Survivor Finale Snafu
02-20-02, 05:38 PM
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Survivor Finale Snafu
Just saw this on E! News Daily and found the news online here as well:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...rvivor_error_2
'Survivor' Error Brings More Prizes
Wed Feb 20, 4:11 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - CBS' "Survivor: Africa" was forced to belatedly declare three second-place winners because of an error made during an immunity challenge.
Contestants Lex van den Berghe of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Tom Buchanan of Rich Valley, Va., were bumped up in the standings, CBS said Wednesday. They join the original runner-up, Kim Johnson, of Oyster Bay, N.Y., all receiving a second-place prize of $100,000.
Ethan Zohn of Lexington, Mass., remains the $1 million top winner.
"It was an honest mistake, simply attributable to human error during the production of the series," CBS spokesman Chris Ender said. "The producers feel horrible about it and they dealt with the situation as soon as they became aware of it."
The problem occurred during one of the final immunity challenges, in which contestants were asked to identify which of the female players did not have any body piercings.
Johnson was declared the winner of the challenge when she picked Kelly Goldsmith. But it was later found that van den Berghe's answer — Lindsey Richter — also was correct.
The mistake was discovered by the series' producers during the Jan. 10 broadcast of the finale, CBS said. A week later, they decided to award second-place prize money to each of the three runners-up.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...rvivor_error_2
'Survivor' Error Brings More Prizes
Wed Feb 20, 4:11 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - CBS' "Survivor: Africa" was forced to belatedly declare three second-place winners because of an error made during an immunity challenge.
Contestants Lex van den Berghe of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Tom Buchanan of Rich Valley, Va., were bumped up in the standings, CBS said Wednesday. They join the original runner-up, Kim Johnson, of Oyster Bay, N.Y., all receiving a second-place prize of $100,000.
Ethan Zohn of Lexington, Mass., remains the $1 million top winner.
"It was an honest mistake, simply attributable to human error during the production of the series," CBS spokesman Chris Ender said. "The producers feel horrible about it and they dealt with the situation as soon as they became aware of it."
The problem occurred during one of the final immunity challenges, in which contestants were asked to identify which of the female players did not have any body piercings.
Johnson was declared the winner of the challenge when she picked Kelly Goldsmith. But it was later found that van den Berghe's answer — Lindsey Richter — also was correct.
The mistake was discovered by the series' producers during the Jan. 10 broadcast of the finale, CBS said. A week later, they decided to award second-place prize money to each of the three runners-up.
02-20-02, 06:17 PM
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Originally posted by Groucho
I understand why they bumped Lex up to 2nd place...but why Big Tom?
I understand why they bumped Lex up to 2nd place...but why Big Tom?
