SurvivorAU 6: Brains v Brawn Episode 17 boxscore

Episode 17

By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 23, 2021

SurvivorAU: Brains v Brawn boxscores Episode 17

Filmed: May 27-28, 2021 | Aired: August 23, 2021

Ep.17 clue/idol: George finds a scroll near camp.
Ep.17 heartbreaking news: Flick learns her mother has passed away, decides to stay in.
Ep.17 Immunity challenge: (Hill race, puzzle) - Andrew wins again, but the top five finishers are all immune, so Emmett, Hayley, Flick, George also sort of win?
Ep.17 Tribal: George plays his secret Tribal idol for Cara, and somehow nobody has yet learned to split votes, so Laura is out, [0]-1.

Episode 17 scoring notes

When is an IC win not necessarily an IC win, sigh: For SurvAv purposes, 5 people won immunity (1 full ChW point), 4 didn't. For MPF purposes, Andrew was the actual winner, the numbers 2-5 finishers received credit for those places, and the four non-immune people tied for sixth place (since the challenge ended when George nabbed the 5th-place immune slot). For purposes of streaks, Andrew has two wins in a row, and Emmett did not start a new one, since Andrew was wearing the necklace and Emmett wasn't. Such a bizarre season. (Really, this was probably done to be kind to Flick, which seems perfectly fair.)

Vote count:

[*Cara received 8 votes, from Andrew, Dani, Emmett, Flick, George, Hayley, Laura, and Wai, all voided by George's idol play.]
Laura received 1 vote, from Cara (idoled out, [0]-1).

Episode 17 boxscore - challenge
	Immunity challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Emmett	1	1	3	0.78	87.4%
Andrew	1	1	1	1.00	81.9%
Hayley	1	1	2	0.89	61.6%
George	1	1	5	0.56	53.7%
Cara	0	1	t-6	0.28	53.4%
Flick	1	1	4	0.67	53.3%
Dani	0	1	t-6	0.28	53.2%
Laura	0	1	t-6	0.28	47.5%
Wai	0	1	t-6	0.28	43.9%

Episode 17 boxscore - Tribal
	Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Andrew	0	-	9	1	1.26	8.69
Emmett	0	-	9	1	1.22	8.30
Wai	0	-	9	1	0.90	5.71
Flick	0	-	9	1	0.73	4.51
George	0	-	9	1	0.80	4.20
Dani	0	-	9	1	0.78	3.64
Hayley	0	-	9	1	0.84	3.47
Laura	0	1	9	1	0.62	1.89
Cara	1	0*	9	1	0.54	1.83
Gerald	-	-	-	-	0.82	3.55
Baden	-	-	-	-	0.46	2.64
Chelsea	-	-	-	-	0.67	2.09
Kez	-	-	-	-	0.84	3.23
Simon	-	-	-	-	0.78	2.13
Rachel	-	-	-	-	0.95	3.25
Georgia	-	-	-	-	0.51	1.19
Shannon	-	-	-	-	0.89	2.12
Daini	-	-	-	-	1.40	4.00
Joey	-	-	-	-	1.00	2.73
Mitch	-	-	-	-	0.62	1.68
Benny	-	-	-	-	1.23	2.52
Gavin	-	-	-	-	1.03	1.75
Janelle	-	-	-	-	-0.11	0.17
Phil	-	-	-	-	-0.83	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.