Ta'alo

**Highest Placing Member**: Danni (Runner-Up/24)

Ta'alo was a tribe from Survivor: Island of Secrets.

A key focus on this tribe was the relationship between the newbies and the veteran players. This continued into the tribe dissolve, where a rivalry between two veteran players fractured the tribe with blindsides and betrayals. Their tribe colour is purple.

## Tribe History

The purple Ta'alo tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Island of Secrets*, containing castaways from midwestern regions of the United States. The tribe of five new castaways were also joined by *Kaôh Rōng* castaway J'Tia. Lily wanted to get rid of J'Tia because she was a returning player. However, Doug, Micah and Omar formed a tight relationship with each other as the men of the tribe and older people on the cast. The trio planned on keeping J'Tia around because of her threat level as a returning player. This factored into their decision to send J'Tia to the Island of Secrets when Ta'alo won the immunity challenge on Days 3 and 6, though she was unable to obtain an advantage.

After winning the immunity challenge on Day 8, Doug was chosen to visit the Island of Secrets. He won Jayne's Hidden Immunity Idol from *Millenials vs. Gen X*. When Ta'alo lost the immunity challenge on Day 10, the men wanted to vote out Danni. However, J'Tia knew that Lily was coming after her and wanted the men to vote for Lily. J'Tia ultimately got her way when she voted out Lily with Danni and Doug. On Day 12, Ta'alo was one of two tribes who had to vote someone out as part of a Double Tribal Council. J'Tia had broken the men's trust by flipping the vote against Lily, so they wanted to get rid of her. At tribal council however, Doug voted with Danni and J'Tia to eliminate Omar in order gain trust with the girls.

    At the tribe dissolve, Leyla became the tribe captain of the new Ta'alo tribe. Through a School-yard style pick, Leyla chose Anthony, who chose Harmony, who chose Doug, who chose Sneha, who chose Davis, who chose Danni, who chose Christian, who was left with Heather. There was a clear division on this new tribe due to the rivalry between Anthony and Christian that began on *David vs. Goliath*. On Day 16, Davis visited Island of the Idols but didn't win an advantage. Ta'alo won the first two immunity challenges, where Christian managed to join forces with the original Sa'ula castaways. At their first loss on Day 18 however, they were placed in the minority because the Laumei Alliance as well as Danni and Doug from the original Ta'alo voted out Davis.

When Ta'alo lost the immunity challenge on Day 20, they were told that they would be voting out two players as part of a Double Elimination. Christian did visit the Island of Secrets prior to tribal council, but failed in obtaining an advantage. The original Laumei castaways wanted to blindside Danni from their own alliance, but she and Doug soon caught onto this fact. At the first tribal, the majority of Christian, Danni, Doug and Sneha blindsided Leyla. At the second tribal, this group agreed to vote for Harmony. However, Heather and Sneha were fearful the tribes would merge and Christian would dispose of them quickly. They switched their vote, working with Anthony and Harmony to eliminate Christian. With only thirteen castaways remaining, the Ta'alo tribe was disbanded on Day 21 when it merged with Sa'ula.

## Trivia

* In a rather interesting coincidence, each of the four starting tribes produced a representative in the final four. Danni became the representative of Ta'alo.