Expeditie Robinson 9 (2007) – Belgium/Netherlands – Part 1
This was a very strange edition with 100 participants.
Episode 1
Kenny was the first person to arrive at the beach, blindfolded. He spend a few hours on the beach until the other 99 participants arrived (needless to say, it was a huge shock to him). Kenny was the first leader, but he quickly made four other people the leader: Mathilde was to take care of the fishing, Sven took care of finding food, Walther lead building the camp and Bruno became the head-cook.
Episode 2
Loads of drama surrounding the couple Tim S & Iraida (who was a little princess, who came to the island totally unprepared and thinking she would get a bed and loads of food). There was a famous spit-incident when Lotus insulted Iraida and Tim S spit in Lotus’ face. 
25 people quit after this episode, one of which being Iraida (which greatly upset Tim S, who didn’t know his girlfriend wanted to quit).
Episode 3
Two new leaders were selected. Everybody who wanted to be a leader got to speak to the whole group, who later voted for the leaders. Ingeborg became the female leader and beat (a.o.) Jolien. Rudi beat a.o. Frans. Both selected a team and those who weren’t selected (among which was Tim S, who had been stealing food from the other people ) had to leave the island. This lead to some controversy, as both leaders got to pick 25 people. Some people who really wanted to stay on the island weren’t picked. However, right before the people who weren’t picked had to leave the island, the host told Rudi & Ingeborg they could each pick 5 more contestants for their team (probably because Sven [one of the former leaders] wasn’t picked and the production really wanted him to stay). Rudi & Ingeborg selected a few people, but all of them declined because they were angry they didn’t get picked the first time. 
At the end, only three people of those who didn’t get picked the first time, accepted this second chance, while basically all the other people quit.
Episode 4
Fan-favorite Farrah quit the show to go home (because of an emergency in the family). The two new teams battled against each other and Rudi’s team won, so Ingeborg had to eliminate a few of her people.
Episode 5
A challenge decided which of the two teams would have to leave the island as a whole. This was a tug-of-war, which was won by Ingeborg team (unfortunately, as all the big characters were on Rudi’s team).
Episodes 6 & 7
Ingeborg’s team did a few challenges to decide which 10 of them made it to the individual stage of the game. The winners were:
1. “Draw” = a floating item with a letter attached was at sea, the team swam out and retrieved the item. Kristien was the first one to touch the letter. When leader Ingeborg read the letter, it stated that the first person to touch the letter would make it to the individual stage, so Kristien was the lucky one (later it was revealed that the production did this “draw” because they hoped that leader Ingeborg would be the first one to touch the letter. The reason they did this was because Ingeborg wanted to go home and they wanted to “force” her to make it to the individual stage by doing this).
2. Physical challenge for the females = Lieke won
3. Physical challenge for the males = Vinni won
4. Mental challenge for the females = Muriel won
5. Mental challenge for the males = Loek won
6. All others voted which person contributed the most to the team = Mieke
7. All others voted which person contributed the most to the team = Willem
8. The seven people who were already selected got to choose three other people. After some discussions they choose Marcel, Hans & Saskia
The ten people (Arthur, Bart, Brigitte, Frans, Frits, Ingeborg, Kenny, Merel, Nelleke & Tim) who didn’t get selected were taken of the island and went to a restaurant where they got some wine and a pizza. But right before they got to eat, the host offered all of them a second chance. If they didn’t eat or drink anything, they could go to a secret island where they had to survive with basic minimals and got a chance to come back in the game. Only two of the ten accepted this offer: Frans & Nelleke