Episode 11: "The Great Lie"
Survivor: Pearl Islands Episode 11 boxscore
Filmed: July 20-22, 2003 | Aired: November 26, 2003
- Ep.11 Reward challenge: "Loved Ones Overboard" - It's time for the famous Dead Grandma Lie. Fairplay's friend Thunder D (Dan Fields) tells him his grandma died, so the other contestants (except Sandra) decline to work against him, basically giving him the win.
- Ep.11 Reward: The prize for Fairplay's meta-gaming efforts? Fairplay gets to spend the night with Dan at Balboa, while the rest of the tribe has to sleep at a new beach, with just a machete and some matches. No food, no drink, nothing extra for anyone. Hmm.
- Ep.11 Immunity challenge: "What Do You Make of This?" - Here, word search challenges end in, in Rupert's words, "Death and decay." Probst misses a misspelling of Burton's, temporarily gives him immunity, then yanks it back when someone realizes the error. Eventually, Darrah, Lill, and Sandra compete in a one-minute word find with new letters, and Darrah wins.
- Ep.11 Tribal: Tijuana out, 5-2 over Burton.
Episode 11 scoring notes
- The RC marks the third "coconut chop" (eliminate other players) challenge out of the six individual challenges so far. One is fun. 50% is far too many. So anyway, once again, Lill and Fairplay are once again at the top of the finisher list, despite displaying no discernible challenge ability (except Fairplay's strategic acumen in the RC, obviously). Lill then takes third in the IC (out of 7) because of a production error. It's fun to have a variety of challenges that aren't standing in place and balancing, but this is a bit ridiculous.
Vote count
- Tijuana received 5 votes, from Burton, Christa, Fairplay, Lill, and Sandra (voted out, 5-2).
- Burton received 2 votes, from Darrah and Tijuana.
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Lill | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.86 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.71 | 75.2% |
| Fairplay | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.43 | 68.3% |
| Burton | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.57 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.57 | 65.3% |
| Sandra | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.86 | 52.6% |
| Tijuana | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.71 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.29 | 48.3% |
| Darrah | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.43 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 47.2% |
| Christa | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.29 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 39.6% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Sandra | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 0.99 | 7.09 |
| Burton | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1.21 | 5.48 |
| Darrah | 0 | - | 7 | 1 | 0.91 | 4.62 |
| Fairplay | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 1.09 | 4.39 |
| Christa | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 0.96 | 4.27 |
| Tijuana | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.79 | 2.99 |
| Lill | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 0.79 | 2.89 |
| Rupert | - | - | - | - | 1.31 | 5.40 |
| 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.