Survivor 43, Episode 5 boxscore

Episode 5: "Stop With All the Niceness"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: October 20, 2022

Survivor 43 Episode 5 boxscore

Filmed: May 11-12, 2022 | Aired: October 19, 2022

Geo gets KIP advantage, Jeanine and Jesse lose votes

Ep.5 Beware idol: Elie and Jeanine look for Baka's, Jeanine finally finds it. Owen discovers them, gives Jeanine his bead, as do Sami and Gabler. Then Sami tells Gabler what it was.
Ep.5 Immunity challenge: "Brain Stew" - Vesi wins, Baka second once again. Tarps are awarded, finally, and of course there's the...
Ep.5 dilemma: Geo, Jeanine, and Jesse attend. All three risk their votes, and Geo ends up with the Knowledge is Power advantage, while the other two lose their votes. Geo almost immediately tells Karla about KIP, which leads to ... RIP Geo.
Ep.5 voted out: Geo, 3-2 over Cassidy.

Episode 5 scoring notes

Two winners? Was there really any difference in the prizes Vesi and Baka received? Vesi got to make the dilemma assignments, but apart from that, pretty underwhelming "prize," especially since Vesi had one day to enjoy their tarp before leaving for merge camp at Baka.

Vote count:

Geo received 3 votes, from Cassidy, James, and Karla (voted out, 3-2).
Cassidy received 2 votes, from Geo and Ryan.

Episode 5 boxscore
	Reward/ Immunity challenge stats			Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	ChW	ChA	SO	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Dwight	0.25	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.67	8.00
Jesse	0.25	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.67	8.00
Cody	0.25	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.62	6.60
Noelle	0.25	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.12	3.80
James	0.00	0.25	-	1	-	5	1	1.25	7.37
Karla	-	0.25	1	1	-	5	1	1.18	7.27
Cassidy	0.00	0.25	-	1	2	5	1	1.11	4.37
Ryan	0.00	0.25	-	0	-	5	1	0.75	3.87
Geo	0.00	0.25	-	0	3	5	1	0.00	0.27
Elie	0.13	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.44	7.65
Sami	0.13	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.44	7.65
Gabler	-	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.35	7.53
Jeanine	0.13	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.35	7.53
Owen	0.13	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	1.27	6.25
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.