Episode 9: "The Buddy System"
S22: Redemption Island Episode 9 boxscore
Filmed: September 6-8, 2010 | Aired: April 13, 2011
- Ep.9 F11 IC: "Meso Soup" - It's a multi-stage elimination, in three rounds. The final round is a repeat of the Ep1 IC's puzzle, on a smaller scale. Grant holds off Mike and David, wins.
- Ep.9 F11 Tribal: Right down party lines, Mike is out 6-4 over Phillip.
- Ep.9 F10 IC: "Gang Hang" - After David finally drops at 45 minutes, the three remaining women (Andrea, Ashley, Natalie) agree that Andrea is allowed to win this one, and she does.
- Ep.9 F10 Tribal: Second verse, same as the first. David is out, 6-4 over Rob. Yawn.
Episode 9 scoring notes
- Rob's cult is at the peak of its powers, but we also see him decide (on night 22!) that he's taking Phillip and Natalie to the final three with him, because Ashley didn't tell him about Ralph trying to flip them, while Natalie did, and because Phillip annoys everyone. It makes sense.
- F11 IC scoring: For multi-stage eliminations, generally the progress of the people not advancing is not shown (unless someone is close to the cut-off, as happened for Steve in the first stage and Rob in the second). So the default is to assume everyone not advancing tied for the highest non-advancing slot. In the final stage, there's no way to judge who out of Mike and David was closer to finishing, so they tied for second.
- F10 IC scoring: As always, the penalty for opting to sit out of an individual challenge (usually for food) is you tie for last place and get zero points - so a flat 0.00 for Phillip and Steve. Meanwhile, the benefit for the people actually competing is they get an MPF score based on the total number of people present (10) not the number competing (8) - so Rob received 0.30 for finishing dead last (8th/10), rather than 0.13 (8th/8).
Final 11 vote count:
- Mike received 6 votes, from Andrea, Ashley, Grant, Natalie, Phillip, and Rob (voted out, 6-5).
- Phillip received 5 votes, from David, Julie, Mike, Ralph, and Steve.
Final 10 vote count:
- David received 6 votes, from Andrea, Ashley, Grant, Natalie, Phillip, and Rob (voted out, 6-4).
- Rob received 4 votes, from David, Julie, Ralph, and Steve.
| F11 Immunity challenge | F10 Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Mike | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.86 | - | - | - | - | 89.0% |
| Natalie | 0 | 1 | t-8 | 0.23 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.90 | 70.9% |
| Ralph | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.59 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.60 | 64.7% |
| David | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.86 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.70 | 60.5% |
| Grant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.50 | 53.9% |
| Boston Rob | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.73 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.30 | 53.7% |
| Andrea | 0 | 1 | t-8 | 0.23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 52.0% |
| Steve | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.45 | 0 | 1 | t-10 | 0.00 | 42.9% |
| Ashley | 0 | 1 | t-8 | 0.23 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.80 | 39.8% |
| Julie | 0 | 1 | t-5 | 0.59 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.40 | 35.8% |
| Phillip | 0 | 1 | t-8 | 0.23 | 0 | 1 | t-10 | 0.00 | 29.8% |
| F11 Tribal Council stats | F10 Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Natalie | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.24 | 7.48 |
| Ashley | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.99 | 6.48 |
| Andrea | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.08 | 6.31 |
| Grant | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1.23 | 4.24 |
| Boston Rob | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0.98 | 3.56 |
| Julie | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.52 | 3.38 |
| Steve | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.66 | 2.66 |
| Mike | 0 | 6 | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0.77 | 2.25 |
| Phillip | 1 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.96 | 2.10 |
| Ralph | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | 0.52 | 2.09 |
| David | 0 | - | 11 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0.33 | 0.92 |
| Matt | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.93 | 3.67 |
| Sarita | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.70 | 1.78 |
| Stephanie | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.17 | 0.38 |
| Krista | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.02 | 0.24 |
| Kristina | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.04 | 0.14 |
| Russell | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.06 | 0.24 |
| Francesca | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.44 | 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.