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\n Parvati Shallow celebrating her second win.
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Parvati Shallow<\/a> has once again devoured her prey. The player, who was already on the Mount Rushmore of Survivor history<\/a> before this year, won Survivor: Australia v the World on September 7, making her the franchise\u2019s third two-time winner and cementing her status as the greatest Survivor player of all time. Sadly, the season is unavailable to legally stream in the United States (David Ellison, new owner of Paramount, has work to do), but those who have seen it, whether because they live Down Under or watched it illicitly, know that this game was Parvati\u2019s best yet. Even she, in the finale, called it her \u201cbest game ever,\u201d beating out dominant previous performances on 2008\u2019s Survivor: Micronesia and 2010\u2019s Heroes vs. Villains.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is my final time playing Survivor, so to have been awarded the win from the jury is the sweetest moment,\u201d the iconic headband-wearer said in her last confessional, revealing her retirement. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to have been a part of this incredible experience of Australia v the World. There\u2019s something about this game that just gets in my blood, I feel like I was born to play Survivor.\u201d She entered the game as one of the biggest targets due to her previous legacy, played the entire season without getting a single vote cast against her, then ended her career on top, receiving all but one of the jury\u2019s votes. Now that\u2019s world domination.<\/p>\n The season began with two tribes: One side was all legends from Australian Survivor, including David Genat, whom Parvati played with on Deal or No Deal Island earlier this year and Parvati\u2019s eventual co-finalists, Luke Toki and Jeanine Allis. The opposing tribe was made up of notable Survivor players from around the globe: the other Americans joining Parvati, her former Micronesia ally Cirie Fields and Survivor two-time winner Tony Vlachos; Survivor: New Zealand\u2019s Lisa Holmes; Quebec\u2019s Kass Bastarache; Finland\u2019s Tommi Manninen; and South Africa\u2019s Rob Bentele. Notably, Parvati was the only one of the massive threats (as the only former winner other than the little-known Lisa) who made it through the early days of the game. David went out first on the Australian tribe, while Rob and Tony attempted to target Parvati and were promptly sent home as well, with Tony in his final words promising that Parvati was next on the chopping block given her threat level.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Tony, Parvati was not going to be so easily chopped. She and Cirie worked together throughout the game, making allies with their fellow World tribemates, and then, once the merge hit, with Aussies as well. In the middle game, Parvati also found a hidden immunity idol and a steal-an-idol advantage, making her difficult to beat. She only voted against the majority once all season \u2014 at the final four, when she wanted her \u201cSurvivor soulmate,\u201d Cirie to join her at the final tribal council, instead of seeing her go out just before the finals for a third time.<\/p>\n Parvati\u2019s best-remembered move this season will likely be from episode seven, when Kass, who was Parvati\u2019s biggest immunity-challenge threat, attempted to play her own idol on herself, and Parvati lied about the power of her steal-an-idol advantage, pretending she had the ability to steal Kass\u2019s idol after the votes were cast. She did not, but it was enough to sway\u00a0Kass against using her immunity, and ultimately Kass was sent back to Quebec. \u201cKass whips out her idol, and I was like, \u2018Gulp, wasn\u2019t expecting that,\u2019\u201d Parvati says in her final tribal-council speech. \u201cBut then I remembered I had the advantage \u2014 you\u2019ve gotta be on your toes out here \u2014 so I pulled it out my advantage, read the first two lines, which say, \u2018This is knowledge is power, you can steal someone\u2019s immunity,\u2019 but I don\u2019t read the third line, which says, \u2018You have to present this to Jonathan [LaPaglia, the host] before he says it\u2019s time to vote.\u2019\u201d That kind of in-the-moment bluff is what makes Parvati Shallow a scary, all-time great player.<\/p>\n The next all-star season, Survivor 50, arrives this spring after Survivor 49 premieres September 24. 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