Episode 6: "Down and Dirty"
Survivor 25: Philippines Episode 6 boxscore
Filmed: April 1-2, 2012 | Aired: October 24, 2012
- Reward challenge: "Bog Roll" - an hour into the first (and only) heat, Penner and Skupin negotiate a surrender, exactly like Lee and Grant at Appomattox: Kalabaw gets the reward, Tandang gets Kalabaw's remaining rice. Peace is restored! Kalabaw wins! Sort of!
- Immunity challenge: "Philiping Out" - Tandang (mostly Malcolm) narrowly comes back, edging Kalabaw, 5-4, in catching slungshot balls (at least as shown on TV, the actual total was probably a lot higher).
- Voted out: Katie, 4-1 over Penner.
Episode 6 scoring notes
- Reward challenge mess: Okay... we're going with Kalabaw "winning" the reward, simply because Probst announced, after the negotiations had ended, "Kalabaw wins reward!" So no win points for Tandang, even though they got rice out of the deal. We are heartless bastards.
- *Secondly, there's also a sit-out problem. Officially, RC and Artis were the only people sitting out. But Abi-Maria, Malcolm, Katie, and Jeff Kent all were sitting on the sidelines during the first (and only) heat, and never actually participated. So we're going with no "win" points for Kent or Katie, either. That raises a second question: How many people participated? We're going with 5 per tribe. If the non-participants felt strongly enough about competing, they would have nixed the deal, so in our eyes, they were eligible to compete, but chose to sit out. Basically, all of this is completely arbitrary, and we're going with the smallest possible positive score for the "winners," in an attempt to dilute out the effects of it all.
Vote count:
- Katie received 4 votes, from Denise, Penner, Jeff Kent!, and Carter (voted out, 4-1).
- Penner received 1 vote, from Katie.
Other S25: Philippines boxscores
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | SO | ChW | ChA | SO | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Carter | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.53 | 7.88 |
| Jeff | 0.00* | 0.20 | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.41 | 7.68 |
| Penner | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1.49 | 6.48 |
| Denise | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.11 | 5.80 |
| Katie | 0.00* | 0.20 | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0.48 | 2.02 |
| Malcolm | 0.00* | 0.20 | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.29 | 6.11 |
| Skupin | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | - | 0.20 | 1 | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| Artis | - | 0.20 | 1 | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| Pete | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| Abi-Maria | 0.00* | 0.20 | - | - | 0.20 | 1 | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| Lisa | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| RC | - | 0.20 | 1 | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | NA | NA |
| Dawson | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.70 | 0.17 |
| Dana | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.53 | 0.52 |
| Russell | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.69 | 2.63 | |
| Angie | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.58 | 2.33 | |
| Roxy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.32 | 1.75 | |
| Zane | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.83 | 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.