Ogakor Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Ashleigh (4/16)

The Ogakor Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: The Australian Outback.

Originally created to target a power couple, the alliance was then forced to turn on each other before the merge. With a 5-5 tie at the first merged vote, an ill fated rock draw left Ogakor in the minority and indication their eventual demise.

## History

### Origins

The green Ogakor tribe was formed on Day 1 of Survivor: The Australian Outback, and a friendship was immediately formed between Cherry and Shawna. This irritated the rest of the tribe, who formed an alliance in order to get rid of this couple should the tribe lose an immunity challenge. Ogakor won the first two immunity challenges they had together, but lost for the first time on Day 9. Ashleigh during this time formed a smaller alliance within her alliance that contained Aida, Jase and Johanna. She also found the tribes Hidden Immunity Idol, but decided to keep this a secret and avoid putting a target on her back. At Ogakor's tribal councils on Days 9 and 12, the Ogakor Alliance executed the reason for their formation by consecutively eliminating Cherry and Shawna.

### Fractured

With Ogakor now only containing the Ogakor Alliance, Ashleigh's smaller alliance had to consider turning on Jack or Princeton should the tribe lose again. Even though Ogakor won on Day 15, Princeton especially began scrambling on the tribe and tried gaining numbers to vote out Ashleigh. Though she received reassurance from her allies that they wouldn't be voting with Jack and Princeton, Ashleigh played her idol at Ogakor's Day 18 tribal council. This was unnecessary because her allies remained loyal and Princeton was still voted out with the majority of votes.

### The Loss

There was five original Ogakor members and five original Kucha castaways on the merged Barramundi tribe on Day 19. Despite the division between Jack and the rest of Ogakor, Jack assured his original tribe that he would work with them. This was somewhat true because he preferred being the fifth member of Ogakor rather than the sixth member of Kucha. However, Jack also felt he was invincible because he found the Barramundi idol as insurance in case Ogakor turned on him at one point. At the first merged tribal council, the five Ogakor castaways voted for Miles but the Kucha castaways voted for Aida. At the revote, no one from Kucha or Ogakor switched their vote and a deadlocked tie occurred between Aida and Miles. They both became immune along with Ashleigh who won individual immunity, and the remaining seven castaways were forced to draw rocks. Unfortunately for Ogakor, Johanna drew the odd rock and the Kucha Alliance now held the majority on Barramundi.

The Ogakor Alliance, now in the minority, tried targeting Miles because they still saw him as the easiest target to their rivals. However, Aida and Ashleigh wanted to ensure they were both protected and approached Kucha with the possibility of blindsiding Jack. Though the girls voted for Jack, he played an idol and these two votes were negated. With the highest number of votes, Ashleigh was left red faced when Kucha threw her under the bus and eliminated Aida. Shortly after losing one of her closest allies in Aida, Ashleigh found the re-hidden idol from Jack. She decided to keep this a secret for the time being because she was seen as the easy vote by Kucha. The final three Ogakor castaways had no sway on Barramundi at this point, and Jack was voted out at tribal council on Day 27 followed by Jase on Day 30.

### The Villainess

At the Final Six, it was clear that Ashleigh would be voted out because she was the last member of Ogakor. However, she decided to openly reveal her idol to the tribe and force Kucha to turn on each other. Ashleigh was then approached by Karleigh and Winston after this revelation and she told them that she would work with them only if they voted out Dion. She reasoned that Dion was one of the more connected members of Kucha and she was worried he could find the idol she would be forced to play because Dion had a reputation for finding multiple idols. With some reluctance, Karleigh and Winston agreed. At tribal council, Ashleigh played her idol and Dion was voted out with the only three votes that counted.

Following Ashleigh's idol play, the tribe was told that two final idols would he hidden which must be played at the Final Five tribal council. Ashleigh tried her hardest but couldn't find either of the idols. However, Karleigh and Winston spoke to Ashleigh and promised to look after her. Karleigh found an idol and told Ashleigh she was willing to protect her if Ashleigh voted for Bailey. Ashleigh readily agreed, Miles' two votes didn't count, Karleigh saved Ashleigh and Bailey was voted out with Ashleigh's sole vote. At the Final Four however, Ashleigh couldn't win individual immunity and she was voted out when Karleigh and Winston decided to stay loyal to Miles.