Episode 4: "The Tables Have Turned"
Survivor 34: Game Changers Episode 4 boxscore
Filmed: June 15-16, 2016 | Aired: March 22, 2017
![Malcolm idoled out by the other tribe, [0]-5](../images/e4/e4tc-pb.jpg "Malcolm idoled out by the other tribe, [0]-5")
- Ep4 Reward challenge: "Ram-Ball On" - For no obvious reason, Survivor forces eleven people to sit out of the first reward challenge. Malcolm finally delivers a clutch performance, winning for Nuku; Culpepper second for Mana.
- Ep4 Immunity challenge: "Ow Pairs" - In a twist, only Tavua wins, both Mana and Nuku attend Tribal.
- Ep4 voted out: Malcolm, idoled out [0]-5 over Sierra, who played Tai's newly found idol.
Episode 4 scoring notes
- The Ep.4 reward challenge was scored as a duel/hero challenge (since it was essentially a pre-merge San Juan del Sur RC, minus the clunky arena), with two people competing. And as a duel with a second place. So... half-credit for the win, divided by two (0.25 ChW for JT and Malcolm), then divided by two again for Mana (0.125 for Tai and Brad). Zero points for the losers (Ozzy and Troyzan). Nobody charged with sitting out, despite 11 people not participating.
- The Ep.4 immunity challenge: Because both losing tribes went to Tribal, only Tavua received credit for the win. No points for second place. Also, Sandra and Troyzan officially sat out of the IC, meaning Sandra had a free pass the entire episode.
- Sierra's idol play was Tai's idol play (updated after the season ended). Tai gets credit for the play by handing the idol to Sierra and telling her to play it for herself.
Vote count:
- [*Sierra received 6 votes, all voided by the idol play, from Aubry, JT, Malcolm, Michaela, Sandra, and Varner.]
- Malcolm received 5 votes, from Brad, Debbie, Hali, Sierra, and Tai (idoled out, [0]-5).
Other S34: Game Changers boxscores
| Reward Challenge | Immunity Challenge | Tribal council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | SO | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Varner | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.96 | 4.83 |
| Michaela | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.94 | 3.90 |
| Aubry | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.93 | 3.28 |
| Sandra | - | - | - | 0.20 | 1 | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.62 | 2.50 |
| Malcolm | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | 2.49 |
| J.T. | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.58 | 0.63 |
| Troyzan | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | 0.20 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1.08 | 7.08 |
| Andrea | - | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Cirie | - | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Ozzy | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Sarah | - | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Zeke | - | - | 0.20 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Brad | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.31 | 7.34 |
| Tai | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.31 | 7.34 |
| Debbie | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.37 | 7.21 |
| Sierra | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | 0* | 11 | 1 | 1.37 | 7.21 |
| Hali | - | - | 0.00 | 0.20 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.99 | 5.60 |
| Caleb | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.60 | 2.07 |
| Tony | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.32 | 1.27 |
| Ciera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.90 | 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.