Survivor 17: Gabon Episode 12 boxscore

Episode 12: "The Good Guys Should Win in the End"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: December 28, 2020

Survivor: Gabon boxscores Episode 12

Filmed: July 26-28, 2008 | Aired: December 11, 2008

Ep.12 Reward challenge: "Swamp Monkeys" - Bob takes his time navigating the obstacles, but quickly sinks his three shots, wins a trip to a gorilla reserve; brings new allies Ken and Crystal.
Ep.12 exile: Susie, who already knows Sugar has the idol, and wisely selects comfort.
Ep.12 Immunity challenge: "Mask Match" - Turns out Bob is good at puzzles and blindfolds, too!
Ep.12 voted out: Sugar plays her idol for Matty, leaving Crystal as the only vote-getter, 4-[0].

Episode 12 scoring notes

Notes:

- Not much going on here, scoring-wise. Two basic individual challenges, two wins by Bob. Not only that, but in both challenges, Ken and Matty were Bob's only competition. The only thing of note is that in this era, Final Six was the last possible time to play an idol, instead of Final Five, as it currently is. So Sugar had to play her idol for someone, or else it would be wasted.

Vote count:

- Crystal received 4 votes, from Bob, Matty, Sugar, and Susie (voted out, 4-[0]).

- [*Matty received 2 votes, from Ken and Crystal, both voided by Sugar's idol.]

Episode 12 boxscore - Challenges
	Reward challenge stats				Immunity challenge stats
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Bob	1	1	1	1.00	1	1	1	1.00	81.1%
Ken	0	1	t-2	0.75	0	1	t-2	0.75	64.6%
Matty	0	1	t-2	0.75	0	1	t-2	0.75	61.5%
Sugar	0	1	t-4	0.33	0	1	t-4	0.33	56.2%
Susie	0	1	t-4	0.33	0	1	t-4	0.33	44.4%
Crystal	0	1	t-4	0.33	0	1	t-4	0.33	37.6%

Episode 12 boxscore - Tribal Council
	Tribal council stats
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Bob	1	-	6	1	1.03	8.64
Sugar	1	-	6	1	1.12	8.13
Susie	1	-	6	1	1.21	4.90
Ken	0	-	6	1	0.94	4.42
Matty	1	0*	6	1	0.98	4.36
Crystal	0	4	6	1	0.96	2.34
Corinne	-	-	-	-	0.53	2.54
Randy	-	-	-	-	0.72	2.97
Charlie	-	-	-	-	0.98	3.63
Marcus	-	-	-	-	1.10	3.64
Ace	-	-	-	-	0.70	2.21
Dan	-	-	-	-	1.10	3.60
Kelly	-	-	-	-	0.68	1.51
GC	-	-	-	-	0.99	2.41
Jacquie	-	-	-	-	0.78	1.90
Paloma	-	-	-	-	-0.44	0.22
Gillian	-	-	-	-	0.26	1.17
Michelle	-	-	-	-	-0.89	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.
- Plc: Place finished in an individual challenge.
- % Fin: Percent Finish in an individual challenge. Winning is 100% (1.00), or (number of people competing)/(number of people competing). Last place is 1/(number of people competing). Everything else is somewhere in between. Sitting out of an individual challenge earns a flat zero.
- MPF: Mean Percent Finish, calculated across all individual challenges.
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.