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 episode 1401. While the rival Moto tribe was supplied with luxuries such as a sofa and cutlery, Ravu was forced to live in destitution. The tribe also lost every single immunity challenge. Ravu's tribe color was orange.

Original Members
The Ravu tribe initially consisted of:


 * Yau-Man Chan
 * Earl Cole
 * Jessica deBen
 * Erica Durousseau
 * Mookie Lee
 * Rocky Reid
 * Anthony Robinson
 * Rita Verreos
 * Michelle Yi

Additional Members
On day four, following Jessica's elimination, another castaway joined Ravu:


 * Sylvia Kwan

On day fifteen, a schoolyard pick'em resulted in the following castaways joining Ravu:


 * Alex Angarita
 * Dreamz Herd
 * Edgardo Rivera

On day eighteen, following Anthony's elimination, another castaway joined Ravu:


 * Lisi Linares

Tribe History
On day three, 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. 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 four, 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 required more nourishment.

When Ravu lost the second immunity challenge on day six (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 7-2 on night six.

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 seven, when Michelle Yi used a pair of 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 lost the subsequently 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 idol, and was eliminated. After returning to camp, Rocky threw a tantrum, chastising Anthony for his "unmanly" behaviour. 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... and 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 twelve, 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 immunity challenge, a heated altercation between Rocky and Dreamz Herd would further the rivalry established on night one. Ravu lost yet again, and Moto took home their third set of fishing gear. 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 fifteen, 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 bully 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 eighteen. 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 orange team'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 nineteen, 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 designs 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 twenty-two, the remnants of the rival tribe paddled to Exile Island, where the two tribes merged to form the Bula Bula tribe. The new tribe then returned to Moto beach.

Trivia

 * At the schoolyard pick'em, the members of the new Ravu tribe were chosen in the following order:
 * Edgardo chose Mookie.
 * Mookie chose Alex.
 * Alex chose Rocky.
 * Rocky chose Dreamz.
 * Dreamz chose Anthony.
 * With a total fourteen members, Ravu has had more tribe members than any other tribe, past or present.