Episode 6: "The Blood Moon"
Survivor 50 Episode 6 boxscore
Filmed: June 18-19, 2025 | Aired: April 1, 2026
- Ep.6 merge: It's the merge! With 17 people! Well, not for long.
- Ep.6 "advantage": It's another race through the jungle around camp for an advantage. Ozzy finds it, jokes that he hopes he's not getting exiled again, and ... he is. He takes Rizo with him, and they share all their secrets about working with Cirie. (People in camp down to 15.)
- Ep.6 RC/IC: "Chimney Sweeps" - As in S49, it's both a team RC and an individual IC, but this time there are three teams, and each team winner gets immunity. Those are: Christian, Dee, and Stephenie, with the latter winning reward (Applebees) for her team.
- Ep.6 Tribals: It's three straight five-person Tribals, two of which are 4-0 affairs. Genevieve is the first of those victims, playing her Shot in the Dark and being NOT SAFE. Then Jonathan betrays Kamilla, and she's out, 3-2 over Chrissy. And finally Colby still has no vote, and is on the verge of a medevac, so he's out, 4-0 as well. Three votes, one surprise.
Episode 6 scoring notes
- The challenge: This time, with the orange team having the final three people standing in the challenge, it seems more natural to give them a team RC win, even if Jonathan "won" while being the third person out overall. It's still clunky to have a single challenge be both RC and IC, but here we are. At least it's less dumb than the S49 version! Ozzy and Rizo were not present for the challenge, so no sit-outs or ChA for them.
- *Colby and Genevieve's no votes: The new era tradition is that playing the SitD counts as a TCA, because you are choosing to not vote in exchange for a chance at safety. *Colby, however, never voted. So he needs an artificial TCA to make his scores non-infinite, but officially he had 0 TCA this season. What a respectful way to treat a legend, Survivor!
- Color coding: Because of the three teams/ three separate tribals, I opted to color-code by random team, to make everything easier to track visually. Ozzy and Rizo are yellow for the merge tribe.
Orange team vote count:
- Kamilla received 3 votes, from Chrissy, Jonathan, and Stephenie (voted out, 3-2).
- Chrissy received 2 votes, from Kamilla and Tiffany.
Purple team vote count:
- Genevieve received 4 votes, from Aubry, Christian, Joe, and Rick (voted out, 4-0).
- (Genevieve played her Shot in the Dark, was NOT SAFE, and therefore could not vote.)
Teal team vote count:
- Colby received 4 votes, from Cirie, Coach, Dee, and Emily (voted out, 4-0, because Colby couldn't vote).
Other S50 boxscores
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF | |
| Ozzy | - | - | - | - | - | - | NA | |
| Rizo | - | - | - | - | - | - | NA | |
| Christian | 0.00 | 0.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100% | |
| Genevieve | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.80 | 80% | |
| Joe | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.60 | 60% | |
| Aubry | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.40 | 40% | |
| Rick | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 20% | |
| Dee | 0.00 | 0.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100% | |
| Coach | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.80 | 80% | |
| Cirie | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.60 | 60% | |
| Colby | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.40 | 40% | |
| Emily | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 20% | |
| Stephenie | 0.20 | 0.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 100% | |
| Chrissy | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.80 | 80% | |
| Kamilla | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.60 | 60% | |
| Tiffany | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.40 | 40% | |
| Jonathan | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 20% | |
| Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Ozzy | - | - | - | - | 0.86 | 4.62 |
| Rizo | - | - | - | - | 0.82 | 4.56 |
| Stephenie | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 1.42 | 5.73 |
| Chrissy | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0.88 | 5.30 |
| Jonathan | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.81 | 4.19 |
| Kamilla | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0.65 | 2.62 |
| Tiffany | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | 0.40 | 0.91 |
| Christian | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.51 | 8.14 |
| Aubry | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.34 | 7.77 |
| Joe | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.26 | 7.58 |
| Rick | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 0.91 | 5.62 |
| Genevieve | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | -0.73 | 0.60 |
| Dee | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.67 | 8.49 |
| Coach | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.31 | 7.71 |
| Cirie | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.12 | 5.89 |
| Emily | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.05 | 4.81 |
| Colby | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0* | -0.75 | 0.57 |
| Charlie | - | - | - | - | -0.10 | 0.49 |
| Angelina | - | - | - | - | 0.53 | 1.26 |
| Mike | - | - | - | - | 0.69 | 2.27 |
| Q | - | - | - | - | -0.35 | 0.33 |
| Savannah | - | - | - | - | 0.57 | 1.54 |
| Kyle* | - | - | - | - | -0.25 | 0.19 |
| Jenna | - | - | - | - | -0.88 | 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.