Survivor 10: Palau Episode 1 boxscore

Episode 1: "This Has Never Happened Before!"

By Jeff Pitman | Published:March 21, 2021

Survivor: Palau boxscores Episode 1

Filmed: November 1-3, 2004 | Aired: February 17, 2005

Ian and Jolanda each win immunity necklaces

Ep.1 Individual Immunity challenge: 20 people, one beach, no instructions except to race for the two immunity necklaces. Ian and Jolanda grab the two necklaces.
Ep.1 Tribe picks: Chain pick on Day 2, led off by Ian (for Koror) and Jolanda (for Ulong).
Ep.1 Eliminated: Jonathan and Wanda, sing your farewell song (or don't, in the age of streaming).
Ep.1 Tribal Reward/Immunity challenge: "Supply Dump" - Ulong loses.
Ep.1 voted out: Jolanda, 6-3 over Angie.

Episode 1 scoring notes

The tribe picks: It's weird but perhaps not surprising that each tribe's first two picks (Bobby Jon and Stephenie for Ulong, Katie and Tom for Koror) ended up being the final two people standing for those tribes.

The opening RC: This was scored as a full individual challenge. Ian won for the men, Jonathan was dead last. Everyone else was in the middle. For the women, Jolanda was obviously first, but Jenn was a narrow second. Stephenie, meanwhile, was dead last for the women, with everyone else in the middle. Because this was a challenge, Jonathan and Wanda had a SurvSc total, but not a SurvAv total, which is pretty rare.

Vote count:

Jolanda received 6 votes, from Angie, Ashlee, James, Jeff, Kim, and Stephenie (voted out, 6-3).
Ashlee received 3 votes, from Jolanda, Bobby Jon, and Ibrehem.

Episode 1 boxscore
	Ind. Immunity challenge stats				Reward/ Immunity challenge stats		Tribal council stats
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Ashlee	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.00	0.11	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
James	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.00	0.11	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Jeff	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.00	0.11	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Kim	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.00	0.11	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Stephenie	0	1	10	0.10	0.00	0.11	1	-	9	1	1.00	7.00
Angie	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.00	0.11	1	3	9	1	0.67	4.00
Jolanda	1	1	1	1.00	0.00	0.11	0	6	9	1	0.23	1.00
Bobby Jon	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.00	0.11	0	-	9	1	0.00	0.00
Ibrehem	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.00	0.11	0	-	9	1	0.00	0.00
Caryn	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Coby	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Gregg	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Ian	1	1	1	1.00	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Janu	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Jenn	0	1	2	0.90	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Katie	0	1	t-3	0.50	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Tom	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Willard	0	1	t-2	0.55	0.11	0.11	-	-	-	-	N/A	N/A
Wanda	0	1	t-3	0.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.00	N/A
Jonathan	0	1	10	0.10	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.00	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.