Survivor 43, Episode 12 boxscore

Episode 12: "Telenovela"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: December 9, 2022

Survivor 43 Episode 12 boxscore

Filmed: May 22-24, 2022 | Aired: December 7, 2022

Ep.12 RC: "Roll With It"- The Russell Swan Memorial challenge again is completed without a medevac. This time, Owen guides his team to the table maze with a huge lead, narrowly wins reward. He, Cody, and Karla win another trip to the Sanctuary, where they get coffee and pastries.
Ep.12 IC: "Battle of Evermore" - Cassidy completes the David Wright Memorial F6 Puzzle, bare seconds ahead of Cody. Which turns out to be pretty important.
Ep.12 idol heist: Cody tells Karla they should both bluff playing their idols, then vote out Owen or Gabler, and play their idols at F5. Karla is in, but this is all a ruse, Cody wants Karla out. Meanwhile, Jesse actually has Cody's idol still. He plays it for Owen, preventing Cody from using it on himself. Karla then plays hers, leaving Cody vulnerable.
Ep.12 voted out: Cody, 4-[0]-[0], over an idol-voided Owen and Karla, respectively.

Episode 12 scoring notes

The IC: Cody actually finished his puzzle, so he was clearly second. It's unclear how close anyone else really was, so everyone else tied for 3rd place.

Vote count:

Cody received 4 votes, from Cassidy, Gabler, Jesse, and Owen (voted out, 4-[0]-[0]).
[*Owen received 1 vote, from Karla, voided by Jesse's idol play.]
[*Karla received 1 vote, from Cody, voided by Karla's idol play.]

Episode 12 boxscore - Challenges
	Reward challenge stats		Immunity challenge stats				Overall score
Contestant	ChW	ChA	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Cody	0.33	0.33	0	1	2	0.83	73.6%
Owen	0.33	0.33	0	1	t-3	0.42	69.3%
Cassidy	0.00	0.33	1	1	1	1.00	67.3%
Karla	0.33	0.33	0	1	t-3	0.42	64.6%
Gabler	0.00	0.33	0	1	t-3	0.42	52.3%
Jesse	0.00	0.33	0	1	t-3	0.42	37.6%

Episode 12 boxscore - Tribal Council
	Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Jesse	1	-	6	1	1.13	8.17
Gabler	1	-	6	1	1.06	7.82
Karla	0	0*	6	1	1.08	6.40
Owen	1	0*	6	1	0.90	5.27
Cassidy	1	-	6	1	1.14	5.13
Cody	0	4	6	1	1.14	5.10
Sami	-	-	-	-	0.78	2.47
Noelle	-	-	-	-	0.79	3.40
James	-	-	-	-	0.89	2.31
Ryan	-	-	-	-	0.75	1.97
Jeanine	-	-	-	-	0.45	1.41
Dwight	-	-	-	-	1.04	2.86
Elie	-	-	-	-	0.69	1.92
Geo	-	-	-	-	0.00	0.27
Lindsay	-	-	-	-	-0.37	0.37
Nneka	-	-	-	-	0.59	1.81
Justine	-	-	-	-	-0.13	0.25
Morriah	-	-	-	-	-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.