Survivor 27: Blood vs. Water boxscores
Episode 9: "My Brother's Keeper"
By Jeff Pitman | Published: November 14, 2013
Survivor 27: Blood vs. Water Episode 9 boxscore

Filmed: June 11-13, 2013 | Aired: November 13, 2013
Monica loves her grub
Vytas out, 8-1-1
Katie wins IC
Tina out, 7-1-1

 

  • Final 10 Immunity challenge: "Pesky Palate" - Monica beats Gervase in the final round (grubs, of course).
  • Final 10 voted out: Vytas, 8-1-1 over Katie and Tyson (a.k.a. "Thai Sun")
  • Immunity challenge: "Balancing Point" - Katie wins!
  • Final 9 voted out: Tina, 7-1-1 over Monica and Tyson. Redemption Island hastily repopulated.
Episode 9 scoring notes
  • Since neither of the Tyson votes were shown, they must have came from the bootees, and that no other Katie votes were unshown at the first Tribal Council. (Ciera voted for Katie at the F10 Tribal Council, Katie voted for Monica at the F9 Tribal Council.)
  • Vytas stated on twitter that the F10 IC (gross food) had a semi-final round of three: eating cow eyeballs, featuring himself, Gervase, and Tina. But his failure to advance from that round was edited into the previous (sheep intestine) round to save time. We've given him credit for a third-place finish there.
Vote count - F10 Tribal:
  • Vytas received 8 votes, from Tyson, Monica, Gervase, Tina, Laura M., Hayden, Katie, and Caleb (voted out, 8-1-1).
  • Katie received 1 vote, from Ciera.
  • Tyson received 1 vote, from Vytas.
Vote count - F9 Tribal:
  • Tina received 7 votes, from Tyson, Monica, Gervase, Ciera, Laura M., Hayden, and Caleb (voted out, 7-1-1).
  • Monicareceived 1 vote, from Katie.
  • Tyson received 1 vote, from Tina.
Episode 9 boxscore - Challenges
F10 Immunity challenge F9 Immunity challenge Overall score
Contestant ChW ChA Plc % Fin ChW ChA Plc % Fin MPF
Vytas 0 1 3 0.80 - - - - 90%
Gervase 0 1 2 0.90 0 1 6 0.44 72%
Hayden 0 1 t-4 0.60 0 1 2 0.89 68%
Tyson 0 1 t-4 0.60 0 1 3 0.78 60%
Caleb 0 1 t-4 0.60 0 1 4 0.67 50%
Katie 0 1 t-7 0.25 1 1 1 1.00 49%
Laura M. 0 1 t-7 0.25 0 1 5 0.56 49%
Monica 1 1 1 1.00 0 1 9 0.11 40%
Ciera 0 1 t-7 0.25 0 1 8 0.22 40%
Tina 0 1 t-7 0.25 0 1 7 0.33 33%
Episode 9 boxscore - Tribal Councils
F10 Tribal Council stats F9 Tribal Council stats Overall scores
Contestant VFB VAP TotV TCA VFB VAP TotV TCA SurvSc SurvAv
Caleb 1 - 10 1 1 - 9 1 1.27 7.57
Monica 1 - 10 1 1 1 9 1 1.19 7.40
Gervase 1 - 10 1 1 - 9 1 1.42 6.51
Hayden 1 - 10 1 1 - 9 1 1.10 6.40
Tina 1 - 10 1 0 7 9 1 0.98 5.98
Tyson 1 1 10 1 1 1 9 1 1.10 5.58
Katie 1 1 10 1 0 - 9 1 0.72 3.12
Laura M. 1 - 10 1 1 - 9 1 1.01 2.96
Ciera 0 - 10 1 1 - 9 1 0.98 2.49
Vytas 0 8 10 1 - - - - 0.98 2.53
Aras - - - - - - - - 0.68 1.76
Laura B. - - - - - - - - 0.66 1.48
John - - - - - - - - 1.21 3.50
Kat - - - - - - - - 0.78 2.33
Brad - - - - - - - - 0.94 3.05
Candice - - - - - - - - 0.03 1.25
Marissa - - - - - - - - 0.05 0.50
Rachel - - - - - - - - 0.27 1.04
Colton* - - - - - - - - 1.26 1.31
Rupert - - - - - - - - 0.00 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.