Episode 8: "He's All That"
Survivor
47 Episode 8
boxscore
Filmed: May 25-26, 2024 | Aired:
November 6, 2024
- Ep.8 Auction: Lots of people eat (except no-cash Andy), and Rachel pulls an idol clue from her french fries. And Sam loses his vote, because of course someone has to for "fun".
- Ep.8 idol: Rachel's clue tells her there's an idol sewn into the corner of the tarp. She somehow manages to cut it from the tarp while people are in the shelter.
- Ep.8 IC: "Wrist Assured" - Separate male (Kyle, of course) and female (Sue) winners. Andy does surprisingly well.
- Ep.8 Tribal: Lavo and Tuku team up, and Sierra is out, 4-4-1 over Sam and Gabe, respectively, in the first round, and 8-1 over Sam on the revote. She is the first juror.
Episode 8 scoring notes
- The auction: As always, the auction is not a challenge, and is not scored.
- *No votes: Sam had his vote taken away, no TCA charged. In contrast, Rachel chose not to vote, in order to play her Shot in the Dark. This counts as a TCA (no VFB).
- Tie vote: For weird reasons (Probst stated Sam could not vote, so his vote would not cancel out Sierra's) Sierra could cast a ballot on the revote ... even though none of those tied vote again in a three-way tie. Either way, as always, only first-round votes count. From handwriting checks, it looks like the four Tukus voted Sierra on the first round, while Lavo + Andy voted for Sam.
- First-round votes: As is common, CBS/Survivor didn't show the first-round votes at all, which is problematic, because those are the only ones that count for scoring purposes. (Also: Why the 4-4 split? They knew Sam had no vote, so at worst, Sierra/Rachel had two votes. Did they not trust Andy?) Anyway, from checking out the handwriting, it looks like Tuku did the Sierra votes (1 VFB each for them), while Lavo + Andy did the Sam votes. (See below, first-round votes on left of each column, revotes - all Sierra, obviously - on right)
Vote count (first round):
- Sierra received 4 votes, from Caroline, Gabe, Kyle, and Sue (voted out, 4-4-1; 8-1).
- Sam received 4 votes, from Andy, Genevieve, Sol, and Teeny.
- Gabe received 1 vote, from Sierra.
| Reward/ Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Kyle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100.0% |
| Sue | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 78.6% |
| Caroline | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.67 | 75.0% |
| Teeny | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.33 | 68.3% |
| Genevieve | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.17 | 57.9% |
| Sol | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.60 | 55.0% |
| Gabe | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.40 | 53.3% |
| Andy | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.80 | 48.3% |
| Rachel | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 47.6% |
| Sam | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 38.4% |
| Sierra | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.50 | 32.5% |
| Tribal council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Kyle | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.52 | 8.51 |
| Caroline | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.19 | 7.68 |
| Genevieve | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.06 | 5.59 |
| Gabe | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1.14 | 5.20 |
| Sue | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1.09 | 5.09 |
| Rachel | - | - | 9 | 1* | 0.74 | 4.58 |
| Sam | - | 4 | 9 | 0* | 1.19 | 4.19 |
| Teeny | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.71 | 4.03 |
| Andy | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.95 | 3.77 |
| Sierra | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0.93 | 3.56 |
| Sol | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | 0.35 | 1.79 |
| 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.