Episode 8: "The Biggest Fraud in the Game"
S18: Tocantins boxscores Episode 8
Filmed: November 23-25, 2008 |
Aired: April 16, 2009
- Ep8 Reward challenge: "Rock Block" - The black team (Brendan, JT, Debbie) wins a white-water rafting trip. They exile Stephen, who spends two days alone.
- Ep8 Immunity challenge: "Rope-A-Dope" - Tyson narrowly beats Brendan in the finals (JT is third).
- Ep8 voted out: Brendan, 4-3-2 over Sierra and Coach, respectively.
Episode 8 scoring notes
- If you needed any further hints as to which way this season's final two was going to go down, the entire episode was scene after scene of even more people (Erinn, Brendan, Taj, Sierra) saying how much they love J.T., and how they, themselves, would be personally devastated if he was voted out this early. In contrast, poor Stephen was exiled for two days by himself, for no obvious reason, and with little social impact.
- It was also an extremely odd Tribal Council. Brendan announced to all present that yes, he had the idol (only marginally goaded by Probst!), and then ... failed to play it. A frustrating end for a guy who seemed to have all the necessary tools, had a great pre-merge game, then just fizzled out into nothing, just like the cross-tribal Exile alliance. Had he played the idol, Sierra would have been the first juror, and Brendan would have been in just as much trouble the next time. But still, sigh.
Vote count:
- Brendan received 4 votes, from Stephen, Taj, Coach, and Debbie (voted out, 4-3-2).
- Sierra received 3 votes, from JT, Erinn, and Tyson.
- Coach received 2 votes, from Brendan and Sierra.
| Reward Challenge | Immunity Challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Tyson | 0.00 | 0.33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100% |
| Sierra | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.67 | 73.3% |
| J.T. | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.78 | 68.9% |
| Debbie | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | t-6 | 0.39 | 64.4% |
| Coach | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.56 | 62.8% |
| Brendan | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.89 | 59.4% |
| Erinn | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | t-6 | 0.39 | 44.4% |
| Taj | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.22 | 31.1% |
| Stephen | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.11 | 10.6% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Debbie | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.25 | 7.99 |
| Stephen | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.15 | 7.60 |
| Tyson | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.38 | 7.53 |
| J.T. | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.08 | 6.73 |
| Coach | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1.19 | 5.53 |
| Erinn | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.82 | 4.39 |
| Taj | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.98 | 4.00 |
| Brendan | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0.91 | 3.53 |
| Sierra | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0.83 | 3.19 |
| 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
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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.