Bayon Alliance

The Bayon Alliance is an alliance from.

Alpha Males
Once the ten Bayon members arrived to camp, the males were the ones to take part in building the shelter and collecting wood to make a fire. While the tribe was setting up camp, Jeremy Collins and Joe Anglim aligned with each other, seeing themselves as strong and competitive contestants. Savage joined the alliance soon after. Jeremy ended up recruiting Tasha and Keith, since they were competitive theats, into the alliance, making it a five-person alliance. The core alliance at that point didn't have to worry about getting voted out for while because they kept sending Ta Keo to Tribal Council.

One Loss, Two Gains
Even after the introduction of Angkor, the new incarnation of Bayon kept themselves safe for a while, while the former attended elimination twice. Jeremy found the the Bayon hidden immunity idol shortly after this tribe swap at one of the immunity challenges. Unfortunatley, Bayon's immunity streak comes to an end on Day 13, as the new incarnation of Bayon, conformed by former members Jeremy (a member of the core), Kimmi, Stephen, Monica and original Ta Keo members Spencer Bledsoe and Kelly Wiglesworth, lost immunity, resulting in attending Tribal Council. Considered as outsiders, Kelly and Spencer were put as targets, and instead of scrambling to stay together, they targeted each other. However, Monica started to make plans for the future, even considering to make a female alliance with Kimmi, who considered this as playing too hard, too fast. Once at Tribal Council, Monica voted Kelly, thinking she was the main target of the Bayon members, however, Monica ended up being blindsided in a 3-2-1 vote, getting votes from Jeremy, Stephen and Kimmi; this ultimately lead to the latter two joining the core alliance.

Split Vote Idea
Bayon managed to get all of its members, with the sole exception of Monica, when the tribes finally merged on Day 17, and up to that point, the alliance was made up of all former Bayon members, except Kass and Ciera, Spencer and Wiglesworth. Kass and Ciera were on the rival alliance, the soon to be named "Witches Coven", which made them the main targets of the nine-person Bayon core. Joe ended up winning immunity, keeping the targets of the alliance intact. Even with this, Jeremy and Stephen made a plan to split the votes between Kass and Ciera, just in case a hidden immunity idol was played. However, no idol was played, and Kass was eliminated in a 6-4-2-1 vote over Ciera.

The Idol Spell
With Kass out the game, and the alliance held a staggering 9 to 3 majority, the new threesome of Abi, Ciera, and Kelley, now coined the Witches Coven, was the alliance's main target. However, Stephen, who was a member of he Bayon core, made plans to turn on the alliance and vote out Joe, since he was a huge threat to win individual immunities. Though, this planning didn't go into effect as Joe won his second straight immunity challenge.

Back at camp, the alliance was deciding on who to vote out. Joe and Savage wanted Stephen out because Stephen was making plans to turn on the alliance in order to take out Joe. Ultimately, Jeremy convinced the alliance to take out Kelley, instead of Stephen, because he deemed her as a huge threat to the alliance and thought she would be the least likely to suspect getting voted out. Since everyone suspected Kelley didn't have an idol, there was no plan to split the vote. At Tribal Council, the alliance voted for Kelley as planned, but she shockingly used her idol on herself, negating the nine votes. The idol play got rid of co-leader Andrew, who received the Witches Coven's three votes.

Voting Blocs?
With the elimination of one of the alliance's leaders, the alliance was down to eight people. Stephen continued to make plans to vote out Joe and anyone who was closely aligned with him. In the meantime, Jeremy finds a second hidden immunity idol right after his team loses the reward challenge. Later, Joe won immunity and Stephen won a secret advantage from that challenge, which turned out to be an advantage where he could steal some else's vote. Knowing the Witches Coven was still a target, Stephen formed with them a "voting bloc" with the three-person alliance in order to vote out one Joe's closest allies, Kelly Wigglesworth, who apparently had an impeccable social game. He recruited Jeremy and Spencer to agree to the plan of blindsiding Wigglesworth. This idea eventually worked as at Tribal Council as the secret voting bloc eliminated Kelly, who had received six votes. Ciera received three votes and Wentworth received two votes During that tribal council. All the votes casted against Wentworth and Ciera were from the other five Bayon Core members.

The Fallen Witch and the Stolen Vote
Even though several members of the alliance were blindesided after Wiglesworth got voted out, Jeremy, who was one of people of voted out Wiglesworth, managed to convince Joe, Kimmi, and Tasha that he was still on their side. Besides Jeremy, the remaining members of the core were worried about Stephen because he had flipped in the last Tribal Council and had an advantage from the previous Immunity Challenge. Joe won immunity, and the Witches Coven made a plan with several members of the Bayon Alliance to take out Stephen. Jeremy was part of the plan to vote out Stephen, but was very reluctant to do so since he considered Stephen a close ally. This plan was put in fruition at Tribal Council. However, Jeremy decided to use his idol on Stephen, negating the five votes against him. Jeremy, Stephen, and Kimmi casted three votes against Ciera, leading to Ciera getting voted out.

The Bayon Alliance succeeded on taking out a rival, but several members were still wary of Stephen and his advantage. Once Spencer won immunity, Joe became eligible to be voted out for the first time in 29 days, making him a target. However, a power strike led by Spencer to work with the Witches Coven to target Stephen became enacted. At Tribal, Stephen used his advantage. He used it against Joe, stole Joe's vote, and casted the two votes he had for Abi-Maria and his own personal target, Joe. This however proved to be a fatal move as the Witches Coven, Spencer, Joe, and Keith got rid of Stephen in a close 4-3-2 vote.

The Biggest Threat
Stephen's blindside was an indication that the game was changing. Proof of this occured when Kimmi wanted to ally with the Witches and Tasha to get out the males, and form an all female Final Four. At the immunity challenge, both a female and male would be granted immunity. Kelley won for the females and Keith, shockingly won for the males, albeit due to Joe fainting. Though Jeremy and Spencer considered keeping Joe for a numerical advantage against the perceived all female alliance, they voted with them against him, eliminating Joe in a near unanimous 6-1-1 vote.

Taking Out the Goat
With their biggest ally turned adversary gone, the new majority of Jeremy, Kimmi, Spencer, and Tasha continued to keep the primary focus on the Witches. However, Tasha grew a disdain for Keith, because of him voting for her instead of Joe despite Keith originally wanting Joe gone. This disdain fumed even more after he won reward and decided to take Kelley and Spencer, causing her to instead target Keith. Back at camp, the core members tried to persuade Abi into voting Keith with them. This made Abi believe she was safe for the upcoming vote and potentially becoming a member of the Final Three. After Spencer won immunity, the alliance originally deemed Keith their next casualty, but it was Abi-Maria who they blindsided in a 4-2-1 vote at Tribal Council after figuring out that her volatile personality could be threatening for chances of making it to the end.

A Revolt Struck
With Abi-Maria out the game, the new Bayon core had forged a 4-2 majority against Kelley and Keith. However, Kimmi knew she was at the bottom of the foursome and began scheming with the outsiders to take out Jeremy or Spencer in a 3-2-1 vote. When Spencer won immunity again, Kimmi quickly attempted to convince her alliance to split the votes just in case of an idol play. Despite initially agreeing on splitting the vote, Kimmi made it too apparent that she wanted to talk strategy to Keith, causing skepticism from Spencer and Tasha, forcing them to talk to Jeremy about Kimmi's perceived betrayal. At Tribal Council, Spencer boldly stated the he, Jeremy, and Tasha would be voting together and that if Kimmi didn't vote with them, she'd be risking a potential rock draw. After voting, Kelley decided to use her second idol, prompting Jeremy to use his. After the votes were read, it was revealed that Kimmi flipped on the alliance, but the three votes for Jeremy were voided as was Kelley's, causing a 0-0 vote. At the revote, the alliance voted for Kimmi while the minority and Kimmi voted for Tasha forcing another tie vote. Instead of a traditional rock draw, the four immune players were asked to vote between Kimmi or Tasha. Despite Keith initially wanting to leave the game for Kimmi, Kelley managed to talk him out of it, and together the foursome voted out Kimmi unanimously.

Numerical Advantage
After the infamous Tribal Council, the alliance still held a 3-2 majority. Though they targeted Kelley, she won immunity, forcing them to target Keith instead. While at camp, Jeremy noticed that Keith was fiddling with an "idol" and secretly told him to vote for Spencer because he didn't want the minority to vote for him. At Tribal Council, Jeremy ended up voting with his alliance against Keith, eliminating him 3-2.

The Final Opponent
The alliance knew they would be reaching the Final Three if Kelley didn't win the Final Immunity Challenge. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Jeremy won his first individual immunity challenge over Spencer, bringing upon cheers within the alliance. However, Jeremy considered forcing a tie with Kelley in order to have she and Spencer battle it out for a spot at the finals. Ultimately though, he decided voting with the alliance against Kelley after Spencer delivered an impactful speech about how he would get the jurors to vote for Kelley over Jeremy.