Talk:Tribe Switch/@comment-58.108.162.136-20110917004517/@comment-107.205.197.234-20130505053311

Tribe absorption is when a tribe dissolve and send its member(s) to be a part of the rival tribe(s), as in All-Stars, Palau or Philippines. In a tribe absorption, members of the undissolved tribe(s) remain the same.

Cook Islands and  Exile Island never have a tribe absorption because all the members were shuffled and divided into two new tribes.