Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1827503-20160818011829

Some days. we have hard decisions to make. Today was one of those days.

To make the story short: When CBS revealed the buffs, they revealed a third tribe named  along with them, similar to how PlanetBuff revealed Angkor a year ago.

Survivor Wiki strives to be the #1 spoiler-free Survivor resource, but we don't define spoilers to mean everything that hasn't aired. In most cases, if CBS reveals information, that information is no longer a spoiler - and that's why Ika Bula can be discussed on this wiki.

I admit this may run counter to our spoiler-free mission for some of you, but the admins (myself included) made the decision in 2015 to allow this sort of thing. If any of us considered the names of non-merged tribes from the current season to be spoilers, the policy would have been amended to ban that information from the wiki. As it stands, Ika Bula is allowed as a non-merged tribe, just like Takali and Vanua were allowed once revealed in the promo.

This probably won't be a one-time thing, as the twist has now happened in two seasons in a row if counting by filming order. If the readers of Survivor Wiki feel this information is too spoilerish, we can certainly change the policy for next time, but as for this season, the Fijian turtle is here to stay. 