Malakal

Tribe Profile
Version	United States
Season	Micronesia
Namesake	Malakal Harbor, Micronesia
Tribe Type	Starting Tribe
Day Formed	Day 1
Rival Tribe(s)	Airai
Tribe Status	Merged with Airai on Day 22
Challenge Wins	5
Lowest-Placing Member	Jon Dalton (20/20)
Highest-Placing Member	Parvati Shallow (Winner)
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Malakal​ is a tribe on Survivor: Micronesia.

This tribe was comprised of favorite Survivor players from previous seasons. Malakal's tribe color is purple.

At the Final 16, a tribe switch occurred. The new Malakal consisted of four Fans and four Favorites. Malakal lost all four post-switch Immunity Challenges, merging with a 6-4 minority. Despite this more Favorites made the merge with a 6-4 majority over the Fans.

Members

• Original
• Day 13

Amanda Kimmel 23, Los Angeles, CA China	Ami Cusack 34, Golden, CO Vanuatu	Cirie Fields 37, Norwalk, CT Panama	Eliza Orlins 24, Manhattan, NY Vanuatu	James Clement 30, Lafayette, LA China
Jon Dalton 33, Los Angeles, CA Pearl Islands	Jonathan Penner 45, Los Angeles, CA Cook Islands	Ozzy Lusth 26, Venice, CA Cook Islands	Parvati Shallow 25, Los Angeles, CA Cook Islands	Yau-Man Chan 55, Martinez, CA Fiji

Amanda Kimmel	Ami Cusack	Chet Welch	Cirie Fields
Erik Reichenbach	Joel Anderson	Ozzy Lusth	Tracy Hughes-Wolf

Tribe History

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Gallery

Malakal's intro shot.

The Favorites on the first day.

Jonny Fairplay hugging Probst after being voted out.

Yau-Man voted out.

Malakal before the tribe switch.

Malakal at the Immunity Challenge after the switch.

Malakal at Tribal Council.

Joel blindsided.

Chet voted out.

Tracy voted out.

Malakal's last Tribal Council.

Ami voted out.

Trivia

• Malakal and its rival tribe, Airai, were the first tribes in Survivor history to each have ten members on Day 1.
• Malakal is the first starting purple tribe to produce a winner.
• Erik Reichenbach was the only original Airai on post-switch Malakal to make the merge.
• Six members of the original Malakal tribe wound up eventually returning for another season later on (Cirie Fields, Amanda Kimmel, James Clement, Ozzy Lusth, Parvati Shallow, and Jonathan Penner). By comparison, only one original Airai tribe member returned for another season; Erik Reichenbach in Survivor: Caramoan, another season that has the Fans vs. Favorites twist.
  • All seven returnees from Survivor: Micronesia were on Malakal at one point.
• Not much information was known about James Clement and Amanda Kimmel due to Survivor: China being aired while Survivor: Micronesia was being filmed. Amanda did not reveal what became of her, while James hinted that he did "something stupid".
• The color scheme used in this season is copied for Survivor: Caramoan.
  • The two tribes of favorites, Malakal and Bikal, are both purple. Coincidentally, both tribe names ended in -kal.
  • The two rival tribes of fans, Airai and Gota, are both orange.
  • The two merged tribes, Dabu and Enil Edam, are both green.
• Similar to Bikal, after the tribe switch occurred, Malakal lost all remaining Immunity Challenges.
• Parvati Shallow, Amanda Kimmel, and Cirie Fields were the only Malakal members to improve on their previous placements.
  • Cirie is the only one of these three to not make the Final Tribal Council.
• Malakal is Cirie Fields' second purple-colored starting tribe, following Casaya from Survivor: Panama.
• Malakal (and Dabu) lived at the same camp used by Ulong in Survivor: Palau.