Episode 8: "A Rift Between All of Us"
Survivor 48 Episode 8 boxscore
Filmed: July 8, 2024 | Aired:
April 16, 2025
- Ep.8 RC: "Pairy Feral" - Ugh, this again. It's pairs for the first two stages, and David and Mary win, with Eva and Joe second. They all get a taco feast + the chance to compete in the individual IC. For being fourth and fifth in the first stage, the Mitch/Star and Shauhin/Kamilla have to go on the journey and are at risk to lose their vote. Kyle and Chrissy get nothing.
- Ep.8 IC: "Get a Grip" - Only David, Mary, Eva, and Joe compete. Of course the big guys are the first out, and it's Eva vs. Mary. Eventually Eva and her "hockey legs" wins.
- Ep.8 journey: It's a simple ball-taking game, which is vaguely interesting-ish, but not very. Star loses her vote.
- Ep.8 reward: The top four from the RC get tacos. Each has an individual chip bowl in front of them, and they have name tags to assign seating. Eva's bowl has a scroll, alerting her to an advantage near camp tomorrow night. (Will be seen in Ep.9)
- Ep.8 Tribal: After David (and Mary) push hard to target Kamilla, Kyle pushes back, and it's Chrissy, 8-1 over Shauhin.
Episode 8 scoring notes
- The RC/IC: As in 47, the first two stages are a pairs RC. David and Mary win, Joe and Eva are 2nd. Because they don't get any reward (neither food nor the chance to compete in the IC), 3rd-place Kyle and Chrissy don't get partial credit. Luckily the individual IC is simple to score. None of the forced sit-outs are charged with a ChA or sit-out in that, since they were ineligible to compete.
- *Star's no vote: Another week, another no vote. Sigh. Once again, since Star had no choice in the matter, Star's being present at the Ep9 Tribal while unable to vote does not get charged with a TCA.
Vote count:
- Chrissy received 8 votes, from David, Eva, Joe, Kamilla, Kyle, Mary, Mitch, and Shauhin (voted out, 8-1).
- Shauhin received 1 vote, from Chrissy.
Other S48 boxscores
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Kyle | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 91.7% |
| Eva | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 91.7% |
| David | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.50 | 73.8% |
| Mitch | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 67% |
| Shauhin | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 67% |
| Joe | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.25 | 62.5% |
| Mary | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.75 | 56.0% |
| Star | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 51.2% |
| Kamilla | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 31.0% |
| Chrissy | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 23.8% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Kyle | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.44 | 8.83 |
| Star | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.29 | 8.20 |
| Kamilla | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.18 | 7.75 |
| Joe | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.31 | 7.56 |
| David | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.18 | 7.32 |
| Eva | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.21 | 6.93 |
| Mary | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.84 | 5.44 |
| Mitch | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.66 | 4.01 |
| Shauhin | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0.82 | 3.39 |
| Chrissy | 0 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0.84 | 2.29 |
| Cedrek | - | - | - | - | 0.67 | 1.97 |
| Sai | - | - | - | - | 0.36 | 0.80 |
| Charity | - | - | - | - | -0.17 | 0.61 |
| Bianca | - | - | - | - | -0.14 | 0.53 |
| Thomas | - | - | - | - | 0.19 | 0.68 |
| Justin | - | - | - | - | 1.00 | 7.00 |
| Kevin | - | - | - | - | 0.33 | 2.00 |
| Stephanie | - | - | - | - | -0.80 | 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.