Episode 11: "Flipping the Win Switch"
Survivor
47 Episode 11
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Filmed: May 30-31, 2024 | Aired:
November 27, 2024
- Ep.11 journey: After a rock draw among people "wanting" to attend, it's Rachel. Her task is a simple color-match swap game, but with a stressful physical timer - rope attached to weights slowly dropping into the ocean. Rachel gets the advantage (Vote Block, good to F6) right before the table is yanked into the drink.
- Ep.11 IC: "A Bit Tipsy" - Multiple leaders, everyone drops at least once, but eventually it's Rachel leading, Kyle catching up, both with final blocks placed, and ... Rachel wins!
- Ep.11 Tribal: To the surprise of nobody, Kyle is out, 6-1-1 over Genevieve and Teeny.
Episode 11 scoring notes
- Kyle's IC second place, MPF record: In previous iterations of "A Bit Tipsy," everyone but the winner tied for second, because you can't assume someone won't drop their stack at any time. *EXCEPT* this time, where Kyle was (if the edit was accurate) mere feet away from catching Rachel for the win. If Rachel drops (unlikely), Kyle slows down and wins. If Rachel takes it any slower, maybe Kyle catches her. Highly improbable for it to ever be close enough to call someone as clearly in second, but Kyle managed to get there. In doing so, he leaves the game with the highest-ever single-season Mean % Finish in individual challenges, with 93.8%. Impressive! (Everyone else tied for third.)
Vote count:
- Kyle received 6 votes, from Caroline, Genevieve, Rachel, Sam, Sue, and Teeny (voted out, 6-1-1).
- Genevieve received 1 vote, from Kyle.
- Teeny received 1 vote, from Andy.
| Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Kyle | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.88 | 93.8% |
| Sue | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 73.7% |
| Teeny | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 56.7% |
| Rachel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 55.2% |
| Genevieve | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 52.4% |
| Caroline | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 51.2% |
| Sam | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 47.4% |
| Andy | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.44 | 40.7% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Caroline | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.11 | 7.68 |
| Kyle | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1.33 | 7.54 |
| Rachel | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.04 | 7.41 |
| Teeny | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0.93 | 5.93 |
| Sue | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.96 | 4.70 |
| Genevieve | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1.08 | 4.64 |
| Sam | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.18 | 4.52 |
| Andy | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.83 | 3.62 |
| Gabe | - | - | - | - | 1.12 | 3.83 |
| Sol | - | - | - | - | 0.33 | 1.32 |
| Sierra | - | - | - | - | 0.93 | 3.56 |
| Tiyana | - | - | - | - | 0.88 | 3.01 |
| Rome | - | - | - | - | 0.91 | 2.01 |
| Anika | - | - | - | - | 1.18 | 4.27 |
| Kishan | - | - | - | - | 0.89 | 3.77 |
| Aysha | - | - | - | - | -0.27 | 0.17 |
| TK | - | - | - | - | -0.51 | 0.08 |
| Jon | - | - | - | - | -0.83 | 0.17 |
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.