Cool Kids Alliance

The Cool Kids Alliance (also known as the Cool Kids Lunch Table, formerly the Couples Alliance, later the Alpha Males, and finally the Three Amigos) is the minority alliance from both the original Gota tribe and later the Enil Edam tribe in.

Inception
After the first Reward Challenge, Eddie Fox and Reynold Toepfer solidified an allegiance to each other based on a mutual concern over being "a hunted species." Subsequently, Reynold approached his challenge partner Allie Pohevitz aligned and agreed not to draw attention to their pairing. Reynold specifically noted that Allie was a "not-obvious choice." That night, Eddie and his challenge partner Hope Driskill paired up whilst star-gazing, notoriously noting they were "the two best-looking people out here."

However, during the course of the night, Laura Alexander noted that Reynold and Allie were sleeping very close, and targeted them as a romantic alliance.

Merging Partners
While they were waiting for a challenge, the four members went out in the ocean and talked about how they were the "cool kids at the lunch table".

Alliance in the Minority
With them seemingly in the minority with only four in a tribe of ten, they talked to Matt and Laura about aligning with them. However, this turned untrue because Laura specifically targeted Reynold about having an idol.

Reynold's Idol
On Day 5, before the tribal council that Allie was blindsided, Reynold had discovered the Hidden Immunity Idol inside a tree. Before they left for the hike to Tribal Council, Reynold had foolishly placed the idol in his pocket, which was discovered by Laura minutes later. At Tribal, Laura blurted about the bulge in his pocket, and Reynold finally revealed the idol to his tribemates. Before the votes were read, he did not play the idol to save Allie.

On Day 7, the idol came into mind again during the next Tribal Council, where the rival alliance planned to split the votes between Hope & Eddie to diminish the impact of the idol. Hope tied 3-3-3 with Eddie and Shamar Thomas, which prevented Hope & Eddie from voting in the re-vote, where Reynold alone is the only one who could help his allies.

On Day 10, the alliance targeted Laura for her poor actions in the Reward/Immunity Challenges, and succeeded in doing so as the rival Gota Alliance joined in on the plan, blindsiding Laura in a unanimous vote.

Tribe Switch
On Day 14, Malcolm Freberg, Erik Reichenbach, Brenda Lowe and Andrea Boehlke were switched to Gota, with the Sherri Biethman, leader of the rival alliance, being the only member of that alliance left in Gota. Reynold & Eddie - the only remaining members of the alliance - tried to get the Favorites to target Sherri.

On Day 17, Malcolm approached Reynold about forming a coalition between the remaining alpha-males (including Eddie & Erik) in anticipation of becoming targets after the Merge. The two agreed to work together, and Reynold confided that he had a idol. With the New Gota Tribe winning all three post-switch immunity challenges, Reynold and Eddie were sparred.

Merge
On Day 20, both tribes merge into Enil Edam. The alliance was able to gain Corinne Kaplan and Michael Snow as alliance members in the hopes of eliminating the former leader of the now-dissolved Gota Alliance, Sherri. However, Stealth R Us 2.0 - the alliance's rival alliance at the Merge - made mostly of loyal Favorites, were concerned about Corinne's activities and decided to band together and vote her off instead.

During the events of Cut Off the Head of the Snake, the alliance tried to get what they thought are their rival alliance's outsiders, specifically Dawn Meehan & Sherri. With none of the alliance's members winning the Immunity Challenge, the alliance was vulnerable even with 2 idols. Reynold showed Dawn his idol. They suspected that the rival alliance would flush out the idol (due to Phillip Sheppard's repeating comments) and target Malcolm due to defecting to the rival alliance and him being de facto leader of it. However, the rival alliance stuck with their backup plan and voted off Michael instead in a vote of 7-3-1 with Andrea and Reynold (with Malcolm voting against Reynold as a throwaway vote) getting votes. Reynold played his idol on Malcolm. Reynold won the next immunity challenge, putting the targets on Malcolm and Eddie. However, Malcolm found his second hidden immunity idol in front of Andrea and Dawn. At tribal, Malcolm put his idol around his neck, showing he would probably play it. Eddie was now Public Enemy number 1. Malcolm, however gave his second idol to Eddie, leaving "The Three Amigos" safe. They stated their votes were for Phillip. The votes were four for Phillip, Erik having voted for him, and the other 6 votes were for Eddie and Malcolm, despite the idols. Phillip went to the jury.

Trivia

 * In the first Fans vs Favorites season, a similar couples alliance developed on the Favorites tribe between Parvati Shallow, James Clement, Amanda Kimmel and Ozzy Lusth.
 * However, all four made it to the merge, and the two women lasted longer than the two men, which is opposite of this season.
 * According to Allie Pohevitz's exit interview on Rob Has A Podcast, the alliance believed they had a majority with Matt Bischoff and Laura Alexander prior to their first Tribal Council on Day 5.
 * After the tribal swap, Malcolm tried to recruit Erik alongside Eddie and Reynold into an "Alpha Males" alliance.
 * Jeff and other castaways have called the final 3 members (Malcolm, Eddie, and Reynold) the "Three Amigos".