Survivor: Cook Islands Episode 14 boxscore

Episode 14: "I Have the Advantage... for Once"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 21, 2013

Cook Islands boxscores Episode 14

Filmed: July 29-31, 2006 | Aired: December 14, 2006

Reward challenge: "Mud Run" - Ozzy wins easily (45 lb), almost doubling Parvati (24 lb) and Yul's (22.5 lb) second- and third-place totals. But all three get to have the luxury spa getaway reward, with showers, massages, dinner and entertainment. Meanwhile, Ozzy has to exile someone, and he picks Adam.
Immunity challenge: "Cannonball Run" - Ozzy glides to another easy win, aided by Yul's messing up the puzzle.
Voted out: Parvati, 4-2, over Sundra.

Episode 14 scoring notes

This was a particularly difficult scoring decision: Yul and Parvati both got full reward privileges by finishing 3rd and 2nd, respectively, in the reward challenge. If anything, they had better reward experiences than runaway winner Ozzy, since they didn't have to exile anyone. In the end, however, neither Yul nor Parvati came close to winning the actual challenge, so as with the multi-tribe tribal challenges, for SurvAv/SurvSc scoring purposes, Parvati gets half-win for second place, while Yul gets a quarter-win for third place. (Note that for Mean % finish, this is irrelevant, since 3rd place is 3rd place.)

Vote count:

Parvati received 4 votes, from Yul, Ozzy, Becky, and Sundra (voted out, 4-2).
Sundra received 2 votes, from Adam and Parvati.

Episode 14 boxscore - Challenges
	Reward Challenge				Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Ozzy	1	1	1	1.00	1	1	1	1.00	84%
Parvati	0	1	2	0.83	0	1	3	0.67	75%
Yul	0	1	3	0.67	0	1	2	0.83	60%
Becky	0	1	t-5	0.25	0	1	4	0.50	44%
Adam	0	1	4	0.50	0	1	t-5	0.25	44%
Sundra	0	1	t-5	0.25	0	1	t-5	0.25	34%

Episode 14 boxscore - Tribal Council
	Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Ozzy	1	-	6	1	1.55	10.72
Becky	1	-	6	1	1.24	6.17
Yul	1	-	6	1	1.30	5.92
Adam	0	-	6	1	0.87	5.37
Parvati	0	4	6	1	0.95	4.65
Sundra	1	2	6	1	1.05	4.64
Penner	-	-	-	-	1.02	2.33
Candice	-	-	-	-	0.92	3.02
Nate	-	-	-	-	0.55	1.80
Jenny	-	-	-	-	1.05	2.94
Rebecca	-	-	-	-	0.99	2.80
Brad	-	-	-	-	0.86	2.13
Flica	-	-	-	-	0.77	1.75
Cristina	-	-	-	-	0.98	2.67
Cao Boi	-	-	-	-	1.00	2.23
Stephannie	-	-	-	-	0.81	1.73
J.P.	-	-	-	-	0.51	1.48
Cecilia	-	-	-	-	0.49	1.66
Billy	-	-	-	-	-0.58	0.10
Sekou	-	-	-	-	-0.60	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.