Survivor AU 2 (2017) - Episode 26 boxscore

Episode 26

By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 11, 2020

SurvivorAU 2 (2017) boxscores - Episode 26

Filmed: June 28-30, 2017 | Aired: October 10, 2017

Ep. 26 Immunity challenge: "Hand on a Hard Idol" - The S1 final challenge (US and AU), re-done in the same spot, except at night, to make it more difficult. After 5 hrs and 13 minutes, Jericho wins.
Ep. 26 voted out: Jericho opts to face Tara, votes out Peter (1-0 or 2-1).
Final Tribal Council and jury vote: Jericho wins, 6-3.

Episode 26 scoring notes

Notes:

- All pretty standard scoring. As always, we have to split the difference with a boot at F3: Jericho and Tara receive VFB credit for voting out Peter, but he only receives 1 VAP (and we count 3 total votes). Otherwise Jericho gets voting credit for winning a challenge, which doesn't seem right.

F3 Tribal vote count:

- Peter received 1 actual vote, from Jericho (voted out, 1-0 or 2-1).

Final jury vote count:

- Jericho received 6 votes, from Jarrad, Anneliese, Henry, Luke, Ziggy, and Michelle (winner, 6-3).

- Tara received 3 votes, from Sarah, Locky, and Peter.

Episode 26 boxscore - challenge
	Immunity Challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Jericho	1	1	1	1.00	63.8%
Peter	0	1	2	0.67	63.0%
Tara	0	1	3	0.33	30.6%

Episode 26 boxscore - Tribal Council
	F3 Tribal Council				Jury vote
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	JVF	TotJ	JV%	SurvSc	SurvAv
Jericho	1	-	3	1	6	9	0.67	1.68	10.81
Tara	1	-	3	1	3	9	0.33	1.04	4.62
Peter	0	1	3	1	-	-	-	0.71	3.96
Michelle	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.88	3.42
Locky	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.88	5.87
Ziggy	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.87	5.54
Luke	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.82	2.71
Sarah	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.95	2.58
Tessa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.82	4.62
Henry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.23	5.11
Anneliese	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.50	1.83
Jarrad	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.02	3.29
Odette	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.78	2.41
Ben	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.91	2.62
AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.14	2.30
Kent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.85	1.66
Jacqui	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.11	2.38
Mark W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.70	1.49
Sam	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.66	1.47
Aimee	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.75	1.23
Tarzan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.76	1.78
Kate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.33	0.26
Adam	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0.26
Joan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-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.
- Plc: Placement in an individual challenge.
- % Fin: Percent finish in an individual challenge. Finishing first every time nets you 100%, finishing last is (1/number of competitors). Sitting out earns a zero.
- MPF: Mean Percent Finish. Average of % finishes in individual challenges. Median is around 55%.
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.