Episode 12: "I'm Gonna Fix Her!"
Survivor: Micronesia Episode 12 boxscore
Filmed: November 28-30, 2007 | Aired: May 1, 2008
![Alexis idoled out, [0]-2](../images/e12/e12tc-pb.jpg "Alexis idoled out, [0]-2")
- Ep.12 RC: "Body Slam" - Challenge is performed in front of Loved Ones, it's "Touchy Subjects." Parvati is first eliminated, is mad, and Alexis wins. She picks Natalie and Cirie (and their loved ones) to join her on reward, exiles Amanda (who sort of volunteers).
- Ep.12 medevac: Medical had looked at James's finger the night before. It did not get better, and he's pulled right after the RC.
- Ep.12 reward: Alexis, her brother, Natalie, her mom, and Cirie & her husband get to swim in Jellyfish Lake, as seen in Palau.
- Ep.12 exile: Amanda's trip to Exile is semi-fruitful. She follows all the clues, eventually digs up the final one, only to learn that the idol is back at camp, buried under their tribe flag. When she gets back to camp, she empties her bag, to prove she didn't find the idol. After the IC, she digs it up.
- Ep.12 IC: "Shoot to Thrill" - Also as seen in Palau. Erik hits all three of his shots, so he wins, easily. Such excitement.
- Voted out: Amanda puts on a sad show, acting like she knows she's out. Then she whips out the idol after the vote, voids four votes, and Alexis is idoled out, [0]-2.
Episode 12 scoring notes
- Challenge scoring: In the RC, the order of elimination is pretty basic. In the IC, Erik had three hits (1st), Natalie had two (2nd), Amanda and Parvati each hit once (tie-3rd), and Cirie and Alexis missed all three times (tie-5th).
- *James's medevac: As always, we adjusted James's score as if he had been unanimously voted out (7 VAP, 7 TotV, 1 TCA).
- Perception vs. reality: During Tribal, Probst asked who the physical threats were. People replied Erik (who won immunity) and Amanda. Missing was Natalie, who finished second in the IC, and whose MPF is 0.1% behind Amanda's. Oh well!
Vote count:
- [**Amanda received 4 votes, from Alexis, Cirie, Erik, and Natalie, all voided by Amanda's idol play.]
- Alexis received 2 votes, from Amanda and Parvati (idoled out, [0]-2).
| Reward Challenge | Immunity Challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| James | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.43 | - | - | - | - | 62.2% |
| Erik | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.29 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 60.9% |
| Amanda | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.86 | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.50 | 55.2% |
| Natalie | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.71 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 55.1% |
| Parvati | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.50 | 43.4% |
| Alexis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.21 | 44.3% |
| Cirie | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.57 | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.21 | 35.2% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Amanda | 1 | 0** | 6 | 1 | 1.04 | 7.19 |
| Parvati | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1.33 | 6.17 |
| Natalie | 0 | - | 6 | 1 | 0.83 | 5.69 |
| Cirie | 0 | - | 6 | 1 | 1.00 | 5.68 |
| Erik | 0 | - | 6 | 1 | 0.98 | 4.59 |
| Alexis | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0.74 | 4.25 |
| James | - | 7* | 7* | 1* | 0.68 | 2.52 |
| Jason | - | - | - | - | 0.56 | 2.88 |
| Ozzy | - | - | - | - | 1.04 | 2.77 |
| Eliza | - | - | - | - | 0.95 | 2.98 |
| Ami | - | - | - | - | 0.88 | 2.97 |
| Tracy | - | - | - | - | 0.71 | 1.91 |
| Kathy* | - | - | - | - | 1.26 | 3.44 |
| Chet | - | - | - | - | 0.76 | 1.52 |
| Penner* | - | - | - | - | 0.92 | 1.64 |
| Joel | - | - | - | - | 0.37 | 1.14 |
| Mikey B | - | - | - | - | -0.03 | 0.21 |
| Yau-Man | - | - | - | - | 1.19 | 2.62 |
| Mary | - | - | - | - | -0.52 | 0.10 |
| Fairplay | - | - | - | - | -0.90 | 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.