Escameca Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Byron (Winner/18)

The Escameca Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Worlds Apart.

After being the strongest of the three original tribes, this alliance crumbled because of their untrustworthy affiliates and the unfortunate results of two tribe switches.

## Members

     Tiarn (10-22)
 Affiliates(Day Entered)

## History

### Origins

The blue Escameca tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Worlds Apart*. Of the three original tribes, Escameca was the only one to win the first four immunity challenges and not attend tribal council. Sensing a tribe switch coming up, the six Escameca castaways formed an alliance with the intention of overthrowing the remaining members of Masaya and Nagarote. Monica also assured them that they would become an alliance of seven if they brought in her mother Lucy who began the game on Masaya.

### The Dissolve

At the tribe dissolve, Byron, Callum, Erin and Tiarn remained on Escameca. They were joined by Lucy, Rick and Tyler from the original Masaya tribe. The alliance connected with Lucy and said that they would be willing to bring her into the alliance with Monica. Lucy was initially hesitant and voiced her concerns, causing Escameca to question whether they really wanted her in their alliance. At Escameca's first loss as a new tribe on Day 16, the original Escameca castaways decided that Tyler was the biggest physical threat from Masaya and wanted to keep Lucy around in order to keep Monica as an ally too. Unfortunately for the Escameca Alliance, Blue Jay and Monica were eliminated on Days 14 and 19 respectively because they were in the minority on the new Nagarote tribe.

### The Switch

At the Final Eleven, the castaways were shocked when a surprise tribe switch mixed up the players into new tribes once more. Byron, Callum and Erin remained on Escameca with Rick, whilst being joined by Austin and Gail from the original Nagarote tribe. Prior to the switch, Lucy and Rick pledged their allegiance to the Escameca Alliance. This meant that they controlled the votes on the third iteration of the Escameca tribe, but the original trio were worried that Rick would flip. Rather than risk losing their majority if they were to throw the next challenge, the tribe won the next immunity challenge. This proved to be a fatal decision because the Nagarote Alliance had the numbers on Nagarote and eliminated Tiarn.

### The Merge

The final ten castaways then merged into the black Merica tribe with an even split between the two alliances. The Escameca Alliance at the first merged tribal council agreed to vote for Derrick because they felt he was the loosest member of the Nagarote Alliance. However, Lucy and Rick decided to switch their votes to Austin because they had a relationship with Derrick from the original Masaya tribe and felt they could use him for their advantage in the future. This split vote meant that Callum was voted out by the Nagarote Alliance who stuck all five of their votes on him.

At the next tribal council, the Escameca Alliance agreed that their target was Miles. Erin and Lucy didn't like this plan because Gail had approached them in order to make a women's alliance. They flipped to vote with Gail and vote for Derrick. Meanwhile, the Nagarote Alliance voted for Rick. This led to a 3-3-3 tie at tribal, where Derrick was voted out at the revote. Rick was getting annoyed that Lucy was constantly refusing to work with the Escameca Alliance and decided it was his turn to work with the Nagarote Alliance. The Escameca Alliance voted for Miles, but Erin was blindsided instead.

### The Sole Survivor

Byron was frustrated that his entire alliance of original Escameca castaways had been eliminated, meaning he was forced to work with Lucy and Rick whom he considered flaky. Luckily for him, the Nagarote Alliance didn't consider him a threat and they decided to get rid of Rick at the Final Seven before blindsiding Austin at the Final Six. Byron felt that his days were numbered and relied on individual immunity challenge wins in order to advance in the game. This secured his spot at the Final Four and then the Final Tribal Council whilst the Nagarote Alliance had to turn on each other. This underdog story and the fact that his whole alliance was on the jury meant that Byron was ultimately crowned the title of Sole Survivor in a 5-3-0 vote.