Episode 10: "Swimming With Sharks"
Survivor: Pearl Islands Episode 10 boxscore
Filmed: July 17-19, 2003 | Aired: November 20, 2003
- Ep.10 Reward challenge: "Rats in the Rigging" - Done in pairs on a massive obstacle course set up on a faux shipwreck. Burton and Lill beat Fairplay and Rupert in the finals, Burton swaps out ... for Fairplay, instead of Rupert, as promised.
- Ep.10 Reward: Fairplay and Lill spend a day eating, drinking, and allegedly fishing on a fancy catamaran. Lill gets drunk on 3/4 of a beer, neither catches any fish.
- Ep.10 Immunity challenge: "Killer" - It's all Burton, who is surprisingly deadly with blowdarts. He eliminates almost everyone else, apart from Rupert, accidentally knocked out by Sandra.
- Ep.10 Tribal: Rupert out, 5-2-1 over Darrah and Fairplay, respectively.
Episode 10 scoring notes
- Since the RC was done in pairs and the IC was simple elimination in order, nothing exotic here. It's bizarre that Lill and Fairplay are padding their MPF leads here, but two straight coconut chop-style ICs will do that. The Ep9 IC really shouldn't count for MPF, because the trivia was painfully simple, and the Morgans were targeted in order of threat level, and had no shot at winning. This one at least required Burton to be a freak blowdart expert, which he apparently is/was.
Vote count
- Rupert received 5 votes, from Burton, Darrah, Fairplay, Lill, Rupert, and Tijuana (voted out, 5-2-1).
- Darrah received 2 votes, from Christa and Rupert.
- Fairplay received 1 vote, from Sandra.
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Rupert | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.38 | 81.9% |
| Lill | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.88 | 73.5% |
| Burton | 0.50 | 0.50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 69.4% |
| Fairplay | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.75 | 66.8% |
| Sandra | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.63 | 54.0% |
| Christa | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.13 | 48.7% |
| Tijuana | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.50 | 47.5% |
| Darrah | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.25 | 35.1% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Sandra | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.01 | 6.97 |
| Tijuana | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.95 | 6.60 |
| Burton | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.31 | 5.78 |
| Rupert | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1.31 | 5.40 |
| Christa | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.97 | 4.20 |
| Darrah | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0.94 | 4.10 |
| Fairplay | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0.98 | 3.34 |
| Lill | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.77 | 2.74 |
| Ryan O. | - | - | - | - | 0.71 | 2.17 |
| Savage | - | - | - | - | 0.95 | 2.87 |
| Osten | - | - | - | - | 1.05 | 2.68 |
| Shawn | - | - | - | - | 1.15 | 3.24 |
| Trish | - | - | - | - | 1.15 | 3.44 |
| Michelle | - | - | - | - | 0.24 | 0.74 |
| Ryan S. | - | - | - | - | 0.59 | 1.57 |
| Nicole | - | - | - | - | -0.30 | 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.