Episode 8: "Following a Dead Horse to Water"
Survivor
45 Episode 8
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Filmed: May 1-2, 2023 | Aired:
November 15, 2023
- Ep.8 time-filler: A boat arrives at camp with wallets and a table. Kendra reads the note, which announces the return of the auction, plus a new twist: Instead of just getting $500, they have to race into the jungle to collect bamboo tubes containing (random amounts of) cash.
- Ep.8 auction: It's the auction! People get food (or in Katurah's case, giant fish eyeballs.) BUT (another twist), as always the auction can end at any time, but this time, whoever has the most cash left loses their vote. That person is Bruce.
- Ep.8 IC: "Drop a Log" - Bruce wins immunity.
- Ep.8 Tribal: Jake plays his Shot in the Dark, is not safe. Kellie is out, 5-3 over Jake.
Episode 8 scoring notes
- Forced sit-outs: As always, the sitouts-for-rice thing was a hostage-taking, not a "negotiation" - this time at knifepoint. So none of the 40% of the tribe who had to sit out of the IC (Dee, Drew, Emily, Katurah) were charged with a ChA, nor scored for MPF.
- *The non-voters: Bruce is not charged with a TCA, since his non-vote was forced on him by production. Jake chose not to vote (and play his Shot instead), so he is charged with a TCA. (I know, I know, we would all prefer none of this, but what can you do?)
Vote count
- Kellie received 5 votes, from Austin, Dee, Drew, Emily, and Julie (voted out, 5-3).
- Jake received 3 votes, from Katurah, Kellie, and Kendra.
| Immunity challenge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Dee | - | - | - | - | 100% |
| Bruce | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 83.3% |
| Drew | - | - | - | - | 83% |
| Katurah | - | - | - | - | 83% |
| Kellie | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.17 | 58.3% |
| Austin | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.50 | 50.0% |
| Jake | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.67 | 50.0% |
| Julie | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.82 | 50.0% |
| Kendra | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.33 | 33.3% |
| Emily | - | - | - | - | 17% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Austin | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.30 | 8.09 |
| Emily | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.97 | 6.18 |
| Bruce | - | - | 8 | 0* | 1.00 | 4.68 |
| Dee | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.18 | 4.63 |
| Julie | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.01 | 4.49 |
| Drew | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.10 | 4.47 |
| Katurah | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.57 | 2.95 |
| Kellie | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0.67 | 2.50 |
| Kendra | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.43 | 2.41 |
| Jake | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0.14 | 0.72 |
| Kaleb | - | - | - | - | 0.64 | 2.13 |
| Sifu | - | - | - | - | 0.64 | 1.98 |
| J. | - | - | - | - | 1.08 | 4.45 |
| Brando | - | - | - | - | -0.39 | 0.37 |
| Sean | - | - | - | - | 0.45 | 1.58 |
| Sabiyah | - | - | - | - | -0.14 | 0.25 |
| Brandon | - | - | - | - | -1.00 | 0.00 |
| Hannah | - | - | - | - | -1.00 | 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.