- 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.
Survivor New Zealand: Nicaragua boxscores
Episode 12
Filmed: August 20-21, 2016 | Aired: June 11, 2017
- Ep12 Immunity Challenge: (Unnamed) - Tom digs, smashes, crawls, spits, and cube-stacks his way to immunity!
- Ep12 voted out: Sala, 4-3-1 over Jak and Shannon, respectively.
Episode 12 scoring notes
Notes: An interesting, multi-stage immunity challenge cobbled together from pieces of US challenges. Somewhat less interesting for Nate and Jak, who get shamed by Matt Chisholm for pointing out that the second stage is ridiculously unfair to non-skinny people. And why did Survivor NZ do all these digging stages in the wet sand on the beach, instead of the dry sand, as U.S. versions always do? That looked painful (a complaint also mocked by Matt).
- Challenge note: As you can see from her MPF, Shannon is far and away the biggest challenge threat not already sitting on Redemption Island. Nobody yet seems to realize that, instead focusing on her strategic moves. We'll see how that turns out.
- Bonus challenge note: As Colin Stone flagged the last time it was used in the U.S., the final-stage puzzle is a routinely used one, which is fairly simple to practice at home, look up solutions for, and memorize. You don't have to be "good at puzzles."
Vote count:
- Sala received 4 votes, from Barb, Jak, Shannon, and Tom (voted out, 4-3-1).
- Jak received 3 votes, from Avi, Sala, and Shay.
- Shannon received 1 vote, from a freelancing Nate.
| Immunity Challenge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Shannon | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.81 | 71.4% |
| Avi | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.81 | 60.9% |
| Sala | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.63 | 59.7% |
| Barb | 0 | 1 | t-7 | 0.19 | 54.9% |
| Jak | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.50 | 54.5% |
| Tom | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 53.2% |
| Nate | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.28 | 44.6% |
| Shay | 0 | 1 | t-7 | 0.19 | 35.4% |
| Tribal Council stats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Shay | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.70 | 2.04 |
| Tom | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.79 | 3.40 |
| Jak | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0.83 | 3.91 |
| Avi | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.99 | 4.90 |
| Sala | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0.77 | 2.90 |
| Barb | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.24 | 7.11 |
| Nate | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.86 | 5.94 |
| Shannon | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1.12 | 6.36 |
| Mike | - | - | - | - | 1.14 | 4.43 |
| Lee | - | - | - | - | 0.76 | 2.63 |
| Georgia | - | - | - | - | 0.89 | 2.81 |
| Izzy | - | - | - | - | 0.92 | 2.83 |
| Lou* | - | - | - | - | 0.46 | 0.90 |
| Tony | - | - | - | - | 0.80 | 2.25 |
| Hannah | - | - | - | - | -0.38 | 0.50 |
| Dee | - | - | - | - | -0.88 | 0.00 |
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