Episode 12: "Sitting Little Wet Sad Ducks"
SurvivorAU: Redemption Episode 12 boxscore
Filmed: August 25-27, 2025 | Aired: March 18, 2026
- Ep.12 advantage: Everyone on Redemption Beach runs around looking for keys to a locked box. Keeley eventually finds the right one, and receives a challenge advantage for the duel.
- Ep.12 idol: Mark and Faith decide to kill some time looking for idols, and Mark finds it, undetected.
- Ep.12 Redemption duel: (Seesaw balance build) - Keeley's advantage requires her to only stack 4 blocks instead of 5, but it's no help, as she ends up around zero, while it's a tight battle between Caleb and Sally. Eventually he wins, re-joins Bounty. Keeley and Sally spend another night at Redemption, will join the losing tribe after the IC and attend Tribal with them, but can't vote.
- Ep.12 IC: (Nut Bucket plus) - It's all Ben for Barren, slightly marred by Mark very obviously throwing the challenge. Barren "wins".
- Ep.12 Tribal: With only four votes, it's of course a 2-2 tie, between Sally and ... Faith? And in the revote, Faith is out, 3-0.
Episode 12 scoring notes
- Sit-outs and duels - None of the people in the game were eligible to compete in the duel, so no ChA, no sit-out for them. As always, dues count as half an individual challenge win/ChA. And Sally and Keeley were ineligible to compete in the IC, so no sitout/ChA for them there. The four Barrens sitting out were charged, however.
- The vote - As always, only first-round votes count for VFB, and the editors kindly showed us both rounds, so we know Mark was being truthful about voting for Faith (the first round).
- *The no votes - As is common in US Survivor, Keeley and Sally attended Tribal and were (eligible to be) voted against, but could not cast votes themselves. That's scored as 0 TCA, but 4 TotV seen. (Sally also had 2 VAP.)
Vote count:
- Faith received 2 votes, from Caleb and Mark (voted out, 2-2; 3-0).
- Sally received 2 votes, from Faith and Richard.
Other AU: Redemption boxscores
| Redemption duel | Immunity challenge | Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | SO | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Simon | - | - | 0.25 | 0.25 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.62 | 9.64 |
| Lottie | - | - | - | 0.25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1.01 | 6.45 |
| Cameron | - | - | - | 0.25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1.08 | 5.62 |
| Brooke | - | - | 0.25 | 0.25 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.95 | 5.54 |
| Jackson | - | - | - | 0.25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1.08 | 4.88 |
| Loz | - | - | - | 0.25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1.26 | 4.64 |
| Ben | - | - | 0.25 | 0.25 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.69 | 3.00 |
| Blanche | - | - | 0.25 | 0.25 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.34 | 1.02 |
| Keeley | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | - | - | 4 | 0* | 1.16 | 6.13 |
| Mark | - | - | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 0.90 | 5.64 |
| Faith | - | - | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1.36 | 5.54 |
| Richard | - | - | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | 0 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.00 | 4.02 |
| Caleb | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.25 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1.06 | 3.48 |
| Sally | 0.00 | 0.50 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 0* | 0.84 | 2.20 |
| Aisha | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.05 | 3.78 |
| Tez | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.56 | 1.41 |
| Lyndl | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.36 | 3.81 |
| Don | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.90 | 1.64 |
| Johnson | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.24 | 0.48 |
| Harry | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.83 | 2.70 |
| Paula | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.10 | 2.06 |
| Eliza | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.83 | 1.43 |
| Cat | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.08 | 0.17 |
| Daniel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.42 | 0.08 |
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.