The Tea Party

 is the majority cross-tribe alliance in Survivor: Papua New Guinea that consisted of more than half of the cast.

Despite starting out strong, the alliance crumbled when members turned, resulting in many blindsides after the merge.

The Formation
Early on in PNG, George and LP formed a bond due to having many things in common. They decided to create an alliance, and bring in Mick and Blake, both of whom seemed reliable. Afterwards, Joe and Matt were brought into the alliance, as a six-person alliance. Later, Blake brought Sean into the alliance, as well. LP also formed a close friendship with Taylor, roping her in too. Kim later formed friendships with every current alliance member, thus also becoming a member. Eventually, the alliance made up almost half of the cast.

On the five tribes, Daru and Mendi consisted of no alliance members, Kieta consisted of half (LP and Taylor), Abau left CJ as the sole alliance outsider (Joe, Matt, Mick), and Wewak consisted entirely of members (Blake, George, Kim, Sean). However, Sean did not like the excessive amount of people in the alliance, so he decided to align with Kim to work against them.

Declaring War on Mendi
Uli from the Mendi tribe began telling Taylor about things going on in his tribe, attempting to form an alliance with her to get her to vote out LP, who Uli viewed as a big threat. After eliminating one of Uli's cross-tribe alliance members, Jay, it became clearer that Uli was gunning for LP. This made Taylor suspect that he was also after the rest of Kieta. When word of this got out to the other alliance members, they agreed that the Mendi members needed to go.

George took up the role of alliance leader, making Uli shift the target from LP to George. During all of this, CJ was eliminated leaving only alliance members on Abau. Also, Kieta was dropped down to two members, LP and Taylor. After losing another challenge, LP and Taylor were forced to do a tiebreaker to determine who stayed. Taylor was eliminated, being the first of the alliance to fall.

The Absorption
With LP as the sole surviving Kieta, an absorption was to take place. In the challenge, Sean purposely lost to dissolve Wewak. This placed George on Mendi, Blake and Kim on Daru, and himself and LP on Abau. Sean instantly made himself unwelcome by acting harsh to his tribemates, and openly stating that George was targeting the Mendi members to the entire cast. Eventually, Sean told Abau to vote him off at the next Tribal Council.

All of Abau wanted to throw the challenge, except for LP and Mick. When LP received the highest score, Matt told George the score, allowing him to surpass it. This angered LP greatly, due to Matt doing that behind his back. Abau's plan was successful, as they were able to throw the challenge and eliminate Sean.

New Ally
George felt in danger due to being at the mercy of the Mendi's. So he attempted to bring Andrei from Daru into the alliance. Andrei was willing at first, until George told him that they would need to throw the challenge and vote off Abraham (One of Andrei's closest allies). Andrei refused to throw the challenge, and turned down the alliance offer. However, after being convinced by the rest of the alliance, Andrei eventually gave in and accepted.

The challenge was revealed to be a double elimination, and Abau lost to George. LP, who was now the target, angrily approached George about how George didn't return the favor of throwing the challenge after forcing Abau to do so previously. George then replied by saying "it was either you or me". Blake, who was meant to throw the challenge to save George, was too frightened of being the next one to go, that he refused to throw the challenge and sent Mendi to Tribal Council with Abau.

Survival seemed hopeless for LP, until Mick brought up Joe's inactivity. Joe came on after a long time of being off, and began telling everyone to vote different people. LP, Matt and Mick discovered this, and without hesitation, voted Joe off next. In a predictable Tribal Council, the Mendi tribe stuck together and George was eliminated, taking out the biggest voice in the alliance, as well as Uli's target.

Entering the Merge
After George's demise, a struggle occurred in the alliance for a new leader. In the following challenge, Andrei and LP bonded. The two of them also decided to name the alliance. They named it "The New Guinea Tea Party" as a parody of the Boston Tea Party. Due to the length of that name, they decided to just name it "The Tea Party".

Upon entering the merge, the Tea Party was united at last. Andrei brought in his old tribe member Jemarc to the Tea Party. The plan was to vote Uli first, but Jemarc acted really suspicious. Speculation also arose that someone from Mendi had the hidden Immunity idol. The four Mendi members: Amos, Angeleo, JR and Uli, decided that they needed to stick together to battle the Tea Party, and brought in Abraham to help accomplish it.

LP devised a plan to tell everyone that they were voting JR, only to vote Uli instead. That way, either JR would play the idol or one of his allies would play it on him. But Uli would go no matter what. However, Jemarc's suspicious behavior made his fellow Tea Party members less trusting of him. Due to this, Matt decided that they would go through with LP's plan, only voting Amos instead of Uli. LP, who was close to Amos, convinced the alliance that Angeleo was the bigger threat, due to Amos being the least closest to Uli out of anyone. Kim told Uli that JR was going to be voted off, while Angeleo told LP that Mick was Mendi's target. Ultimately, the Tea Party's plan prevailed and Angeleo was blindsided and voted off.

Flipping
It appeared that Mendi's next targets were LP and Matt. LP knew this, and attempted to make Matt appear more like the leader. Kim had gained Uli's trust at the merge, making him feel safer. Abraham approached LP one day, and told him that Andrei was planning on voting off Mendi and Tea Party members one by one. This revelation caused Abraham and LP to form a minor alliance. Abraham was correct, for Andrei flipped and eliminated Matt next. This upset many Tea Party members, until Andrei apologized and claimed that he only did it out of fear of an Abau alliance.

No longer having any trust in the Tea Party, LP went to "align" with Uli, and claim that Amos convinced him too. This allowed LP to gain the trust of both the Tea Party and the Mendi 4. At the following Tribal Council, where Uli received the majority vote, he played the Immunity idol, and idoled out Kim. It became apparent that Jemarc flipped on the Tea Party, so Mick and LP decided to side with Mendi and renege on the Tea Party. So Jemarc was next to go.

Amos and LP had a conversation where LP brought up the fact that he was in a bad position. Amos then decided to bring LP into an alliance with Abraham and Amos' ally JR. The four agreed to vote out Mick next for being really insecure. However, Uli refused to vote Mick when asked to, and a self-vote from Amos kept the Tea Party intact as Abraham was voted off next.

After Uli won the next Immunity challenge: himself, Amos and JR decided to vote the biggest physical and likable threat Andrei. However, Andrei, Mick and Blake decided to vote Amos. This left LP as the deciding vote between the two alliances. Wanting to avoid an ensured tie at the final six and a possible rock-drawing, LP voted Amos out of the game.

Completing the Mission
LP and Mick agreed to turn on the Tea Party and vote off Andrei for being the biggest threat. Sure that they had both Uli and JR's votes, they believed it to be possible. Andrei wanted to split the votes between Uli and JR, until Mick revealed that he had the Immunity idol, meaning that Uli could be voted off with ease.

The plan seemed to work well. However, JR flipped to the Tea Party, tying the votes between Uli and Andrei. LP acted shocked at the tie, and told Andrei and Blake that Mick flipped to Uli and JR, taking suspicion off of himself. LP was able to convince Mick to switch his vote after bringing up rocks. With this, Uli, the Tea Party's biggest target from the beginning, ultimately met his fate and was eliminated unanimously in the re-vote.

LP and Mick decided that Andrei had to go for being the biggest threat. Andrei and Blake were set on taking the Tea Party to the final four. Mick managed to win Immunity and play his idol on JR, eliminating Andrei. This left Blake feeling betrayed and angry at Mick.

The Tea Party Prevails
In the final four, JR felt that he needed to win Immunity to be safe. He succeeded in doing so, meaning that only two Tea Party members would make it to the end. LP immediately told Mick to vote Blake to throw the target off of himself, then went to JR to attempt to convince him to vote Mick, who he believed to be the biggest Jury threat. Blake and JR didn't hesitate, and Mick was unanimously voted out, leaving Blake, JR and LP as the final three.

In the finals, Blake received disgust from the Jury for not acknowledging his flaws and throwing the other finalists under the bus. Due to this, the Tea Party Jury members all voted for LP, giving LP the title of Sole Survivor.