Trelew Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Symon (Winner)

The Trelew Alliance (often referred to as the 'Trelew Five') was an alliance from Survivor: Argentina.

This alliance was created on one of the strongest tribes in *Survivor* history, where they didn't lose any pre-merge immunity challenge. Their dominance continued throughout the merge, despite losing one of their own when the rest of the tribe pulled a shocking blindside.

## History

### Early Dominance

The pink Trelew tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Argentina*, originally containing veterans Survivor castaways with a Caucasian background. Early on in the game, Cami and Rick bonded over the fact that they were South American despite being on Trelew. The Trelew tribe was the strongest of the four original tribes, winning all of the first five immunity challenges they had together. This gave Trelew the time to bond, where the tribe formed the Trelew Alliance. During this time, Cara also found the tribes Hidden Immunity Idol but decided to keep it a secret because she wanted an insurance policy in case the tribe and their alliance completely broke.

### New Tribes

The Trelew Alliance was split up when the Final Fifteen castaways faced a tribe dissolve. Cara, Symon and Tiarn remained on Trelew whilst being joined by Ellody and Scoop from Rawson. Much like their original iteration, Trelew was an extremely strong tribe and won all three immunity challenges they had together. The castaways from the Trelew Alliance planned on going after Ellody or Scoop should the tribe lose a challenge, but they managed to make a strong relationship with the couple so they could potentially work together as the tribes merged. Meanwhile, Cami was switched to the purple Viedma tribe. She joined the Latin Duo of Carlos and Sarge in addition to Jeremy and Lateysha from the original Rawson tribe. This put Cami in a swing vote position between the two couples. Cami bonded with the Latin Duo because she felt like she should've been on the original Bariloche (Hispanic) tribe with them. When Viedma lost the challenge on Day 16 however, Cami decided to vote out Carlos with Jeremy and Lateysha because they had more connections on the other tribes.

Rick, the final Trelew Alliance member, was switched to the blue Rawson tribe. He joined original Rawson member Destiny as well as Godfrey, Jason and Kitty from Viedma. It originally appeared that Destiny and Rick were in the minority of the tribe against the Viedma castaways, but the pair concocted a plan to ensure their safety. Destiny told Kitty that she should flip because Destiny had a close relationship with Ellody, whom Kitty had worked with as part of the Angkor Women during *Survivor: Cambodia*. Destiny promised that should they make the merge with Rick, the trio would join forces with Ellody and their allies in order to control the tribe. At Rawson's first loss, Jason was voted out when Kitty flipped to work with Destiny and Rick. When the tribe lost again, the plan was for the trio to vote out Godfrey. However, Kitty felt guilty about turning on Godfrey and decided to vote with him for Rick. A tie occurred when Destiny and Rick voted for Kitty because they weren't sure they could trust her. At the revote, Destiny promised Godfrey the same things as she did Kitty and the pair eliminated her at the revote.

### The Merge

The Trelew Alliance reunited when the three tribes merged at the Final Twelve. The alliance grew when Rick and Cami brought in Destiny, Godfrey, Jeremy and Lateysha from their respective dissolved tribes. This worried Cara, Symon and Tiarn, who were now the least connected members of their alliance. The trio spoke to Cami and Rick, where they said they wanted either Ellody or Scoop out first because of their rivalry on the dissolved Trelew tribe. After Scoop won the first individual immunity challenge, the larger Trelew Alliance agreed that their target would be Ellody. Godfrey and Jeremy got cold feet and decided to flip to the other side of the tribe, so Destiny and Lateysha decided to change their target from Ellody to Godfrey. This led to a tied vote between Ellody and Lateysha at the first merged tribal council. At the revote, Destiny proved her loyalty to the Trelew Alliance by switching her vote in order to eliminate Ellody.

After being saved by the revote, Lateysha was worried that the Trelew Alliance was only saving her to keep her around as a clear number on the bottom of the alliance. Though she decided to work with the rest of the tribe, the Trelew Alliance had the numbers when Destiny worked with them in order to eliminate Sarge. The Trelew Alliance had the numbers with Destiny, but they were unsure if she would be undyingly loyal to them. They told Destiny and Godfrey that their target was Lateysha. At tribal council, Cara played her idol in the event that the non-Trelew castaways were joining forces but the Trelew Alliance still had the numbers and Scoop was made the third member of the jury. This gave the Trelew Alliance the majority whether they had Destiny or not, even though Destiny was adamant she was aligned with them completely. At tribal council, the Trelew Alliance had the numbers to vote out Godfrey.

By the Final Eight, the Trelew Alliance thought they had a clear path to the end against the remaining three minority members. However, Destiny used the voting advantage she received from Godfrey to steal Cara's vote at tribal council. This advantage also gave her the power to vote twice, which forced a tie between Lateysha (who the Trelew Alliance) voted for and Cara (who was targeted by the others). Cami, Rick and Tiarn spoke to Symon and decided that now was the time to cut Cara and then still have the numbers to get rid of the minority members. Symon didn't like this idea and voted for Lateysha at the revote, but the other Trelew Alliance members turned on Cara and she was voted out. The Trelew Alliance remained in control at the following three tribal councils with the help of Destiny, leading to the eliminations of Lateysha and Jeremy as well as the blindside of Destiny herself.

This left the Trelew Alliance of Cami, Rick, Symon and Tiarn as the Final Four of *Argentina*, where they had to turn on each other in order to advance to the Final Three. Rick, Symon and Tiarn developed a plan to get rid of Cami, though Rick didn't like this because he thought he had the closest connection with Cami. This didn't matter because Cami won the final individual immunity challenge. Rick felt closest to Symon, so he and Cami worked with Symon in order to get rid of Tiarn. At the Final Tribal Council, Symon was most respected as a social and strategic player by the jury and he was given the title of Sole Survivor.