Fang

**Highest Placing Member**: Skye (Sole Survivor/18)

Fang was a tribe from Survivor: Gabon.

One of the weakest tribes in *Survivor* history, Fang suffered a string on continuous losses. Two girls that remained on Fang the entire time tried their hardest to stay in the game, to varying degrees of success. Their tribe colour was red.

## Tribe History

The red Fang tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Gabon*. Due to their outsider connection last season, Lina, Penny and Richard rekindled their connection and created the second iteration of the Outsider Alliance. Similarly, Ryan and Skye were previously aligned and agreed to look after each other. They form an alliance with fellow returnees Cody and Montana as well as newbies Cat and Lawson, who are considered a power couple and easy target for the opposing alliance led by the SJDS trio. Cody and Montana feel they aren't being listened to by their alliance, and flip to the minority. At the tribes first loss, Ryan and Skye's alliance vote for Montana for flipping and her connection to their Kota rivals but the majority eliminated Cat to avoid a power couple emerging.

Following the loss of Cat, Lawson and Ryan bonded over their status as the physical assets of the tribe. Cody was haunted by his gameplay from his previous appearance, and considered flipping when the majority wanted to vote for Skye. They assured Cody he could call the shots, and he felt more confident in voting for Skye. Though the minority voted for Lina, the majority alliance flipped and blindsided Cody for being a loose cannon. When Fang lost their third immunity challenge in a row, the majority of four weren't sure who to eliminate next. Lina and Penny wanted Ryan gone, but Montana and Richard felt Skye was a bigger social threat. At tribal council, the two pairs voted in this matter but the minority alliance remained tight and surprisingly eliminated Montana.

    The alliances on Fang were tied with three members each, though Skye was concerned the boys were teaming against her due to their friendship. When they lost immunity again, Skye spoke to Lina, Penny and Richard and threw Lawson under the bus. They preferred sending Ryan home because he was a returning player, but agreed to vote out Lawson in order to keep Skye satisfied and he was eliminated. A tribe switch occurred on Day 12, where Lina, Penny and Richard remained on Fang whilst being joined by Priya, Tison, Travis and Vanessa from the original Kota tribe. Though in the minority once again, the original Fang members were given a break when Priya flipped on her Kota allies. After losing their first immunity challenge together, this four held the majority and eliminated Tison.

Despite Priya aligning with the original Fang members at the previous vote, she felt it was better for her game if she would return to the Kota players so they weren't overly angry at her when the tribes merged. Fang lost for the sixth time, where a tie occurred when original Fang voted for Travis and original Kota voted for Richard. At the revote, Vanessa kept her vote for Richard, Priya voted for Travis in order to keep favour with the Fang girls and Richard was voted out when his allies turned on him to avoid a deadlocked vote. Though Vanessa was happy Richard was eliminated, she was concerned with Priya's constant flipping and tried to make amends. However, Priya felt that she had a better chance of thriving with Lina and Penny as easy votes during the merge. Fang won their first immunity challenge on Day 18, but lost immediately after. Travis and Vanessa voted for Penny but it was no use and Travis was sent home.

On Day 21, a second tribe switch occurred where Lina and Penny again remained on Fang. They were joined by Domenic, Erinn and Thomas from the original Kota tribe. Lina and Penny continued their uphill battle to remain in the game, but were unable to find cracks within the original Kota members. Luckily for them, this was their most successful iteration of Fang and they never attended tribal council together. On Day 26, the remaining eight castaways from Fang and Kota finally merged.

## Trivia

* Fang is the first red tribe in *Survivor* history.
* Fang holds the record for the most number of consecutive immunity challenges losses with 6.
* They also hold the record for the latest first immunity challenge win, being on Day 18.