Episode 13: "Slip Through Your Fingers"
Survivor: Thailand Episode 13
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Filmed: July 16-18, 2002 | Aired:
December 19, 2002
- Final 4 IC: "Second Chance" - Clay leads briefly, but Brian passes him on the slide puzzle, never looks back, and wins handily.
- Final 4 Tribal: Helen voted out, 3-1 over Jan.
- Final 3 IC: "Slip Through Fingers" - One of the most epic final IC locations, and a surprisingly painful-looking 13-minute challenge, but Brian wins his third individual immunity, fifth individual challenge overall.
- Final 3 Tribal: Jan out, 1-0.
- Final Tribal and Jury vote: It's contentious, especially Ted's and Helen's questions, but Brian wins, 4-3 over Clay.
Episode 13 scoring notes
- F3 Tribal: The scoring for this is weird, but in the modern Survivor context, it's like if Jan and Clay had lost their vote from some stupid advantage. Brian casts the sole vote, he and Jan see 1 TotV, and Brian has the only TCA. Jan gets the 1 VAP of course, but no TCA. Clay is not involved in any way.
- Final Tribal: Had Brian answered Ken's question honestly, maybe it's a 5-2 vote, but Brian had zero chance at Erin's or Penny's votes. Penny's question was 100% about herself, as you would expect, but not only that, but Clay would have had a massive advantage in answering "where did I grow up?" anyway, because he's from the same (Texas/Louisiana) as three of the four Sook Jai jurors. Then again, Jan basing her vote on effort in camp was just as silly. Jurors, what are you gonna do?
F4 vote count:
- Helen received 3 votes, from Brian, Clay, and Jan (voted out, 3-1).
- Jan received 1 vote, from Helen.
F3 vote count:
- Jan received 1 vote, from Brian (voted out, 1-0).
Jury vote count:
- Brian received 4 votes, from Jake, Ted, Helen, and Jan (winner, 4-3).
- Clay received 3 votes, from Erin, Ken, and Penny.
| F4 immunity challenge | F3 immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChA | ChW | Plc | % Fin | ChA | ChW | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Brian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 80.5% |
| Clay | 1 | 0 | t-2 | 0.63 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.67 | 65.5% |
| Helen | 1 | 0 | t-2 | 0.63 | - | - | - | - | 55.3% |
| Jan | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.25 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.33 | 39.3% |
| F4 Tribal council stats | F3 Tribal council stats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA |
| Brian | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Helen | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Clay | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Jan | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Jury vote stats | Overall scores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | JVF | TotJ | JV% | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Brian | 4 | 7 | 0.57 | 2.13 | 16.61 |
| Clay | 3 | 7 | 0.43 | 1.49 | 8.25 |
| Jan | - | - | - | 0.97 | 3.91 |
| Helen | - | - | - | 0.93 | 4.27 |
| Ted | - | - | - | 1.18 | 5.37 |
| Jake | - | - | - | 0.74 | 2.53 |
| Penny | - | - | - | 0.85 | 2.94 |
| Ken | - | - | - | 1.04 | 3.28 |
| Erin | - | - | - | 1.22 | 4.14 |
| Shii Ann | - | - | - | 0.89 | 1.93 |
| Robb | - | - | - | 0.48 | 0.94 |
| Stephanie | - | - | - | 0.17 | 0.43 |
| Ghandia | - | - | - | 0.56 | 1.37 |
| Jed | - | - | - | -0.07 | 0.41 |
| Tanya | - | - | - | 0.33 | 1.56 |
| John | - | - | - | -0.75 | 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.