[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by extracheezz

But Micronesia (the season after) was when all the blindsides and backstabbing started, mostly because of the Black Widow alliance. Ever since then, tribes don't really matter, cause everyone flips and flops and switches their alliances anyways.

if you REALLY want to go far back, alliance flopping starts back in Amazon and then truly reached a climax in Pearl Islands. Like, those people really forgot that they were on an island because they were so focused on each other and each round was an incredibly short-lived opportunistic alliance to deal with whoever was labeled to be the biggest threat at the moment. Pearl Islands easily has the most fluid gameplay because no one was in a true power position the whole time, and it kinda bums me out that we're probably never going to have a season quite like that again.