Tikiano

Tikiano is the merged tribe of Manono and Salani on Survivor: One World. Their tribe color was black.

Members

 * Tarzan Smith
 * Alicia Rosa
 * Christina Cha
 * Kat Edorsson
 * Kim Spradlin
 * Chelsea Meissner
 * Sabrina Thompson
 * Troyzan Robertson
 * Leif Manson
 * Jay Byars
 * Michael Jefferson
 * Jonas Otsuji

Tribe History
The Tikiano tribe was formed after Colton Cumbie's evacuation in Day 16 with six original men and six original women. The tribe named was coined by Troyzan, "Tiki" meaning god and "Ano" meaning year. Soon after, questions began to arise as whether the switched tribe members would stick together, or return to their roots in their original teams. The women of Salani, Sabrina, Kim, Chelsea, and Kat, decided to stick with the Salani men, Jay, Troyzan, and Mike, to wipe out the ex-Manono members.

In The Beauty In A Merge, the tibe was divided into two teams for the reward challenge. Jay, Troyzan, Sabrina, Christina, Alicia and Chelsea won the challenge and were given a clue to the whereabouts of the new Hidden Immunity Idol. Troyzan found the new idol and began strategizing. At the immunity challenge, Troyzan won the individual immunity. Afterwards, the ex-Salanis were going back and forth on whether to vote out Jonas or Tarzan. They originally decided on Tarzan for his rough demeanor, but Tarzan redirected the votes to Jonas with an angry tirade at Tribal Council after Jonas announced that he was going to vote for Mike. Jonas was the first member of the Tikiano tribe to be eliminated after a 10-2 vote and became the first jury member of One World.

In Just Annihilate Them, the tribes were divided again into two teams for the reward challenge, Christina, Mike, Kim, Leif, and Sabrina won the reward and Kim and Sabrina formulated a plan to eliminate Mike because of the threat he posed on their alliance. Tarzan bagun to butt-heads with the other tribe members the next day, especially Chelsea. Kim told Troyzan that Mike said he was going to vote for him at the next tribal council. Troyzan became outraged and swore to vote off Mike as soon as possible. Jay won the immunity challenge, and was safe from elimination. At tribal council, Mike was sent home in a 7-2-2 vote with two votes against Tarzan and Christina.

Trivia

 * Tikiano is the first tribe from a season with contestants split by gender to merge with both genders represented equally, at a 6-6 ratio.
 * Tikiano is the fifth merged tribe to merge at twelve following Aiga, Libertad, Murlonio, and Te Tuna.
 * However, as opposed to the previous four, it was included in an 18-contestant season with no returnees.
 * This made Tikiano the tribe which merged at the earliest point of the game (episode 7) in comparison to other seasons of the same format which usually has the merge in episode 8 to 10.
 * Tikiano is the seventh merged tribe in Survivor to use the color black following Balboa, Gitanos, Aitutonga, Hae Da Fung, Yin Yang, and Murlonio.
 * Tikiano is the second gender based season to have black as its merged tribe color following Gitanos of Survivor: Panama.
 * Tikiano is the second black merged tribe of which the location is Samoa.