Sa'ula

**Highest Placing Member**: Heather (4/24)

Sa'ula was a tribe from Survivor: Island of Secrets.

This tribe contained arguably the strongest batch of new players this season, as they quickly ostracised and targeted their veteran player. This group also controlled the numbers during the tribe dissolve. Their tribe colour is teal.

## Tribe History

The green Sa'ula tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Island of Secrets*, containing castaways from eastern regions of the United States. The tribe of five new castaways were also joined by *The Amazon* castaway Julia. The newbies, realising that Julia was a huge threat, united and decided to ostracise her. After winning the first immunity challenge, Sa'ula had to send one of their own to the Island of Secrets. Julia was open about wanting to go, but the newbies wouldn't entertain the thought and instead decided to send Heather. From this visit, Heather won Tatianna's Legacy Advantage from *Millenials vs. Gen X*.

Sa'ula unfortunately lost the second immunity challenge. Julia tried garnering favour with the rest of her tribe, but they united and unanimously voted her out at tribal council. After winning the next immunity challenge, the tribe chose Declan to visit the Island of Secrets but he failed to win an advantage. Following their next win on Day 10, Christopher was chosen to visit the Island of Secrets. He won an amended version of the mutiny offer from *Cook Islands*, meaning he could force two castaways to switch tribes with him. Christopher accepted this offer and decided to switch him and Sneha to the undefeated Laumei tribe, whilst switching them for Anthony and Rahul.

    The new Sa'ula tribe contained original Sa'ula castaways Declan, Elias and Heather along with Rahul and *David vs. Goliath* veteran Anthony from Laumei. After getting rid of their own veteran player, the Sa'ula trio intended to target Anthony. After learning that Day 12 would be a Double Tribal Council, the trio decided to throw the immunity challenge to eliminate Anthony whilst also keeping Christopher and Sneha safe. Their plan failed because Laumei also threw the challenge to keep Anthony and Rahul safe, leading to Christopher's elimination at tribal council. For winning the challenge, Sa'ula selected Heather to visit the Island of Secrets. She won the Extra Vote that was held and played by Kay J on *Thailand II*.

At the tribe dissolve, Micah became the tribe captain of the new Sa'ula tribe. Through a School-yard style pick, Micah chose Imani, who chose Declan, who chose Shannon, who chose Rahul, who chose Jodie, who chose Elias, who chose J'Tia, who was left with Joshua. An alliance of six was created containing Declan, Elias, Imani, J'Tia, Micah and Shannon, with the intention of voting for the original Laumei castaways. This was because they were the only original tribe who had yet to lose an original member. The tribe lost their first immunity challenge together, where it was decided to split the votes between Jodie and Rahul in case either of them had an advantage. This was not the case, so a three way tie occurred between Jodie, Rahul and Shannon. At the revote, the alliance of six voted together to eliminate Rahul.

On Day 16, Jodie was chosen to visit the Island of Secrets, where she won Dre's idol from *Kaôh Rōng*. When Sa'ula lost the following immunity challenge, Jodie thought that the core alliance would be targeting Joshua after she visited the Island of Secrets. In response, Jodie gave her idol to Joshua to use on himself at tribal council. Joshua decided to keep the idol in his back pocket, and Jodie was eliminated by the alliance of six. On Day 20, J'Tia was chosen to visit the Island of Secrets. She won the opportunity to force a second tribe switch, a twist first introduced during *Gabon*, but declined this offer. At the immunity challenge, the tribes were told that the losing tribe would be voting out two castaways. Luckily for Sa'ula, the tribe won this challenge. With only thirteen castaways remaining, the Sa'ula tribe was disbanded on Day 21 when it merged with Ta'alo.

## Trivia

* Five of the seven pre-merge visits to the Island of Secrets were won by members of the Sa'ula tribe.
	+ One of the times when Sa'ula didn't win was Day 6, where no Sa'ula castaway was exiled in the first place.
	+ This makes Declan the only Sa'ula castaway in the pre-merge to attend the Island of Secrets but not win an advantage.
* In a rather interesting coincidence, each of the four starting tribes produced a representative in the final four. Heather became the representative of Sa'ula.