Episode 3
SurvivorAU: Brains v Brawn II Episode 3 boxscore
Filmed: July 30-31, 2024 | Aired: February 19, 2025
- Ep.3 RC: (Tunnel Run on a net) - Shockingly, Brawn wins an RC massively favoring brawn, 5-0. They get loaded fries back in camp.
- Ep.3 idol: Paulie finds a map on his napkin, manages to get away undetected (mostly), gets the idol. Then Noonan asks him if he got it ... and he says he found the clue.
- Ep.3 medevac: Zen noticed his hand was swelling after the reward, by the next day he's been checked out by medical, has a cast, and is pulled from the game for a broken finger.
- Ep.3 IC: (Pole assembly, slingshot) - Brains again blow a huge lead, Kent briefly claws them back, then they lose.
- Ep.3 Tribal: Kent is out, 8-3 over Myles, after AJ's plan to target Logan is scuttled.
Episode 3 scoring notes
- Zen's medevac: It seems kind of pointless when a player doesn't really have much of a score yet (Zen voted wrong at this one Tribal), but the standard score adjustment for a medevac is: a faux-unanimous boot by their tribe. So 11 VAP, 11 TotV, 1 TCA added to Zen's score ... which more or less halves his already-low SurvSc and does not affect his SurvAv at all. Oh well. (Zen's departure right before the IC also means the RC had 11 participants per tribe, but the IC only 10.)
Vote count:
- Kent received 8 votes, from AJ, Ally, Karin, Laura D, Logan, Max, Myles, and Zara (voted out, 10-2).
- Myles received 3 votes, from Kaelan, Kent, and Rich.
Other AU: BvB II boxscores
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Tribal council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChA | ChW | ChA | ChW | SO | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| AJ | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Karin | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Laura D | 0.00 | 0.09 | - | 0.10 | 1 | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Logan | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Max | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Zara | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.32 | 7.17 |
| Ally | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1.15 | 7.08 |
| Kaelan | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.82 | 3.67 |
| Rich | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0.82 | 3.67 |
| Myles | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 1 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1.21 | 3.29 |
| Kent | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 0 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.17 |
| Kate | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.68 | 7.37 |
| Kristin | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.68 | 7.37 |
| Morgan | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.68 | 7.37 |
| Nash | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.68 | 7.37 |
| Ursula | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.34 | 3.87 |
| Ben | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.68 | 0.37 |
| Jesse | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.68 | 0.37 |
| Noonan | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.68 | 0.37 |
| PD | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.68 | 0.37 |
| Paulie | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.68 | 0.37 |
| Zen | 0.09 | 0.09 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.36 | 0.27 |
| Indy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.33 | 0.17 |
| Candy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.08 | 0.08 |
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.