Victors Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Natalia (Winner/24)

The Victors Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Fiji.

Comprised of former winners, the tribe initially lucked out because they won a string of immunity challenges. A losing streak proved to be their downfall in retaining numbers and they were almost decimated at the merge, but one veteran used their underdog status to keep this alliance afloat to the very end.

## History

### Origins

The yellow Pagong tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Fiji* consisting of previous winners from the first thirteen seasons of *Survivor*. The winners knew the rest of the cast wouldn't vote for a winner to become a two time Sole Survivor unless the entire Final Three included winners, and planned on winning every immunity challenge they had together. This was the case for the first ten days, where Pagong developed their social relationships. Ashleigh, Jack and Winston previously played with each other during *Survivor: The Australian Outback* and easily gravitated towards one another. Winston also grew close with Jon, whom he considered an alpha male. Their friendship grew to the point that Jon told Winston that he found the Pagong Hidden Immunity Idol. Darcy and Skye weren't connected to this core group, but were apart of the overall deal the winners had made. When the tribe lost on Day 11, Jon and Winston decided to work with Darcy and Skye to vote for either Ashleigh or Jack. Ashleigh, realising the *Australian Outback* connection wasn't enough, decided to flip to this Victors Alliance and Jack was unanimously voted out.

### The New Pagong

At the tribe dissolve, Ashleigh, Jon and Winston remained on Pagong. They were joined by Lea, Natalia and Ricardo from Kabayo, Ryan from Burra and Rachel and Vanessa from Kuneho. The Victors decided they wanted to work with Lea and Natalia because they were significantly weaker physically and strategically. Pagong lost the immunity challenge on Day 14, but were rocked to find out it would be a Double Tribal Council. The Victors Alliance of five agreed to go after Ricardo and Vanessa at these tribal councils, but Ryan told the winners that Lea and Natalia had indeed flipped to vote out Jon. At the second vote of the night, Jon played his idol and Vanessa was voted out with the only four votes that counted from Ryan and the Victors.

This move caused mistrust between the Victors and the pairing of Lea and Natalia. When Pagong lost their second consecutive immunity challenge, the Victors had the numbers after joining forces with Rachel and Ryan to eliminate Lea. With only six castaways left on Pagong and three of them being Victors, they attempted to keep a strong relationship with Ryan whilst making amends with Natalia after she previously betrayed them. When the tribe lost for the third time in a row, the Victors voted for Rachel because they were more connected to both Natalia and Ryan. At tribal council, a 3-3 tie occurred between Rachel and Winston (whom the non winners voted for). At the revote, Natalia switched her vote and Rachel was voted out.

### The Merge

At the Final Thirteen, the two tribes merged and the Victors were reunited with Darcy who was switched to the rival Burra tribe at the dissolve. The Victors were now an alliance of five that contained Ashleigh, Darcy, Jon, Ryan and Winston. They voted for Dane at the merged tribal council, but they were in the minority against the Burra Alliance and Darcy was instead voted out. On Day 25, another Double Tribal Council occurred. The Victors again were in the minority when Alistair was voted out, but Winston played his idol to save himself and the Victors had the majority to eliminate their wishy washy ally Ryan.

The Burra Alliance were firmly in the majority against the dwindling Victors and began to systematically eliminate their loose numbers and competition. This led to the eliminations of Matthew and Ashleigh on Days 26 and 27. It then appeared that either Jon, Natalia or Winston would be next to go. However, Natalia told both men to play the idols that they found at the Pagtubos camp and Heron was voted out with their three votes. Mistrust grew amongst the Burra Alliance following Heron's elimination which allowed the Victors to swoop in and gain the numbers to eliminate Katie, Dane and Bailey.

### Endgame

At the Final Four, it appeared that the three members of the Victors Alliance would look after each other in order to eliminate Tucker as the final Burra Alliance member left in the game. When Tucker won the final individual immunity challenge however, Natalia forced Jon and Winston to turn on each other. This led to Jon's elimination on Day 38. At the Final Tribal Council, Winston was criticised for not taking Jon to the end whilst Natalia was praised for playing as an underdog and manipulating the tribe. In the end, Natalia was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in an 8-1-0 vote.

## Trivia

* Natalia was the only member of the Victors Alliance to not return for *Fiji* as a winner.
	+ Coincidentally, she would go on the win *Survivor: Fiji*.