Orkun

Tribe Profile
Version	United States
Season	Cambodia
Namesake	Romanization of the Khmer word for "thank you"
Tribe Type	Merged Tribe
Day Formed	Day 17
Tribes Merged	Bayon Ta Keo
Lowest-Placing Member	Kass McQuillen (13/20)
Highest-Placing Member	Jeremy Collins (Winner)

Orkun (អរគុណ) is the merged tribe of Bayon​ and Ta Keo​ from Survivor: Cambodia.

The tribe was created when the two surviving tribes of Bayon and Ta Keo merged on Day 17. They lived on the island at the old Bayon camp for the remainder of the game. Their tribe color is orange.

Members

Abi-Maria Gomes                 Andrew Savage                 Ciera Eastin                 Jeremy Collins                 Joe Anglim                 Kass McQuillen                 Keith Nale                 Kelley Wentworth                 Kelly Wiglesworth                 Kimmi Kappenberg                 Spencer Bledsoe                 Stephen Fishbach                 Tasha Fox

Tribe History

The show's first ever merged tribe with 13 contestants looked like a huge mismatch with nine original Bayon (Andrew, Ciera, Kass, Kimmi, Jeremy, Joe, Keith, Stephen, and Tasha) vastly outnumbering the four original Ta Keo (Abi, Spencer, Wentworth, and Wiglesworth). However, alliances began shifting almost immediately after the merge and this shifting, later dubbed "voting blocs", would be a theme for this season. The players involved in the Woo blindside found themselves in a tough position as one of the victims of that blindside, Savage, rallied his old Bayon allies to find himself in the numbers. This minority alliance known as the Witches Coven attempted to pull in Spencer, Keith, and Joe to regain control. However, Keith seemed disinterested in working with the women, which forced Joe to follow suit. Knowing the majority alliance were splitting the vote, they had a last ditch attempt at swinging Spencer to their side, but to no avail, as he contributed to his Cagayan enemy Kass's vote out, making her the first member of the jury.

However, all was not lost for the now minority of three. In the next round of voting, Stephen approached them about potentially working together to blindside Joe, and Joe caught wind of this plan, so the witches fanned the flames of this situation. However, Joe won immunity and the Bayon alliance was unwilling to let Joe target Stephen, which frustrated the women. Thankfully for them, Wentworth had a Hidden Immunity Idol back from the first Immunity Challenge location on Day 3, and she played it correctly in record setting fashion to eliminate Savage 3-0. In the next vote, Fishbach would work with them as he, Jeremy, and Spencer joined them in blindsiding Wiglesworth in an attempt to weaken Joe's grip on the game. However, Joe himself remained unavailable to target by opting to participate in the Immunity Challenge on Day 26. This was after Probst presented Orkun with an ultimatum that at least five players must forfeit immunity in order for their dilapidated shelter to be rebuilt ahead of more rain, and all but Joe and Keith accepted. Joe's fourth consecutive individual immunity win seemingly set the stage for Stephen to be blindsided, but Jeremy played an idol on him to ensure Ciera left the game. Even though Jeremy used this move to appeal to Spencer's sense of loyalty, Spencer employed the voting bloc strategy yet again so that even with Stephen's vote steal, he would successfully take out the Tocantins runner up, passing up the first opportunity in 29 days to vote out Joe who had lost to Spencer in that earlier Immunity Challenge.

With eight players left in the game, the voting blocs slowed down a bit as the focus was centralized on Joe. Spencer was nervous that letting the chance to take out Joe last vote could become costly, but after Wentworth won the Reward Challenge and brought Keith, Kimmi, Abi, and Joe along, Spencer, Tasha, and Jeremy recovered from the last few hectic votes and made a final three deal. Despite increasing rumors of an all girls alliance, Spencer and Jeremy trusted Tasha would not let it happen, and voted out Joe on Day 32. After receiving a rogue vote from Keith and reaching her boiling point with Abi, Tasha became adamant that she wanted to be at the end with players she perceived deserved to be there. However, she struggled in the water portion of the next Immunity Challenge. Fortunately for her, Spencer, Jeremy, and Kimmi had her back despite Wentworth having a plan in motion to take her out, and the majority alliance removed the wildcard Abi from the game.

At the final 6, Kimmi felt that it was her time to make a move, and she told Keith and Wentworth that they would split the votes between the former two, but Kimmi would secretly vote with them to blindside Spencer or Jeremy in a 3-2-1 move. Spencer winning immunity on Day 36 complicated this plan as it forced this new coalition to target Jeremy, who played an idol earlier in the game but they were confident he didn't have another one. The trio of Jeremy, Tasha, and Spencer had a similar feeling about Wentworth, and after seeing Kimmi talk extensively with Keith and Wentworth, they no longer trusted her and abandoned the vote split. Both Jeremy and Wentworth played their idols resulting in a Survivor first: no votes cast for anyone at Tribal Council. This resulted in a series of tiebreakers that put the newer coalition in a vulnerable spot after a revote between Kimmi and Tasha: either Wentworth and Keith agree to vote out Kimmi, or Keith gets eliminated by default since Kimmi and Tasha would become immune in a deadlock scenario. Though Keith initially offered Kimmi his spot, he ultimately decided to stay in the game, meaning Kimmi's big move backfired. Wentworth won immunity on Day 37, and despite brewing a fake idol plan to scare Jeremy into voting for Spencer, it could not prevent Keith from being voted out. Jeremy won a crucial Day 38 Final Immunity Challenge, and Wentworth was certain she was going out. However, she attempted to throw Spencer under the bus, which worried Spencer and lead to a desperate and aggressive plea for Jeremy to keep him in the game. This visibly shocked the jury and annoyed Wentworth, vowing in the voting confessional the vote she cast against Spencer that night would be the last time she wrote his name down. Wentworth was voted out after nearly an entire post merge of dodging bullets from an underdog position.

At Final Tribal Council, Tasha was accused of being more of a follower in her alliance, and both Spencer and Jeremy were criticized for their behavior in either one (the former in Jeremy's case) or both (in Spencer's case) during the Day 36 and Day 38 Tribal Councils. Jeremy revealed his wife Val was pregnant. Ultimately Jeremy's game was respected the most and he won unanimously 10-0-0 over the Cagayan duo.

• Challenge History
• Voting History

Episode	Challenge	Challenge Type	Winner	Eliminated (Vote)	Finish
7	Hard to Handle	Immunity	Joe	Kass (6-4-2-1)	7th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 19
8	Boats, Brains, and Brawn	Reward	Ciera, Joe, Keith, Kelley, Kelly, Kimmi	Andrew (3-0)1	8th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 21
	Take the Reins	Immunity	Joe
9	Styx	Reward	Ciera, Joe, Spencer, Stephen, Tasha	Kelly (6-3-2)	9th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 24
	Bermuda Triangles	Immunity	Joe
10	Basket Brawl	Reward	Abi-Maria, Ciera, Joe, Spencer, Tasha	Ciera (3-2-0)1	10th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 26
	Ballin' A Jack	Immunity	Joe
11	Folklore	Reward	Stephen [Jeremy, Tasha]	Stephen (4-3-2)	11th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 29
	The Game is Afoot	Immunity	Spencer
12	Jungle Love	Reward	Kelley [Abi-Maria, Joe, Keith, Kimmi]	Joe (6-1-1)	12th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 32
	Over-Extended	Immunity	Keith
			Kelley
13	Pole Dancing	Reward	Keith [Kelley, Spencer]	Abi-Maria (4-2-1)	13th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 35
	Floatsam & Jetsam	Immunity	Spencer
14	Step on Up	Immunity	Spencer	Kimmi (0-0; 3-3; 4-0)2,3	14th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 36
	Giant Tick	Immunity	Kelley	Keith (3-2)	15th Voted Out 9th Jury Member Day 37
	Simmotion	Immunity	Jeremy	Kelley (3-1)	16th Voted Out 10th Jury Member Day 38
	Jury Vote			Tasha Spencer (10-0-0)	Runners-Up
				Jeremy (10-0-0)	Sole Survivor
Notes: ^1 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played, negating all votes against its user. ^2 All votes cast were negated, causing a null vote. Per the rules of Survivor, a vote restart occurred. ^3 Per Survivor rules, in case of a deadlock tie, the non-immune players would have an open discussion to eliminate one of the tied players. If no consensus is reached, the non-immune castaways would be forced to draw rocks.

		Merged Tribe
Episode		7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Voted Out		Kass	Andrew	Kelly	Ciera	Stephen	Joe	Abi-Maria	Null	Tie	Kimmi	Keith	Kelley	Tasha	Spencer	Jeremy
Vote		6-4-2-1	3-01	6-3-2	3-2-01	4-3-22	6-1-1	4-2-1	0-01,4	3-35	4-06	3-2	3-1	10-0-0
►►►	Jeremy	Ciera	Kelley	Kelly	Ciera	Joe	Joe	Abi-Maria	Kelley	Kimmi	Kimmi	Keith	Kelley	Jury Vote
►►►	Spencer	Ciera	Kelley	Kelly	Stephen	Stephen	Joe	Abi-Maria	Kelley	Kimmi	Kimmi	Keith	Kelley
►►►	Tasha	Kass	Kelley	Ciera	Stephen	Abi-Maria	Joe	Abi-Maria	Kelley	Kimmi	None	Keith	Kelley
►►►	Kelley	Kass	Andrew	Kelly	Kimmi	Stephen	Joe	Tasha	Jeremy	Tasha	Kimmi	Spencer	Spencer			Jeremy
►►►	Keith	Kass	Kelley	Kelley	Stephen	Stephen	Tasha	Tasha	Jeremy	Tasha	Kimmi	Spencer				Jeremy
►►►	Kimmi	Kass	Kelley	Ciera	Ciera	Abi-Maria	Joe	Abi-Maria	Jeremy	Tasha	Voted Out					Jeremy
►►►	Abi-Maria	Tasha	Andrew	Kelly	Stephen	Stephen	Joe	Keith								Jeremy
►►►	Joe	Ciera	Kelley	Kelley	Stephen	None3	Abi-Maria									Jeremy
►►►	Stephen	Kass	Kelley	Kelly	Ciera	Abi-Maria										Jeremy
						Joe
►►►	Ciera	Andrew	Andrew	Kelly	Kimmi											Jeremy
►►►	Kelly	Ciera	Kelley	Ciera												Jeremy
►►►	Andrew	Kass	Kelley													Jeremy
►►►	Kass	Tasha														Jeremy
Notes: ^1 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played, negating all votes against its user. ^2 This castaway played the Vote Steal advantage, allowing them to steal another castaway's vote to vote twice at Tribal Council. ^3 This castaway's vote was stolen by the Vote Steal. ^4 All votes cast were negated, causing a null vote. Per Survivor rules, a vote restart occurred. ^5 Per Survivor rules, in case of a deadlock tie, the non-immune players would have an open discussion to eliminate one of the tied players. If no consensus is reached, the non-immune castaways would be forced to draw rocks. ^6 By consensus, Kimmi was eliminated.

Gallery

Bayon and Ta Keo merge.

Orkun celebrates the merge.

Orkun competes in the first individual Immunity Challenge, Hard to Handle.

Orkun's first Tribal Council.

Kass voted out.

Orkun competes in the first post-merge Reward Challenge, Boats, Brains, Brawn.

Orkun competes in the second individual Immunity Challenge, Take the Reins.

Orkun's second Tribal Council.

Andrew blindsided.

Orkun competes in the final eleven Reward Challenge, Styx.

Orkun competes in the final eleven Immunity Challenge, Bermuda Triangles.

Orkun at its third Tribal Council.

Kelly blindsided.

Orkun competes in Basket Brawl for reward.

Orkun is faced with a tough choice before the final ten Immunity Challenge.

Orkun's fourth Tribal Council.

Ciera blindsided.

Orkun competes in the final nine Immunity Challenge, The Game is Afoot.

Orkun's fifth Tribal Council.

Stephen blindsided.

Orkun competes in the Reward Challenge, Jungle Love.

Orkun competes in the final eight Immunity Challenge, Over-Extended.

Orkun's sixth Tribal Council.

Joe voted out.

Orkun competes in Floatsam & Jetsam for immunity.

The final seven at Tribal Council.

Abi-Maria blindsided.

Orkun competes in the final six Immunity Challenge, Step on Up.

Kimmi eliminated by consensus.

Keith competes in the final five Immunity Challenge, Giant Tick.

Keith voted out.

Orkun competes in the Final Immunity Challenge, Simmotion.

Kelley voted out.

Jeremy is the Sole Survivor of Survivor: Cambodia.

Trivia

• Orkun is the first merge tribe with 13 members.
• Orkun is the third orange merged tribe, after Barramundi and Alinta.
• Abi-Maria is the only member of this tribe to have never been a member of Bayon.
• Orkun is the second merged tribe after Dangrayne to have members who never visited Tribal Council during the pre-merge phase of the game. Joe and Keith never went to Tribal Council until Orkun's first.
• Orkun and Vinaka from Millennials vs. Gen X have the same meaning in their season's host respective languages, both meaning "thank you".
• Orkun is tied with Merica and Vata for the tribe with the most castaways voted out due to a Hidden Immunity Idol being played, with three.