Komoran

**Komoran** is a tribe from *Survivor Winter Park: Season 2*.

**Komoran** saw early success against their opposition and stayed largely united at their single Tribal Council, allowing themselves to enter the merge with a loyal voting group, resulting in three tribe members making up the entire Final Three.

## Tribe History

Despite losing the opening challenge, the Komoran tribe saw an immediate uptick in luck when Jacob Thigpen had broken his arm (courtesy of Thorin Groth), cancelling their Tribal Council much to the ire of the opposing Telvani tribe. At camp, the dynamic quickly broke down into Thorin and Cole Groth, twin brothers, joining with the two girls (Kristen Paul and Zoey Thomas). Caleb Susunaga and Jacob Ludlow, both *Season 1* returnees, spent most of their time away from the rest of the tribe looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol, leaving Ashton Corddry in the middle position.

At the third challenge of the season, Jake failed to finish the ring toss leg of the challenge, repeating his same mistake of the previous season where he failed at the same portion, again. Back at camp, the majority of the tribe feared that Caleb had found the idol due to his suspicious behavior. Thorin suggested that they split votes, with the two girls voting Jake and the three guys voting for Caleb. The other two intended to target Cole, who they had connected with the least of the tribe. When walking to Tribal Council, Cole and Thorin became uneasy of Ashton's tense conversations with the opposition. Fearing a potential 3-2-2 vote in favor of Cole going home, panic between the majority four broke out on who to vote. Ashton was told to vote for Jake and did so, Cole and Zoey had followed through on their original votes, while Kristen and Thorin both switched their votes, leading to Jake receiving the majority 3 votes and eliminating him, with no idol being played.

Following Jake's elimination, Kristen and Thorin became increasingly paranoid about Ashton flipping back over to Caleb and Caleb still having the idol from the previous Tribal Council. While early planning began to split the vote once again without alerting Ashton, these fears were set to rest when the tribe would merge with Telvani at the start of Round 5 to form the Senolva tribe.

## Trivia

* Komoran is the first purple tribe.
* Komoran is the second of three tribes to have every contestant return for a later season, following Bataru from *Season 1* and Telvani from *Season 2*.
	+ Ashton Corddry and Jacob Ludlow returned in *Edge of Extinction*.
	+ Caleb Susunaga, Cole Groth, and Kristen Paul returned in *Heroes vs. Villains*.
	+ Thorin Groth returned in *Exile Island*.
	+ Zoey Thomas returned in *Worlds Collide*.
* Komoran is the first tribe to execute a "split vote" plan, avoiding the potential of either Caleb or Jake playing a Hidden Immunity Idol by placing three votes onto Jake and two votes onto Caleb.
* The idol for the Komoran tribe would oddly go entirely missing: Jake returned after his elimination to grab it for George but never found it despite knowing the spot it was in. This prompted the players to believe that Caleb *still* had the idol but as he never admitted to finding it, nor did he ever play an idol, it was seemingly gone.