No Limite season 1

The first season of the Brazilian competitive reality television series No Limite, based on the international reality game show franchise Survivor, premiered on Sunday, July 23, 2000 at 11:00 p.m. / 10:00 p.m. (BRT / AMT) on TV Globo.^[1][2]

No Limite
Season 1
No. of days	23
No. of castaways	12
Winner	Elaine de Melo
Runner-up	Pipa Diniz
Location	Aquiraz, Ceará, Brazil
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original release	July 23 (2000-07-23) – September 10, 2000 (2000-09-10)
Season chronology

Twelve contestants were chosen by the producers to participate the show in July 2000. The two initial tribes were Sol (Sun) and Lua (Moon). 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.^[3]

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 defeated graphic producer Patrícia "Pipa" Diniz at the final challenge and took home the R$300.000 prize.^[3][4] The final result was leaked on August 16, 2000, by the brazilian newspaper Extra (also owned by Grupo Globo).^[1][5]

Contestants

List of No Limite (season 1) contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish
Hilca Maria 21, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Sol		1st Voted Out Day 3
Paulo César "Amendoim" Martins 42, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Sol		2nd Voted Out Day 6
Marcus Werner 27, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Sol		3rd Voted Out Day 9
Francisco "Chico" Salles 51, São Paulo, SP	Lua		4th Voted Out Day 12
Ilma Arakawa 54, São Paulo, SP	Sol		5th Voted Out Day 15
Jeferson Schmengler 31, Porto Alegre, RS	Lua	Solua	6th Voted Out Day 18
Vanderson Souza 20, Rio de Janeiro, RJ	Lua		7th Voted Out Day 21
Thiago Toqueton 20, São Paulo, SP	Sol		8th Voted Out Day 21
Juliana Marques 23, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Eliminated Day 22
Andréa Baptista 29, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Eliminated Day 22
Patrícia "Pipa" Diniz 29, Porto Alegre, RS	Sol		Runner-up Day 23
Elaine de Melo 35, São Paulo, SP	Lua		Sole Survivor Day 23

Future Appearances

Patrícia "Pipa" Diniz later returned to compete in No Limite: Amazônia, she finished in 14th place in the competition.

Season summary

Challenge winners and eliminations by episodes

Episode		Challenge winner(s)		Eliminated	Finish
No.	Air date	Reward	Immunity
1	23 July 2000	Lua	Lua	Hilca	1st Voted Out Day 3
2	30 July 2000	Sol	Lua	Amendoim	2nd Voted Out Day 6
3	6 August 2000	Sol	Lua	Marcus	3rd Voted Out Day 9
4	13 August 2000	Sol	Sol	Chico	4th Voted Out Day 12
5	20 August 2000	None	Lua	Ilma	5th Voted Out Day 15
6	27 August 2000	Andréa		Jeferson	6th Voted Out Day 18
7	3 September 2000	Elaine Juliana Pipa	Elaine Juliana Pipa	Vanderson	7th Voted Out Day 21
				Thiago	8th Voted Out Day 21
8	10 September 2000	None	Elaine Pipa	Juliana	Eliminated Day 22
				Andréa	Eliminated Day 22
				Final Trial
				Pipa	Runner-Up
				Elaine	Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Original tribes						Merged tribe
Episode	1	2	3	4		5	6	7		8
Day	3	6	9	12		15	18	21		22		23
Tribe	Sol	Sol	Sol	Lua		Sol	Solua	Solua	Solua	Solua		Solua
Eliminated	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus	Tie[a]	Chico	Ilma	Jeferson	Vanderson	Thiago	Juliana	Andréa	Pipa	Elaine
Vote	5-1	4-1	3-1	3-3	4-0	2-1	3-2-2	4-1-1	2-1	Challenge[b]		Final Trial
Voter	Votes
Elaine				Andréa	Chico		Vanderson	Vanderson	Thiago	Won		Sole Survivor
Pipa	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus			Ilma	Vanderson	Vanderson	Andréa	Won		Runner-up
Andréa				Chico	None[c]		Jeferson	Vanderson	None[d]	Lost
Juliana				Chico	Chico		Jeferson	Vanderson	Thiago	Lost
Thiago	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus			Ilma	Jeferson	Andréa	None[d]
Vanderson				Andréa	Chico		Thiago	Thiago
Jefferson				Chico	Chico		Thiago
Ilma	Hilca	Amendoim	Marcus			Pipa
Chico				Andréa	None[c]
Marcus	Hilca	Amendoim	Ilma
Amendoim	Hilca	Ilma
Hilca	Ilma

Notes

1. The 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 those who tied.
2. On Day 22, a challenge was held instead of a vote, where Andréa & Juliana and Elaine & Pipa were paired. The pair that lost the challenge would be eliminated.
3. Andréa and Chico were not eligible to vote in the second round of voting.
4. Andréa and Thiago were not eligible to vote in the second round of voting, since as the only non-immune contestants, their votes would automatically cancel each other out.

Ratings and reception

Brazilian ratings

All numbers are in points and provided by Kantar Ibope Media.

Episode	Air date	Timeslot (BRT)	SP viewers (in points)	Source
1	July 23, 2000	Sunday 11:00 p.m.	46.0	[6]
2	July 30, 2000		45.0
3	August 6, 2000		43.0
4	August 13, 2000		48.0
5	August 20, 2000		48.0
6	August 27, 2000		43.0
7	September 3, 2000		52.0
8	September 10, 2000		50.0

• In 2000, each point represents 80,000 households in São Paulo.