Mogo Mogo is a tribe from Survivor: All-Stars. Their tribe color is green.
Routinely finishing second to Chapera, Mogo Mogo had a decent run as a tribe despite their immediate scramble to form alliances. Following Saboga's dissolution on Day 13, the tribe fell into a string of challenge losses that caused them to enter the merge in the minority before eventually facing extinction.
Members[]
Tribe History[]
Original[]
The plotting started almost as soon as Mogo Mogo hit the beach, with the women planning a pre-emptive alliance against the men. However, when Richard Hatch overheard Jenna Morasca and Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien scheming, the tribe aired its dirty laundry and agreed to put all talk of alliances on the back-burner for the time being. The tribe settled in, with Richard acting as a provider for the tribe. Mogo Mogo was also consistent in challenges, routinely placing second and avoiding Tribal Council. However, the game took a back seat to real life when Mogo Mogo became concerned with the well-being of ailing tribe member Jenna M. It became apparent that Jenna M. was preoccupied with thoughts of her mother, who was fighting a losing battle with advanced cancer back home. After weighing her options, Jenna M. left the game to be with her mother on Day 9, leaving Mogo Mogo with five members. Sadly, Jenna M. lost her mother a week after she returned home. In an unaired footage, Mogo Mogo still went to Tribal Council where Colby Donaldson stated that he and all other Mogo Mogo tribe members told Jenna M. to withdraw from the game and hurry home to say goodbye to her mother in her final moments.
Post-Dissolve[]
On Day 13, Mogo Mogo won the Reward Challenge that gave it the right to choose members from the dismantled Saboga tribe. The tribe chose Ethan Zohn and Jerri Manthey, under the pretense of eliminating Ethan as a threat. However, when Mogo Mogo lost the next Immunity Challenge, Colby turned on Richard and swayed the tribe against him. Richard attempted to stage a comeback by making an alliance with the women, but it was no use. Richard was voted out in a unanimous 6-1 landslide.
Mogo Mogo's next trip to Tribal Council came on Day 19, after losing a combined Reward/Immunity Challenge that allowed Chapera to kidnap Kathy and prevent her from attending Tribal Council. Colby pushed to have his old rival Jerri voted out, but instead, Lex van den Berghe seized power within the tribe and betrayed his former ally. Colby was voted out, 3-2.
When asked by Tree Mail to select an ambassador to go scope out the remaining tribe's camp on Day 20, Mogo Mogo chose Kathy, knowing she had already created rapport with Chapera, and thus would not be viewed with hostility. Kathy was to select three items to take from the Chapera camp in the event that Mogo Mogo won that afternoon's Reward Challenge; she chose their parachute, blanket, and tarp. However, Mogo Mogo would go on to lose that challenge and in the process, their grill, Hawaiian sling, and one bag of rice were taken by Chapera. The loss of their rice was considered a particularly harsh blow by many members of the tribe.
As Colby's only remaining former ally, Ethan found himself in a similar precarious position to the one he had been in at Saboga. Ethan appealed to his former ally, Lex, to vote out Jerri and keep him instead. When Mogo Mogo lost its third consecutive Immunity Challenge, however, Lex's alliance disposed of Ethan in a 4-1 vote.
Post-Switch[]
On Day 22, the tribe received a Tree Mail along with body paint, leading the castaways to believe a merge was imminent. Instead, the tribes were shuffled: by coincidence, Amber Brkich was the only castaway to remain on her original tribe while all other castaways were reversed. This meant that Jerri, Kathy, Lex, and Shii Ann Huang were no longer members of Mogo Mogo—and, as a result, the new incarnation of Mogo Mogo was comprised entirely of former members of Chapera—Alicia Calaway, Jenna Lewis, Rob Mariano, Rupert Boneham, and Tom Buchanan. Since all of Chapera's rewards remained at Chapera camp, they felt moving to Mogo Mogo camp was a downgrade.
Despite that, Mogo Mogo won the next Immunity Challenge, a trivia contest. Rob M. assumed that Chapera would vote out Amber, the only Chapera left on a tribe full of original Mogo Mogo members, at the next Tribal Council. Spurred by this, Rob M. told Lex after the challenge "you take care of her, I take care of you" in an effort to save her.
Not knowing Amber's fate, Rob struck a side deal with Alicia. Amber, however, had survived the most recent Tribal Council. On Day 26, the tribes merged into Chaboga Mogo, the name being a portmanteau of the starting tribe's names. As the tribes merged, Amber and Rob M. were reunited.
| Episode | Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out | Result | Eliminated (Vote) |
Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quest for Fire | Immunity | None | 2nd | Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Stairway to the Stars | Reward | Jenna M. | Lost | Tribe Immune | |
| Float Your Boat | Immunity | Shii Ann | 2nd | |||
| 3 | Better Homes and Island Living | Reward | Kathy, Richard | 2nd | Jenna M. (no vote)1 |
Quit Day 9 |
| 4 | Match Maker | Reward | Colby | Lost | Tribe Immune | |
| Blind Cube Crisis | Immunity | Shii Ann | 2nd | |||
| 5 | Shipwrecked Raft Rescue | Reward | Shii Ann | 1st | ||
| Saboga Absorbed, Day 13 | ||||||
| 5 | Pilfering Pirates | Immunity | None | Lost | Richard (6-1) |
4th Voted Out Day 15 |
| 6 | Stomp-ede | Reward | None | Won | No Tribal Council | |
| 7 | Floating Puzzle | Reward/Immunity | None | [Kathy]2 | Colby (3-2) |
5th Voted Out Day 19 |
| 8 | Log Jam | Reward | None | Lost | Ethan (4-1) |
6th Voted Out Day 21 |
| Choose Your Weapon | Immunity | None | Lost | |||
| Tribes Switched, Day 23 | ||||||
| 10 | Survivor History | Immunity | None | Won | Tribe Immune | |
| 11 | Rock Bottom | Reward | None | Rupert [Jenna L.]3 |
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| Tribes Merged, Day 26 | ||||||
| Notes: ^1 Jenna M. quit the game before the Immunity Challenge, thus canceling the challenge. However, Mogo Mogo still went to Tribal Council to discuss Jenna M.'s situation.
^2 After winning the challenge, Chapera was instructed to kidnap a member of Mogo Mogo to join them on their reward. Chapera kidnapped Kathy, allowing her to abstain from Tribal Council. ^3 Though the tribes remained separate, they competed in an individual Reward Challenge. The winner of the challenge, Rupert, selected Jenna L. from his tribe and Amber from Chapera to join him. | ||||||
| Original Tribe | Absorbed Tribes | Switched Tribes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | |
| Voted Out | Tribe Immune |
Tribe Immune |
 Jenna M. |
Tribe Immune |
 Richard |
Tribe Safe |
 Colby |
 Ethan |
Tribe Immune |
Tribes Merged | |
| Vote | — | — | No vote1 | — | 6-1 | No vote2 | 3-2 | 4-1 | — | ||
| ►►► | Rob M. | On Chapera | On Chapera | — | |||||||
| ►►► | Jenna L. | On Saboga | On Chapera | — | |||||||
| ►►► | Rupert | On Saboga | On Chapera | — | |||||||
| ►►► | Tom | On Chapera | On Chapera | — | |||||||
| ►►► | Shii Ann | — | — | — | — | Richard | — | Colby | Ethan | On Chapera | |
| ►►► | Alicia | On Chapera | On Chapera | — | |||||||
| ►►► | Kathy | — | — | — | — | Richard | — | Kidnapped3 | Ethan | On Chapera | |
| ►►► | Lex | — | — | — | — | Richard | — | Colby | Ethan | On Chapera | |
| ►► | Jerri | On Saboga | Richard | — | Colby | Ethan | On Chapera | ||||
| ► | Ethan | On Saboga | Richard | — | Jerri | Jerri | |||||
| ► | Colby | — | — | — | — | Richard | — | Jerri | |||
| ► | Richard | — | — | — | — | Colby | |||||
| Jenna M. | — | — | Quit | ||||||||
| Notes: ^1 Jenna M. elected to quit the game to be with her ailing mother. No vote occurred for her removal.
^2 Susan elected to quit the game for personal reasons. No vote occurred for her removal. ^3 Chapera was given the opportunity to kidnap one member of Mogo Mogo, making them immune from Tribal Council. They selected Kathy. | |||||||||||
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Trivia[]
- In terms of distribution of castaways per season, Mogo Mogo was the most diverse tribe on All-Stars, boasting one castaway from each of the first six seasons. Mogo Mogo was also the original tribe of Shii Ann Huang, the only castaway from Thailand.
- This makes Mogo Mogo the only tribe of entirely returning players to not have multiple castaways from any previous season.
- Mogo Mogo was considered by the castaways to have had the worst of the three original camps. Chapera was able to fashion a comfortable and functional camp in the shelter-building challenge on Day 7, and Saboga's camp was near a grove of plantains. Mogo Mogo's camp, on the other hand, was described by Jenna Lewis as a "crap camp", located near nettles and teeming with mosquitoes.
- On the morning of the Tribe Switch, the Mogo Mogo tribe was given a jar of green body paint as part of Tree Mail. Due to the lack of explicit instructions, Mogo Mogo opted to bring the paint with them to the event rather than use it on themselves.
- Mogo Mogo is the second longest tribe to go without voting someone out, at 15 days. The longest is Tandang in Philippines, with 19 days.
- The Bulgarian version of Survivor also had a tribe named Mogo Mogo.
- In the fourth season of the French version, Koh-Lanta: Panama, a starting tribe was also named "Mogo", a shorter version of Mogo Mogo. Its rival tribe, interestingly, was named Chapera.
- Amber Brkich was the only castaway in All-Stars to make the merge but never be a member of Mogo Mogo.
- Because Amber won the season, eleven consecutive-placed finishers (from 12th place Colby Donaldson to 2nd place Rob Mariano) were part of the Mogo Mogo tribe at one point.
- After the Tribe Switch on Day 22, there were no more original Mogo Mogo members left at Mogo Mogo camp, as all the remaining original members were sent to the Chapera tribe.
- This makes Mogo Mogo the second tribe, after Maraamu in Marquesas to contain none of its original members at some point in its existence. It would be followed by Nuku in Game Changers, Soko in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, and Manu in Edge of Extinction.
- Mogo Mogo is the only tribe to contain none of its old members as the direct result of a Tribe Switch.
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