The Internationals Alliance was an alliance formed in Australia v The World. Comprising the non-American members of the World tribe, the Internationals Alliance wielded considerable power as swing votes during the early half of the game. However, a failed coup at the final eight against their threat Parvati Shallow caused them to rapidly lose power as they were eliminated successively from that point on.
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Seeing the threat the American members of the World tribe posed to the international faction, Rob Bentele quickly cobbled the numbers with Kass Bastarache, Lisa Holmes, and Tommi Manninen. Setting their eyes on their weakest physical member Cirie Fields, the quartet seemed to have an easy first Tribal Council, but Lisa's loyalty to her Survivor idol Cirie, Kass' willingness to work with Micronesia winner Parvati Shallow, and Rob's domineering gameplay rubbing the rest of the tribe the wrong way all proved things to be more complicated on who everyone would vote for. While bathing at the sea, Parvati was brought in to the plan by Rob to vote out Cirie, but she met this with obvious hesitation as Cirie was her closest ally from their time playing in Micronesia together, saying everyone had to discuss their options with anyone to find the best way forward.
Sensing Parvati would not go with this plan, Rob instead campaigned for Parvati to go home but his plot was quickly discovered by Parvati when she later spoke with Lisa and Kass, and she convinced the rest of the tribe to eliminate Rob. At the first Tribal Council on Night 2, the Micronesia and the Islands of Secrets champions went head to head as they tried to sway the tribe against each other. Ultimately, the entire tribe joined Parvati in voting out Rob in a unanimous 6-1 vote.
The remaining members held a strong alliance thereafter and after losing the fourth tribal Immunity Challenge, they voted out Cagayan and Winners at War winner Tony Vlachos to save Tommi as one of the other choices from the chopping block, leaving the three members of the Internationals intact upon entering the merge.
At the merge, the alliance became an attractive option for the former Aussies and targeted Janine Allis to help keep all the members of the former World safe. But, a voting bloc of Cirie, Parvati, Kirby Bentley, and Shonee Bowtell emerged to take out Sarah Tilleke, who was coming after Kirby after their alliance fell through during the tribal phase. The Internationals reunited with Cirie and Parvati to turn on Kirby as their next victim for being a powerful threat, giving the alliance a solid position, but it soon came crumbling when Lisa fatefully revealed to the three remaining Aussies, Janine, Luke Toki, and Shonee Bowtell, that Tommi was leading an Internationals coup against Parvati and convinced them to join the conspiracy, but she herself would not vote with them to hide her true loyalty. This was met with suspicion and distrust so the Aussies revealed this information to Parvati at the final eight Tribal Council, leading to a chaotic series of events and a surprise Double Elimination that resulted to both Kass and Tommi be voted out consecutively, leaving Lisa as the last standing Internationals member.
Alone and exposed as untrustworthy, Lisa became a social pariah and was thrust into arguments with Luke, and though she fought to stay in the game, she was the unanimous target and became the fifth member of the jury.
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- All members of the alliance have reached Final Tribal Council at some point in their Survivor career.
- This is the first alliance in the Survivor franchise where each member originated from a different version of Survivor.