Episode 6: "Banana Etiquette"
S20: Heroes vs. Villains Episode 6 boxscore
Filmed: August 23, 2009 | Aired: March 24, 2010 | Rewatched: July 17, 2026
![Tyson idoled out, [0]-3-2](../images/e6/e6tc1-pb.jpg "Tyson idoled out, [0]-3-2")
- Ep.6 Heroes IC: "Rope A Dope" - It's a race between Candice and JT, but Candice leads early, wins.
- Ep.6 Villains IC: (also "Rope A Dope") Similarly, Rob is first to the final section, and wins. Yawn.
- Ep.6 hero RC: (still more "Rope A Dope") - Rob takes an early lead, maintains it, eventually wins. Excitement!
- Ep.6 Villains Tribal: The Villains vote first, and it's a doozy. Russell plays his idol for Parvati, which means Tyson (who idiotically switched his vote on a planned vote split), is idoled out, [0]-3-2 over the idol-playing Parvati and Russell, respectively.
- Ep.6 Heroes Tribal: Closing it out with the far more boring Tribal, James is out, 5-1 over Colby.
Episode 6 scoring notes
- After each tribe has its run through the course for individual immunity, the two winners face off on the same set-up, but bigger. This is scored as a Hero Challenge, because it's for tribal reward (at Tribal), but only one person per tribe is eligible to compete. It's not counted for MPF purposes (but is worth 0.5 SurvAv points), but the ICs were, because they are of course individual.
- *Russell gets credit for the idol play. Theoretically, Parvati could have just kept the idol and not played it, and if she had, she would get credit when she eventually plays it (as she does at F10). Although in this case, she would have been voted out. Russell's idea, even if he didn't hand the idol to Probst and just say "I'm playing this for Parvati."
Villains vote count:
- [Parvati received 4 votes, from Courtney, Coach, Jerri, and (sigh) Tyson, all voided by Russell's idol play.]
- Tyson received 3 votes, from Danielle, Parvati, and Russell (idoled out, [0]-3-2).
- Russell received 2 votes, from Boston Rob and Sandra.
Heroes vote count:
- James received 5 votes, from Amanda, Candice, Colby, JT, and Rupert (voted out, 5-1).
- Colby received 1 vote, from James.
Other S20: HvsV boxscores
| Immunity challenge | Hero challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | MPF |
| Candice | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 100% |
| JT | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | - | - | 83% |
| Amanda | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.67 | - | - | 67% |
| Rupert | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.50 | - | - | 50% |
| James | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.25 | - | - | 25% |
| Colby | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.25 | - | - | 25% |
| Rob | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Tyson | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.89 | - | - | 89% |
| Russell | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.78 | - | - | 78% |
| Danielle | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.67 | - | - | 67% |
| Coach | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.50 | - | - | 50% |
| Parvati | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.50 | - | - | 50% |
| Courtney | 0 | 1 | t-7 | 0.22 | - | - | 22% |
| Jerri | 0 | 1 | t-7 | 0.22 | - | - | 22% |
| Sandra | 0 | 1 | t-7 | 0.22 | - | - | 22% |
| Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| JT | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1.11 | 7.23 |
| Candice | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 1.28 | 6.83 |
| Rupert | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 0.91 | 5.83 |
| Amanda | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 0.89 | 3.03 |
| Colby | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0.70 | 2.63 |
| James | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0.68 | 1.75 |
| Danielle | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.33 | 7.66 |
| Parvati | 1 | 0* | 9 | 1 | 1.25 | 7.51 |
| Russell | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1.34 | 5.47 |
| Rob | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.38 | 5.10 |
| Coach | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.90 | 4.30 |
| Jerri | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.90 | 4.30 |
| Tyson | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0.75 | 2.66 |
| Sandra | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.74 | 3.99 |
| Courtney | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.68 | 3.87 |
| 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.