Episode 9: "Spicy Jeff"
Survivor
46 Episode 9
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Filmed: June 19, 2023 | Aired:
April 24, 2024
- Ep.9 IC: "Stage Fright" - It's another three-stage elimination challenge, with two teams of three getting eliminated in the first two stages, and only the three "winners" being able to compete for individual immunity. Charlie wins at a version of "Uncomfortably Numb" heavy on new "you're not allowed to move" rules.
- Ep.9 Tribal: It's a 4-4-1 tie between Hunter and Q (with Ben getting the 1 vote), and Hunter going out on the revote, 6-1, with an idol in his pocket, sigh.
Episode 9 scoring notes
- The IC:The two elimination stages were both better and worse than 45. On the one hand, at least the first-stage-losing team didn't also lose their votes. On the other hand: Nobody got food, there was no real difference between 2nd and 3rd place for the teams, and the "winning" team being the only people allowed to win immunity seemed just pointless. Why not have *everyone* do the dumbed-down "Uncomfortably Numb"? What was the point of the first two stages, except to exclude people from the IC? How is that even fair, when getting to the individual immunity stage is team-based? Anyway, because of all this: Whereas the 45 version was scored as an RC with half-credit for finishing second for the first two stages, this one was a straight, winner-take-all three-team RC (for the first two stages, with the "reward" being eligibility to compete for immunity). And the final stage was an individual IC with 3 people. No sit-outs charged.
Vote count (first round):
- Hunter received 4 votes, from Ben, Charlie, Maria, and Tiffany (voted out, 4-4-1; 6-1 on revote).
- Q received 4 votes, from Hunter, Kenzie, Liz, and Venus.
- Ben received 1 vote, from Q.
Vote count (revote):
- Hunter received 6 votes, from Ben, Charlie, Maria, and Tiffany (and probably Kenzie and Venus?).
- Q received 1 vote, from Liz?
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF | |
| Hunter | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.67 | 77.8% | |
| Charlie | 0.33 | 0.33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 74.4% | |
| Tiffany | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 71.7% | |
| Kenzie | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 65.0% | |
| Venus | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 65.0% | |
| Maria | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.33 | 61.1% | |
| Liz | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 43.3% | |
| Ben | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 36.7% | |
| Q | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 13.3% | |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Maria | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.31 | 8.60 |
| Kenzie | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.24 | 7.58 |
| Charlie | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.16 | 7.45 |
| Tiffany | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.10 | 7.42 |
| Liz | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.98 | 6.21 |
| Hunter | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0.86 | 3.93 |
| Venus | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.05 | 3.70 |
| Ben | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0.90 | 3.68 |
| Q | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0.99 | 3.58 |
| Tevin | - | - | - | - | 0.61 | 2.19 |
| Tim | - | - | - | - | 0.85 | 3.02 |
| Soda | - | - | - | - | 0.71 | 2.66 |
| Moriah | - | - | - | - | -0.35 | 0.42 |
| Jem | - | - | - | - | -0.50 | 0.27 |
| Bhanu | - | - | - | - | 1.04 | 3.75 |
| Randen | - | - | - | - | -0.32 | 0.53 |
| Jess | - | - | - | - | 0.30 | 1.75 |
| Jelinsky | - | - | - | - | -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.