The Foa Foa Four versus the Aitu Four

I’ve thought of this post for a while and would like to do a fairly quick post so here it is. I have often thought of the similarities of these two alliances which both overcame insurmountable odds in order to get what they got and make it as far as they did. What one was better in the end? It is hard to tell for sure as each has their merits and setbacks. 

The Aitu Four was instantly formed after a mutiny and now had to deal with a tribe that now had twice the members that they did with their even tribe of six now having two members defecting to the other tribe. Despite this serious setback, the new tribe of four won every remaining tribal challenge and due to a controversial twist that no one who attacks it ever considers the other side of, was able to enter the merge just one member short. By getting a person to switch back to their tribe, this alliance was able to make it all the way to the final four in the end.

The Foa Foa Four was formed at the now early merge, something that has become much more common in Survivor nowadays, to also deal with a tribe that had double the members that they did. But due to a strategic move that left one of the Galu members gone from the game, the dominoes started to fall and it wasn’t long until some Galu members joined the formerly failing tribe and saw them dominate the game in the end. One Galu member named Brett was able to prevent this alliance from being in all of the final four, but the only finalists from that season were from this alliance.

There are different ways that these alliances worked and how they are similar. Both benefited in a way from a twist that hadn’t been done before as people wouldn’t have even known the twist in the bottle from Cook Islands would be a double elimination as there had never been one before and an early merge also never happened before. One did what it needed to before the merge happened and the other could only dominate after the merge in question.

Honestly, I’ll leave it up to you to decide which of the two alliances you felt was better. I did think that there were stronger players all around in the Aitu Four while there were some smarter ones on the Foa Foa Four. Each of them had a stronger pair that got jury votes and a weaker pair that wasn’t seen as much in the game. Aitu might have had more likable people on it when it came to the end. But I don’t really have a favorite between either one of them yet. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.