Shin Maw

**Shin Maw** is a tribe from *Survivor: Myanmar*. Their tribe color is gold, but it is close enough to orange that it is interchangeably referred to as such sometimes as well.

## Tribe History

Just minutes into the game, everybody was subjected to participate in an opening Reward Challenge, to compete for fire in the form of flint. Although the competition was pretty close early on, Shin Maw managed to come out on top of this challenge, giving them the advantage of being able to make fire that Pyin Sa wouldn't start the game with. As a result, Shin Maw entered the game with very high morale, managing to finish their shelter in just a couple of days and overall getting along very well as a tribe. On Day 2, John proposed a majority alliance with himself, Jonah, Lauren, Liam, Emmanuel, and Shiloh. Everyone agreed to the alliance, but Jonah and Lauren chose to stay in the middle of the tribe, effectively giving themselves power on the tribe after Alex, Victoria, Brianna, and Kalyani effectively formed an alliance due to being relegated to the outside of the tribe. However, Shin Maw won the first Immunity Challenge, meaning nothing would be put to the test for the first three days.

On Day 5, Shiloh began to grow paranoid that Emmanuel, John, and Liam were a trio and she was simply an affiliated "number four." As a result, she leaked Emmanuel's plan to take out Kalyani to the minority alliance, and joined their ranks, turning the tribe into a 5-3-2 split in her favor. Shin Maw's winning streak finally ended on Day 6, and they were subjected to their first tribal council. This set Lauren and Jonah up to make a very important decision, between siding with the trio of boys or everyone else. However, all of a sudden, Victoria approached Lauren and Jonah and talked about her wishes to take out Shiloh instead, telling them both about Shiloh leaking information and playing both sides. This convinced Lauren and Jonah to take Shiloh out of the game, so they spread the word to the trio of boys and Shiloh was voted out in a 6-4 vote.

Victoria's flip caused the entire minority faction to collapse within a matter of days. Brianna and Victoria were gunning for each other, and Victoria was working hard to bring Alex over to her side, while Brianna worked hard to get Kalyani over to her side. However, Brianna also made efforts to create connections with various members of the Shin Maw majority—notably John, Lauren, and Jonah—and was slowly undermining Alex and Victoria's position to better her own. However, when Alex found an immunity idol on Day 10 and John witnessed it, John felt like keeping Alex around would be more beneficial for his game so he could have some sort of control over the idol, so Brianna fell out of her short-lived power position.

The tribes switched on Day 11, and the new Shin Maw Tribe consisted of John, Lauren, Alex, and Liam from Shin Maw, and Adora, Camryn, and Mia from Pyin Sa. With Victoria and Kalyani on the other tribe, Brianna and Alex had no one to focus on but each other, and a rivalry started between them. Shin Maw went on to lose the first immunity challenge after the swap, and Alex and Brianna were on the chopping block. However, due to Alex's immunity idol, John managed to convince the rest of the tribe to vote Brianna out, and she was voted out unanimously in a 7-1 vote.

Over the next few days, Lauren managed to make connections with the other girls on Shin Maw, and a pseudo-alliance formed among the four of them. Lauren was able to get the trust of the girls, and eventually, Adora confessed to Lauren and her Pyin Sa allies that she had an immunity idol. Lauren promised not to tell anyone, but she secretly told John very shortly after finding out this information. On Day 16, it was announced that both tribes would attend tribal council and vote somebody out the next day. Shin Maw won the opportunity to compete for Individual Immunity the next day, which Lauren won. John wanted to get Alex out, but knew he had to get around Alex's immunity idol first because Alex did not want to get rid of it. He told Lauren to tell Adora that she was being targeted, and to play her immunity idol. However, he knew that Alex would play his immunity idol as well, so he convinced Alex to vote with him in the minority against Mia, and play his immunity idol. At tribal council, both Adora and Alex played their immunity idols on themselves, and Mia was voted out in a shocking 2-0-0 vote.

Returning to camp, Liam was confused about what happened, and he felt paranoid that he was on the outs of the Shin Maw majority. However, any efforts he would make to reverse this would soon be subdued, because the tribes were switched again. John, Alex, and Lauren stayed on Shin Maw, Emmanuel and Kalyani returned to Shin Maw from Pyin Sa, and Eyal joined the Shin Maw tribe as the only new member that had never been on the tribe before. Eyal immediately felt like he was an outsider, but an alliance was formed with John, Lauren, Eyal, and Emmanuel, and Eyal felt increasingly comfortable in Shin Maw. However, the new Shin Maw tribe lost both the Day 18 Reward Challenge and the Day 19 Immunity Challenge, and had to attend another tribal council. Kalyani immediately started to gun for Alex, due to past issues they had. John and Lauren agreed to this plan, because without an immunity idol, Alex was no longer a necessary number for them. Eyal and Emmanuel also agreed, and Alex was voted out unanimously.

As the days went on, Lauren grew unsure of her position on Shin Maw, believing that John, Emmanuel, and Eyal were more loyal to each other than to her. Due to this, she tightened her bond with Kalyani. The two of them even managed to find an immunity idol together on Day 22, unbeknownst to the boys. Plans were made to target Kalyani if Shin Maw lost again, but no one wanted to lose again. After enjoying two more immunity challenge wins, Emmanuel pledged his loyalty to the rest of the tribe in the case of a merge, to which everyone agreed. However, Lauren wasn't very sure if she actually agreed to a Shin Maw alliance at the merge, and was thinking of potentially shaking it up at the merge.

On Day 25, the Shin Maw was met by surprise visitors. A boat arrived at the Shin Maw camp, housing the four members of Pyin Sa. All nine remaining players were reunited, and the tribes merged into one.

## Trivia

* Shin Maw is the first tribe to win a challenge in Wattpad Survivor.
* Shin Maw is the first tribe to win multiple challenges in Wattpad Survivor.
* Shin Maw is the first tribe to win immunity and be safe from tribal council.
	+ As a result, Shin Maw is the first tribe to get to sit somebody out of a challenge.
* Shin Maw is the first tribe to vote a woman out first.
* Shin Maw is the first tribe to attend a tribal council where more than two people received votes.
* Shin Maw is the first tribe to attend a tribal council where an immunity idol (and by extension, multiple) is played.