Episode 23: "The New Alliance"
SurvivorAU: 2016 Episode 23 boxscore
Filmed: July 9-10, 2016 | Aired: October 17, 2016
- Ep.23 reward: Partly seen in the "Previously On..." despite not being in the last episode, Matt, Flick, and Kristie all agree to work together to break up El and Lee. It's a 100% real "new alliance"!
- Ep.23 RC: (Coconut water relay) - It's a team version of S23: South Pacific's "Get Crackin'," and the team part makes it much better. Kristie is terrible at pouring, but Sam is good, so the Exile team wins. But they just win an allegedly "big" advantage in the next day's IC.
- Ep.23 IC: "Bermuda Triangles" - That "advantage" is just starting 10 minutes into the challenge, which doesn't seem like much, but Flick is out before then. The Exile trio last all the way to the final transition (to the top rail), at which point El and Sam immediately fall off, so Lee wins.
- Ep.23 Tribal: There is no new alliance, Flick and Kristie work with El and Lee (who finally plays his vote block advantage, on Sam), to split between Matt and Sam, and Sam is out, 2-2-1 (with the stray vote on El); 4-0 on the revote.
Episode 23 scoring notes
- Tribal Council: As always, only first-round votes count in a tie. Everyone who could voted for Sam on the revote.
- *Sam's receiving votes while being unable to vote himself is now pretty standard fare in Survivor, but as a reminder, he gets no TCA, because he couldn't cast a vote himself. So: no VFB, 2 VAP, 5 TotV, 0 TCA.
Vote count (first round):
- Sam received 2 votes, from Flick and Lee (voted out, 2-2-1; 4-0).
- Matt received 2 votes, from El and Kristie.
- El received 1 votes, from Matt .
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| Reward Challenge | Immunity Challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | %Fin | MPF |
| Lee | 0.33 | 0.33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 69.0% |
| El | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.67 | 59.5% |
| Kristie | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.33 | 51.9% |
| Matt | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.50 | 51.2% |
| Sam | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 50.4% |
| Flick | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.17 | 45.7% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Lee | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.99 | 9.25 |
| Flick | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.11 | 6.75 |
| El | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1.01 | 6.01 |
| Sam | - | 2 | 5 | 0* | 0.63 | 5.71 |
| Matt | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0.67 | 5.16 |
| Kristie | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.83 | 2.06 |
| Brooke | - | - | - | - | 1.07 | 6.92 |
| Jennah-Louise | - | - | - | - | 1.01 | 5.71 |
| Sue | - | - | - | - | 0.49 | 1.10 |
| Kylie | - | - | - | - | 0.87 | 4.38 |
| Nick | - | - | - | - | 0.50 | 2.64 |
| Kate | - | - | - | - | 0.58 | 1.17 |
| Conner | - | - | - | - | 0.66 | 1.93 |
| Phoebe | - | - | - | - | 0.88 | 3.43 |
| Craig | - | - | - | - | 0.97 | 3.94 |
| Andrew | - | - | - | - | 0.81 | 2.28 |
| Kat | - | - | - | - | 0.93 | 2.07 |
| Rohan | - | - | - | - | 0.92 | 3.68 |
| Tegan | - | - | - | - | 0.33 | 0.68 |
| Barry | - | - | - | - | 0.61 | 1.57 |
| Peter | - | - | - | - | 0.16 | 0.39 |
| Evan | - | - | - | - | 0.44 | 1.63 |
| Bianca | - | - | - | - | 0.01 | 0.25 |
| Des | - | - | - | - | -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.