Survivor 1: Borneo
The one that invented the genre, and the alliance.
Richard Hatch is the Sole Survivor
Richard Hatch won on a 4–3 jury vote, beating Kelly Wiglesworth at the final tribal council.
- 1Richard Hatchwinner
- 2Kelly Wiglesworth
What made it different
The first season, and the one where a voting alliance was first used as a strategy rather than treated as cheating.
Played here, and came back for Season 50
Trivia from Survivor 1
Who won the very first season of Survivor?
Richard Hatch — Richard Hatch won Survivor: Borneo in 2000, beating Kelly Wiglesworth 4–3. He also invented the alliance as a Survivor strategy.
In what year did Survivor premiere?
2000 — Survivor: Borneo premiered on CBS on 31 May 2000 and became the biggest show of that summer.
What does "Pagonging" mean?
A merged majority picking off the minority one by one — Named for the Pagong tribe in Borneo, who were eliminated in order by the Tagi alliance after the merge.
Source
The winner, runners-up, jury vote, dates, day count, cast size and location on this page come from Wikipedia's Survivor 1 article, cross-checked against the series overview table before publication.