Episode 1: The castaways were welcomed to the game by Jeff with just their street clothes. After introducing themselves, the tribes were divided by schoolyard pick. As traditional in Gabon, Jeff announced that the oldest people usually make the decisions in the tribe and therefore the oldest castaways, Bob and Gillian, started the pick. After the tribes were picked, tribe names Fang and Kota were announced, and buffs passed out, Jeff announced the first challenge for individual Immunity Idols and extra food. Bob was placed in the Kota tribe. Bob impressed his tribemates, as he climbed to hut’s roof and fixed it. Kota won their first combined Reward/Immunity Challenge. Charlie and Marcus formed an alliance; the two expanded their alliance to include Jacquie and Corinne. The four discussed bringing in Bob to have a majority, though Bob would be kept out of the core alliance of four. Kota won their second combined Reward/Immunity Challenge.

Episode 2: After Kota lost the Reward Challenge, Bob talked with Ace about the fact that Paloma and “Sugar” are the weakest in the tribe. Ace wanted to keep “Sugar”, and Bob knew that Ace want her to stay, because if she’ll make it to the jury, she’ll vote for him to win. Bob told Corinne that Ace making him very nervous. Corinne talked to Bob about joining her alliance of four, though she kept him in the dark about his status in the endgame. Kota lost their first Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, Ace’s attitude at camp was discussed, but the tribe chose to remove their weakest physical link and voted out Paloma.

Episode 3: Jeff announced that the castaways would rank their tribemates by secret survey according to their importance within the tribe. Kota ranked Marcus as most important in their tribe followed by Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, “Sugar,” and Kelly. Fang ranked Matty as most important in their tribe followed by Dan, Randy, Crystal, Ken, “GC,” and Susie. After announcing the rankings, Jeff told the castaways to drop their buffs as they would be picking new tribes by schoolyard pick once again. Voted as most important within their tribes, Marcus and Matty stayed with their original tribes and started the draft. The new Kota was Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corinne, Susie, and Bob, while the new Fang tribe consisted of Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly, and “GC.” As “Sugar” was not selected during the process, she was sent to Exile Island. The new Kota tribe won the Immunity Challenge.

Episode 4: Kota won the Immunity Challenge.

Episode 5: Kota won the Immunity Challenge yet again.

Episode 6: At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council, that they would be playing for Individual Immunity, and there would be a twist announced after the Challenge was done. Charlie, Corinne, and Marcus replaced Bob in their alliance with Randy, though they did not tell Bob. At Tribal Council, Bob joined the majoriy to vote off Dan.

Episode 7: There was a second tribe swap, Bob stayed in Kota, along with Crystal, Ken, Marcus and Susie. Marcus tried to convince Susie to join his alliance with himself and Bob. The new Kota tribe lost the Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, Bob and Marcuse voted for Ken, However, Susie decided to join Crystal and Ken, and they voted out Marcus.

Episode 8: Fang came from behind to win the Reward Challenge. Corinne announced that Fang was going to send Bob to Exile Island, hoping that he would find the Hidden Immunity Idol, but not knowing that “Sugar” had already found it. At Exile Island, Bob followed the clues to the Hidden Immunity Idol and found the location where the idol would have been. Unable to find the idol and thinking that “Sugar” may have found it, Bob fabricated a fake Hidden Immunity Idol that he hoped to use as a bluff. On day 27, before the start of the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that the tribes had merged. At Tribal Council, Bob joined Charlie’s alliance to vote off Crystal, however, “Sugar” joined the alliance of Crystal, Ken, Matty, and Susie, because she did not want to align with Randy and Corinne, and Charlie was voted out.

Episode 9: Not knowing that “Sugar” had the Hidden Immunity Idol, Bob told her that he did not have it and showed her the fake idol that he made. The second item up for bid was unknown as it was covered. After making the winning bid, Ken discovered he had won the right to send somebody to Exile Island and take their money. He chose Bob who immediately departed for Exile Island. At Exile Island, after getting no additional help from the Hidden Immunity Idol clue, Bob decided to go on a personal safari instead of looking for the idol. After the auction, Corinne and Randy talked to Matty about joining their alliance with Bob. Instead of joining with Corinne and Randy, Matty lobbied his alliance to vote out Bob next instead of Randy. After the Immunity Challenge, Bob told “Sugar” that he still did not have the Hidden Immunity Idol and she told him that he should give his fake idol to Randy. Figuring that he had nothing to lose and it would keep him in the game, Bob agreed to “Sugar”’s plan and gave Randy the fake idol. At Tribal Council, Randy pulled out the idol before the votes were read. Jeff announced that it was not a hidden immunity idol and tossed the idol into the fire pit. The votes against Randy were counted and he was voted out. Bob, however voted against Susie along with Corinne and Randy.

Episode 10: A recap of the first 30 days including previously un-aired bonus footage. Back at camp after Tribal Council, Bob was upset at all of the laughing when Randy was voted out. Corinne and “Sugar” argued over how to play the game. At the Reward Challenge, the castaways got to view a short video clip from their loved ones before the schoolyard pick. Jeff said that the castaways’ loved ones were not around the corner and he only had the videos of them. Because “today is all about love” according to Jeff, nobody was sent to Exile Island. The schoolyard pick resulted in one team of Susie, Matty, and Ken and another team of Crystal, “Sugar,” and Bob; Corinne was not picked, so she could not win. The team of Bob, Crystal, and “Sugar” came from behind to win the first round of the challenge and moved on to the final round. Bob won the Reward Challenge by quickly solving his sliding puzzle first. Jeff then told the rest of the tribe that he had nothing for them and told them to head back to camp. While Bob was watching the video clip from his wife, she paused and said that there was “something I wanted to show you” and moved off-camera. Contrary to what Jeff said at the start of the Reward Challenge, Peggy, Bob’s wife, was in Gabon and she stepped around the corner to surprise Bob. Bob and Peggy then walked hand in hand to the Nobag campsite to meet the rest of the castaways. After introducing his wife to the tribe, Bob turned and whistled to signal the other castaways’ loved ones to make an appearance. Bob shared with Corinne a plan to blindside Matty where Bob would make up a second fake Immunity Idol and tell the Fang alliance that it was the idol that Marcus threw into the ocean. Bob’s story was that Marcus only threw the bottle into the ocean, had hidden the idol around the camp, and told Bob where it was. Bob won his first Individual Immunity Challenge. With Bob’s win, Corinne expanded upon her blindsiding plan with Bob by concocting the story that Bob would have played the idol tossed into the ocean at the next Tribal Council, but since he won Individual Immunity, he would give Corinne the lost idol. Bob and Corinne hoped that the threat of Corinne having an idol would deter the Fang alliance from voting for her and would instead vote for Matty. Corinne told the story to Ken, which he believed and he suggested that Bob and Corinne approach Crystal with their plan. Bob told the story to Crystal and showed her the second fake idol. Crystal and Ken talked about their voting strategy under this plan where Ken would vote for Matty, Crystal would vote for Corinne, resulting in a 4-3 vote split between Corinne and Matty, respectively, Corinne would play the lost idol negating votes against her, the lost idol would be flushed, and Matty would be going home. At Tribal Council, the vote went as Crystal and Ken planned, Corinne’s bluff was called and she was voted out.

Episode 12: After the castaways returned from Tribal Council, Matty was upset because Ken voted for him. Ken told Matty about Bob and Corinne’s Hidden Immunity Idol, but Matty did not believe him. Ken confronted Bob about the fake Hidden Immunity Idol. Bob promised Ken that if he won the next Immunity Challenge that he would give the immunity necklace to Ken. Bob won the Reward Challenge and chose to take Crystal and Ken along on the trip and to send Susie to Exile Island. While on the trip, Bob reiterated his promise to give the immunity necklace to Ken. Ken decided that he would only take it if he felt he was in danger of being voted out. At the Immunity Challenge, Bob won immunity for the second time in a row, marking his fourth consecutive challenge win. Ken told Crystal, Matty, and “Sugar” that Bob would give him the immunity necklace if they all told Bob that they would be voting for Ken, so they should tell Bob that and then vote for Bob instead to blindside him. “Sugar” told Bob of Ken’s plan, that she would not vote for him, and to vote for Crystal. At Tribal Council, Bob and Ken said that their agreement over the immunity necklace would be that Bob would give it to Ken if Bob felt that Ken was in danger of being voted out. Before the voting started, Jeff asked Bob if he was going to give up the Immunity necklace. Bob stated that he was not going to give up the necklace as he thought Ken was not going to go home. Before the votes were tallied, “Sugar” gave the Hidden Immunity Idol to Matty who then presented it to Jeff. Ken and Crystal’s votes against Matty were voided and Crystal, upon receiving the four remaining votes, was sent to the jury.

Episode 13: Ken felt that Bob reneged on his deal to hand over the immunity necklace at the last Tribal Council. “Sugar” worked on re-establishing Ken’s trust in her even as she plotted with Bob to vote out Susie and Ken next. At the Immunity Challenge, Bob narrowly beat “Sugar,” winning immunity for the third straight time and the fifth consecutive challenge. At Tribal Council, Ken felt confident going into Tribal Council that he would not be voted out, but that confidence was misplaced as he was voted out 4–1. Susie broke Bob’s challenge winning streak by having built the tallest house of cards after 30 minutes. “Sugar” thought about forcing a tie at the next Tribal Council due to her loyalty towards Bob for being a father figure. Bob went off into the trees to practice starting a fire, anticipating a fire making tiebreaker challenge. At Tribal Council, “Sugar” did force a 2–2 tie between Bob and Matty. The tiebreaker challenge was to create a fire large enough to burn through a rope, which Bob won after resuscitating his initial fire to burn through his rope; Matty did not manage to even get one started.

Final Tribal Council

At the Final Tribal Council, Bob was confronted by Ken for not giving up his immunity. Crowley was also confronted by Randy for using the fake Hidden Immunity Idol against him. Corinne asked Bob to show a nasty side of him and make her believe why Bob didn’t like Sugar and he tried showing a nasty side by disliking Sugar, but when he started saying something positive about Sugar, Corinne interrupted and told him she didn’t want to hear the good side of Bob. In the end, the jury voted Bob as the Sole Survivor in a vote of 4-3-0. Bob earned the votes of Marcus, Charlie, Randy, and Corinne, essentially all the original Kota’s plus Randy. In addition, at the Reunion Show, Bob also won the “Sprint Player of the Season” award, earning the fan’s vote over Sugar and Matty.

Statistics

Tribes: Kota and Nobag

Alliance: Onion Alliance

Challenge wins: 14

Votes against: 2

Votes from the jury: 4 out of 7