Survivor 2: The Australian Outback

Ep. 14: "The Most Deserving"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: February 24, 2015

S2: The Australian Outback boxscores Episode 14

Filmed: December 1-3, 2000 | Aired: May 3, 2001

Immunity challenge: "Fallen Comrades" - As in Borneo. Colby wins, narrowly.
Voted out: Keith, 1-0 (or 2-1), famously, by Colby.
Final Tribal Council: Tina wins, 4-3, over Colby.

Episode 14 scoring notes

Scoring the final boot - we originally had this scored as just Colby voting, with 1 TotV, 1 VFB for Colby, and 1 VAP against Keith. But that seems unfair to Tina, since she did, in effect, vote for Keith. So we split the difference, by counting both phantom votes in the TotV category, giving credit to both Tina and Colby for voting out Keith, but only charging Keith with one VAP. This restores Tina's perfect Tribal Council record: She voted for the person booted at every Tribal Council she attended, yet never received a single vote against her. (Except Keith's autovote. Sigh. It's not perfectly perfect.)
More Colby: As dominant as Colby was in challenges at the end of this season, it's interesting to note that he played two subsequent times, and has never won another individual challenge. True, he didn't make it to the merge in All-Stars, but he did reach the final five in Heroes vs. Villains, good for 8 more challenge appearances. Tina, in contrast, won a crucial duel in Blood vs. Water.

Final 3 Tribal Council vote count:

Keith received 1 vote, from Colby (voted out, 1-0 or 2-1).

Final jury vote count:

Tina received 4 votes to win, from Keith, Elisabeth, Jerri, and Alicia (Winner, 4-3).
Colby received 3 votes, from Rodger, Amber, and Nick.

Episode 14 boxscore - challenge
	Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Colby	1	1	1	1.00	81.5%
Keith	-	1	3	0.33	55.8%
Tina	-	1	2	0.67	53.7%

Episode 14 boxscore - Tribal, jury vote
	Tribal council stats				Jury stats
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	JVF	TotJ	JV%	SurvSc	SurvAv
Colby	1	-	3	1	3	7	0.43	1.95	13.49
Tina	1	-	3	1	4	7	0.57	1.62	11.02
Keith	0	1	3	1	-	-	-	1.01	4.50
Elisabeth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.52	2.35
Rodger	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.55	2.13
Amber	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	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.