Survivor 20: Heroes vs. Villains, Episode 13 boxscore

Survivor 20: Heroes vs. Villains boxscores

Episode 13: "Loose Lips Sink Ships"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 2, 2026

S20: Heroes vs. Villains Episode 13 boxscore

Filmed: September 11-13, 2009 | Aired: May 13, 2010 | Rewatched: August 2, 2026

Ep.13 RC: "Pass the Bucket" - As we all remember, Colby yells at his brother Reid, but it's Jerri and her sister Jennifer who win. Jerri picks her fellow Villain women, Parvati and Sandra (and their loved ones) to join her.
Ep.13 reward: There's a plane flight to the blowholes, where they toss coconuts in right as the blowhole spurts. Then a picnic where they all pledge to work together and get out Colby and Rupert.
Ep.13 IC: "Keep It Up" - It's a thrilling 17-minute challenge as people hold their hands horizontally until they can't. Gripping! Parvati wins.
Ep.13 Tribal: Sandra's idol is expiring (at Final 6!), so she plays it, wiping away two votes against, so Rupert is out, 4-[0]. So much for his dreams.

Episode 13 scoring notes

RC scoring: Yes, the loved ones competed, but it was alongside the actual contestants (as opposed to in their place), so it counts as an individual challenge. Jerri first, Russell second, Rupert third, Parvati/Sandra tied for fourth, and Colby (and Reid, dammit) last.

Vote count:

Rupert received 4 votes, from Colby, Jerri, Rupert, and Russell (voted out, 4-[0]).
[*Sandra received 2 votes, from Colby and Rupert, both voided by her idol play.]

Other S20: HvsV boxscores

Episode 13 boxscore - Challenges
	Reward challenge				Immunity challenge				Overall score
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Parvati	0	1	t-4	0.42	1	1	1	1.00	72.1%
Russell	0	1	2	0.83	0	1	4	0.50	65.0%
Rupert	0	1	3	0.67	0	1	3	0.83	64.4%
Jerri	1	1	1	1.00	0	1	3	0.67	61.5%
Sandra	0	1	t-4	0.42	0	1	5	0.33	32.0%
Colby	0	1	6	0.17	0	1	6	0.17	24.5%

Episode 13 boxscore - Tribal
	Tribal Council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Jerri	1	-	6	1	1.11	7.48
Parvati	1	-	6	1	1.08	5.91
Sandra	1	0*	6	1	0.77	5.59
Russell	1	-	6	1	1.08	4.60
Colby	0	-	6	1	0.66	3.56
Rupert	0	4	6	1	0.72	2.43
Danielle	-	-	-	-	1.06	4.92
Candice	-	-	-	-	0.89	4.17
Amanda	-	-	-	-	0.83	2.70
JT	-	-	-	-	1.11	3.82
Courtney	-	-	-	-	0.53	1.43
Coach	-	-	-	-	0.50	1.68
Rob	-	-	-	-	1.06	3.34
James	-	-	-	-	0.95	3.73
Tyson	-	-	-	-	1.64	7.66
Tom	-	-	-	-	0.68	1.78
Cirie	-	-	-	-	0.94	2.89
Randy	-	-	-	-	-0.68	0.10
Stephenie	-	-	-	-	0.65	1.50
Sugar	-	-	-	-	-0.40	0.10

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.