Survivor 25: Philippines, Episode 7 boxscore

Episode 7: "Not the Only Actor on This Island"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: November 1, 2012

Survivor 25: Philippines Episode 7 boxscore

Filmed: April 3-4, 2012 | Aired: October 31, 2012

No reward challenge: Merge instead. Yay. Hello, Dangrayne.
Immunity challenge: "Wrist Assured" - In an endurance challenge that measures solely wrist-strength-to-body-weight ratio, Denise wins women's immunity, Carter wins for men.
Voted out: RC, idoled out, [0]-4-2 over Penner (whose five votes against were all erased when played his hidden immunity idol) and Pete.

Episode 7 scoring notes

Finally, every contestant has a score of some kind! Although, in this star-crossed season, the scores still can't be totally clean and simple, since there was...
*Penner's idol play: the original 11 total votes are counted (for TotV), but the votes against Penner are not counted for either the VFB or VAP tallies (because Penner cancelled the votes against him with the idol, and he wasn't booted).
Also, the debut of MPF in individual challenges, in which the percentages look different for men and women, because Denise won out of four women total, while Carter won out of seven men total.

Vote count:

[Penner received 5 votes, none of which counted, from Denise, Skupin, Lisa, Malcolm, and Abi-Maria]
RC received 4 votes, from Carter, Pete, Artis, and Jeff Kent (idoled out, [0]-4-2).
Pete received 2 votes, from Penner and RC.

Other S25: Philippines boxscores

Episode 7 boxscore
	Immunity challenge					Tribal Council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Carter	1	1	1	1.00	100%	1	-	11	1	1.71	8.88
Artis	0	1	3	0.71	71%	1	-	11	1	1.47	8.25
Jeff	0	1	2	0.86	86%	1	-	11	1	1.26	7.68
Denise	1	1	1	1.00	100%	0	-	11	1	1.30	6.00
Pete	0	1	6	0.29	29%	1	2	11	1	1.29	5.92
Malcolm	0	1	4	0.57	57%	0	-	11	1	0.98	4.99
Penner	0	1	5	0.43	43%	0	0*	11	1	0.98	4.62
Skupin	0	1	7	0.14	14%	0	-	11	1	0.40	1.05
RC	0	1	3	0.50	50%	0	4	11	1	-0.02	0.92
Lisa	0	1	4	0.25	25%	0	-	11	1	0.30	0.79
Abi-Maria	0	1	2	0.75	75%	0	-	11	1	0.09	0.23
Katie	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.48	2.02
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.