Episode 12: "The Die is Cast"
Survivor 49 Episode 12 boxscore
Filmed: May 11-12, 2025 | Aired: December 10, 2025
- Ep.12 RC: "Fun Uncle" - The challenge comes down to who can land a sandbag on top of a pole first, and Savannah does it. She picks Rizo and Sophi to join her for reward.
- Ep.12 reward: Savannah's trio gets a night at the Sanctuary, plus a Mexican feast, plus letters from home. The other three get a rat.
- Ep.12 IC: "Gimme One Step" - Savannah wins the same IC that Dee won in S45.
- Ep.12 Tribal: Steven plays his vote block (before leaving camp) on Savannah. Sophi tries to play her KIP, but Steven's advantage has already been played. Rizo pretends to play his idol, then backs out again. After all that, Steven is out, 4-1 over Sophi.
Episode 12 scoring notes
- RC scoring: While the IC was a standard elimination challenge, everyone who didn't win was tied for second in the RC, because they were all one good throw away from winning.
- *Savannah's blocked vote: No TCA for Savannah this episode, and everyone only saw 5 total votes.
Vote count:
- Steven received 4 votes, from Kristina, Rizo, Sage, and Sophi (voted out, 4-1).
- Sophi received 1 vote, from Steven.
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Savannah | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 83.3% |
| Steven | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.67 | 76.8% |
| Sage | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.83 | 55.2% |
| Sophi | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.33 | 54.3% |
| Kristina | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.50 | 38.3% |
| Rizo | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.17 | 34.0% |
| Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Savannah | - | - | 5 | 0* | 1.31 | 7.60 |
| Sage | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.94 | 6.81 |
| Kristina | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.76 | 5.51 |
| Steven | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0.84 | 4.59 |
| Rizo | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.96 | 4.38 |
| Sophi | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0.90 | 3.75 |
| Sophie | - | - | - | - | 1.28 | 5.83 |
| Jawan | - | - | - | - | 0.87 | 2.58 |
| Alex | - | - | - | - | 0.96 | 3.06 |
| MC | - | - | - | - | 0.84 | 3.09 |
| Nate | - | - | - | - | 0.83 | 2.36 |
| Shannon | - | - | - | - | -0.46 | 0.49 |
| Jason | - | - | - | - | 0.97 | 2.14 |
| Matt | - | - | - | - | -0.04 | 0.53 |
| Jeremiah | - | - | - | - | 0.62 | 3.11 |
| Jake | - | - | - | - | 0.58 | 2.33 |
| Annie | - | - | - | - | 0.27 | 1.56 |
| Nicole | - | - | - | - | -0.83 | 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.