Survivor 26: Caramoan, Episode 10 boxscore

Episode 10: "Zipping Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: April 18, 2013

Survivor 26: Caramoan Episode 10 boxscore

Filmed: June 15-17, 2012 | Aired: April 17, 2013

Reward challenge: "Muddy Waters" - Reynold, Erik, Dawn, Cochran, and Phillip manage to beat Malcolm at a challenge he'd just done a few months earlier. They win a spa getaway for their efforts.
Immunity challenge: "Keel Hauling" - In another repeat of a classic challenge, Phillip chooses to sit out, and Reynold wins.
Voted out: Phillip, 4-0-0 over Eddie and Malcolm, which would have been 4-4-2 had the latter two not played idols.

Episode 10 scoring notes

Immunity challenge oddities: Phillip receives credit for a rare official post-merge sit-out for sitting out the IC. For his percent finish, he gets a solid zero. Meanwhile, five people tied for fifth place (not advancing to the final heat), and their % Finish is thus the average of those five slots in which they would have placed (9th through 5th), or the points for seventh (0.40). Same for Brenda and Andrea tying for 3rd/4th in the final heat.

Vote count:

Phillip received 4 votes, from Malcolm, Eddie, Reynold, and Erik (idoled out, 4-[0]-[0]).
[*Eddie received 4 votes, all voided by his idol play, from Dawn, Sherri, Brenda, and Andrea.]
[**Malcolm received 2 votes, all voided by his idol play, from Cochran and Phillip.]

Other S26: Caramoan boxscores

Episode 10 boxscore - Challenges
	Reward challenge		Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	ChW	ChA	SO	Plc	%Fin	MPF
Andrea	0.00	0.20	0	1	-	t-3	0.75	78%
Malcolm	0.00	0.20	0	1	-	2	0.90	76%
Cochran	0.20	0.20	0	1	-	t-5	0.40	71%
Reynold	0.20	0.20	1	1	-	1	1.00	70%
Brenda	0.00	0.20	0	1	-	t-3	0.75	68%
Eddie	0.00	0.20	0	1	-	t-5	0.40	62%
Dawn	0.20	0.20	0	1	-	t-5	0.40	35%
Erik	0.20	0.20	0	1	-	t-5	0.40	32%
Sherri	0.00	0.20	0	1	-	t-5	0.40	29%
Phillip	0.20	0.20	-	1	1	10	0.00	25%

Episode 10 boxscore - Tribal Council
	Tribal Council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Erik	1	-	10	1	1.10	7.07
Cochran	0	-	10	1	1.13	7.03
Brenda	0	-	10	1	1.02	6.27
Dawn	0	-	10	1	0.99	5.45
Malcolm	1	0**	10	1	0.85	5.43
Reynold	1	-	10	1	0.77	4.01
Phillip	0	4	10	1	0.90	3.18
Sherri	0	-	10	1	0.94	3.17
Andrea	0	-	10	1	0.99	3.10
Eddie	1	0*	10	1	0.52	2.28
Michael	-	-	-	-	0.53	1.32
Corinne	-	-	-	-	1.01	2.65
Julia	-	-	-	-	0.75	2.13
Matt	-	-	-	-	0.70	2.02
Brandon	-	-	-	-	0.53	0.76
Laura	-	-	-	-	0.73	1.97
Shamar	-	-	-	-	0.50	1.37
Hope	-	-	-	-	0.16	0.10
Allie	-	-	-	-	-0.28	0.10
Francesca	-	-	-	-	-0.10	0.10

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.