Episode 13: "Bob and Weave"
Survivor
47 Episode 13
boxscore
Filmed: June 3-4, 2024 | Aired: December 11, 2024
![Andy idoled out, [0]-2](../images/e13/f6tc-pb.jpg "Andy idoled out, [0]-2")
- Ep.13 F6 IC: "Chasing Waterfalls" - It's a Rachel-Genevieve race on the puzzle, but Genevieve wins. She takes Sue and Teeny to the Sanctuary for a meal. No schemes hatched.
- Ep.13 F6 Tribal: Having eavesdropped and knowing she was the target, Rachel empties her bag of tricks, blocking Sam's vote (rude), and playing her idol for herself. She and Sue vote together, sending Andy to the jury, [0]-2.
- Ep.13 F5 IC: "Stacked Up" - This one is another stacking challenge (whee!), and the same person who won the last one (Rachel) wins again.
- Ep.13 F5 Tribal: It's curtains for Genevieve, after Sam leaks that her idol is fake. She's out, 3-2 over Sam. (Sue also played her own idol for herself, voiding no votes.)
Episode 13 scoring notes
- Challenge scoring: Rachel was clearly second in the F6 IC, and everyone else (except Genevieve) tied for 3rd. In the F5 (stacking) IC, Genevieve's last-second collapse proved there's no guarantee that placements will hold, so everyone except Rachel tied for second.
- *Rachel's idol/advantage plays at F6: Rachel voided three votes (Teeny, Andy, Genevieve) with her idol, and blocked Sam from voting. Sam sees the five votes cast (5 TotV), but has no VFB/TCA.
F6 vote count:
- [*Rachel received 3 votes, from Andy, Genevieve, and Teeny, all voided by her idol play.]
- Andy received 2 votes, from Rachel and Sue (idoled out, [0]-2).
F5 vote count:
- Genevieve received 3 votes, from Rachel, Sam, and Sue (voted out, 3-2).
- Sam received 2 votes, from Genevieve and Teeny.
| F6 Immunity challenge | F5 Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Rachel | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 71.7% |
| Sue | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.42 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 59.0% |
| Sam | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.42 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 53.2% |
| Genevieve | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 58.5% |
| Teeny | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.42 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 51.0% |
| Andy | 0 | 1 | t-3 | 0.42 | - | - | - | - | 45.5% |
| F6 Tribal council stats | F5 Tribal council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Rachel | 1 | 0* | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.09 | 9.31 |
| Teeny | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.62 | 4.69 |
| Sue | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.86 | 4.64 |
| Sam | - | - | 5 | 0* | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1.22 | 4.56 |
| Genevieve | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0.92 | 4.15 |
| Andy | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0.73 | 2.84 |
| Caroline | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.93 | 4.10 |
| Kyle | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.33 | 7.54 |
| Gabe | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.12 | 3.83 |
| Sol | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.33 | 1.32 |
| Sierra | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.93 | 3.56 |
| Tiyana | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.88 | 3.01 |
| Rome | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.91 | 2.01 |
| Anika | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.18 | 4.27 |
| Kishan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.89 | 3.77 |
| Aysha | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.27 | 0.17 |
| TK | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.51 | 0.08 |
| Jon | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.83 | 0.17 |
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.