Cool Kids Alliance

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

The Cool Kids Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Caramoan.

This alliance was initially created by the 'popular' group of the original Fans tribe. They suffered some major setbacks during the tribe switch and ultimately fell apart by Day 32 because they were dominated by the rival alliance throughout the merge.

## History

### Origins

The orange Gota tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Caramoan*. Due to the Fans vs. Favorites theme of the season, Gota contained ten die-hard *Survivor* fans. Over the course of the first few days, the more athletic and social players of Ashton, Ellie, Jefra, Luke and Terra formed a strong bond. When the Fans lost the first immunity challenge on Day 3, this group formed the Cool Kids Alliance. They were most threatened by the strong relationship between Chet and Lorenzo, leading to Chet's elimination at the first tribal council. The tribe then won the following three immunity challenges. During this time, Ashton found the tribes Hidden Immunity Idol

### Tribe Switch: Bikal

At the tribe switch, Cool Kids Alliance members Luke and Terra were switched to the purple Bikal tribe along with fellow Fans Jorja and Spud. There was a 4-4 divide between the two original tribes on the new Bikal. Luke and Terra tried to assure Jorja and Spud that they were going to work with them on this new tribe. When Bikal attended a Double Tribal Council with Gota on Day 13, the four Fans aggred to voted for Bianca. However, Jorja didn't feel comfortable working with the Cool Kids and flipped to the Favorite Women's Alliance to blindside Terra. Bikal won the next two challenges they had together.

### Tribe Switch: Gota

Meanwhile, Ashton, Ellie and Jefra remained on Gota along with Alyssa and Lorenzo. They were joined by Favorites Fawn, Mitchell and Spencer. The three Cool Kids were placed in the minority when Alyssa and Lorenzo decided to work with the Favorites. However, Ellie decided to play double agent by pretending to work with the majority. When Gota had to attend a Double Tribal Council on Day 13, this new majority wanted to vote for Ashton. Ellie relayed this information to the Cool Kids and told Ashton he had to play his idol. At tribal, Ashton played his idol and Alyssa was voted out with the only two votes that counted from Ashton and Jefra.

Despite executing this double agent move with Ellie perfectly, Ashton and Jefra didn't exactly like that she had relationships with the majority that they didn't. The pair decided to throw Ellie under the bus to Mitchell and Spencer, telling the boys that she would swiftly flip on their alliance at a potential merge. When Gota lost the following challenge, Ashton and Jefra had the majority with Mitchell and Spencer to blindside Ellie. The Cool Kids then decided to cause a greater rift between the boys and Fawn as the merge approached. When Gota lost for the second time in a row, Ashton, Jefra, Mitchell and Spencer agreed to go after Fawn. However, Ashton and Jefra voted with Fawn to eliminate Lorenzo. The Cool Kids revelled in the tension between the Favorites.

### The Merge

When the tribes merged, the Cool Kids reunited with only four real members; Ashton, Jefra, Luke and Spud. After causing a rift between Fawn, Mitchell and Spencer, Ashton and Jefra slipped into the majority at the first merged tribal council. The pair voted for Mitchell, whilst Luke and Spud voted with Jorja for Bianca as a back up plan. The Cool Kids appeared to have a numbers disadvantage, but Bianca approached them with the idea of blindsiding a Favorite. The alliance readily agreed, leading to Lea's blindside. The Cool Kids wanted to continue the trend of going after Favorites by voting for Trey at the next tribal. However, Luke and Spud switched their votes to Ashton at tribal. Their votes ultimately didn't matter because the Favorite Women's Alliance had the majority to blindside Spencer.

On Day 29, the remaining nine castaways went to tribal council and were told that they would be voting out two castaways as part of a Double Elimination twist. At the first vote, the Cool Kids and the Favorite Women didn't really work along these lines. Instead, the women had the numbers and they voted out Luke. At the second vote of the night, the Cool Kids voted for Bianca. However, she played her third idol of the season. With the only four votes that counted from the Favorite Women's Alliance, Ashton was made the fourth member of the jury. The final time that the Cool Kids would work together was on Day 32. Jefra and Spud managed to bring Jorja into their alliance in order to get rid of Trey. However, the Fans were a dying breed and Jorja was voted out. Jefra and Spud remained in the merge, but the Cool Kids Alliance was dissolved as the pair worked with and against the Favorites.