Survivor: Tocantins Episode 13 boxscore

Episode 13: "I Trust You, But I Trust Me More"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: July 17, 2015

Survivor: Tocantins boxscores Episode 13

Filmed: December 8-10, 2008 | Aired: Sunday, May 17, 2009

Ep13 Final four Immunity challenge: "Tarantula" - JT wins, barely.
Final four voted out: Taj, 3-1 over Erinn.

Final three Immunity challenge: "Simmotion" - JT wins again.
Final three voted out: Erinn, 1-0 (or 2-1) over Stephen.
Final Tribal Council jury vote: JT wins, 7-0, over Stephen.

Episode 13 scoring notes

On re-watch, the F4 IC was on par with the similar one in South Pacific as a surprisingly nail-biting mix of physical and mental effort. Except this time, the Ozzy held on and won it. Had JT not raced out to a gigantic lead collecting the bags (say, if Taj had refused to let him pass when they were both in the same tunnel, at a time when she knew perfectly well he was about to collect his final bag), he probably would have lost, which would have created an interesting conundrum for the other three. But no, everyone — especially Taj — loves JT.
As is standard, the scoring compromise for F3 vote-outs: All three get a TCA. JT and Stephen each get a VFB, but Erinn only receives one VAP. Messy, weird.

Final four vote count:

Taj received 3 votes, from JT, Stephen, and Erinn (voted out, 3-1).
Erinn received 1 vote, from Taj.

Final three vote count:

Erinn received 1 vote, from JT (voted out, 1-0 or 2-1).

Jury vote count:

JTreceived 8 votes, from Brendan, Tyson, Sierra, Debbie, Coach, Erinn, and Taj (winner, 7-0).
Stephen received 0 votes.

Episode 13 boxscore - challenges
	F4 Immunity Challenge				F3 Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
J.T.	1	1	1	1.00	1	1	1	1.00	76.3%
Stephen	0	1	t-3	0.40	0	1	2	0.67	47.5%
Taj	0	1	4	0.25	-	-	-	-	43.0%
Erinn	0	1	2	0.75	0	1	3	0.33	40.3%

Episode 13 boxscore - Tribals
	F4 Tribal council stats				F3 Tribal council stats
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA
J.T.	1	-	4	1	1	-	3	1
Stephen	1	-	4	1	1	-	3	1
Erinn	1	1	4	1	0	1	3	1
Taj	0	3	4	1	-	-	-	-

Episode 13 boxscore - jury vote
	Jury stats			Overall scores
Contestant	JVF	TotJ	JV%	SurvSc	SurvAv
J.T.	7	7	1.00	2.26	17.11
Stephen	0	7	0.00	1.21	8.20
Erinn	-	-	-	0.73	2.98
Taj	-	-	-	0.76	2.58
Coach	-	-	-	0.74	3.46
Debbie	-	-	-	0.92	4.11
Sierra	-	-	-	0.66	1.98
Tyson	-	-	-	1.05	4.66
Brendan	-	-	-	0.91	3.53
Joe*	-	-	-	0.84	1.92
Sydney	-	-	-	1.19	3.42
Spencer	-	-	-	1.06	2.67
Sandy	-	-	-	0.98	2.03
Jerry	-	-	-	0.53	1.53
Candace	-	-	-	-0.41	0.13
Carolina	-	-	-	-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.