Episode 15: "Master and Apprentice"
SurvivorAU 9 Episode 15 boxscore
Filmed: August 30-31, 2023 | Aired: February 27, 2024
- Ep.15 Reward Challenge: (Three stage elimination/team-individual) - In the end, it's Mark vs. two people who can't do puzzles, Mark wins an SUV.
- Ep.15 Reward: Mark gets an "Aussie barbeque" reward, takes Kitty, Valeria (his opponents for the car), and ... Caroline?! Hurt feelings are soothed, they're totally planning to vote together now (sort of).
- Ep.15 Immunity Challenge: "Over Extended" - Multiple people have their poles shatter mid-challenge, but somehow, Jaden stays strong, wins the girly necklace.
- Ep.15 voted out: It's a tie! Six votes Eden, six votes Raymond. Until the revote, that is, when ... Jaden flips, to avenge Winna! (Rianna also played her idol, voiding no votes.)
Episode 15 scoring notes
- The RC: This was a nightmare to score. The first two stages are in teams, randomly drawn, with the teams in stage 2 re-drawn from the winners of stage 1. The winning team then competes individually for the car curse/reward. That final stage could easily be considered a duel or hero challenge, but in the past it's been scored as a full individual RC, so fine, it is. For the first two stages, we're going to pretend stage 1 was four three-person teams, with the last place ('two') teams (all on team pink) tying for 3rd (no points given). In stage two, the Eden/Alex/Caroline team placed 2nd, and gets half-credit for a 3-person win. Ugh.
- The tie vote: As always, only the first-round votes count for VFB purposes. If Jaden really wanted his vote to count, he would have made it a 7-5 vote on the first ballot. (Obviously, Eden didn't tell him this.)
Vote count (1st round):
- Eden received 6 votes, from Aileen, Alex, Feras, Kirby, Raymond, and Rianna (voted out, 6-6; 6-4 on revote).
- Raymond received 6 votes, from Caroline, Eden, Jaden, Kitty, Mark, and Valeria.
Vote count (revote):
- Eden received 6 votes, from Aileen, Alex, Feras, Kirby, Rianna ... and Jaden.
- Raymond received 4 votes, from Caroline, Kitty, Mark, and Valeria.
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| Team Reward challenge | Ind. Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Rianna | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.83 | 80.7% |
| Alex | 0.17 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.58 | 73.0% |
| Aileen | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0.25 | 67.0% |
| Jaden | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 66.2% |
| Feras | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.67 | 61.9% |
| Eden | 0.17 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.50 | 61.0% |
| Mark | 0.33 | 0.33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.75 | 59.1% |
| Valeria | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.42 | 52.7% |
| Kitty | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0.17 | 41.8% |
| Kirby | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.92 | 50.2% |
| Raymond | 0.00 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.33 | 25.2% |
| Caroline | 0.17 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0.08 | 25.0% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Aileen | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.99 | 7.09 |
| Feras | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.98 | 6.96 |
| Valeria | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.97 | 6.22 |
| Kitty | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.74 | 5.25 |
| Mark | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.73 | 4.65 |
| Jaden | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.86 | 4.21 |
| Kirby | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.70 | 3.80 |
| Rianna | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.66 | 3.69 |
| Raymond | 1 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0.94 | 2.67 |
| Caroline | 0 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.86 | 2.62 |
| Eden | 0 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0.73 | 2.54 |
| Alex | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 0.46 | 2.30 |
| Winna | - | - | - | - | 0.81 | 3.29 |
| Scott | - | - | - | - | 0.99 | 2.55 |
| Kelli | - | - | - | - | 0.96 | 2.18 |
| Charles | - | - | - | - | 1.25 | 6.33 |
| Garrick | - | - | - | - | 1.24 | 2.95 |
| Sarah | - | - | - | - | 0.71 | 1.49 |
| Viola | - | - | - | - | 0.84 | 1.89 |
| Nathan | - | - | - | - | 0.64 | 1.16 |
| Tobias | - | - | - | - | 0.37 | 0.36 |
| Peta | - | - | - | - | -0.20 | 0.17 |
| Jess | - | - | - | - | 0.54 | 1.09 |
| Frankie | - | - | - | - | -0.67 | 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.