Survivor 2: The Australian Outback

Ep. 12: "Enough Is Enough"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: February 23, 2015

S2: The Australian Outback boxscores Episode 12

Filmed: November 25-27, 2000 | Aired: April 19, 2001

Reward challenge: "Survivor.com" - Loved ones compete, Tina's family knows the most trivia. Tears galore.
Immunity challenge: "Fugitives" - Keith drops one of his locks, and thanks to it being dark, can't find it. Colby wins.
Voted out: Rodger, 3-2 over Keith.

Episode 12 scoring notes

In a scoring change upon re-watch, we did not give Tina credit for the RC win, since everyone's loved ones competed in their place. Sorry, Tina. It was a win for everyone. Nobody gets charged with a challenge appearance either, at least. That does raise another question: should Colby's challenge streak remain intact through this challenge? One could reasonably argue that Colby won seven straight individual challenges in which he competed, which is a record.
At the time, Rodger volunteering to be voted out first, ahead of Elisabeth who needed the money, seemed a bit dopey, but quite noble. In light of both how the game has evolved, and the opportunities that presented themselves to Elisabeth post-Survivor, this now seems an especially dumb move, and worst of all, completely antithetical to the modern game in which people (should) be playing to win. Why couldn't Rodger and Elisabeth have talked Keith into voting out Tina? (Obviously, because everyone wanted to be the good guys, and were happy with either 4th or 5th place.) It's not just the ancient, transparent/blue iMac that makes this episode seem dated, it's the game itself.

Vote count:

Rodger received 3 votes, from Tina, Colby, and Keith (voted out, 3-2).
Keith received 2 votes, from Rodger and Elisabeth.

Episode 12 boxscore - challenges
	Reward Challenge		Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Colby	-	-	1	1	1	1.00	75%
Keith	-	-	-	1	2	0.80	60%
Tina	-	-	-	1	t-3	0.50	55%
Rodger	-	-	-	1	5	0.20	48%
Elisabeth	-	-	-	1	t-3	0.50	46%

Episode 12 boxscore - Tribal
	Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Colby	1	-	5	1	1.39	7.86
Tina	1	-	5	1	1.06	7.59
Keith	1	2	5	1	1.14	5.08
Elisabeth	0	-	5	1	0.59	3.30
Rodger	0	3	5	1	0.55	2.13
Amber	-	-	-	-	0.68	2.34
Nick	-	-	-	-	0.77	3.72
Jerri	-	-	-	-	0.97	3.26
Alicia	-	-	-	-	0.68	2.53
Jeff	-	-	-	-	0.96	2.67
Skupin	-	-	-	-	1.21	2.84
Kimmi	-	-	-	-	0.73	1.97
Mitchell	-	-	-	-	1.00	2.73
Maralyn	-	-	-	-	0.93	1.95
Kel	-	-	-	-	-0.21	0.25
Debb	-	-	-	-	-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.