Ravu

Ravu was a tribe on Survivor: Fiji.

Ravu (from the Fijian word for "to kill") was one of two tribes that started the game in . While the rival Moto tribe was supplied with luxuries such as a sofa and cutlery, Ravu was forced to live in destitution. The tribe lost every single Immunity Challenge and won only one reward challenge. Despite this, four original Ravu members made it to the merge. Ravu's tribe color was orange.

Original

 * Anthony Robinson, a Legal Support Services executive from Compton, California.
 * Earl Cole, an Advertising Executive / TV-Film Composer from Santa Monica, California.
 * Erica Durousseau, a marketing executive from Lake Charles, Louisiana.
 * Jessica deBen, a stylist from Los Angeles, California. (not shown in the tribe picture).
 * Michelle Yi, a student from Cincinnati, Ohio.
 * Mookie Lee, a finance executive from Chicago, Illinois.
 * Rita Verreos, a model from San Antonio, Texas.
 * Rocky Reid, a bartender from Los Angeles, California.
 * Sylvia Kwan, an architect from Malibu, California (joined on Day 4).
 * Yau-Man Chan, an Internet Technology Director from Fresno, California.

Post-Tribe Swap

 * At the schoolyard pick on day 15, a tribe shuffle resulted in the following castaways comprising the new Ravu tribe:


 * Alex Angarita
 * Anthony Robinson
 * Dreamz Herd
 * Edgardo Rivera
 * Lisi Linares (joined on Day 18)
 * Mookie Lee
 * Rocky Reid

Tribe History
On day 3, the newly divided tribes competed for the right to live at a camp stacked with amenities, a luxurious shelter, silverware, a sofa, and other luxuries uncommon to the game of Survivor. The tribe Moto won the first immunity challenge and secured their place at the camp of luxury, while Ravu was sent to live in hardship.

Losing the first challenge also meant that Ravu would be sent to the first Tribal Council of the competition. An alliance between Jessica deBen, Erica Durousseau, and Rocky Reid quickly emerged, and the threesome settled upon single mother Rita Verreos as their first target. However, it was pointed out that Rita had contributed to the challenge while Jessica had faltered at crucial points, and the tribe quickly turned against the latter. In spite of Erica and Rocky's protests, Ravu eliminated Jessica at Tribal Council. The pair stayed true to their word and scattered their votes away from their ally. Another condition of the previous day's challenge was that Sylvia Kwan would be sent to Exile Island and replace whomever was voted out of the losing tribe. On day 4, Sylvia joined the Ravu tribe to open arms—particularly from Yau-Man Chan, who frisked her for the hidden immunity idol. Sylvia's personality grated on her tribemates, already lethargic and famished from lack of food and water. Erica found a grove of wild pineapples, but the group still needed more nourishment.

When Ravu lost the second immunity challenge on day 6 (sending Earl Cole to Exile Island), the group seemed set on voting out Sylvia. Unfortunately for Erica, Mookie Lee placed responsibility on her panicking during the challenge, and convinced the rest of the tribe to vote her out instead. In spite of protests from Anthony Robinson, who would join Erica in voting for Sylvia, Erica was eliminated 6-2 on Night 6 (Earl was not able to vote).

Due to their lack of challenge wins, the Ravu tribe had still not earned a flint, and was consequently still starving and dehydrated. That changed on day 7, when Michelle Yi used a pair of Yau-Man's spectacles to start a fire. The result of this was that Jeff Probst awarded them with a flint at the next reward challenge. It would be a small consolation; Ravu lost yet again, sending Sylvia back to Exile Island.

Ravu would also lose the subsequent immunity challenge, due in part to a poor performance from Anthony. Rocky was quick to latch onto the fact, berating the witness locator for faltering. Sylvia, meanwhile, covertly continued her search for the hidden immunity idol. In order to ensure that the evening's vote didn't backfire, Ravu engineered a plan: four members voted for Sylvia, three voted for Anthony, and Rita cast her vote for Earl in order to prevent a tie. This way, even if Sylvia had the idol, Anthony would go home instead. It would prove much ceremony over nothing. Sylvia did not have the hidden immunity idol, and was eliminated.

After returning to camp, Rocky threw a tantrum, rebuking Anthony for his "unmanly" behavior. His foul mood was exacerbated even further by a loss at the next reward challenge (sending Yau-Man to exile). The group resolved to win the next immunity challenge, but failed. However, a message in a bottle twist saved them when the Moto tribe was unexpectedly sent to Tribal Council. With the elimination of Liliana Gomez and the recent medical evacuation of Gary Stritesky, the tribes were now even at seven members each—despite Moto having never lost a challenge.

By day 12, Earl and Yau-Man—the only remaining people in the game who had been to Exile Island—began to work together in order to unearth the hidden immunity idol. Their search, for the time being, would prove fruitless. At the next reward challenge, a heated altercation between Rocky and Dreamz Herd would further the rivalry established on night 1. Ravu lost yet again, and Moto took home their third set of fishing gear, along fish, additional rice, spices, and a king-size bed. Earl was sent to Exile Island for the second time.

With the women of the tribe depleted, Rita and Michelle relied on each other for companionship; this relationship annoyed Rocky, who became fed-up with their constant "girl talk." When Ravu lost a concentration immunity challenge in their nearest bid at victory yet, Rocky pushed the tribe to vote out its fourth woman in a row. Rita was eliminated 5-2.

On day 15, a surprise schoolyard pick'em scrambled the tribes and resulted in the Ravu tribe being comprised entirely of men—including Dreamz and Rocky, long-time competitors. At the new Ravu, the tide quickly turned against Anthony, who isolated himself from the "burly men" of his tribe and was routinely preyed upon by Rocky; as Edgardo Rivera stated in a confessional, Anthony was Rocky's "little bitch." Anthony appealed to Dreamz to vote out Rocky instead, but after the all-male Ravu lost the next immunity challenge, his fate was sealed. Following an extremely uncomfortable Tribal Council in which Rocky publicly railed against Anthony, the witness locator was voted out unanimously. Lisi Linares returned from Exile Island to join the tribe on Day 18. While the tribe of men viewed her entry with apprehension at first, she later took advantage of the tribe's victory at a reward challenge—the tribe's first win ever—to bond with the other men of the tribe. The copious amount of food eaten resulted in the group getting sick, for which Rocky mocked them endlessly. The move further alienated him from the rest of the tribe.

Ravu returned to form with an immunity challenge loss on Day 19, forcing them to consume yet another of their own. Due to Rocky's constant antagonizing, the men of the original Moto alliance pushed to keep Lisi around over him. The alliance between Lisi and her former tribemates was strengthened when she divulged to Alex Angarita the nature of her clues regarding the hidden immunity idol. In the end, Rocky was blindsided in a 4-2 vote at Tribal Council, and became the first member of the jury.

The morning following Tribal Council, Alex, Edgardo, and Mookie opted to use Lisi's clues to look for the hidden immunity idol to search while she and Dreamz slept nearby. Working quietly, Mookie unearthed the idol and pledged to share it with the other men; in a confessional, however, he stated his intentions to keep the idol for himself. As he recovered the land, however, Lisi discovered his fiddling, and became suspicious of his motives. The pair later briefly dug for the idol together.

Ravu lost the next reward challenge, sending a very distraught Lisi to Exile Island. When she returned and the group lost the next Immunity Challenge, Lisi's will began to waver. She approached Alex and Edgardo and asked to be voted out of the game. She would later change her mind, and ask to go through with the original vote against Dreamz. This perceived lack of drive to continue in the game brought Lisi under heavy fire at the next Tribal Council, and the customer service representative was voted out unanimously by the tribe for her emotional instability.

On day 22, the remnants of the rival tribes paddled to Exile Island, where the two tribes merged to form the Bula Bula tribe. The new tribe then returned to the Moto beach.

Trivia

 * Ravu has won the second fewest number of challenge wins garnered by a tribe that reached the merger. However, on Day 11, Ravu lost the Immunity Challenge, but did not go to Tribal Council due to Moto giving up immunity to keep their comforts. This free immunity does count as a challenge win.
 * After Michelle's departure on Day 24, There were no more female original Ravu members. This is the earliest time that the females of an original tribe in a season with two original tribes were wiped out. The male counterpart of the record was from Survivor: Pearl Islands, where the Morgan tribe had no more remaining male members after Day 24.
 * The record for the earliest time that the females of an original tribe in a season were wiped out, however, was in Day 16 in Survivor: Philippines with Kalabaw after Katie Hanson's elimination, but during a three original tribe season.
 * While Ravu won the second least amount of challenges out of any tribe in Survivor history, it is not often considered the worst tribe in the show's run, due to the opposing tribe having an advantage in terms of living conditions. The title of worst tribe probably goes to Ulong, as it was on even level with Koror, yet still managed to lose every Immunity Challenge.
 * Additionally, more than one original Ravu member made the merge because of the season's Tribal Swap, a luxury the Ulong tribe never encountered. Notably, an original Ravu member won the game in a unanimous vote against two original Moto members.
 * Later, the Matsing tribe became the first tribe never to win a single challenge (it, too, produced the winner).
 * Ravu is the seventh orange tribe.
 * Ravu is the third tribe to win only once, preceded by Bayoneta of Survivor: Panama and Manihiki of Survivor: Cook Islands.
 * However, it is the only tribe of those two to not be absorbed due to there being more than the usual two tribes, as Bayoneta and Manihiki only lasted two challenges, while Ravu merged with Moto.