S2: The Australian Outback boxscores
Ep. 11: "No Longer Just a Game"
By Jeff Pitman | Published: February 22, 2015
S2: The Australian Outback boxscores Episode 11

Filmed: November 22-24, 2000 |  Aired: April 12, 2001
RC: Colby wins
IC: Colby wins
Amber out, 6-2

 

  • Reward challenge: "End of the Line" - Colby wins, duh. Gets to play cowboy, eat, and sleep while the camp floods.
  • Immunity challenge: "Blue Plate Special" - Shooting plates with slingshots, well-fed Colby wins again.
  • Voted out: Amber, 6-2 over Rodger (with Colby casting an unexplained Rodger vote).
Episode 11 scoring notes
  • After seeing how irate Probst acted about replenishing rice supplies in San Juan del Sur, it's amusing how legitimately concerned he appeared to be here. Also that it rained again immediately after he traded rice for camp stuff. Interesting also that Amber's torch appeared to be the one that washed away in the flash flood, since she left for Tribal not carrying one, while everyone else seemed to have one. Then she was apparently given one upon arrival, only to have it snuffed shortly thereafter.
  • Historical scoring note: Despite voting for the wrong person here, this is where Colby's SurvAv score really starts to skyrocket, as he wins challenge after challenge (good for 1 SurvAv point apiece).
Vote count:
  • Amber received 4 votes, from Tina, Keith, Rodger, and Elisabeth (voted out, 4-2).
  • Rodger received 2 votes, from Amber, and, apparently mistakenly (?), Colby.
Episode 11 boxscore - challenges

Reward Challenge Immunity Challenge  
Contestant ChW ChA Plc % Fin ChW ChA Plc % Fin MPF
Colby 1 1 1 1.00 1 1 1 1.00 71%
Amber - 1 2 0.83 - 1 6 0.17 63%
Keith - 1 6 0.17 - 1 5 0.33 57%
Tina - 1 4 0.50 - 1 4 0.50 55%
Rodger - 1 3 0.67 - 1 3 0.67 52%
Elisabeth - 1 5 0.33 - 1 2 0.83 45%
Episode 11 boxscore - Tribal

Tribal council stats Overall scores
Contestant VFB VAP TotV TCA SurvSc SurvAv
Tina 1 - 6 1 1.07 7.59
Colby 0 - 6 1 1.31 6.82
Keith 1 - 6 1 1.15 5.66
Elisabeth 1 - 6 1 0.67 3.64
Rodger 1 2 6 1 0.63 3.24
Amber 0 4 6 1 0.68 2.34
Nick - - - - 0.77 3.72
Jerri - - - - 0.97 3.26
Alicia - - - - 0.68 2.53
Jeff - - - - 0.96 2.67
Skupin - - - - 1.21 2.84
Kimmi - - - - 0.73 1.97
Mitchell - - - - 1.00 2.73
Maralyn - - - - 0.93 1.95
Kel - - - - -0.21 0.25
Debb - - - - -0.88 0.00
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.

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