Mogo Mogo
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Mogo Mogo was a tribe on Survivor: All-Stars.
Mogo Mogo (named for Isla Mogo Mogo, the island where the tribe was located) was one of three tribes of six previous castaways that began the game in episode 801. The tribe is best remembered for being Pagonged after the merge by the dominant Chapera tribe. Mogo Mogo's tribe color was green.
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[edit] Members of Mogo Mogo
[edit] Original Members
The Mogo Mogo tribe initially consisted of:
[edit] Additional Members
On day fifteen, Mogo Mogo absorbed two members of the Saboga tribe:
On day twenty-four, a tribal swap assigned the following castaways to Mogo Mogo:
[edit] Tribe History
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 backburner for the time being.
The tribe settled in, with Rich acting as a provider figure. 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 well-being of ailing tribe member Jenna M. It became apparent that Jenna was preoccupied with thoughts of her mother, who was battling cancer back home. After weighing her options, Jenna left the game on day nine. Mogo Mogo was reduced to five members.
On day thirteen, Mogo Mogo won a 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 Donaldson turned on Richard and swayed the tribe against him. Rich 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 nineteen, 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 off, 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, Mogo Mogo chose Kathy, knowing she had already created a 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; Mogo Mogo would go on to lose that challenge and in the process, their grill, Hawaiian sling and one bag of rice. 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'd 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.
On day twenty-two, 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, resultantly, the new incarnation of Mogo Mogo was comprised entirely of former members of Chapera.
Mogo Mogo won the next immunity challenge, a trivia contest, leading Rob Mariano to assume that Chapera would vote off Amber at the next Tribal Council. Spurred by this, Rob told Lex after the challenge that he would reward Lex if Lex protected Amber.
Not knowing Amber's fate, Rob struck a side deal with Alicia Calaway. Amber, however, had survived the most recent Tribal Council. On day twenty-six, the tribes merged to become Chaboga Mogo, and Rob and Amber were reunited.
Following the merge, the original Mogo Mogo members -- Lex, Kathy, and Shii Ann -- were largely Pagonged by the Chapera majority (Shii Ann's elimination was delayed by one tribal council when she won immunity as the only remaining member of Mogo Mogo).
[edit] Trivia
- In terms of distribution of castaways per season, Mogo Mogo was the most diverse tribe on Survivor: 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 Survivor: Thailand.
- Mogo Mogo was very consistent in challenges: out of seven challenges in which all three tribes originally competed, Mogo Mogo placed second in five.
- 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 seven, and Saboga's camp was near a grove of plantains. Mogo Mogo's camp, on the other hand, was described by Jenna Lewis in episode 809 as a "crap camp," located near nettles and teeming with mosquitoes.
- On the morning of the tribal shuffle, 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 only green tribe in the show's history to not produce the show's winner or ever have the winner at any point due to a tribe switch. In fact, Amber Brkich was the only member of the merged tribe to have never been a member of Mogo Mogo.
- The Bulgarian version of Survivor also had a tribe named Mogo Mogo.
