Navarro

**Navarro** is the merged tribe of Angara and Bataru from *Survivor Winter Park: Season 1*.

Consisting of six guys and one girl, **Navarro** was taken over by the former Bataru members, who took advantage of the less strategic former Angara tribe members.

## Tribe History

The Navarro tribe held a narrow majority of Bataru members 4-3, but the clear recognition of an alliance between the former Angara members kept both tribes as tight groups, with Makenzie Kennedy often acting as a scapegoat for both tribes (although she would prove herself rather difficult to eliminate due to her constant immunity wins) and the least-connected to any alliance. Following her win at the first individual challenge, Jacob Ludlow became the target of the Bataru guys, and was eventually turned on by his former alliance in a near unanimous 5-1-1 vote, with Makenzie being left out of the loop. Jake became the first-ever member of a jury.

After the Jake elimination, Daniel Jaffe grew closer with Landon Hurd through a shared passion for soccer. George Stedronsky, knowing there would be a soccer challenge down the line as he had created the challenges, decided to place a target on Landon's back. With Josh winning immunity, Daniel saw his chance to finally eliminate Makenzie after 5 rounds and worked with Landon to have her eliminated, relying on Caleb Susunaga for the numbers. Caleb, however, had been convinced of Landon's threat level through the information of a soccer challenge and realized that he needed to take him out. With Makenzie once again out of the loop, targeting Daniel out of pure annoyance with him, George and Josh were able to eliminate Landon from the game in a split 3-2-1 vote.

At the Final 5, George grew weary of his closest ally, Josh. He had worked with him for the whole game and realized the danger he would pose if he decided to target George. However, secured with an idol that had to be played for that round, he felt safe going into the immunity challenge. Makenzie would win her second immunity of the season, placing the target on Caleb's back to finish off the entirety of the former Angara tribe. Much to the others surprise, Caleb possessed the idol hidden at the merge, which would throw their attempted blindside out the window. Daniel and Josh would stay strong against Caleb, but George was able to convince Caleb that he was their target and that it was in his best interest to go after Josh. With Makenzie once again out of the loop by deciding to target George, both him and Caleb would idol themselves, resulting in Josh being idoled out in a 2-0-0 vote.

Following Josh's blindside, Caleb became target number one among the remaining players due to his connection with every current juror. With Daniel and George now solidly in the middle, the immunity challenge would dictate which player would be eliminated. Upon Makenzie's third immunity win, Caleb's final ditch efforts to eliminate George be for naught as he would be unanimously eliminated.

For the final round of the season, there would be two challenges to determine the players at the Final Tribal Council. The first challenge would be a basketball game of HORSE, in which George would quickly sweep the competition. The second challenge would determine which player became the second finalist and which player became the fifth member of the jury. It would come down to a game of soccer, in which Daniel already had plenty of experience over Makenzie. Granted the ability to penalize one player with a larger goal, George doubled down on Makenzie by punishing her, where she would be swiftly eliminated (but not before taunting on Daniel's end to give her the illusion of a chance.) She would become the fifth and final member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, both players delivered rather weak performances for differing reasons: George recognized that he could only do more harm than good if he hyped up his game more than necessary and decided to let Daniel talk himself into a hole, while Daniel simply refused to give any sort of speech to convince players. A frustrated jury begrudgingly rewarded George with the title of Sole Survivor, but not before coordinating two of their votes to go towards Daniel.

## Trivia

* Navarro is the first merge tribe.
* Navarro is the first yellow tribe.
* With the original "The Office" theme, Navarro was formerly known as the "Battlestar Galactica" tribe.
* The first four challenges for the Navarro tribe were related to balance.
* Caleb Susunaga is the only former Angara member to outlast a Bataru member (Joshua Morris).