Raro Alliance

This alliance had the numbers advantage over the Aitu Four coming into the merge. Though they were betrayed by Jonathan Penner when he jumped ship to the Aitu Four because Yul Kwon said that if he didn't switch then he would use his idol himself and the Aitu Four would throw their votes toward Jonathan, which would eliminate him. Due to Jonathan switching, the alliance crumbled, being systematically being eliminated, with the only exception is when both alliances got rid of Jonathan in exchange for jury votes.

Mutiny
On Day 19 Reward challenge, the two tribes were offered a mutiny (leave your current tribe and join the other tribe). Candice Woodcock and Jonathan Penner accepted a mutiny offer to join the Raro tribe, leaving the Aitu tribe down to 4 members and the Raro tribe up to 8.

Losing Challenges
Despite having the numbers advantage to the Aitu 4, the tribe went on a losing streak, resulting in the elimination of Brad Virata, with Rebecca Borman and Jenny Guzon-Bae being voted out at the same Tribal Council due to a twist given to the tribe going Tribal Council (The twist was after voting out one member, they must vote another.)

Merge
The merge finally came on Day 25, and enjoyed the traditional merge feast. The Aitu 4 was outnumbered to Raro's 5. Confident with the numbers advantage, Raro decided to vote for Yul Kwon, not knowing he had the Hidden Immunity Idol. With 4 people against 5 people, Yul hatched a plan to use his Hidden Immunity Idol to lure Jonathan Penner into voting with Aitu 4, making Jonathan the swing vote.

Betrayal at Tribal Council Night 27
With Jonathan as the swing vote and knowing that he will be voted by the Aitu 4 if he chose to stay with the Raro alliance, he chose to side with the Aitu 4 and voted off Nate Gonzalez, much to the shock of the Raro alliance.

Taking Out The Traitor
Angered at the betrayal, the remaining Raro alliance targeted Jonathan and tried to figure out what to do to stay alive. Instead of a Reward Challenge, the survivors got into the Survivor Auction, where Becky (with help from Yul) won the right to send someone to Exile Island and take all their money, knowing that Candice and Adam Gentry have not spent any of their money. Becky chose Candice, much to her dismay. Before Candice left Yul showed everyone that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol and explained that he showed the Hidden Immunity to turn the game around in favor of the Aitu 4. After the auction, everyone was annoyed at Jonathan buying most of the items and being arrogant. Parvati Shallow saw this as a key to convincing the Aitu 4 to vote Jonathan out. The next Immunity challenge was "casually" won by Adam, sensing he was the next to be voted off. With Adam immune, the clear targets were Candice and Parvati. The remaining Raro alliance tried to convince the Aitu 4 into voting with them to vote off Jonathan. Their efforts would be futile however, since the numbers advantage now on the Aitu's side, Jonathan was protected by the Aitu 4 at the next Tribal Council and the Aitu 4 plus Jonathan voted out Candice. With Candice gone, the 2 remaining Raro alliance, Adam and Parvati were the clear targets. At the next reward challenge, involving their loved ones, Parvati won the reward challenge (despite an injury on her thumb). Paravti chose Adam and Sundra Oakley to go on reward with their loved ones and sent Jonathan to Exile Island for revenge of the betrayal and to keep herself in the game and to let the Aitu 4 realize what it was like to play the game without Jonathan. Ozzy easily defeated everyone and won the immunity challenge. Back at camp, Adam approached Yul and tried to convince that the Aitu 4 vote with Adam and Parvati to take out Jonathan. Jonathan, sensing that his time on Exile Island was a bad time away from the rest of the tribe, approached Yul and and told him that the Aitu 4 owed him for their survival in game. At Tribal Council, the Aitu 4 sided with Parvati and Adam and voted off Jonathan.

Futile Attempts
With Jonathan voted off, Parvati and Adam felt good that they are still in the game, but still felt vulnerable to the powerful Aitu 4 alliance. At the Reward Challenge, Ozzy won the mud collecting challenge, with Parvati and Yul in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Ozzy chose Adam to go to Exile Island. Ozzy, Yul and Parvati enjoyed the spa reward. Parvati tried to get closer with Ozzy into getting him to vote with her, even with Yul around. At Exile Island, Adam was upset he was chosen, that the Hidden Immunity Idol was not on Exile Island anymore but it is with Yul, and not being with Parvati to talk about strategy to stay in the game. For the 3rd time and 2nd time in a row, Ozzy won the immunity challenge, leaving Adam and Parvati vulnerable. Adam, sensing he was on the chopping block, talked to Yul into keeping him instead of Parvati, in which Yul agreed to as long as Adam will not try to sway the rest of the Aitu alliance to vote otherwise. Parvati, knows that it will either be her or Adam going home at the next vote, approached Yul and tried to convince Yul that Adam was a bigger threat than her. The two Raro's were talking to Ozzy about changing his vote and vote for Sundra, which Ozzy considered it. At Tribal Council, Ozzy stuck with his Aitu alliance and they chose to vote off strategic threat Parvati over physical threat Adam, leaving Adam with heavy odds against him. Being the last of his alliance, Adam's last hope was winning the next immunity challenge. But with Ozzy winning the challenge for the third time in a row and no immunity around his neck, Adam tried to stir things up by trying to convince Ozzy and Sundra to flush the idol out of Yul's hands before being voted off and making the game more interesting. The plot failed however, the Aitu 4 stayed strong and voted off Adam, being the last member of Raro alliance, with Jeff commenting that the Aitu 4 achieved what seemed impossible and overcoming the odds.