Episode 9: "Cut Throat"
S23: South Pacific boxscores Episode 9
Filmed: June 20-22, 2011 | Aired:
November 9, 2011
- Final 11 Immunity challenge: "Get Crackin'" - Jim succeeds and spits the juice of coconuts.
- Final 11 voted out: Ozzy, 9-2 over Cochran.
- Final 10 Immunity challenge: "Bow-Diddley" - Upolu + Cochran gorge themselves on donuts and muffins, while Jim, Dawn and Whitney try to balance and hold a ball in a bow.
- Final 10 voted out: Jim, 7-3 over... Edna?
Episode 9 scoring notes
- Ties and Mean % finish: This was the first individual challenge where a group of people had the same placement. Here, seven people tied for fifth place, by failing to advance from the first round of the IC. Since they were equally close to dead last (11th place), for % Finish, all seven receive the average of the points for those seven slots (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th), which works out to be the same as 8th.
- Sit-outs in the F10 IC: Everyone who chose sitting out to eat over competing? They all tied for last place, and earned a flat 0% in % Finish in the F10 immunity challenge. Plus the three actual participants still received placement points for competing in a challenge with 10 people (so Jim's 3rd-place points work out to be 8/10, not 1/3). We'd say they've probably learned their lesson for next time, but they're unlikely to ever read this.
Final 11 vote count:
- Ozzy received 9 votes, from Sophie, Coach, Albert, Brandon, Rick, Edna, Cochran, Whitney, and Dawn (voted out, 9-2).
- Cochran received 2 votes, from Ozzy and Jim.
Final 10 vote count:
- Jim received 7 votes, from Sophie, Coach, Albert, Brandon, Rick, Edna, and Cochran (voted out, 7-3).
- Edna received 3 votes, from Whitney, Dawn, and Jim.
Other S23: South Pacific boxscores
| F11 Immunity challenge | F10 Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | SO | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Dawn | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.77 | 0 | 1 | - | 2 | 0.90 | 89% |
| Whitney | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.77 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1.00 | 76% |
| Jim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | - | 3 | 0.80 | 77% |
| Ozzy | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | - | - | - | - | 68% |
| Sophie | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.91 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 55% |
| Albert | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 41% |
| Brandon | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 37% |
| Rick | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 25% |
| Coach | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 20% |
| Edna | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 20% |
| Cochran | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.36 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.00 | 16% |
| F10 Tribal Council | F10 Tribal Council | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Coach | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.12 | 7.55 |
| Brandon | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.14 | 7.55 |
| Albert | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.97 | 6.38 |
| Whitney | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.93 | 5.43 |
| Dawn | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.07 | 4.77 |
| Sophie | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.80 | 4.28 |
| Cochran | 1 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.09 | 2.98 |
| Rick | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.95 | 2.88 |
| Edna | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0.95 | 2.49 |
| Ozzy | 0 | 9 | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0.90 | 2.95 |
| Jim | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0.77 | 2.43 |
| Keith | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.79 | 2.11 |
| Christine | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.36 | 2.61 |
| Mikayla | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.90 | 1.93 |
| Elyse | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.86 | 2.13 |
| Stacey | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.06 | 0.24 |
| Papa Bear | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.47 | 1.00 |
| Semhar | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.89 | 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.
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