Episode 14: "What About Me?" (finale)
Survivor 21: Nicaragua Episode 14 boxscore
Filmed: July 20-22, 2010 | Aired: Sunday, December 19, 2010
- Ep.14 Final 5 IC: "Donkey Dig" - Fabio spots everyone else an extra trip back to the Q&A stands, still wins.
- Ep.14 F5 Tribal: Fabio and Dan try to convince Sash that Holly is a much bigger jury threat than Dan is, but Sash declines to join them. So Dan is out, 4-1 over Chase.
- Ep.14 Final 4 IC: "Balancing Point" - It's just stacking coins (later seen as the BvsW challenge that Tina's daughter, Katie Collins wins!). Fabio's stack has a lean, but Sash's drops first, and Fabio wins, and is through to the finals.
- Ep.14 F4 Tribal: Here, Chase and Sash (and Fabio) wisely realize that Holly is the last Espada standing, the last woman standing, and has a great story, and vote her out, 3-1 over Sash.
- Final Tribal/ jury vote: A pretty cantankerous jury (except NaOnka and Purple Kelly, who are nice), and the vote is much closer than it should be, but in the end, Fabio barely squeaks it out, 5-4-0 over Chase and Sash, respectively.
Episode 14 scoring notes
- This is all pretty standard, except that the F5 IC had a clear finish order, which is rare with a puzzle: Fabio, Sash (right behind), Holly (closing in), Chase (missing a piece), and Dan (way behind). Apart from Dan's last stand at F5 Tribal, not much of note in the finale as a whole, even. Very obvious votes, all unanimous, apart from the jury vote, of course. Padded out, of course, with Rites of Passage (yawn).
Final five vote count:
- Dan received 4 votes, from Chase, Fabio, Holly, and Sash (voted out, 4-1).
- Chase received 1 vote, from Dan.
Final four vote count:
- Holly received 3 votes, from Chase, Fabio, and Sash (voted out, 3-1).
- Sash received 1 vote, from Holly.
Jury vote count:
- Fabio received 5 votes, from Marty, NaOnka, Purple Kelly, Benry, and Dan (Winner, 5-4-0).
- Chase received 4 votes, from Alina, Brenda, Jane, and Holly.
- Sash received 0 votes.
| F5 Immunity challenge | F4 Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChA | ChW | Plc | % Fin | ChA | ChW | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Fabio | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 72.5% |
| Chase | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.40 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.50 | 71.9% |
| Holly | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.60 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.25 | 53.5% |
| Sash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.80 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.82 | 51.8% |
| Dan | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | 33.2% |
| F5 Tribal | F4 Tribal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA |
| Fabio | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 |
| Chase | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 |
| Holly | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Sash | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Dan | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Jury vote stats | Overall scores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | JVF | TotzJ | JV% | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Chase | 4 | 9 | 0.44 | 1.72 | 11.53 |
| Fabio | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | 1.57 | 11.01 |
| Sash | 0 | 9 | 0.00 | 1.04 | 6.72 |
| Holly | - | - | - | 0.98 | 4.75 |
| Dan | - | - | - | 0.78 | 2.22 |
| Jane | - | - | - | 0.74 | 3.38 |
| Benry | - | - | - | 0.87 | 3.48 |
| Purple Kelly | - | - | - | 0.79 | 2.20 |
| NaOnka | - | - | - | 1.05 | 2.76 |
| Brenda | - | - | - | 1.07 | 2.85 |
| Marty | - | - | - | 0.65 | 1.34 |
| Alina | - | - | - | 0.70 | 1.81 |
| Jill | - | - | - | 1.27 | 4.15 |
| Yve | - | - | - | 0.71 | 1.78 |
| Kelly B | - | - | - | 0.61 | 2.34 |
| Tyrone | - | - | - | 1.05 | 2.35 |
| Jimmy T | - | - | - | 0.87 | 2.20 |
| Jimmy J | - | - | - | 0.66 | 1.29 |
| Shannon | - | - | - | -0.23 | 0.10 |
| Wendy | - | - | - | -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.