Pagong Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Mikey (Winner/20)

The Pagong Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Borneo.

This alliance was originally created by two strong partnerships, but shifted following the decision of one pair to mutiny. After a shocking exit, the alliance struggled to find its space in the majority during the merge.

## History

### Origins

The yellow Pagong tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Borneo*. Calum and Mikey quickly became friends and created a Final Two deal to the end. Meanwhile, there was also a strong duo between Clara and Kelley. Rather than go against each other, the pairs formed the Pagong Alliance and brought in Cami to at least force a tie if Pagong was to lose an immunity challenge. The alliance were considering bringing Adison in because of her positive disposition, but they were hesitant when she revealed their strategy to them. When Pagong lost the first immunity challenge on Day 3, the Pagong Alliance had the numbers. Adison suggested that the tribe each vote for a different member in order to force a 10 way tie. The alliance was confused by her approach and she was eliminated at tribal council.

After winning immunity, Pagong had to vote someone out as part of a Double Tribal Council on Day 11. The alliance agreed that Natalie was their target, though Calum thought it was in his best interest to flip on the Pagong Alliance in order to vote for Clara because of her relationship with Kelley. At the vote, Calum flipped to vote for Clara but Dimitri flipped on this plan in order to eliminate Natalie.

### Mutiny

On Day 12, the two tribes were given the opportunity to mutiny to the opposite tribe. Clara and Kelley saw this as an opportunity for them to build connections on Tagi and made the decision to flip. This put Calum and Mikey in a precarious position on Pagong, but they were able to bring in Dimitri officially when he revealed that he was the fifth vote for Natalie at the Double Tribal Council. Cami didn't appreciate that the boys had built a strong relationship because she felt disconnected from the rest of the alliance. When Pagong lost on Day 19, the men of the Pagong Alliance had the numbers on this tribe of six and they voted out Ernest in order to split the growing pairing of Zane and Ernest.

### The Merge

The tribes merged at the Final Ten. The Pagong Alliance assumed that their former allies Clara and Kelley would want to work with them despite mutinying to the rival Tagi tribe. At the first merged tribal council, they were planning on voting out Neha from Tagi. However, Clara and Kelley worked with Tagi as part of the Mutiny Alliance to eliminate Zane. The Pagong Alliance suffered another setback when Calum was medically evacuated after suffering severe dehydration. This left the alliance to three members; Cami, Dimitri and Mikey. They tried their hardest to get Clara and Kelley to flip on Tagi and eliminate Parvati. Through no fault of their own, they were given a lucky break because the women worked together to blindside Tagi member Logan.

Cami, Dimitri and Mikey changed their course of action at the Final Seven. Rather than get Clara and Kelley on their side, the Pagong Alliance tried to get Tagi members Neha and Parvati to flip on Clara. However, they were unsuccessful and Cami became the third member of the jury. At the Final Six, Neha told Dimitri and Mikey that she would be willing to work with them to get rid of Parvati. The boys were worried about the potential of forcing a deadlocked vote, but took the chance instead of guaranteeing their place on the jury. This plan failed when Parvati used her Hidden Immunity Idol to negate the three votes against her. With the only three votes that counted from the Mutiny Alliance, Dimitri was voted out.

### The Endgame

By the Final Five, Mikey was the last remaining member of the Pagong Alliance. When he failed to win individual immunity, it appeared that he would be voted out next. However, he decided to try forcing the Mutiny Alliance to turn on each other one more time. He spoke to his original allies Clara and Kelley. He told them that they wouldn't make it to the Final Two together because Neha and Parvati would most likely force a tie at the final four. In response, the original Pagong castaways worked with each other to blindside Neha. Mikey then miraculously won the following individual immunity challenge. He decided to create a rift between Clara and Kelley by voting with Parvati for Kelley. Clara and Kelley had to decide whether they were willing to force a tie on turn on each other. Ultimately, Clara didn't want to take the risk and she voted with Mikey and Parvati for Kelley.

Clara then won the final individual immunity challenge and felt like she would have a greater chance against Mikey because that meant she would receive every vote from the Mutiny Alliance on the jury. This brought Mikey to the Final Tribal Council. He won the the of Sole Survivor because the jury were impressed with his sneaky strategy the last few tribal councils and because many of his allies were on the jury.