Episode 7: "That's Not How I Play Survivor"
Survivor 50 Episode 7 boxscore
Filmed: June 20-21, 2025 | Aired: April 8, 2026
- Ep.7 journey: Stephenie is picked (by SitD draw), and gets to do a solo version of "When It Rains." She just has to last an hour, and she'll get an advantage. Despite a lot of complaining, she gets it, and it's a vote steal, good until Final 6.
- Ep.7 RC: "Rolling Stone" - Yay, schoolyard pick! (Boo, unshown). Christian's team has a slight lead entering the puzzle, and wins, slightly ahead of the other team. They get Chinese food, plus the chance to compete in the IC.
- Ep.7 IC: "Audio Slave" - It's Ozzy vs. Joe at the end, and Ozzy wins his 8th career individual immunity, one shy of Boston Rob's US record. (Three shy of SurvivorAU vet Brooke Jowett's international record.)
- Ep.7 Tribal: Aubry finally plays her idol (she has to play it for herself), voiding no votes. Coach demands a 7-4 split, and the tribe splits 8-4-1. That'll teach him. So Dee is out over Tiffany and Coach, respectively, after Dee plays her Shot in the Dark and is Not Safe.
Episode 7 scoring notes
- The immunity challenge: In general, it's pretty dumb to force people to sit out of an individual immunity challenge, but Jeff Probst seems to love it, so it's never going away, no matter how much I think it's unfair. Still, nobody from the purple team was charged with a sitout or a ChA for it, since they were ineligible.
- *Dee's SitD: As with Genevieve's last week, Dee's Shot in the Dark play counted as a TCA, as she was choosing to not vote in order to play it.
Vote count:
- Dee received 8 votes, from Aubry, Chrissy, Christian, Cirie, Emily, Jonathan, Rick, and Rizo (voted out, 8-4-1).
- Tiffany received 4 votes, from Coach, Joe, Ozzy, and Stephenie.
- Coach received 1 vote, from Tiffany.
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF | |
| Ozzy | 0.14 | 0.14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100% | |
| Dee | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.71 | 86% | |
| Chrissy | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 80% | |
| Coach | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 80% | |
| Stephenie | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.57 | 79% | |
| Joe | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.86 | 73% | |
| Christian | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.43 | 71% | |
| Cirie | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 60% | |
| Aubry | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 40% | |
| Tiffany | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 40% | |
| Emily | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.29 | 24% | |
| Jonathan | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 20% | |
| Rick | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 17% | |
| Rizo | 0.00 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | NA | |
| Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Christian | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.38 | 8.29 |
| Aubry | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.77 |
| Rick | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 0.95 | 6.11 |
| Joe | 0 | - | 13 | 1 | 0.96 | 5.97 |
| Cirie | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.11 | 5.89 |
| Jonathan | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 0.96 | 5.36 |
| Chrissy | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.21 | 5.30 |
| Stephenie | 0 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.09 | 5.03 |
| Ozzy | 0 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.04 | 5.02 |
| Emily | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.08 | 4.95 |
| Rizo | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1.16 | 4.56 |
| Dee | - | 8 | 13 | 1* | 1.04 | 3.19 |
| Coach | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0.77 | 3.51 |
| Tiffany | 0 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0.27 | 0.91 |
| Colby | - | - | - | - | -0.75 | 0.57 |
| Genevieve | - | - | - | - | -0.73 | 0.60 |
| Kamilla | - | - | - | - | 0.65 | 2.62 |
| Charlie | - | - | - | - | -0.10 | 0.49 |
| Angelina | - | - | - | - | 0.53 | 1.26 |
| Mike | - | - | - | - | 0.69 | 2.27 |
| Q | - | - | - | - | -0.35 | 0.33 |
| Savannah | - | - | - | - | 0.57 | 1.54 |
| Kyle* | - | - | - | - | -0.25 | 0.19 |
| Jenna | - | - | - | - | -0.88 | 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.