Amala

Amala was a castaway on Raging Survivor: Boracay Island

 Raging Survivor Season 1 Boracay Island

Tribe: Apoy

Placement: 6/16

Tribe Challenge Wins: 3

Individual Challenge Wins: 1

Votes Against: 4

Idols Obtained: 1

Amala was a powerhouse competitor. They had brilliant strategy, an amazing social game, and the boldness to make big moves. Unfortunately, Amala overplayed their cards, resulting in their demise the following round. Let's dive a bit deeper to understand why.

Amala started the game by hitting the ground running. They gained an ally in Gum, and were invited into the Slayers alliance on the Apoy tribe, which had the majority. After losing the challenge, Eric proposed that they vote out Gum at the first tribal council. Amala, wanting to their ally, began to target Cody for his dry messaging. Gum attempted to shift the target onto Flip however, which Amala pinned on Eric. This created distrust around Eric, resulting in him becoming the first boot.

During the second episode, the tribe won immunity, so not much happened here. However, episode 3's loss saw yet another tribal for the Apoy tribe. However, they were spared when their tribemate Mox quit the game. Episode 4 saw another win for the Apoy tribe, which allowed Amala to advance to the swap.

Amala was swapped onto the Soro tribe with Gum, Mayo, Cody, Tyler, and Ben. After the challenge loss, the tribe was split down the middle. On one side was Tyler and Ben, and the other had Mayo and Cody. This left Amala and Gum in the middle. They ultimately decided to side with Ben and Tyler after Ben created the Gorls alliance, which resulted in Cody going home. This alliance went on to control the early portion of the merge before imploding during the final 7, but more on that later.

Amala entered the merge with strength in the numbers. They had allys all around, and was apart of the dominating Gorls alliance. They were even invited into the Coolman Soup alliance, which pretty much just pulled in Tone. The Gorls alliance set their sights on Flip, as he was perceived to be the Apoy leader and puppet master. Pulling in Uni, Sonatine, and Mayo, the Gorls alliance hit their mark, sending Flip packing.

At the final 9, Tyler snagged immunity, and Uni seemed to be the target due to their threat level. It is also worth mentioning that they were coming after Ben, a member of the Gorls alliance, which gave Amala more incentive to send them out the door. However, tribal never occured, as Uni quit the game. Suffice it to say, another successful round for Amala.

Sonatine was the biggest target come final 8, which created a big bullseye on their back. The Gorls alliance took their shot, but the plan went slightly wonky. Tyler was at work, so he had thrown a vote onto Mayo beforehand, resulting in a rogue vote. Interestingly enough, Gum threw a vote onto Ben for no reason. Despite these hiccups, the vote tied 3-3 between Gum and Sonatine. Luckily, Gum used their super idol, causing their demise.

Now, the final 7 is where shit hits the fan and it hits it HARD. Wanting to create an Advantage flush, Amala devised a very daring and bold move. They planned to split the votes between Shinamo and Tyler. Then they would have a vote thrown onto Ben, and if Shinamo and Tyler used their idols, Ben would go home. Amala made sure to tell Shinamo too use his idol that tribal, and banked on Tyler using his super idol. At tribal, everything went according to plan when Shinamo played an idol on himself. Ben at the time both possessed an idol and an extra vote. Wanting to save his idol, Ben and Tyler played their extra votes on Mayo as a back up plan. When Tyler used his super idol, it seemed that Mayo would be gone. However, undenounced to Tyler and Ben, Amala possessed a super idol, and played it on Mayo. In a shocking turn of events, Ben was sent home having only one vote cast against him.

Amala's plan worked, sending a big threat out the door. However, the consequences were to big to pay, and Amala crashed and burned at the final 6. Having no allies left in the game due to burning all of their bridges, Amala was truly doomed from the start of the round. When they lost immunity, Amala attempted to target Shinamo. However, everyone was sick of Amala's shenanigans, and took them out with a 4-1-1 vote, where Tyler played two idols for himself and Gum.

Amala was a great player, but they overplayed their hand. They got to big for their britches and betrayed an ally only to be voted out the next round. They caused the demise of the Gorls alliance, where every member was voted out one by one in the rounds that followed. Amala did not get outplayed by others, but rather they outplayed themselves.

### Trivia

* Amala's move at the final 7 resulted in every member of the Gorls alliance getting voted out consecutively, including themselves.