Episode 3: "Always Be Closing"
SurvivorSA:
Immunity Island boxscores Episode
3
Filmed: November 13-14, 2020 |
Aired: June 17, 2021
- Ep. 3 swap: Both majority alliances are broken up, two new tribes.
- Ep. 3 Reward challenge: "Battle Dig" - Only five bouts, both tribes win stuff. Zamba wins an IC advantage.
- Ep. 3 idol: During the RC, Santoni tells Paul her clue, he tells Tyson while in a bout. Tyson finds Vuna's idol.
- Ep. 3 Immunity challenge: "The Cruel Sea" - Vuna wins, despite Zamba's one-ring advantage.
- Ep. 3 Immunity Island: Amy stays and plays, loses, triggers a future camp raid. (Also immune at Tribal)
- Ep. 3 voted out: Mike, 5-3 over Anela.
Episode 3 scoring notes
- The RC ... or was it multiple RCs? This kind of challenge often films more bouts than are needed, and airs just the ones that are interesting. Also, there's a single prize for the winning tribe. This time, however, each bout produced a reward item for the person/tribe who won. That's more of a hero RC, or more accurately, five consecutive hero RCs. As it worked out, it was a 2-2 tie heading into the final bout, which had both protein supplements and an IC advantage as the prize. If Zamba had swept the first 4 bouts, would this fifth bout still have been held? Was it always going to five bouts? (If so, why do this with nine people per tribe?) Did the advantage always go to the fifth bout winner? It's hard to know. Regardless, it looks like four people per tribe did not participate, and two people per tribe did not compete in the IC (Thoriso, Qieän, Santoni appeared in neither challenge). Anyway ... we've scored both challenges as traditional tribal challenges, so nobody officially "sat out," even though some clearly did, and the incremental prizes in the RC really suggest it was a sequential hero RC, not a tribal one.
Vote count:
- Mike received 5 votes, from Anela, Chappies, Paul, Santoni, and Shaun (voted out, 5-3).
- Anela received 3 votes, from Carla, Mike, and Wardah.
| Reward challenge stats | Immunity challenge stats | Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Dino | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.61 | 7.33 |
| Marisha | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.61 | 7.33 |
| Nicole | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.61 | 7.33 |
| Renier | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.61 | 7.33 |
| Anesu | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.39 | 7.21 |
| Kiran | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.39 | 7.21 |
| Tyson | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.39 | 7.21 |
| Qieän | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.39 | 5.00 |
| Thoriso | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Amy | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | - | - | - | - | 1.61 | 7.33 |
| Santoni | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.39 | 7.21 |
| Anela | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1.52 | 4.33 |
| Chappies | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.18 | 4.21 |
| Shaun | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 1.11 | 3.83 |
| Carla | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.89 | 3.71 |
| Paul | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.89 | 3.71 |
| Wardah | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.86 | 3.01 |
| Mike | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0.68 | 1.48 |
| Pinty | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.36 | 0.10 |
| Jason | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.78 | 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.
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