Episode 8: "Fear Keeps You Sharp"
S36: Ghost Island Episode 8 boxscore
Filmed: June 24-26, 2017 | Aired: April 11, 2018
- No Reward challenge: Merge instead.
- Ep.8 Ghost Island attendee: Chris finds a clue in his merge buff, which sends him to treemail, which sends him to Ghost Island in the middle of the night. He gets JT's unused idol, then is given the chance to play a game to extend the number of Tribals at which it will work. Chris plays twice, extends the idol's life by one Tribal, but loses his vote at the next one.
- Ep.8 Immunity challenge: "Audio Slave" - Kellyn wins, outlasting Libby and Chelsea.
- Ep.8 voted out: Chris, 10-2 over Libby.
Episode 8 scoring notes
- Notes: Chris is the only person to be voted out of Survivor without ever voting him- or herself. Also, by being voted out at his first Tribal on Day 22, he ties Nick Maiorano for the latest first Tribal boot in Survivor history. Chris's boot does present a scoring conundrum: He was present at Tribal, and received votes, but couldn't vote himself. Normally, Tribal Council Appearances (TCA) has reflected the number of times the player has voted. But having zero TCA screws up all Chris's overall scores (SurvSc, SurvAv). To fix that, he gets a phantom TCA.
Vote count:
- Chris received 10 votes, from Chelsea, Domenick, Donathan, Jenna, Kellyn, Laurel, Libby, Michael, Sebastian, and Wendell (voted out, 10-2).
- Libby received 2 votes, from Angela and Desiree.
Other S36: Ghost Island boxscores
| Immunity Challenge | Tribal council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Chelsea | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.85 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.27 | 7.67 |
| Domenick | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.46 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.99 | 5.48 |
| Donathan | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0.15 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.33 | 6.45 |
| Libby | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.92 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1.12 | 3.65 |
| Angela | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0.31 | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.58 | 2.06 |
| Desiree | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0.23 | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.89 | 3.95 |
| Kellyn | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.57 | 8.45 |
| Michael | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.54 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.86 | 4.30 |
| Chris | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.62 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 1* | -0.32 | 1.29 |
| Jenna | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0.08 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.97 | 6.04 |
| Laurel | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.69 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.45 | 8.28 |
| Sebastian | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.38 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.31 | 7.90 |
| Wendell | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.77 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 1.01 | 4.79 |
| 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.