A new reality TV champion will be crowned on Wednesday night during the season finale of Survivor 42 on CBS. In reality, however (no pun intended), that champion was actually crowned last June in Fiji.

Due to the uncertainty of live in-person events, Survivor shed its tradition (dating all the way back to season 2) of waiting months to reveal the actual winner in a live broadcast back in the United States, which then led to a live reunion show. Instead — and especially after the anti-climactic conclusion to Survivor: Winners at War, when Tony Vlachos was announced the champion of one of the greatest seasons ever over a grainy video call — CBS decided to play it safe for seasons 41 and 42 by reading the final votes to the cast out in Fiji as part of the final Tribal Council. That was immediately followed by an on-location after show in which the finalists and the jury discussed the events of the just-concluded game.