SurvivorSA 8: Immunity Island Episode 1 boxscore

Episode 1: "Nothing Unites Like a Common Enemy"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: June 4, 2021

SurvivorSA: Immunity Island boxscores Episode 1

Filmed: November 7-9, 2020 | Aired: June 3, 2021

Ep.1 opening scramble: Not really a "challenge" per se, but as the freshly divided tribes gather food items and palm fronds, Dino grabs a single-use immunity necklace, Renier grabs a "tribe advantage" that turns out to be camping gear.
Ep.1 Reward hero challenge: (Fire making) - Chappies defeats Jason, wins a fire-making kit for Vuna. Each also receives a "diplomatic immunity" bracelet, allowing them to defect to the other tribe after a tribal IC loss.
Ep.1 Immunity challenge: (Rope rungs, puzzle) - Zamba has a lead, blows it on the puzzle. Vuna exiles Thoriso.
Ep.1 Immunity Island: (Digging in sand) - Thoriso takes the immunity necklace, fails to dig up a bag, loses her vote.
Ep.1 voted out: Jason, 7-2 over Qieän.

Episode 1 scoring notes

Challenge/non-challenge oddities: No scoring for the opening "challenge," nor for Thoriso's game at Immunity Island. The fire-making challenge is a hero challenge, since each tribe was only able to send one person to compete (counts as half an individual challenge for Chappies and Jason, nobody charged with a sit-out).

Tribal council: Thoriso was present for Tribal Council, but was immune AND couldn't cast a vote. So she was both there and not there. So no TCA for her, and only 9 TotV.

Vote count:

Jason received 7 votes, from Amy, Anela, Dino, Marisha, Nicole, Qieän, and Renier (voted out, 7-2).
Qieän received 2 votes, from Jason and Shaun.

Episode 1 boxscore
	Reward hero challenge stats		Immunity challenge stats		Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	ChW	ChA	ChW	ChA	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Amy	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Anela	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Dino	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Marisha	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Nicole	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Renier	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Qieän	-	-	0.00	0.10	1	2	9	1	0.78	4.67
Shaun	-	-	0.00	0.10	0	-	9	1	0.00	0.00
Jason	0.00	0.50	0.00	0.10	0	7	9	1	-0.78	0.00
Thoriso	-	-	0.00	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Anesu	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Carla	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Chappies	0.50	0.50	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Kiran	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Mike	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Paul	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Pinty	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Santoni	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Tyson	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Wardah	-	-	0.10	0.10	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A

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.