Filmed: July 17-19, 2008 |
Aired: November 13, 2008
- Ep.9 Reward challenge: "Super Golf" -
Where "super" means "slingshots." Also Sugar gets to
stand next to everyone, doing nothing, while Corinne
officially sits out. Fang wins anyway, exiles Bob, gets
a trip to a Gabonese village where Corinne pretends not
to hate a 2-year-old and Matty dances the night away.
- Ep.9 exile: Fang sends Bob,
thinking he could find an idol. He finds where it should
be, then makes a fake one.
- Ep.9 merge: Oh yeah, that happens,
too. Right before the IC. Most anticlimactic merge ever.
- Ep.9 Immunity challenge: "Fired Up" -
After 27 days, only Susie and Sugar (?!) can make fire.
Susie wins.
- Ep.9 voted out: Charlie extends the
Onion exodus, 5-4 over Crystal.
Episode 9 scoring notes
- In the RC, Sugar still gets full credit for her reward
challenge "win," despite doing exactly as much as
Corinne, who gets nothing for sitting out a fourth time.
- For the IC, Susie and Sugar were the only two to even
create a flame. So Susie wins, Sugar is second, and
everyone else ties for third (but receives the mean MPF
points for 3rd-through-9th place = 0.44).
- Also, should we point out that Sugar is leading in
both SurvAv and MPF at this point in the game? She's
clearly optimizing her effort.
Vote count:
- Charlie received 5 votes, from
Crystal, Ken, Matty, Sugar, and Susie (voted out, 5-4).
- Crystal received 4 votes, from Bob,
Charlie, Corinne, and Randy.
Glossary of terms
-
Challenge stats
- ChW: Challenge Wins. For
tribal challenges, a contestant earns a fraction of
1 win, depending on if they participated (no points
for sitting out). So in a five-person tribe's win,
each participant gets (1/5) of a point, or 0.2
points. Duels (or individual RCs as in Ep1) at
Redemption Island count as half a challenge (and
half a win). Individual challenge wins count as a
full point.
- ChA: Challenge Appearances.
Used to calculate ChW%. Fractional for tribal
challenges (same as ChW), except sit-outs get
charged for an appearance, because they could have
participated.
- ChW%: Challenge Win%.
Simply, ChW% = ChW / ChA.
- SO: The number of times a
contestant sat out of a challenge.
- Tribal
Council stats
- VFB: Votes For Bootee. The
number of times the contestant has voted for the
person who was ultimately voted out. Applies only to
initial votes (no points for revotes in case of a
tie). Special case: In a final three TC, where only
one vote is cast (by the F3 IC winner), only that
vote counts.
- VAP: Votes Against the
Player. The total number of tribal council votes
cast against the contestant. Again, only initial
votes count (no penalty for revotes), and here a
hidden immunity idol (if played) erases the votes.
In the special case of a final three tribal council
above, only the F3 bootee receives a vote against.
- TotV: Total votes cast
during the tribal councils the player has attended
(again, only initial votes count). Used to adjust
for different vote totals as tribes shrink.
- TCA: Tribal council
appearances. The number of times a contestant has
attended tribal council (at which they voted).
- TC%: Tribal Council percent.
Attempts to reward voting for the bootee (which
players controlling the vote almost always do),
while punishing receiving votes yourself. The
formula is: TC% = [VFB - (VAP/TotV)] / TCA.
- wTCR: weighted Tribal
Council Ratio. Very similar in intent to TC%, but
calculated as a ratio of VFB to VAP, while also
scaling to a uniform number of TC appearances. The
formula is as follows: wTCR =2* [VFB / (4+VAP)] x
(14/TCA). I originally tried (1+VAP) to avoid
dividing by zero, but this overly rewarded getting
zero votes against relative to just one vote
against, which seemed silly. (4+VAP) scaled that
effect back comfortably. 14 was used as the scaling
factor for TC appearances because there are usually
14 episodes, then a final scaling factor of 2 to
bring maximal scores up to roughly even with ChW and
JV% high scores.
- Jury
stats
- JVF: Number of jury votes
for the contestant to win. Maximum nine (Earl
Cole, Fiji), theoretically.
- TotJ: Total number of
jurors. Necessary to not punish unanimous 7-juror
winners (JT Thomas, Tocantins).
- JV%: The percent of total
jury votes cast for the contestant, or Jur% = JVF/
TotJ. This number is used, raw, in SurvSc, and is
scaled in SurvAv (multiplied by six) to make it
similar in size to ChW and wTCR.
- Overall
scores
- Survival Score (SurvSc). It's
simply the sum of Challenge Win% (ChW%) + Tribal
Council% (TC%) + Jury Vote%, for a maximum possible
score of 2 (3 after the finale).
- Survival Average (SurvAv). It's a
simple sum of fractional Challenge Wins (ChW),
weighted TC Ratio (wTCR), and (eventually) a
weighted Jury%. The latter two max out at six points
total, for a theoretical maximum score of around 18
or so.