Vuku Three

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

The Vuku Three (later referred to as the 'Vuku Four') was an alliance from Survivor: David vs. Goliath.

After breaking away from the central power of the David tribe, the trio gained another ally during the tribe expansion. After being huge targets at the beginning of the merge, the quartet was struck with mistrust and crumbled under the rise of their rivals.

## History

### Origins

The orange David tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: David vs. Goliath*. Though the tribe united in discussing gender identity with transgender castaway India, three smaller groups were forming on the David tribe. One of these included Anthony, Deanna and DJ. When the David tribe attended their first tribal council on Day 3, the trio joined forces with Andrew Brandi, Christian and Gabby to regrettably eliminate India for her weakness in the immunity challenge.

### Changing Allies

Over the next week, Andrew and Brandi on separate occasions approached Anthony, Deanna and DJ about possibly turning on both Christian and Gabby. The trio agreed it was too early to vote against their allies because they would be labelled as untrustworthy. When the David tribe lost on both Days 9 and 11, the alliance continued the facade they were a strong group and eliminated Amanda and Wayne at the following tribal councils.

At the Tribe Expansion on Day 12, the David tribe was renamed to Vuku. Anthony, Deanna and DJ remained on Vuku along with Andrew whilst being joined by Goliath tribe member Kameron. In the instance that Vuku was to ever lose, Anthony, Deanna and DJ solidified their relationship by creating a Final Three deal. When Vuku lost their first immunity challenge together, Kameron told the Vuku Trio that Andrew was plotting against Deanna and he aligned with them to unanimously eliminate Andrew at tribal council. Vuku won the remaining two tribal councils they had together and the four bonded to the point where Kameron was welcomed as the trio became a quartet.

### The Merge

Following the merge on Day 18, the Vuku trio and Kameron joined forces with Christian and Gabby from the original David tribe to get rid of outsider Bethan at the first merged tribal council. During this time, Anthony found the Kalokalo Hidden Immunity Idol and decided to reveal this to his quartet from Vuku to demonstrate trust, though he kept this from Christian and Gabby. This was soon exposed to the pair, which caused further mistrust within the original group of Davids. The Vuku Four convinced Hardeep and Kevin to join forces with them and vote for Christian at tribal council whilst the rest of the tribe went after Anthony. However, a null vote occurred when both Anthony and Christian played their idols. This left the pair immune and all twelve castaways were forced to revote. The Vuku Four targeted Gabby but Hardeep didn't want another tie or potential rock draw, and he switched to Christian and Gabby's alliance to eliminate Kevin.

With his numbers dwindling, DJ found the Extra Vote at the Kalokalo camp but decided to keep this a secret. The Vuku Four agreed to target Gabby in order to separate the duo of Christian and Gabby, but Kameron flipped at tribal council to work with Christian and Gabby in order to blindside Tracey. With a clear divide on the tribe at this point, DJ decided to reveal his extra vote to Hardeep in order to encourage him to flip to the Vuku Trio. DJ used his advantage to block Brandi's vote at tribal council and his majority alliance eliminated Brandi with her own vote. The next target of the Vuku Four was Ross. He played an idol at tribal council, but it was blocked when Kameron played his Idol Nullifier. Though votes counted for Ross, Hardeep flipped back to Christian and Gabby to eliminate Kameron.

### Four to One

Though the Vuku Three were a fairly tight group, smaller partnerships also existed; in particular, Deanna and DJ created a personal Final Two deal within their Final Three deal with Anthony that was created during the tribe expansion. When Gabby asked the rest of the tribe if they would blindside Christian with her, the Vuku Three saw this as an opportunity to blindside Gabby whilst the majority was fractured. With Deanna and DJ continuing to grow closer together, Anthony lost faith in his trio when he learned that they were planning on voting for him. The Goliath Alliance exploited this opportunity and Deanna was blindside at the next tribal council. Now in the minority, Anthony was voted out at the Final Six.

### Lonely DJ

By the Final Five, DJ was the sole member of his Vuku Trio and it appeared he would be voted out when he failed to win individual immunity. However, DJ was approached by Hardeep to make a big move. At tribal council, Hardeep played his idol for DJ and the pair eliminated Christian with the second highest number of votes. DJ was again on the chopping block at the Final Four, but won the final individual immunity challenge. With some convincing from Angelina and Ross, DJ reluctantly eliminated Hardeep. At the Final Tribal Council, DJ was praised for his loyalty to the Vuku Three and for succeeding as an underdog from the Final Six and was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 7-3-0 vote. He received votes from Anthony, Bethan, Deanna, Gabby, Hardeep, Kameron and Kevin.