As David Genat put it, Survivor: Australia v The World is the Olympics of Survivor, and some of the world’s best players competed for the title.
Among them were previous winners Parvati Shallow, Tony Vlachos, David, Rob Bentele and Lisa Stanger. They were joined by other big names like Shonee Bowtell, who’s played the most days of Australian Survivor, and George Mladenov, who legitimately believes he’s the best player ever.
But with a cast this impressive, there was nowhere to hide, and big names were getting booted from the competition early on.
Unlike typical seasons of Australian Survivor — which are filmed over around 47 days — Australia v The World was a hard and fast version, and the entire instalment was shot in just 16 days and played out over 10 episodes.
Here’s everyone who’s left Survivor: Australia v The World.
Luke Toki
Luke reached his personal best on Australian Survivor by making it to the final three. After pitching his case to the jury, he only recieved one vote, which was from Sarah, with the rest of the jury voting for Parvati, who was crown the winner of Survivor: Australia v The World.
Janine Allis
Janine made it to the final three alongside Luke and Parvati and pitched her case to the jury. However, she received zero votes for the win.
Cirie Fields
Cirie’s fifth Survivor stint came to an end during the Survivor: Australia v The World finale during a fire challenge.
Because the final four vote was deadlocked at two for Cirie and two for Luke, the pair faced off in a fire-making challenge, where the first to burn through a piece of string would stay in the game and the loser would be sent home. After a close battle, it was Luke who broke the string, and Cirie was eliminated.
Shonee Bowtell
Australian Survivor‘s queen Shonee was sent home during the second last episode of Survivor: Australia v The World after every remaining cast member, aside from her and Cirie, had Immunity.
Luke, who won the Immunity Challenge, gave his protection to Janine, and both he and Parvati had an Idol in play. They each decided to play their own Idols for themselves, and Shonee was voted out unanimously.
She left with a new record to her name — reaching Merge more times than any other Australian Survivor player — adding to her existing title of most days played in the game.
Lisa Holmes
Survivor: Australia v the World turned into Survivor: Australia v The US, when New Zealander Lisa was sent home during Episode 8.
Lisa’s elimination was hardly unexpected, after she volunteered to quit during Episode 7, and her strongest allies, Tommi and Kass, had their torches snuffed during the same instalment.
Lisa placed sixth, meaning the final five are Shonee, Luke, Janine, Parvati and Cirie.
Tommi Manninen
The dramatic Tribal wasn’t over after Kassandre’s elimination. All the remaining contestants took part in an Immunity Challenge at Tribal Council, which Luke won.
At Tribal, it became clear that both Tommi and Lisa had a target on their backs, and Lisa even offered to quit the game to save Tommi. However, Jonathan said that if Lisa were to leave, she would miss out on being a part of the jury, and someone would still be eliminated that night, so she decided to stay.
Tommi received a unanimous vote against him, and he was sent to the Jury.
Kassandre Bastarache
After Tommi tried to get the international players to team up with the Australians and take out Parvati, the World tribe was in ruins. Parvati baited Kassandre into not playing her Idol for herself after reading out her steal-an-idol advantage, and the Survivor Quebec castaway was eliminated from the game.
Kirby Bentley
Kirby was blindsided at Tribal Council after her “ride-or-die” alliance with Parvati turned out to be all smoke and mirrors. After Janine went on a mission to convince the Tribe that Kirby was the biggest threat, Parvati briefly considered using her Immunity Idol to save Kirby, but ultimately decided against it.
Kirby was convinced the boot would be Lisa, while Shonee and Luke were convinced it was Cirie, but the rest of the Tribe put their votes on Kirby.
“Oh man, I went back and forth so many times,” Parvati said. “But, in the end, my decision came down to the fact that you keep blindsiding the people you get closest to. I don’t want that to be me.”
While it looked like Kirby snubbed Parvati during Tribal Council, the contestant said that wasn’t the case at all. “On the day, we step away, and we’re still human, and we still are our own selves. So yeah, I’d like to think Parv and I are mates, and I think whoever voted me off, we’re still friends, I hope we are,” she told Chattr.
Sarah Tilleke
Sarah was the first Merge boot after both teams were united, and her initial ride-or-die Kirby turned against her.
While Kass and Janine both received votes at Tribal, a power alliance between Kirby, Shonee, Parvati, and Cirie saw Sarah receive enough to be eliminated.
“Sarah was very risky,” Kirby told Chattr of her choice to target Sarah. “I watched her behaviour, and it sometimes contradicted what she was saying to me on the Aussie tribe on the Aussie beach.”
She added that she caught wind of Sarah mentioning her name behind her back and said, from that point, the trust was lost.
“We weren’t really mending our ride or die relationship, and I was comparing it to Ri [Bowley] on my season. Ri just never did that. Ri could talk to whoever she wanted, and I never questioned her.”
Tony Vlachos
Tony was backed into a corner during Episode 4 of Survivor: Australia v The World when the all women’s alliance of Parvati, Kassandre, Cirie and Lisa decided it was either him or Tommi being sent home.
Cirie and Parvati wanted to keep Tony, while Kassandre and Lisa fought for Tommi. However, Tony dug his own Survivor grave when he turned on Parvati during Tribal Council. He bluffed that he knew she had the key to a secret, powerful box (which she holds with her other alliance members), and she turned against him.
After his Hail Mary, it was a unanimous vote against Tony, and the two-time winner was eliminated from the game.
George Mladenov
Shonee finally got her revenge on George after he flipped on her and voted her out during Australian Survivor: Heroes v Villains. After an early target was placed on her back by Sarah, Shonee managed to flip the vote, and with hers, Sarah and Kirby’s votes, George was sent packing.
David Genat
The first Australian scramble was chaos. The target was initially fixed firmly on David, with Kirby, George, Shonee and Sarah agreeing to vote for him. However, George ran to David to tell him about the plan and blamed Kirby.
David then switched the target back around to George and it seemed as though everyone was on board. But, Kirby changed it to David again during Tribal Council.
The first vote was a tie between David and George, but David’s fate was sealed during the revote and he was eliminated from Survivor: Australia v The World.
Rob Bentele
Rob Bentele entered Survivor: Australia v The World confident, in his first producer-led interview, he said that he was going to give the Australian Survivor players a “long overdue devil of a thrashing”.
Unfortunately for Rob, he never got the chance as he fell prey to Parvati — otherwise known as the Black Widow — who turned the World tribe on him after he tried to target her.
But, before Rob was voted out in an unanimous blindside, he managed to smear Parvati’s name, by revealing that she recently played Deal or No Deal Island with David, and pointed out that the two will work together if they make it post-merge.
In his post-elimination interview, Rob said he understood why he was targeted.
“[I was] a massive threat in the game, I was the only thing standing between them and the Australians, and now they will be sliced apart,” he said. “I truly thought they had brains in them to realise the only way to beat the Australians is to work together as a team.”
Survivor: Australia v The World airs at 7pm on Sundays, and 7:30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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