SurvivorSA 8: Immunity Island Episode 5 boxscore

Episode 5: "Collateral Damage"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: July 3, 2021

SurvivorSA: Immunity Island boxscores Episode 5

Filmed: November 18-19, 2020 | Aired: July 1, 2021

Ep. 5 Reward challenge: (Rice balance) - Only Anesu and Thoriso compete for a trip to Immunity Island, and Anesu wins, almost instantly. Meanwhile, Nicole hangs in there for 10 minutes, winning a Tribal Council feast for Vuna (and an extra helping of food for herself).
Ep. 5 Immunity Island: Carla keeps her vote, and Gives Up and Goes.
Ep. 5 Vuna voted out: Thoriso, idoled out [0]-2-1 over Kiran, after Tyson plays his idol for himself.
Ep. 5 Zamba voted out: Carla, 5-2 over Chappies, as Vuna feasts and observes.

Episode 5 scoring notes

Can we get just one normal tribal RC this season? We've had two hero challenges, a tribal challenge that worked like a hero challenge (wrestling for the pillow), and now this: A choice between an individual challenge (for which Anesu and Thoriso opt) and a quasi-individual team challenge. But both challenges are the same, just with different stakes! We scored the Immunity Island/Red challenge as a duel, since there were only two participants and it lasted mere seconds. (So only half-credit for Anesu's seconds of work, sorry.) It was an individual challenge, and it carried an individual reward. So it was clearly an individual challenge. Meanwhile, as with the last tribal challenge in Gabon (holding up two poles, where Matty bested Bob), the "blue" challenge was clearly tribal, because Nicole winning it guaranteed a feast for Vuna. Same exact challenge at the same exact time. Two completely different outcomes and scoring systems. Madness.

Thoriso's weird idoling out: As with Chris Noble, we had to give Thoriso a fake Tribal Council Appearance credit (which normally comes from casting a vote), because otherwise her SurvAv and SurvSc totals would be undefined, since she was forced to cast her "No Vote" ballot, and thus never officially voted. (The null ballot counts, so there.) Also, this was the least suspenseful idoling out ever, because Tyson not only planned it ahead of time, but reminded people to vote for him at Tribal. (There was some suspense that poor Kiran — who also asked for votes! — might have ended up tied, and then been screwed on the revote.) In the end, Thoriso's going out swinging ended up hitting her, which was disappointing. Oh well.

Vuna vote count:

*[Tyson received 4 votes, from Dino, Nicole, Qieän, and Renier, all voided by his idol play.]
Thoriso received 2 votes, from Kiran and Tyson (idoled out, [0]-2-1).
Kiran received 1 vote, from Marisha.

Zamba vote count:

Carla received 5 votes, from Amy, Anela, Chappies, Santoni, and Shaun (voted out, 5-2).
Chappies received 2 votes, from Carla and Wardah.

Episode 5 boxscore
	Individual reward challenge stats		Tribal reward challenge stats		Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	ChW	ChA	ChW	ChA	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Anesu	0.50	0.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.60	7.71
Tyson	-	-	0.14	0.14	1	0*	7	1	1.60	7.50
Kiran	-	-	0.14	0.14	1	1	7	1	1.57	6.10
Dino	-	-	0.14	0.14	0	-	7	1	1.30	4.37
Marisha	-	-	0.14	0.14	0	-	7	1	1.30	4.37
Nicole	-	-	0.14	0.14	0	-	7	1	1.25	4.12
Renier	-	-	0.14	0.14	0	-	7	1	1.25	4.12
Qieän	-	-	0.14	0.14	0	-	7	1	1.18	2.95
Thoriso	0.00	0.50	-	-	-	2	7	1	0.00	0.33
Amy	-	-	0.00	0.14	1	-	7	1	1.40	7.33
Santoni	-	-	0.00	0.14	1	-	7	1	1.25	7.21
Shaun	-	-	0.00	0.14	1	-	7	1	1.15	5.58
Anela	-	-	0.00	0.14	1	-	7	1	1.13	3.33
Chappies	-	-	0.00	0.14	1	-	7	1	0.93	3.04
Wardah	-	-	0.00	0.14	0	-	7	1	0.67	2.21
Carla	-	-	0.00	0.14	0	5	7	1	0.71	1.61
Paul	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.57	1.25
Mike	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.68	1.48
Pinty	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.36	0.10
Jason	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.78	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.