Senolva

**Senolva** is the merged tribe of Komoran and Telvani from *Survivor Winter Park: Season 2*.

**Senolva** saw a major divide in gender, as well as between the two former tribes, which was expertly driven by Cole Groth. With rampant flipping on both sides, the Telvani tribe largely saw their demise at the loyal duo of Cole and Zoey Thomas, with three former Komoran members making up the Final Tribal Council.

## Tribe History

The merge for Senolva was chaotic: the tribes were being moved from Ward Park to George's house, about a half-mile walk. During this walk, both tribes began their scrambling immediately. Joseph Ales would reveal his status at the bottom of his tribe; Cecelia Gutman, Kaley Kolb, and Ryan Hagerty began pushing for Caleb Susunaga's elimination while trying to flip as many former Komoran members as possible; and a variety of alliances were being formed and subsequently broken by the next conversation. Most of the game was left unpredictable going into the first immunity challenge, which Thorin Groth would end up winning. Two major factions would develop after the vote: the guys trying to take down Cece, who they viewed as the most strategic of the three opposing girls, and the girls trying to take down Caleb, who they viewed as the least likely to work with them. With Kristen Paul and Zoey Thomas acting as the swing votes, Thorin worked to convince Kristen and Cole Groth worked to convince Zoey that Cece was the smarter player to target in the long run, with Caleb being an easy vote for later. This convincing would work, as Cece would be voted out in a 7-3 vote.

Worried about the girls getting too much heat, Kristen and Zoey turned back to a blindsided Kaley and Ryan duo, with the hopes of bringing in Ashton and Thorin against Caleb. Ryan winning immunity didn't factor too much into the plan for either side: the guys were targeting Kaley due to their annoyance with her while the girls were still targeting Caleb. While initially with the girls, Kristen's desire to have everybody voting Caleb to write stars on their parchment led Thorin to turn the plan around on her. In a last-minute scramble, he told the guys to flip their votes onto Kristen which they followed, blindsiding her in a 5-4 vote. Ironically, Ashton and Thorin left their stars on their voting parchments for Kristen, rather than for Caleb.

Kaley, Ryan, and Zoey feared for their position in the game, seeing themselves at a 5-3 disadvantage with their two most hopeful flips (Ashton and Thorin) being solidly against them. Cole would see this as an opportunity to set himself for the endgame: by flipping against the guys, he could create a 4-4 tie, which was nearly enough to keep the girls around. With Thorin winning immunity, the guys minus Cole turned their targets back onto Kaley to finally eliminate her from the game. Cole saw Ashton as the most likely to be tricked into flipping the vote and would decide to act right before voting. The girls continued to target Caleb, feeling as though their third time would finally work with Cole now in their corner. At Tribal Council, Cole would jump on Ashton at the last second, telling him that the plan was changed to Ryan. This ended up splitting the votes of the four guys, leaving Caleb to take the plurality 4-3-1 elimination, placing the guys on the bottom for the first time in the game. Immediately following Leaving the rest of the players behind, Thorin would go from camp back to the house to read his clue, eventually finding the idol.

Despite just having earned the majority, Cole and the girls would find themselves back in a deadlock situation when Kaley failed to show up to the second day. The guys felt betrayed by Cole but realized they would need to work with him in order to keep themselves from being picked off by the girls. With Zoey winning immunity, Ryan was the only girl left for elimination. Thorin, with an idol in his pocket, contemplated using it but didn't believe his brother would vote him out. At Tribal Council, he decided to take the risk by playing it, which ended up working out for him: the vote was split 3-3 but Cole, Ryan, and Zoey had voted for Thorin. After playing the idol, Cole immediately feared he was targeted by Ashton, Joseph, and Thorin, leading to him playing his idol reactionarily.

Joseph winning immunity for the following round put Thorin in the spotlight, finally vulnerable. At this point in the game, Ashton was recognized as the jury goat, with no real chance to earn over votes, leaving Thorin as the only option for Cole and Zoey to target. Ashton loudly proclaimed finding the idol in the sewer pipe wasn't taken seriously, despite him being entirely serious. With no idol left to find, Ashton and Joseph knew they could take a clean shot at both Thorin or Cole and Zoey. Feeling that they had a better chance against Cole and Zoey in the end, they decided to flip on Thorin at Tribal Council, who had intended to target Zoey. To ensure his elimination, Ashton decided to play his idol on Zoey, negating Thorin's vote against her and sending him to the jury upset.

Only two real jury members were present at the Final Tribal Council: Joseph and Thorin. Jake Ludlow, a pre-juror, took an unofficial spot on the jury, bringing the number up to three. At the Final Tribal Council, Cole argued himself as the strongest player of the season with his constantly successful flipping between alliances, Ashton was grilled by Thorin for taunting him with the idol play on Zoey that proved to be unnecessary, while Zoey was largely ignored due to her lack of interactions with the jurors throughout the season. The vote would end up being 2-1-1 in Cole's favor, with George falsely claiming that Cece had cast a vote through text. This vote would be corrected to reflect a 5-2-0 vote in favor of Cole, with Zoey receiving the hypothetical votes of Cece and Kristen. These votes were made up from what the vote would have realistically been.

## Trivia

* Senolva is the first green tribe.
* Senolva is the first merged tribe to have a player eliminated without a challenge or vote being held.