Gota

Gota (also simply known as Fans) is a tribe from. The tribe color is orange, like the original Fans tribe.

Members

 * Allie Pohevitz, a bartender from Oceanside, New York.
 * Eddie Fox, a fireman from East Brunswick, New Jersey.
 * Hope Driskill, a Pre Law student from Jefferson City, Missouri.
 * Julia Landauer, a racecar driver from Stanford, California.
 * Laura Alexander, an administrative officer from Washington D.C.
 * Matt Bischoff, a BMX bike salesman from Cincinatti, Ohio.
 * Michael Snow, an event planner from New York, New York.
 * Reynold Toepfer, a real estate agent from San Francisco, California.
 * Shamar Thomas, an Iraq War marine veteran from Brooklyn, New York.
 * Sherri Biethman, a fast food franchisee from Boise, Idaho.

Episode 1-3
In She Annoys Me Greatly (Episode 1), the tribes of fans arrives by boat. They competed against the tribe of favorites (whom arrived in helicopters) in the first reward challenge for flint and beans. They lost 1-4 and were sent to camp empty-handed. At camp, Shamar wanted to build shelter, but Matt and the other tribe members wanted to build fire. Shamar and Matt clashed, but later made up after Shamar made fire. Reynold and Allie also formed an alliance with Hope and Eddie. During the night, Reynold and Allie were spotted by Laura cuddling, thus prompting Laura, Sherri, and Julia to form their own alliance with the intention of voting out the "couples". They were able to win the immunity challenge, sending the favorites to Tribal Council.

In Honey Badger (Episode 2), the two alliances continued to battle. The four members of the couples alliance - Eddie, Allie, Reynold, and Hope tried to target Shamar for his aggressive personality, while Laura, Sherri, Julia, and Shamar tried to target Allie for her deviousness, leaving Michael and Matt the swing votes. Reynold found a hidden immunity idol. At tribal council, Laura suggested that Reynold had an idol (looking directly at him). Reynold revealed that he indeed had an idol and stated that he would play it at this tribal council. However, Reynold decided not to play the idol and his closest ally - Allie becomes the second person voted off by a vote of 6-4.

In There's Gonna Be Hell to Pay (Episode 3), Gota returned back to camp after going to their first tribal council. Reynold confessed that he was shocked to learn that the fans will not as close as he once thought. Before the challenge, Shamar stated that he was questioning if he was going to quit the game. However, he talked it out and decided to stay in the game for "loyalty" for his alliance. The fans would end up losing the combined reward/immunity challenge.

Shamar again had a temper episode when Reynold was talking about the challenge and then stated Shamar's name. Sherri, Laura, and Julia came up with the idea that they should split the votes between Hope and Eddie. Males of the Fan's majority six alliance would vote for Eddie and the women of the alliance would vote for Hope due to Reynold's idol. Hope said, in a confessional, that Reynold would probably not give the idol to her. Shamar was in the water and Hope decided that she would talk to him. Shamar said that her getting voted off was not 100%. Then Hope said to her minority alliance that the majority alliance is splitting the votes for Eddie and Hope. Laura heard that Shamar told Hope about the majority's plan and decided to talk to Reynold about possibly voting off Shamar with the help of the minority alliance plus Laura's and Julia's votes. At the tribal council, the tribe talked about Shamar's attitude and Reynold's idol. Reynold kept his idol and didn't play it.

At the vote, the majority alliance decided to stick to their plan and the votes were deadlocked with Hope, Eddie, and Shamar receiving 3 votes each. In the re-vote, Hope became the third person voted off by a vote of 5-1-0 (Shamar and Eddie respectively)

Episode 4-5
In Kill or Be Killed (Episode 4), Sherri and Reynold argued after coming back from tribal council. Gota lost both the reward due to Laura's slow performance. Shamar mistakenly celebrated, then realized that they lost. At camp, Shamar stated that he would stay in the game if he was served rice at least once a day. A one point of his constant laying in the shelter, Shamar scratched his eye. A "hurricane" and rats started pounding the Gota camp hard. In the morning, medical was called out and they assessed that Shamar had abrasions around/in his eye and medical wanted him to be pulled from the game. Shamar was pulled and the tribe was instructed of this and to get ready for the upcoming immunity challenge. They would end losing the subsequent immunity challenge. Sherri couldn't get the ball at her first attempt and had to climb the tower and break the tile again. This gave the fans an early disadvantage in the key retrieval phase. The favorites was able to finish the 2nd/lock phase before the fans was able finish the 1st/key phase. The fans was able to catch up slightly with Reynold knocking off the bricks quickly. However the deficit was too much and the fans was sent to tribal council. At the tribal council, strength and loyalty was brought up. Reynold and Eddie argued that winning challenges should be the priority. Laura argued that most likely there would be a tribal swap in the near future and strength might not mean much, if they don't have the loyalty. The majority alliance voted one of their own out by voting out a weaker challenge performer Laura in a 6-0 [1]  vote. Reynold played his idol, negating one vote.

Trivia

 * The town of Gota is one of the main attractions of the Caramoan National Park, the filming location of both and . During World War II, Gota was known to be a gold-mining community.
 * The town of Gota and Bikal (town that the rival tribe is named after) are eastern and western respectively from each other.
 * Gota is the second tribe to be named after a resort, following Salani.
 * Gota is the eleventh orange tribe. It is the same color as the original Fans tribe, Airai.
 * Its rival tribe Bikal's tribe color is purple, same as the original Favorites tribe, Malakal.
 * Gota is the second tribe to experience a three way tie in tribal council, following Zapatera.