Survivor 17 Gabon
Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve, Estuaire, Gabon Sep 25 – Dec 14, 2008 Filmed Jun 23 – Jul 31, 2008
Format Fake Merge Schoolyard Pick Double Tribal Council Exile Island Challenge Advantage +2 more
Winner
Robert Crowley won 4-3-0 Who won Survivor 17?
Robert Crowley won Survivor 17, defeating Susie Smith and Jessica Kiper by a 4-3-0 final jury vote.
- Cast
- 18 castaways
- Filmed in
- Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve, Estuaire, Gabon
- Premiere
- Sep 25, 2008
- Finale
- Dec 14, 2008
Jump to the full cast and finish order or season voting history.
More winners: Survivor 16 winner Parvati Shallow and Survivor 18 winner J.T. Thomas. See every Survivor winner in order.
Filmed in the stunning wilderness of Gabon, this seventeenth season is often remembered for its unpredictable cast, chaotic gameplay, and the unique choice between luxury and strategic clues on Exile Island.
Day one split the cast into two tribes: Kota and Fang. Everyone here was new to the game, and three of them would go on to play again.
Starting tribes
Full cast & placements
Days, tribes and votes are on each castaway's page.
| Place | Castaway | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Crowley | 4 of 7 jury votes
| 39 | KotaNobag | 2 |
| 2 |  Susie Smith | 3 of 7 jury votes
| 39 | FangKotaNobag | 7 |
| 3 |  Jessica Kiper Also played S20 | 0 of 7 jury votes
| 39 | KotaFangNobag | 0 |
| 4 |  Matty Whitmore | Lost fire challenge | 38 | FangNobag | 5 |
| 5 |  Ken Hoang | 14th voted out | 37 | FangKotaNobag | 7 |
| 6 |  Crystal Cox | 13th voted out | 36 | FangKotaNobag | 11 |
| 7 |  Corinne Kaplan Also played S26 | 12th voted out | 33 | KotaFangNobag | 4 |
| 8 |  Randy Bailey Also played S20 | 11th voted out | 30 | FangKotaNobag | 5 |
| 9 |  Charlie Herschel | 10th voted out | 27 | KotaFangNobag | 5 |
| 10 |  Marcus Lehman | 9th voted out | 24 | Kota | 3 |
| 11 |  Dan Kay | 8th voted out | 21 | FangKota | 4 |
| 12 |  Ace Gordon | 7th voted out | 21 | KotaFang | 5 |
| 13 |  Kelly Czarnecki | 6th voted out | 18 | KotaFang | 8 |
| 14 |  Danny Brown | 5th voted out | 15 | Fang | 6 |
| 15 |  Jacquie Berg | 4th voted out | 12 | KotaFang | 5 |
| 16 |  Paloma Soto-Castillo | 3rd voted out | 9 | Kota | 7 |
| 17 |  Gillian Larson | 2nd voted out | 6 | Fang | 8 |
| 18 |  Michelle Chase | 1st voted out | 3 | Fang | 8 |
Episode guide
All 12 episodes of Survivor 17: when each aired, who won reward and immunity, who left, and how many people watched.
| # | Episode | Aired | Reward | Immunity | Voted out | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Want to See the Elephant Dung? | Sep 25 | Kota | Kota | Michelle Chase Gillian Larson | 13.1M |
| 2 | She Obviously Is Post-Op! | Oct 2 | Fang | Fang | Paloma Soto-Castillo | 13.1M |
| 3 | It Was Like Christmas Morning! | Oct 9 | – | Kota | Jacquie Berg | 13.3M |
| 4 | This Camp Is Cursed | Oct 16 | Kota | Kota | Danny Brown | 12.8M |
| 5 | He's a Snake, but He's My Snake | Oct 23 | Kota | Kota | Kelly Czarnecki | 13.3M |
| 6 | It All Depends on the Pin-Up Girl | Oct 30 | Kota | Marcus Lehman | Ace Gordon Dan Kay | 13.0M |
| 7 | Apple in the Garden of Eden | Nov 6 | – | Fang | Marcus Lehman | 12.0M |
| 8 | The Brains Behind Everything | Nov 13 | Fang | Susie Smith | Charlie Herschel | 12.9M |
| 9 | Nothing Tastes Better than Five Hundred Dollars | Nov 20 | – | Ken Hoang | Randy Bailey | 12.5M |
| 10 | The Good Things in Life Aren't Easy | Dec 4 | Robert Crowley | Robert Crowley | Corinne Kaplan | 12.7M |
| 11 | The Good Guys Should Win in the End | Dec 11 | Robert Crowley | Robert Crowley | Crystal Cox | 13.1M |
| 12 | Say Goodbye to Gabon | Dec 14 | – | Robert Crowley, Susie Smith | Ken Hoang Matty Whitmore Eliminated | 13.8M |
Survivor 17 also aired 1 recap or special broadcast, which sit outside this numbering.
Episode, twist and location facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Who got the edit
Confessional counts: the to-camera interviews the edit gave each castaway across Survivor 17. A rough proxy for who the season was built around.
- 1 Jessica Kiper 51
- 2 Randy Bailey 47
- 3 Ken Hoang 44
- 4 Matty Whitmore 39
- 5 Crystal Cox 34
- 6 Robert Crowley 31
- 7 Corinne Kaplan 27
- 8 Marcus Lehman 27
- 9 Susie Smith 25
- 10 Ace Gordon 22
414 confessionals across the season. Top 10 of 18 castaways shown.
Voting history
Every tribal-council vote of the season. Rows are castaways by finish, columns are councils in order. Each cell is who that castaway voted for.
Key Vote matched the boot Struck through = vote nullified by an idol No vote cast (immune, absent, or already out)
| Voter | Ep 1 Michelle 8-1 | Ep 1 Gillian 7-1 | Ep 2 Paloma 7-2 | Ep 3 Jacquie 5-2 | Ep 4 Danny 6-1 | Ep 5 Kelly 5-1 | Ep 6 Ace 3-2 | Ep 6 Dan 4-3 | Ep 7 Marcus 3-2 | Ep 8 Charlie 5-4 | Ep 9 Randy 5-3 | Ep 11 Corinne 4-3 | Ep 12 Crystal 4 | Ep 13 Ken 4-1 | Ep 13 Matty 2-2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Crowley | Paloma | Dan | Ken | Crystal | Susie | Matty | Crystal | Ken | Matty | ||||||
| Susie Smith | Michelle | Gillian | Dan | Marcus | Charlie | Randy | Corinne | Crystal | Ken | Robert | |||||
| Jessica Kiper | Paloma | Danny | Kelly | Ace | Charlie | Randy | Corinne | Crystal | Ken | Matty | |||||
| Matty Whitmore | Michelle | Gillian | Jacquie | Danny | Kelly | Crystal | Charlie | Randy | Corinne | Crystal | Ken | Robert | |||
| Ken Hoang | Michelle | Gillian | Jacquie | Danny | Kelly | Ace | Marcus | Charlie | Randy | Matty | Matty | Susie | |||
| Crystal Cox | Michelle | Gillian | Jacquie | Danny | Kelly | Ace | Marcus | Charlie | Randy | Corinne | Matty | ||||
| Corinne Kaplan | Paloma | Dan | Crystal | Susie | Matty | ||||||||||
| Randy Bailey | Michelle | Gillian | Susie | Crystal | Susie | ||||||||||
| Charlie Herschel | Paloma | Dan | Crystal | ||||||||||||
| Marcus Lehman | Paloma | Susie | Ken | ||||||||||||
| Dan Kay | Michelle | Gillian | Susie | ||||||||||||
| Ace Gordon | Paloma | Kelly | Danny | Kelly | Crystal | ||||||||||
| Kelly Czarnecki | Ace | Jacquie | Danny | Crystal | |||||||||||
| Danny Brown | Michelle | Gillian | Jacquie | Kelly | |||||||||||
| Jacquie Berg | Paloma | Kelly | |||||||||||||
| Paloma Soto-Castillo | Ace | ||||||||||||||
| Gillian Larson | Michelle | Ken | |||||||||||||
| Michelle Chase | Gillian |
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