Survivor 41 Episode 13 boxscore

Episode 13: "One Thing Left to Do ... Win"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: December 19, 2021

Survivor 41 boxscores Episode 13

Filmed: May 8-10, 2021 | Aired: December 15, 2021

Ep.13 advantage: It's a scavenger hunt. Erika finds it. She gets a challenge advantage.
Ep.13 Final 5 Immunity Challenge: "Born to Rung" - Erika's advantage gives her a headstart, and she eventually wins.
Ep.13 F5 voted out: Ricard, 4-1 over Deshawn, as Xander finally plays his idol, pointlessly for himself.

Ep.13 Final 4 Immunity Challenge: "Let There Be Rock" - As has happened all three times this challenge has been run, a young, super-athletic guy wins. This time, Xander.
Ep.13 F4 firemaking: Deshawn ou- ... no, it's Heather, in a split-second decision.
Ep.13 jury vote: Erika wins! 7-1-0 over Deshawn and Xander, respectively.

Episode 13 scoring notes

F5 IC: We scored it as Probst called it: Erika first (obviously), with Ricard second, and Heather last (leaving Deshawn and Xander tied for third). Erika's advantage really appeared to help. Had she not had it, though, Ricard never noticed his missing puzzle piece, so who knows who wins in the non-advantage universe. In the F4 IC, everyone not named Xander tied for second.

Final 5 vote count:

Ricard received 4 votes, from Deshawn, Erika, Heather, and Xander* (voted out, 4-1).
Deshawn received 1 vote, from Ricard.
*Xander played his idol for himself, to no effect.

Final 4 firemaking:

Deshawn wins, barely.
Heather loses, is eliminated (8th juror).

Jury vote count:

Erika received 7 votes, from Tiffany, Evvie, Naseer, Shan, Liana, Ricard, and Heather (winner, 7-1-0).
Deshawn received 1 vote, from Danny.
Xander received 0 votes.

Other S41 boxscores

Episode 13 boxscore - challenges
	F5 Immunity challenge				F4 Immunity challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Ricard	0	1	2	0.80	-	-	-	-	85.7%
Xander	0	1	t-3	0.50	1	1	1	1.00	71.8%
Deshawn	0	1	t-3	0.50	0	1	t-2	0.50	55.8%
Erika	1	1	1	1.00	0	1	t-2	0.50	55.2%
Heather	0	1	5	0.20	0	1	t-2	0.50	44.4%

Episode 13 boxscore - Tribal Council + jury vote
	F5 Tribal Council stats				Jury vote stats			Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	JVF	TotJ	JV%	SurvSc	SurvAv
Erika	1	-	5	1	7	8	0.88	1.92	11.28
Xander	1	-	5	1	0	8	0.00	0.65	4.24
Deshawn	1	1	5	1	1	8	0.13	0.86	3.82
Heather	1	-	5	1	-	-	-	0.86	2.83
Ricard	0	4	5	1	-	-	-	1.10	6.29
Danny	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.57	3.64
Liana	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.81	2.26
Shan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.86	3.63
Evvie	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.81	3.25
Naseer	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.47	2.08
Tiffany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.61	1.67
Sydney	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.07	0.98
Genie	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.53	1.52
JD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.97	2.85
Brad	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.94	3.77
Voce	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.35	2.00
Sara	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.17	0.17
Abraham	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.83	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.