Loved Ones Alliance

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

The Loved Ones Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: One World.

This is one of the more unique alliances in *Survivor* history. Two returning players with a pre-existing relationship united their loved ones to become a strong force before the game even began. After keeping the target off each others back in the pre-merge, this quartet dominated the merge in order to get to the Final Four together.

## History

### Origins

Of all ten returning players on *Survivor: One World*, Aida and Jase had the strongest pre-exisiting relationship. This is because they had previously worked together during *The Australian Outback*, *China* and *Tocantins*. From the very beginning of the game, Aida and Jase made a Final Four deal in order to ensure that they and their loved ones made it to the end together. It has also been confirmed that Adam and Alice were aware of this plan prior to competing on the season, but agreed that they wouldn't make their relationship to each other known.

On the Salani tribe containing returning players, Aida and Jase began the game and were quickly put into two different alliances. Aida appeared to be in a minority position, but her relationship with Jase kept her safe for the first week of the game. Meanwhile, the Manono tribe contained the loved ones of these returning players. At the beginning of the game, Adam and Alice were also not in the same alliance as each other. Despite this, Adam's majority alliance of athletic players went after Melody and blindsided Lauren at their first two tribal councils.

### Tribe Switch

After Wednesday was medically evacuated on Day 9, a tribe switch occurred between the remaining sixteen castaways. Jase remained on Salani along with his original allies Mickey and Priya. The returning players had a 5-3 majority over the original Manono castaways, though Adam managed to join their alliance because of Jase's pre-existing relationship with Aida. The second iteration of Salani lost the first two immunity challenges they had together. The returning players and Adam had the numbers, leading to the eliminations of Jay and Benjamin. Jase was worried he would have to turn on Adam should Salani lose again, but Summer quit because she was worried about her sister Wednesday. Meanwhile, Aida and Alice met each other when they were placed on the new Manono tribe. They managed to slip into the majority alliance along with Amy and Ashton, as well as Father and Son duo Michael and Joe. When Manono lost the immunity challenge on Day 16, this group decided to make an easy vote and eliminate Rani.

### The Merge

When the Final Twelve castaways merge, various pairs reunited; *Survivor* veterans Aida and Jase and four pairs of loved ones which included Adam and Aida, Alice and Jase, Michael and Joe and Jorge and Josh. Adam, Aida, Alice, Jase, Joe and Michael considered themselves a tight group of six. Initially, there was a fear of forcing a 6-6 tie at tribal council. However, Aida had close relations with the Salani Alliance and knew the other six players weren't going to work as a united front. The Loved Ones Alliance were most threatened by the only other pair of loved ones not in their alliance, Josh and Jorge. At the first two merged tribal councils, the boys were voted out.

Joe and Michael were worried with the other pairs of loved ones and tried to get the Salani Alliance to vote for Adam. However, the Loved Ones became suspicious and decided to go after the Salani Alliance. This led to the consecutive eliminations of Ashton, Amy and Priya. Mickey was the only member of the Salani Alliance remaining, but the Loved Ones had other plans. They were extremely worried that Michael or Joe would go on an immunity run and ruin their plans to get to the end. At the Final Seven and the Final Six, the Loved Ones kept true to their alliance by voting out Joe and Michael respectively. When Mickey failed to win the individual immunity challenge, he was swiftly voted out in fifth place.

### Four Becomes One

On Day 38, the Loved Ones Alliance was forced to turn on each other because they were the only castaways left in the game. After Jase won the final individual immunity challenge, Aida and Jase had a conversation where they agreed to take each other to the Final Three because of their status as returning players. At tribal council, Aida and her partner Adam voted for Alice whilst Alice and Jase voted for Adam. At the revote, neither Aida nor Jase changed their votes in order to force their loved ones to make fire. Adam defeated Alice, who became the final member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, Aida and Jase revealed how they created the Loved Ones Alliance before setting foot on the island. The pair revealed how they managed to keep them and their loved ones in power until the very end. In the end, Jase won the title of Sole Survivor in a 7-2-0 vote because the jury were bitter against Aida for playing them by pretending to be loyal to the Salani Alliance.