La Flor Alliance

**Highest Placing Member**:Matthew (Second Runner-Up/20)

The La Flor Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Nicaragua.

Despite being created from the dominant of the two original tribes, the alliance soon crumbled when social politics became muddled during the tribe switch and the merge.

## History

### Origins

The yellow La Flor tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Nicaragua*. On a tribe mostly comprised of veterans, many castaways had pre-existing relationships with their tribe members. In particular, Priya and Richard had worked with each other during *Gabon* and they decided to continue this allegiance this season. The pair soon bonded with alpha males and providers of the tribe, Kyle, Liam and Matthew along with Adelaide. La Flor won the first three immunity challenges they had together, where Hayden sat out of many challenges as possible and was a generally lazy person around camp. During this time, Liam found the tribes Hidden Immunity Idol but decided to keep this information to himself. At their first tribal council on Day 11, Adelaide, Kyle, Liam, Matthew, Priya and Richard agreed that Hayden was the least useful member of La Flor and formed an alliance to get rid of him.

### The Switch: La Flor

At the tribe switch, Liam and Richard from the La Flor Alliance remained on La Flor along with Mallory and Montana. They were joined by Alana, Bobby Jon, Darcy and Erinn from the rival Espada tribe. The La Flor Alliance of Liam and Richard on the new La Flor tribe were not in a position to gain new members, as they were instead considered the biggest threats of the tribe. Both Espada and La Flor had to attend a Double Tribal Council on Day 16, where Liam and Richard thought they were voting with the original La Flor women for Alana. However, they were shocked and disappointed when Montana flipped to eliminate Mallory. When La Flor lost the following immunity challenge, Liam and Richard knew they were at the bottom of the tribe. However, Liam played his idol on himself at tribal council and the pair had the power to vote out Montana as revenge for flipping on them.

### The Switch: Espada

On the other hand, Adelaide Kyle, Matthew and Priya were in a greater position of power when they were switched to the blue Espada tribe. They joined original Espada castaways Cody, Lana and Peighton. Despite not being apart of their original alliance, the original La Flor castaways welcomed Vanessa into their alliance in order to have the numbers. Vanessa was initially hesitant to work with them, but found the Espada idol at camp as insurance that she was protected. When Espada lost the immunity challenge on Day 14, the La Flor Alliance didn't know Vanessa had the idol and decided to instead split their votes between Cody and Peighton in case they would play an idol. With three original Espada castaways on the tribe, a 3-3 tie occurred between Adelaide and Peighton. It was believed that the La Flor Alliance had the numbers to get rid of Peighton. However, Kyle and Matthew had a good relationship with Cody and decided to flip their vote to eliminate Adelaide as a sign of good faith to their new friend.

Adelaide's elimination caused Priya and Vanessa to mistrust their La Flor Alliance members. At Espada's Double Tribal Council on Day 16, Vanessa didn't like the bond that Kyle and Matthew had with the original Espada castaways and decided to play her idol for Priya. Her instincts were correct because the men had flipped to the Espada group by voting for Priya. With only Priya and Vanessa's votes counting now, the girls got their revenge by blindsiding Cody. After winning the following immunity challenge, the boys decided to apologise to the girls and promised they would be loyal to the La Flor Alliance. Priya and Vanessa pretended they trusted the men, but secretly were hoping for a merge to turn on the pair.

### The Merge

The twelve remaining castaways merged into the red Libertad tribe on Day 20. Priya and Vanessa weren't pleased they still were working with their lying allies, but decided to vote with them to eliminate Peighton who was apart of the Espada Women's Alliance. Bobby Jon, Kyle, Liam, Matthew and Richard thought they were in a good position as part of the La Flor Alliance, where it was then agreed to vote for Lana. However, Priya and Vanessa managed to convince Bobby Jon and Matthew to flip on the alliance and split the votes with the Espada Women between Richard and Liam. When neither men played an idol, Richard was voted out at tribal council and made the second member of the jury. The men of the La Flor Alliance then reconvened and agreed they needed to get rid of the Espada Women, where they voted for Alana at their next tribal council. However, Priya and Vanessa had since changed their allegiances and voted out Kyle next.

### Their Demise

The La Flor Alliance were given a lucky break when the Espada Women began cannibalising each other, voting out Alana and Erinn on Days 30 and 32 respectively. By the Final Seven however, the La Flor Alliance of Bobby Jon, Liam and Matthew were clearly in the minority of the tribe. They were unsuccessful in getting Priya or Vanessa to work with them again and both Bobby Jon and Liam were voted out at tribal council on Days 34 and 36 respectively. It originally appeared that Matthew was going to be targeted next, but he won individual immunity at the Final Five. He managed to slip into the Espada Women of Darcy and Lana, where they agreed to vote out Priya. However, Darcy flipped and Lana was voted out. Matthew didn't win the final individual immunity challenge, but was brought to the Final Three by both Darcy and Priya.

Matthew was the sole representative of the La Flor Alliance at the Final Tribal Council. Despite majority of the jury containing his former allies, they were unimpressed by his resume and the fact he was dragged to the end by the significantly stronger candidates of Darcy and Priya. He was awarded the title of Second Runner-Up after only receiving one of nine jury votes from Kyle.