Filmed: July 4-6, 2007 |
Aired: October 11, 2007
- Ep. 4 Reward challenge: "Great Balls
of Fire" - Zhan Hu loses ground on the first ball, never
recovers. Fei Long takes Dave.
- Ep. 4 idol clue: Dave works out a
deal with Todd to kidnap him & share his clue next
time, which will now never happen.
- Ep. 4 Immunity challenge: "Warrior's
Duel" - Fei Long is slightly better at flinging balls at
vases, wins 4-3.
- Ep. 4 voted out: Dave, 5-1 over
Sherea.
Episode 4 scoring notes
- Another episode, another Fei Long decision to sit
Courtney out of the RC, forcing her to compete in the IC
(where she does just as much as Aaron and Denise). This
time, the gamble pays off for them, although there's no
reason she couldn't have done well in the RC. Weird
choices.
Vote count:
- Dave received 5 votes, from
Peih-Gee, Erik, Frosti, Jaime, and Sherea (voted out,
5-1).
- Sherea received 1 vote, from Dave.
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.