Yaxhá Alliance

**Highest Placing Member**:Karina (Runner-Up/16)

The Yaxhá Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Guatemala.

Though a tight group of three were responsible for creating this alliance, they soon crumbled due to mistrust and the perceived leadership of one member. They soon crumbled and would turn on each other before being decimated by the merge.

## History

### Origins

The blue Yaxhá tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Guatemala*. Jasmin, Tim and Tully formed a tight alliance of three early on in the game and were considering who from the rest of the tribe they wanted to align with. They decided to bring in Karina as an easy number in addition to Harry and Kurtis whom they perceived as physically strong. When Yaxhá lost the first immunity challenge, this alliance of six had the numbers and they voted out Xavier.

### Demise

Jay, as the sole outsider of the Yaxhá alliance, decided to build relationships with the tribe in the hopes that they would protect him. In particular, he and Kurtis agreed that Jasmin, Tim and Tully were a dangerously tight trio. Tim noticed this and suggested that the rest of the Yaxhá alliance split the votes between Jay and Kurtis. Harry, Jasmin and Tully however, didn't appreciate the tone in which Tim laid out this plan to them and didn't want him to become the dictator of their alliance. At Yaxhá's second loss on Day 9, Karina and Tim voted for Jay as planned but Harry, Jasmin and Tully switched their votes from Kurtis to Tim, and he was blindsided.

### The Switch

At the tribe switch, Harry, Karina and Kurtis remained on Yaxhá whilst being joined by Danny, Harry Amelia and Nick. Harry and Karina, as the only two members of the Yaxhá alliance left on Yaxhá, threw Kurtis under the bus to the original NAKUM castaways as an act of self preservation. This group had the numbers and they voted out Kurtis when Yaxhá lost immunity on Day 12. Meanwhile, Jasmin, Jay and Tully were switched to the Nakúm tribe where they joined original Nakúm members Aaron, Eileen, Harriet and Jade. Jasmin however flipped on the Yaxhá alliance to protect herself, and voted with the original Nakúm members to eliminate Jay and Tully on Days 14 and 16 respectively.

### The Merge, Their Demise

The final ten castaways merged on Day 17, where Harry, Jasmin and Karina reunited as the only remaining members of the Yaxhá alliance. The trio assumed they would be picked off almost straight away, but were glad when Aaron decided to turn against his own alliance. This made Aaron the scapegoat of the tribe and he was voted out. Despite being in the minority for the next two tribal councils, the Yaxhá alliance was safe whilst the Nakúm alliance went after each other to eliminate Eileen and Danny on Days 21 and 24 respectively.

At the Final Seven, the Yaxhá alliance planned on going after Nick. However, Harry decided to relay this information to Nick who would play his Hidden Immunity Idol at tribal council. This was unnecessary because Jasmin still had the majority of votes. Harry's move was considered sneaky by the Nakúm castaways and he was voted out at the following tribal council. Karina, as the sole Yaxhá member remaining, became a 'goat' and managed to make it to the Final Tribal Council where she was heavily reprimanded for failing to control the game or make big moves.