Goliath Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Ross (Runner-Up/20)

The Goliath Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: David vs. Goliath.

This alliance was riddled with a revolving door of allies and affiliates. Despite this, a duo expressed their loyalty throughout the entire game and was able to make it to the Final Tribal Council together.

## History

### Early Mistrust

The purple Goliath tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: David vs. Goliath*, where a tight group of four was quickly established that included Angelina, Kameron, Ross and Tracey. Whilst the tribe won the first immunity challenge, the quartet extended outwards and began creating additional connections in order to secure the numbers. Though Kameron made a pact to protect Bethan, the four established a majority alliance of seven with Hardeep, Kennedy and Kevin.

At the tribes first loss on Day 6, the seven decided to split the votes between Bethan and Billie in case the trio of physically weaker models were in possession of a Hidden Immunity Idol. The original intention was to eliminate Bethan, but Kameron switched his vote to honour the pact he made with her earlier and Billie was instead voted out. This move caused the Goliath Alliance to greatly mistrust Kameron and they considered voting him out if the tribe was to lose again. This plan was never executed because the Goliath tribe won the following two immunity challenges.

### New Allies

At the Tribe Expansion on Day 12, Angelina, Ross and Tracey remained on the Goliath tribe (renamed to Jabeni) along with their original target Bethan and Brandi from the David tribe. The trio from the Goliath Alliance solidified their connection to each other by creating a Final Three deal, where they agreed to target Bethan at their first loss like they originally intended. After winning all three immunity challenges they had together, the Jabeni tribe agreed to look after each other and target the original Davids at the merge on Day 18.

At the merge, Angelina, Ross and Tracey reunited with Hardeep and Kevin where they agreed to target DJ. However, Kameron flipped to give the original Davids the majority and they voted out Bethan at the first merged tribal council. This majority did not last for long because Brandi, Christian and Gabby flipped to work with the Goliath Alliance. They voted for Anthony at tribal whilst their rivals voted for Christian, but both men played an idol. At the revote, the Goliath Alliance and their three David allies turned on Kevin because he voted for Christian moments ago. Angelina, Ross and Tracey were loyal to Christian and Gabby and wanted to prove this by going after Hardeep who was considered a flaky ally. However, they were blindsided when Christian and Gabby convinced Brandi, Hardeep and Kameron to vote for Tracey.

Returning to camp after tribal council, Angelina and Ross felt as though they were backed into a corner by Christian and Gabby. Despite their animosity against the pair for blindsiding Tracey, they reluctantly agreed to work with the pair, Brandi and Hardeep to vote for Anthony. However, DJ played his voting advantage on Brandi and convinced Hardeep to flip on the Goliath Alliance to blindside Brandi. The two pairs, Angelina/ Ross and Christian/ Gabby were becoming increasingly irritated with Hardeep's shenanigans but agreed he was an easy target. Instead, the alliance convinced Hardeep to work with them to eliminate Vuku Three lap dog and their original ally, Kameron at the next tribal council.

### Under the Radar

The Final Eight consisted of Angelina, Hardeep, Ross and five Davids. However, the mistrust between the David castaways and their small alliances meant that the original Goliath Alliance slipped under the radar. Gabby was willing to blindside Christian and needed the Goliaths to vote with her to execute this move. Angelina and Ross decided to vote for Deanna with Christian, but Hardeep and the Vuku Three had the numbers and Gabby was instead blindsided. With his closest ally gone, Christian saw Angelina and Ross as his next closest allies and the trio voted out Deanna and Anthony at the following two tribal councils.

### End Game

By the Final Five, it appeared that Angelina, Christian and Ross would take each other to the Final Three. When DJ failed to win the immunity challenge, the trio agreed to go after him. However, Hardeep didn't agree with this plan and played his idol on DJ and Christian was voted out with the only other two votes that counted. When DJ won the final individual immunity challenge, Angelina and Ross as the remnants of the Goliath Alliance refused to turn on each other and instead voted out Hardeep.

At the Final Tribal Council, Angelina and Ross were commended on their social games and undying loyalty to each other. However, they were criticised for failing to control the game by making moves that were in their best interests. In the end, Angelina received no jury votes and was awarded the title of Second Runner-Up and Ross was awarded the title of Runner-Up after earning three jury votes from Brandi, Christian and Tracey.