Talk:Manu Alliance/@comment-1741760-20130417133546/@comment-2142533-20130422112349

I think Manu had a good alliance, cause Popoki also did have a core alliance of 4 (5 with Chris supposedly). I guess being big challenge threats, knowing that Manu could be fractured (as can be seen by the blindside of DB (which is understandable), Kaaitlyn and Summer targeting each other at the last Manu TC, some not united vote outs) which could worry alliance stability, and also some "sneaky" moves (like Sole trying to make sneaky moves for Popoki to vote out one of their own, Kaitlyn's challenge photoshop, and the moves pre-Merge) probably turned-off the "swings" (namely Kaaitlyn, DB and Tommy)  to side with Manu.

By voting out one by one alliance enemies, and vote out those who have been least loyal when all "enemies" are eliminated (except for Sole), close trust with swings enabled the Popoki alliance to prosper, and prevented some flips to happen to Manu's side.

Still, it was an interesting alliance, that did worry Team Catastrophe (also, I was really impressed you flipped Zachary to your side, I mean seeing what happened to Cochran I never really believed Zachary would do it until the 1st Merge vote).