Survivor 4: Marquesas boxscores
Episode 12: "A Tale of Two Cities"
By Jeff Pitman | Published: September 19, 2020
Survivor: Marquesas boxscores Episode 12

Filmed: December 15-17, 2001 |  Aired: May 16, 2002
Sean wins a VUE
Kathy wins IC
Sean out, 3-2

 

  • Ep.12 Reward challenge: "Second Chance" - Sean milks more nuts, giving him a huge lead, nobody else comes close, and he wins a Saturn VUE. No food, though.
  • Ep.12 Immunity challenge: "Marquesan Folklore" - Probst tells a story, everyone grabs tikis, Kathy and Neleh each get five and drop one, Kathy retrieves hers first.
  • Ep.12 voted out: Sean, 3-2 over Neleh.
Episode 12 scoring notes

The challenges: Paschal did not appear to pass the first stage in the RC, everyone else (as far as we can tell) was stuck on the coconut juice stage. So Paschal last, the women tied for second. In the IC, Sean and Vee are each shown with 3 tikis. Paschal gets at least one, but it's hard to believe he did much more. Neleh is second, obviously.

Vote count:
  • Sean received 3 votes, from the Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal (voted out, 3-2).
  • Neleh received 2 votes, from Sean and Vee.
Episode 12 boxscore - challenges

Reward challenge stats Immunity challenge stats
Contestant ChW ChA Plc % Fin ChW ChA Plc % Fin MPF
Kathy 0
1
t-2
0.60
1 1 1 1.00 68.9%
Vecepia 0
1
t-2
0.60
0 1 t-3 0.50 56.6%
Neleh 0
1
t-2
0.60
0 1 2 0.80 54.7%
Sean 1
1
1
1.00
0 1 t-3 0.50 45.7%
Paschal 0
1
5
0.20
0 1 5
0.20 42.5%
Episode 12 boxscore - Tribal Council

Tribal council stats Overall scores
Contestant VFB VAP TotV TCA SurvSc SurvAv
Paschal 1 - 5 1 1.23 9.64
Kathy 1 - 5 1 1.26 8.59
Neleh 1 2 5 1 1.10 5.81
Vecepia 0 - 5 1 0.92 5.18
Sean 0 3 5 1 0.84 3.53
Robert - - - - 0.65 3.02
Tammy - - - - 0.93 4.88
Zoe - - - - 0.84 2.71
John - - - - 1.68 2.12
Boston Rob - - - - 0.84 2.12
Gina - - - - 0.76 2.35
Gabriel - - - - -0.22 0.96
Sarah - - - - 0.64 1.40
Hunter - - - - 0.27 1.17
Patricia - - - - 0.33 1.56
Peter - - - - -0.63 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.

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