Laumei Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Anthony (Winner/24)

The Laumei Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Island of Secrets.

This alliance was formed by the strongest of the four original pre-merge tribes. They were immediately targeted during the tribe dissolve and merge, but one managed to slip their way into the Final Three and win.

## History

### Origins

The yellow Laumei tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Island of Secrets* containing castaways from the Western regions of the United States. The tribe consisted of five new players and *David vs. Goliath* veteran Anthony. Over the course of the first 10 days, Laumei won every immunity challenge and formed strong social relationships with each other. This gave Anthony the opportunity to integrate amongst the new players which consisted of physical asset Joshua, strong Muslim woman Leyla and frequent Island of Secrets visitor Harmony. Being undefeated put a huge target on the backs of every Laumei castaway. When Christopher won the mutiny advantage on the Island of Secrets, he forced Anthony and Rahul to switch tribes with him and Sneha from Sa'ula.

### Mutiny

Prior to the mutiny, the six Laumei castaways made a pact that they would look after each other despite being on separate tribes. Their intention was to keep each other safe until they could meet together again at a tribe switch. On Sa'ula, Anthony and Rahul were in the minority against Declan, Elias and Heather. On Laumei however, Christopher and Sneha were in the minority against Jodie, Joshua, Harmony and Leyla. The four tribes were then told that Day 12 was a Double Tribal Council and only the first two tribes to finish would be immune. Sa'ula tried to throw the challenge to eliminate Anthony or Rahul whilst Laumei tried throwing the challenge to got rid of Christopher or Sneha. Only Laumei were successful in throwing the challenge, leading to Christopher's elimination at tribal council.

### Tribe Dissolve: Sa'ula

The tribe dissolve occurred at the Final Eighteen where the Laumei Alliance were evenly divided into the two tribes. Jodie, Joshua and Rahul were placed on the new Sa'ula tribe. They were immediately targeted as the only original tribe which had yet to lose an original member. At their first loss, the Laumei Alliance voted for Shannon but a three way tie occurred when the rest of the tribe split the votes between Jodie and Rahul. This led to Rahul's elimination at the revote. Down in numbers, the Laumei Alliance was given a chance when Jodie won Dre's idol from the Island of Secrets. When Sa'ula lost the next challenge, Jodie thought the tribe would go after Joshua because she just won an advantage. She gave Joshua her idol so he could use it, but Joshua kept it to himself and Jodie was voted out. The Sa'ula tribe then won the following two immunity challenges, keeping Joshua safe as the last Laumei Alliance member.

### Tribe Dissolve: Ta'alo

Meanwhile, Anthony, Harmony and Leyla all became members of the purple Ta'alo tribe. From the very beginning, there was tension on Ta'alo because there was a rivalry between Anthony and Christian that began on *David vs. Goliath*. At the tribes first loss on Day 18, the Laumei Alliance worked with Danni and Doug from the original Ta'alo in order to eliminate Christian's closest ally Davis. After losing immunity on Day 20, Ta'alo was told they would be attending a Double Elimination. The Laumei Alliance knew Danni and Doug were going to turn on them, and tried to get the tribe to go after Danni. However, they were in the minority and Leyla was blindsided. Anthony and Harmony then got their revenge when they brought in Heather and Sneha to blindside Christian.

### The Merge

The Final Thirteen castaways merged on Day 21. Following the tribe dissolve, only Anthony, Harmony and Joshua remained from the Laumei Alliance. They worked with Sa'ula and Ta'alo to split the votes between Imani and Shannon, leading to Shannon's elimination when she didn't have an advantage. The Laumei Alliance knew they were in the minority of the tribe and joined forces with outsiders Imani and Micah in order to try and overthrow Sa'ula or Ta'alo. At tribal council, the Laumei Alliance sneaked their way into the majority and blindsided Sneha. The Laumei Alliance continued to dominate when Harmony won Kameron's Idol Nullifier from the Island of Secrets. The Final Eleven tribal council was huge because Doug and Heather played their idols whilst Joshua also played his idol for Harmony. Following the null vote, the Laumei Alliance had the numbers when Harmony used her advantage to cast the sole vote and eliminate Declan.

### Major Setbacks

Following this vote, the Laumei Alliance was considered an extremely powerful alliance. They spoke with the Sa'ula castaways and managed to agree on voting for J'Tia, leading to her unanimous elimination. This was a momentary peace offering, because Sa'ula and Ta'alo continued to work with each other to vote out Joshua and Micah on Days 30 and 32 respectively. The Laumei Alliance felt the power slipping from their hands, but managed to work with Sa'ula. The two groups agreed to go after Doug because he had won multiple advantages from the Island of Secrets. Doug played an idol at tribal, but he was still eliminated because Harmony played her nullifier against him.

At the Final Six, Anthony and Harmony were concerned that Sa'ula and Ta'alo would work with each other. They voted for Heather, but she played her Legacy Advantage. Despite this, Harmony was still voted out because the tribe split the votes between Anthony and Harmony. As the sole member of the Laumei Alliance left, Anthony relied on immunity challenge wins in order to get to the end. However, he was unsuccessful. At the last two tribal councils, Danni and Imani controlled the vote and Anthony was forced to follow them in order to vote for Elias and Heather. In the end, Anthony was awarded the title of Sole Survivor because the Laumei Alliance was proud of his ability to survive as both a returning player and underdog from his alliance.