No Limite 1
No Limite (retroactively No Limite 1) was the first season of the Brazilian reality show No Limite filmed in Ceará, Brazil. The premiere aired Sunday, July 23, 2000.
| No Limite 1 | |
|---|---|
| No. of days | 24 |
| No. of castaways | 12 |
| Winner | Elaine de Melo |
| Location | Ceará, Brazil |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Release | |
| Original release | July 23 – September 10, 2000 |
| Additional information | |
| Filming dates | July, 2000 – August, 2000 |
| Season chronology | |
Twelve contestants were chosen by the producers to participate the show between July to August 2000.
The two initial tribes were Sol and Lua. On episode 6, the two teams merged into a tribe called Solua, named for a combination of two tribes.
On the season finale, the second-to-last immunity challenge divided the players in two teams. The winning team (Elaine and Pipa) advanced for the finals, while the losing team (Andréa and Juliana) was automatically eliminated.
The Final Two faced off for the final immunity challenge, which was an extremely grueling, multi-part challenge, and the most elaborate challenge of the entire season, often combining elements from previous challenges.
This season creates the first ever all-female final two, with all the final four contestants being women. This fact was repeated only eight years later in Survivor: Micronesia.
The winner was 35-year-old Elaine de Melo, a hairdresser from São Paulo, São Paulo. She defeating graphic producer Patrícia "Pipa" Diniz at the final challenge to take the R$300,000 prize.
Contestants
| Contestants | Original Tribe | Merged Tribe | Finish | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilca Maria 21, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
Sol | 1st Voted Out Day 3 |
5 | |
| Paulo César "Amendoim" Martins† 42, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
Sol | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
4 | |
| Marcus Werner 27, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
Sol | 3rd Voted Out Day 9 |
3 | |
| Francisco "Chico" 51, São Paulo, SP |
Lua | 4th Voted Out Day 12 |
31 | |
| Ilma Arakawa 54, São Paulo, SP |
Sol | 5th Voted Out Day 15 |
5 | |
| Jefferson Schmengler 31, Porto Alegre, RS |
Lua | Solua | 6th Voted Out Day 18 |
3 |
| Vanderson Souza 20, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
Lua | 7th Voted Out Day 21 |
6 | |
| Thiago Toqueton 20, São Paulo, SP |
Sol | 8th Voted Out Day 21 |
5 | |
| Juliana Marques 23, São Paulo, SP |
Lua | 9th Voted Out Day 22 |
0 | |
| Andréa Baptista 29, São Paulo, SP |
Lua | 10th Voted Out Day 22 |
5 | |
| Patrícia "Pipa" Diniz 29, Porto Alegre, RS |
Sol | Runner-Up Day 39 |
1 | |
| Elaine de Melo 35, São Paulo, SP |
Lua | Sole Survivor Day 39 |
0 |
- 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.
^1 Four additional votes were cast against Chico during a tie-breaker vote.
The game
| Episode | Airdate | Challenges | Eliminated | Vote | Finish | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reward | Immunity | |||||
| 1 | 07-23–2000 | Lua | Lua | Hilca | 5-1 | 1st Voted Out Day 3 |
| 2 | 07-30–2000 | Sol | Lua | Amendoim | 4-1 | 2nd Voted Out Day 6 |
| 3 | 08-06–2000 | Sol | Lua | Marcus | 3-1 | 3rd Voted Out Day 9 |
| 4 | 08-13–2000 | Sol | Sol | Chico | 3-32 | 4th Voted Out Day 12 |
| 5 | 08-20–2000 | None | Lua | Ilma | 2-1 | 5th Voted Out Day 15 |
| 6 | 08-27–2000 | Andréa | Jefferson | 3-2-2 | 6th Voted Out Day 18 | |
| 7 | 09-03–2000 | Elaine Juliana Pipa |
Elaine Juliana Pipa |
Vanderson | 4-1-1 | 7th Voted Out Day 21 |
| Thiago | 2-1 | 8th Voted Out Day 21 | ||||
| 8 | 09-10–2000 | None | Elaine Pipa |
Juliana | No Vote | 9th Voted Out Day 22 |
| Andréa | 10th Voted Out Day 22 | |||||
| Final Trial | Pipa | Runner-Up | ||||
| Elaine | Sole Survivor | |||||
- 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.
^2 Chico was voted out after the first Tribal Council vote resulted in a tie.
Voting History
| Original Tribes | Merged Tribe | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Finale | ||||
| Day # | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 22 | 24 | ||||
| Eliminated | Hilca | Amendoim | Marcus | Tie | Chico | Ilma | Jefferson | Vanderson | Thiago | Juliana | Andréa | Pipa | Elaine |
| Votes | 5–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3-3 | 4-0 | 2-1 | 3-2-2 | 4-1-1 | 2-1-1 | Trial | Trial | Final Trial | Final Trial |
| Voter | Vote | ||||||||||||
| Elaine | Andréa | Chico | Vanderson | Vanderson | Thiago | Sole Survivor | |||||||
| Pipa | Hilca | Amendoim | Marcus | Ilma | Vanderson | Vanderson | Andréa | Runner-Up | |||||
| Andréa | Chico | None | Jefferson | Vanderson | None | ||||||||
| Juliana | Chico | Chico | Jefferson | Vanderson | Thiago | ||||||||
| Thiago | Hilca | Amendoim | Marcus | Ilma | Jefferson | Andréa | None | ||||||
| Vanderson | Andréa | Chico | Thiago | Thiago | |||||||||
| Jefferson | Chico | Chico | Thiago | ||||||||||
| Ilma | Hilca | Amendoim | Marcus | Pipa | |||||||||
| Chico | Andréa | None | |||||||||||
| Marcus | Hilca | Amendoim | Ilma | ||||||||||
| Amendoim | Hilca | Ilma | |||||||||||
| Hilca | Ilma | ||||||||||||
^3 The first Tribal Council Vote resulted in a tie. Per the rules, a second vote was held where the castaways involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining castaways could only vote for the tied contestants.
^4 Andréa and Chico were not eligible to vote in the second Tribal Council vote.
^5 As they are members of the losing team, Andréa and Thiago were not eligible to vote in the second Tribal Council vote.