Episode 14: "It's Game Time, Kids"
S36: Ghost Island Episode 14 boxscore
Filmed: July 10-13, 2017 | Aired: May 23, 2018
- Final 6 Immunity challenge: "Vin Skully" - Wendell dominates the puzzle, and this time calls Probst over right away.
- Final 6 voted out: Sebastian, 4-1-1 over Domenick and Donathan. Dom pre-plays the David Wright fake idol; Seb declines to play his extra vote advantage, even though it expires at this Tribal.
![Donathan out, 4-[0]](../images/e14/f5tc-pb.jpg "Donathan out, 4-[0]")
- Final 5 Immunity challenge: "Pyramid Scheme" - Wendell again masters the puzzle, wins.
- Final 5 voted out: Donathan, 4-[0] over Laurel. Wendell plays his idol for Laurel, voiding 1 vote. Dom plays his idol for himself, voiding zero votes.
- Final 4 Immunity challenge: "Stacked Up" - Wendell drops his stack, Dom wins.
- Final 4 Ghost Island: Everyone goes there to... choose an urn? WTF?
- Final 4 out: Wendell beats Angela at firemaking; Angela out.
- Final jury vote: Wendell and Domenick tie, 5-5-0; Laurel becomes the final juror, and Wendell wins!
Episode 14 scoring notes
- The final juror: Laurel was both a finalist and a juror. Technically, she saw only 10 jury votes as a finalist, but Dom and Wendell saw 11 total. So she should have 10 TotJ, while Dom and Wendell have 11.
Vote count: Final 6 Tribal
- Sebastian received 4 votes, from Angela, Domenick, Laurel, and Wendell (voted out, 4-1-1).
- Domenick received 1 vote, from Donathan.
- Donathan received 1 vote, from Sebastian (who did not use his extra vote advantage).
Vote count: Final 5 Tribal
- Donathan received 4 votes, from Angela, Domenick, Laurel, and Wendell (voted out, 4-[0]).
- [*Laurel received 1 vote, from Donathan; voided by Wendell's idol play.]
Vote count: Jury vote
- Wendell received 5 votes, from Chelsea, Kellyn, Sebastian, Donathan, and Angela.
- Domenick received 5 votes, from Chris, Libby, Desiree, Jenna, and Michael.
- ... and Wendell received the final jury vote on the tie-breaker, from Laurel (winner, 5-5-0 [1-0]).
Other S36: Ghost Island boxscores
| F6 Immunity Challenge | F5 Immunity Challenge | F4 Immunity Challenge | Overall score | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Domenick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 75.4% |
| Sebastian | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 1.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 63.7% |
| Wendell | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 60.4% |
| Laurel | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 58.9% |
| Angela | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 48.9% |
| Donathan | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.15 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 40.6% |
| F6 Tribal council | F5 Tribal council | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA |
| Domenick | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Sebastian | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Laurel | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0* | 5 | 1 |
| Donathan | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Wendell | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Angela | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | JVF | TotJ | JV% | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Domenick | 5 | 11 | 0.45 | 1.60 | 10.77 |
| Wendell | 6 | 11 | 0.55 | 1.63 | 9.65 |
| Laurel | 0 | 10* | 0.00 | 1.10 | 6.69 |
| Angela | - | - | - | 0.59 | 3.67 |
| Donathan | - | - | - | 0.63 | 2.19 |
| Sebastian | - | - | - | 0.86 | 4.17 |
| Kellyn | - | - | - | 0.77 | 3.75 |
| Chelsea | - | - | - | 1.13 | 5.37 |
| Michael | - | - | - | 0.67 | 2.50 |
| Jenna | - | - | - | 0.73 | 3.14 |
| Desiree | - | - | - | 0.72 | 1.78 |
| Libby | - | - | - | 0.92 | 2.57 |
| Chris | - | - | - | -0.32 | 1.29 |
| Bradley | - | - | - | 0.99 | 2.23 |
| James | - | - | - | 1.19 | 2.60 |
| Stephanie | - | - | - | 0.58 | 1.38 |
| Brendan | - | - | - | 1.09 | 2.52 |
| Morgan | - | - | - | 0.16 | 0.21 |
| Jacob | - | - | - | -0.63 | 0.00 |
| Gonzalez | - | - | - | -0.89 | 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.