: Love Edition Explained

Module1:	Num Survivors: 27
Num Episodes:	30
Network:	Sjuan
Film Start:	November 2014
Film End:	December 2014
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Robinson: Love Edition is the sixteenth season of Expedition Robinson, the Swedish version of Survivor, and the first to air on Sjuan. Linda Lindorff, the host of Robinson 2009, returned to host this season. Fitting with the season's theme, all contestants were single people between the ages of 20 and 42, the tribes were initially divided by gender, and a pair composed of one man and one woman won the season.

Format

The season featured several changes to the game structure in accordance with the theme, the most notable being that a pair (one man and one woman) would win the game, marking the first season in any Survivor franchise with multiple winners by design. As an additional twist, instead of being immediately eliminated from the game, voted out contestants would go to the Garden of Eden instead, to compete against other eliminated contestants for a chance to return to the game. The Garden of Eden features one male and one female contestant — Adam and Eve, respectively — at a time, who compete in a duel against the latest person of their gender eliminated. At a predetermined point in the game, the remaining Adam and Eve return to the game. The Garden of Eden is reminiscent of Utopia from the sixth and seventh seasons.

Before the merge, in order to get to know each other better, the tribes would spend the day following the Immunity Challenge together in the Blue Lagoon. The season also included a new challenge, the Amulet Challenge, taking place between the members of the tribe that won that cycle's Immunity Challenge. The three winners of the Amulet Challenge would spend the rest of the day with the losing tribe, and each get to give one member of the other tribe immunity from that night's Tribal Council. The Amulet Challenge was discontinued at the merge.

The format changed once the tribes were merged, at which point the remaining castaways competed in opposite-gender pairs. At the start of each cycle, the gender with fewer remaining players competed to determine their draft order. As the draft was always done with an odd number of players remaining, the leftover castaway was sent to the Garden of Eden. The pair that won each Immunity Challenge also earned the right to give immunity to a single player for the subsequent Tribal Council, while both members of the last-placed team were given a penalty vote; in the case the penalized contestant was given immunity by the challenge winners, their penalty vote was nullified. The vote was individual, with contestants voting by themselves and for one contestant, thus ensuring an odd number of contestants remaining for the next partner draft. The format also changed at the Garden of Eden, as the duels were competed in opposite-gender pairs as well.

Contestants

Contestant	Original tribe	Switched tribe	Merged tribe	Main game		Finish
Caxton Njuki 33, Oxelösund		bgcolor=darkgray rowspan=9		bgcolor=darkgray rowspan=12
Zylfije Mehmeti 27, Malmö	Srei
Gregorij Brattfors 25, Göteborg	Bros
John Nordin 26, Härnösand	Bros
Alexandra Mogeswärd 30, Nyköping	Srei
Torun Eriksson 24, Säter	Srei
Malin Ericsson 42, Sollentuna
Marielle Sandgren 30, Stockholm
Paulina Brodd 20, Stockholm
Kristoffer Hultling 24, Karlskrona
Pontus Hermansson Returned to Eden	Bros				bgcolor=darkgrey
Richard Lundström 29, Helsingborg	Bros	Srei
Robin Malmström 30, Stockholm
Nellie Aalhuizen 21, Dala-Järna	Srei
Oskar Nordstrand 23, Helsingborg	Bros	Bros	Sreros
Malin Sandberg 28, Jönköping	Srei	Srei	Sreros
Ali Rouass 28	Bros	Bros	Sreros
Sara Söderman 37, Nynäshamn	Srei	Bros	Sreros
Vera Kumpulainen 24, Täby	Srei	Srei	Sreros
Filip Flink 22, Eskilstuna		Srei	Sreros
Melissa Miller 28, Borlänge	Srei	Srei	Sreros
Pontus Hermansson Returned to game	Bros					bgcolor=darkgrey
Denice Andrée Returned to game	Srei	Srei	Sreros			bgcolor=darkgrey
Kalle Zeman 30, Stockholm	Bros	Bros	Sreros		bgcolor=darkgrey
David Stenroth 34, Stockholm	Bros	Bros	Sreros
Mia Mukkavaara 26, Luleå	Srei	Srei	Sreros
Pontus Hermansson 38, Falköping	Bros		Sreros
Denice Andrée 26, Stockholm	Srei	Srei	Sreros
Dan Spinelli Scala 30, Stockholm	Bros	Bros	Sreros
Jennifer Egelryd 24, Tyresö	Srei	Bros	Sreros

Partner history

Contestant	Partner
	Cycle 6	Cycle 7	Cycle 8	Cycle 9	Cycle 10
Dan
Jennifer
Denice		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey
Pontus	bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey
David
Mia
Kalle
Melissa
Filip
Vera
Sara
Ali
Malin S.
Oskar		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey		bgcolor=darkgrey

Season summary

There would be two winners this season: One man and one woman. Everyone competed individually but the structure was designed so that the number of men and women were always equal. All contestants were young singles. There were two tribes of six, divided by gender. The losing tribe went to tribal council, as usual, but the winning tribe competed in a separate challenge to decide who would get to hand immunity to players in the losing tribe.In the women's tribe, Denice made a pact with Jennifer and Mia, primarily to take out Melissa Miller who was good at everything but didn't gel with the rest of the group. Everyone else disagreed with pact-making and wanted to break Denice's pact. Even the men worked to break the pact by distributing immunity to Melissa every time.Players scouted for potential partners of the other gender. Melissa formed a bond with Richard, which was the only romance in the season, but it didn't last long as Richard was blindsided. Many women wanted to work with Dan, a charismatic and athletic man.Each time a player was voted out, a new player took their place. Fresh players kept coming into the game to replace those voted out, even two weeks into the game.Despite officially opposing Denice's pact, three men formed an alliance of their own. The alliance was led by Kalle, joined by Dan and an under-the-radar guy. They threw a challenge to vote off Pontus, a muscular soldier, who was the biggest threat.After a few tribe swaps, the tribes merged. Players had to compete in immunity challenges as pairs. Before each immunity challenge, the gender with the fewest members competed for order of priority. The winner picked first from among the other gender, forming partners for the immunity challenge. That meant one person was not picked each time and they were eliminated. A campaign against Denice succeeded and she was not picked in the first round. However, her two alliance members remained to the final because they were selected as partners by the men of Kalle's pact. Dan and Melissa picked each other every time, forming a strong challenge partnership. They were often targeted but they were protected by Kalle's alliance.Kalle made false alliances with multiple additional partners and they all fell for it. His alliance kept voting out men to maintain control of the game, thus disallowing women from picking partners. Their respective female partners were just appendages for most of the game. However, in the final six, Jennifer convinced the men to vote off a woman and that allowed her to stir things up. She wanted to break up Dan and Melissa because she thought they would win the potential final. Having the first pick because of her challenge win, Jennifer picked Dan as partner, forcing Melissa to pick Kalle. Having split up Dan and Melissa, Jennifer took control of the game and voted out Melissa. Thus, Kalle was also eliminated as no woman was left to pick him. Dan then had no choice but to play the rest of the game with Jennifer.Players who were voted out or not picked as partners went to Garden of Eden, a separate island with room for one man and one woman, challenged by each newcomer. Since their respective eliminations, Denice and Pontus won every challenge, returning to the game. They qualified for the final alongside Dan and Jennifer who then won the jury vote by a landslide. The jury seemed to dislike the route that Pontus and Denice took to the final.

Pre-merge challenge winners and eliminations by cycle

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Newcomers			Garden of Eden				Immunity challenge	Amulet challenge		Eliminated	Finish
		Entered game	Not chosen				Eliminated			Winners	Immune
						Caxton
Malin E.
Caxton					John	Eliminated by the other tribe
Malin E.	Zylfije
Cycle 1 (Episodes 2, 3)	April 8, 9, 2015	None	Caxton	John	Caxton	Srei	Melissa		Richard	Gregorij	1st voted out
Malin E.	Zylfije	Zylfije	Sara	Pontus
			Mia	Dan
Cycle 2 (Episodes 4, 5, 6)	April 14, 15, 16, 2015	Ali	John	Gregorij	Gregorij	Bros	David		Jennifer	Alexandra	Quit
Robin	John	Ali	Sara
Malin E.	Richard	Melissa	Torun	2nd voted out
Cycle 3 (Episodes 7, 8, 9)	April 21, 22, 23, 2015	Nellie	Robin	Bros	Oskar	Jennifer	Nellie		3rd voted out
Malin E.	Torun		Torun	Dan	Melissa
	Marielle		Malin E.	Pontus	Sara
Cycle 4 (Episodes 10, 11, 12)	April 28, 29, 30, 2015	Vera	Robin	Srei	Melissa	Richard	Pontus		4th voted out
Malin S.	Marielle	Nellie	Marielle	Malin S.	Dan
Paulina		Paulina	Jennifer	Oskar
Cycle 5 (Episodes 13, 14, 15)	May 5, 6, 7, 2015	Filip	Robin	Pontus	Kristoffer	Bros	Vera		Richard	5th voted out
Kristoffer	Pontus	Melissa
Nellie	Filip

Post-merge challenge winners and eliminations by cycle

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Not chosen		Garden of Eden				Immunity challenge		Voted out	Finish
						Eliminated		Winners	Additional
		Denice		Robin Nellie	Richard Pontus Denice	Robin Nellie		Dan Melissa	Sara	Oskar	6th voted out
		Malin S.		Pontus Denice	Oskar Malin S.	Oskar Malin S.		Filip Vera	David	Ali	7th voted out
		Sara		Pontus Denice	Ali Sara	Ali Sara		Dan Melissa	None	Vera	8th voted out
		Filip		Pontus Denice	Vera Filip			David Mia	Jennifer	Melissa	9th voted out

Final week challenge winners and eliminations

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Garden of Eden				Not chosen	Reward challenge	Final challenge		Final Tribal Council
				Eliminated				Winners	Eliminated	Finalists	Finish
		Pontus Denice	Filip Melissa	Filip Melissa		Kalle	Pontus Denice	Dan Jennifer	David Mia	Pontus Denice	Runners-up
Dan Jennifer	Dan Jennifer					Winners

Game history

Pre-merge game and voting history

			Original tribes														Switched tribes
Episode #			1				3	4	6			7	9	10	12	13	15
Eliminated					John	Zylfije	Gregorij		Alexandra		Torun		Nellie		Pontus		Richard
Vote					None	None		None		3–3	1–0	None	5–1	None	4–2–1	None	9–4–1
Contestant			Place		Vote
bgcolor=cyan			Dan	4th		In		Gregorij								Pontus		Denice
bgcolor=pink			Jennifer		6th		In				Torun	Torun		Nellie				Richard
bgcolor=cyan			David	8th		In		Gregorij								Pontus		Richard
bgcolor=pink			Mia		4th		In				Torun			Nellie				Richard
bgcolor=cyan			Kalle	5th		In		Oskar								Pontus		Richard
bgcolor=pink			Melissa		5th		In				Denice			Nellie				Denice
bgcolor=cyan		bgcolor=lightgrey		Filip		In	Richard
bgcolor=pink			Vera		In			Richard
bgcolor=pink			Sara		3rd		In				Denice			Nellie				Denice
bgcolor=cyan			Ali		In							David		Richard
bgcolor=pink			Malin S.		In			Richard
bgcolor=cyan			Oskar	1st		In		Gregorij								Pontus		Malin S.
bgcolor=pink			Denice		1st		In				Torun			Nellie				Richard
bgcolor=cyan			Richard	6th		In		Gregorij								Ali		Denice
bgcolor=cyan		Kristoffer		Out	bgcolor=darkgrey
bgcolor=cyan		Pontus	2nd		In		David								Ali
bgcolor=pink		Paulina		Out
bgcolor=pink		Nellie		In	Denice
bgcolor=pink		Marielle		Out
bgcolor=pink		Torun		7th		In				Denice
bgcolor=pink		Alexandra		8th		In
bgcolor=cyan		Robin		Out
bgcolor=cyan		Gregorij	3rd		In		Kalle
bgcolor=pink		Zylfije		2nd		Out
bgcolor=cyan		John	7th		Out
bgcolor=pink		Malin E.		Out
bgcolor=cyan		Caxton	Out

Post-merge game and voting history

				Merged tribe
Episode #				17	18	20	21	23	24	26	27	29	30
Eliminated				Denice	Oskar		Ali	Sara	Vera	Filip	Melissa	Kalle	David Mia
Vote					9–4–1		7–3–1–0		9–2–1–1		5–3
Contestant				Place	Vote	Place	Vote	Place	Vote	Place	Vote	Place
bgcolor=cyan				Dan	1st	Oskar	1st	Ali	1st	Vera	1st	Kalle	3rd	1st
bgcolor=pink				Jennifer	2nd	Filip	4th	Ali	3rd	Vera	1st	Melissa	3rd	1st
bgcolor=pink				Denice	Out		1st	2nd
bgcolor=cyan			bgcolor=lightgrey		Pontus		1st	2nd
bgcolor=cyan				David	6th	Oskar	3rd	Ali	2nd	Vera	2nd	Melissa	2nd	Out
bgcolor=pink				Mia	6th	Filip	3rd	Ali	2nd	Vera	2nd	Melissa	2nd	Out
bgcolor=cyan				Kalle	4th	Oskar	4th	Ali	3rd	Vera	3rd	Melissa	Out	bgcolor=darkgrey
bgcolor=pink				Melissa	1st	Oskar	1st	Ali	1st	Vera	3rd	Kalle
bgcolor=cyan		bgcolor=lightgrey			Filip	5th	Oskar	2nd	Ali	4th	Kalle	Out
bgcolor=pink				Vera	5th	Oskar	2nd	Dan	4th	Jennifer
bgcolor=pink				Sara	3rd	Oskar	5th	Dan	Out
bgcolor=cyan				Ali	3rd	Oskar	5th	Dan
bgcolor=pink				Malin S.	4th	Oskar	Out
bgcolor=cyan				Oskar	2nd	Filip
		Filip		David		Filip (x2)		Kalle
Vera	Mia		Melissa

Final vote results

Jury vote
	30
Finalists	Pontus Denice	Dan Jennifer
Votes	8–3
Juror	Vote
David		Dan Jennifer
Mia		Dan Jennifer
Kalle		Dan Jennifer
Melissa		Dan Jennifer
Filip		Dan Jennifer
Sara	Pontus Denice
Ali	Pontus Denice
Malin S.	Pontus Denice
Oskar		Dan Jennifer
Bonus votes		Dan Jennifer (x2)

External links

• http://www.tv4.se/robinson