Burra Alliance

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

The Burra Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Fiji.

A tight alliance of six that rarely attended tribal council throughout the pre-merge, this alliance suffered by the actions of their affiliate and one member who was trying to build their own resume.

## History

### Origins

The Burra tribe, which consisted of veteran players who were previously members of the jury, was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Fiji*. As the tribe won the first five immunity challenges they had together, three pairs were beginning to develop; Dane and Tucker who competed together on *Blood vs. Water*, Heron and Katie who worked together during *Palau* and another with Bailey and Ryan who were considered the 'older' players. During this time, Tucker found the Burra Hidden Immunity Idol and decided to share this information to his close ally Dane. With a switch approaching and Burra yet to lose an immunity challenge, the three pairs made a promise to look after each other to eventually meet up at the merge.

At the tribe dissolve, Bailey, Dane, Heron, Katie and Tucker remained on Burra. The alliance of five had the numbers on this tribe of nine, though Dane wanted to keep Alistair (whom he and Tucker competed with during *Blood vs. Water* as a potential sixth member if Ryan was unable to survive his switch to the rival Pagong tribe. When Burra lost on Day 20, Alistair and Dane voted for Katie. Tucker was cautious of the new dynamics of the tribe and decided to play his idol to negate three votes from Darcy, Matthew and Skye. This was unnecessary however, because the original Burra Alliance had the numbers and *Gabon* winner Skye was voted out.

### The Merge

The final thirteen castaways merged into the black Pagtubos tribe on Day 22. Ryan returned to the Burra Alliance, which now included original Kabayo members Alistair and Natalia. At tribal council, Ryan voted with the Victors Alliance from Pagong but the Burra Alliance still had the numbers and Darcy was voted out. Alistair then told the Burra Alliance that he promised Matthew a spot in the group, which annoyed Bailey, Heron and Katie because they felt Alistair wasn't in a position to decide who they should work with. At tribal council on Day 25, the original six Burra members decided to keep Alistair's promise to Matthew by blindsiding Alistair and filling his spot. Following Alistair's elimination, Pagtubos was told that Day 25 would be a Double Elimination. After Tucker won individual immunity at tribal council, the Burra Alliance and Matthew decided to vote for *The Australian Outback* winner Winston. However, he played an idol and Ryan was voted out with the only four votes that counted from Ashleigh, Jon, Natalia and Winston.

The Burra Alliance, despite losing Ryan, had the majority of six on a tribe of ten. Outsider Natalia approached them and told the alliance that Matthew was plotting with her and the Victors to blindside Tucker, which caused mistrust between Matthew and the alliance. At tribal council on Day 26, the Burra Alliance and Natalia had the numbers and Matthew was blindsided. Though the Burra Alliance was in a position of power, Bailey wanted to formulate her own path to the end and decided to make a secret trio with Tucker and her *China* ally Ashleigh. They planned on bringing in the other Victors to blindside Dane, but this plan fell through and Ashleigh was instead voted out.

At the Final Eight, the five original Burra members still had Natalia in their back packet and were planning on voting for either Jon or Winston. Natalia had worked with them in the past and she told them that she knew one of them had an idol, but had a feeling they would share it with each other. Wanting to keep the numbers in their favour, the alliance split the votes between Jon and Winston. When both men played their idols, Heron was voted out with a surprising three votes against her. The Burra Alliance still had the majority, 4-3, by the final seven but Bailey once again wanted to build a case to the Final Three. Though the Burra Alliance voted for Winston, Bailey flipping gave the Victors Alliance the power and Katie was made the sixth member of the jury.

### Their Demise

The Burra Alliance lost their majority, as only Bailey, Dane and Tucker remained at the Final Six against Jon, Natalia and Winston. After Bailey won individual immunity, she decided to take her chances and work with both Dane and Tucker. This forced a tie between Jon and Tucker, where no one switched their vote at the revote. Both Jon and Tucker then became immune along with Bailey, whilst Dane, Natalia and Winston drew rocks. Dane drew the odd rock and was eliminated. With the Victors in control of the tribe, Bailey was voted out at the next tribal council on Day 35. It then appeared at the Final Four that the Victors would vote for Tucker, but he won the final individual immunity challenge. He wanted to break up the partnership of Jon and Winston, and Jon was voted out on Day 38. At the Final Tribal Council, Tucker's Burra Alliance were more impressed with Natalia's underdog story than their only ally and he became the Second Runner-Up after earning zero of nine jury votes.