Survivor: The Amazon boxscores
Episode 2: "Storms"
By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 18, 2017
Survivor: The Amazon boxscores Episode 2

Filmed: November 7-9, 2002 |  Aired: February 20, 2003
RC: Jaburu wins
IC: Tambaqui wins
Janet out, 5-1-1-1

 

  • Reward challenge: "Flip Out" - Christy sits out, as Jaburu follows JoAnna's lead, places planks, and wins fish bait.
  • Immunity challenge: "Total Recall" - With the leading team after 10 questions winning, Tambaqui manages to flub the ninth question and still pull off a 6-4 win.
  • Voted out: Janet, 5-1-1-1, over Jenna, Christy, and Jeanne.
Episode 2 scoring notes
  • Christy misses out on ChW credit by sitting out the RC (which Jaburu won), Shawna not really by sitting out the IC (which Jaburu lost). Lots of stray votes at Tribal, too.
Vote count:
  • Janet received 5 votes, from Jenna, Heidi, Deena, Shawna, and Jeanne (voted out, 5-1-1-1)
  • Jenna received 1 vote, from Christy
  • Christy received 1 vote, from JoAnna
  • Jeanne received 1 vote, from Janet
Episode 2 boxscore

Reward Challenge Immunity Challenge Tribal council stats Overall scores
Contestant ChW ChA SO ChW ChA SO VFB VAP TotV TCA SurvSc SurvAv
Jenna 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 1 1 8 1 1.53 5.87
Heidi 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 1 - 8 1 1.65 7.27
Christy - 0.14 1 0.00 0.14 - 0 1 8 1 0.18 0.13
Deena 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 1 - 8 1 1.65 7.27
Shawna 0.14 0.14 - - 0.14 1 1 - 8 1 1.65 7.27
Jeanne 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 1 1 8 1 1.53 5.87
JoAnna 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 0 - 8 1 0.65 0.27
Janet 0.14 0.14 - 0.00 0.14 - 0 5 8 1 0.03 0.27
Matthew 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 0.35 0.14
Rob 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 1.35 7.14
Butch 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 1.35 7.14
Alex 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 1.35 7.14
Dave 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 0.35 0.14
Roger 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 0.97 4.14
Daniel 0.00 0.14 - 0.14 0.14 - - - - - 0.22 0.14
Ryan - - - - - - - - - - -0.50 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.

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