Challenges: MPF percentile
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Seasons: 1 | Days played: 39 | Wins: 1
- SurvivorSA 6: Philippines (2018) - Winner, 6-1.
- Received six jury votes to win (6-1), in Episode 16 (Day 39).
Tom Swartz on social media: Instagram
| Challenge stats | Tribal council stats | Jury stats | Overall stats | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ChW | ChA | ChW% | VFB | VAP | TCA | TC% | wTCR | JVF | TotJ | JV% | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| SA6: Philippines | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Career | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tom Swartz - Performance ranks
Tribal: VFB% percentile
26%
Tribal: rVAP percentile
48%
Performance ranks are a quick visual measure of the contestant's season vs. historical data from all prior contestants, in three basic (scorable) categories:
1. Performance in individual challenges (MPF), as a measure of "physical game";
2. Ability to vote people out consistently (VFB%, or VFB/TCA), or "strategic game"; and
3. Ability to avoid being voted against (rVAP, or TCA-VAP) - which scales better than a percentage would - for "social/strategic game."
See also: Full glossary for all these abbreviations.
Tom Swartz - Challenge record
SA:
Philippines challenges 
Tribal/team challenge record (2-for-6):
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 1 RC: (Opening scramble, rice race) - Luzon is slow to the beach, loses.
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 1 IC: (Extended Jail Break) - Makes fire with Ace, but Luzon loses.
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 2 RC: (Raft, cube puzzle) - Pulls raft, grabs a key, but Luzon loses.
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 2 IC: (Poles, maze, plank puzzle) - Runs, chops, but Luzon loses.
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 3 RC: "By the Numbers" - Final Luzon across; Luzon wins.
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 3 IC: (Obstacles, choices, puzzles) - Crosses the course; Luzon wins.
Individual challenge record (0-for-0):
- SA: Philippines: None.
Hero challenge/ duel record (0-for-0):
- SA: Philippines: None.
Career totals - challenges
| Wins: | 2 |
| Played: | 6 |
| Win%: | 0.33 |
| Sat out: | - |
| Wins: | 0 |
| Played: | 0 |
| Win%: | - |
| Mean% Finish: | - |
| Wins: | 0 |
| Played: | 0 |
| Win%: | - |
| Mean% Finish: | - |
Tom Swartz - Tribal Council record
SA:
Philippines Tribal 
Idols held/played (1/1; 1 vote voided):
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 3: Tells Chané to get the idol for him at the RC. She does, then gives it to him (Day 7).
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 5: Plays the idol for himself, voiding one vote (Day 13).
VFB - Votes for the person booted (7/10):
| Tribal | Voted | Boot (totals) | VFB? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ep1 | Seamus | Seamus Holmes (voted out, 5-4) | Yes |
| Ep2 | Josie | Neil Voller (out via rock draw) | - |
| Ep5 | Murishca | Murishca Martheze (voted out, 3-1-[0]) | Yes |
| Ep9 | Vusi | Vusi Mafulela (voted out, 3-1-[0]) | Yes |
| Ep10 | PK | Chané Mynhardt (idoled out, [0]-[0]-1-1; 5-2) | - |
| Ep11 | Palesa | Palesa Tau (voted out, 6-2) | Yes |
| Ep12 | PK | Toni Tebbutt (voted out, 5-2) | - |
| Ep13 | PK | PK Phetoe (voted out, 5-1) | Yes |
| Ep14 | Katinka | Katinka Oosthuizen (idoled out, [0]-2-1) | Yes |
| Ep15 | Werner | Werner Joubert (voted out, 3-1) | Yes |
| Ep16 | -* | Annalize Sainsbury (*not* voted out, 3-1) | - |
| 10 | TOTALS | 7 | |
*Tom was present at the Ep16 (F3) Tribal, but could not vote himself; no TCA charged
VAP - Votes against (5):
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 1: Four votes, from Josie, Palesa, Seamus, and Vusi.
- [SA: Philippines, Ep. 5: One vote, from Murishca, voided by Tom's idol play.]
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 10: One vote, from Chané.
Jury votes received (6/7):
- SA: Philippines, Ep. 16: Received six jury votes, from Annalize Sainsbury, Katinka Oosthuizen, PK Phetoe, Toni Tebbutt, Palesa Tau, and Chané Mynhardt, to win, 6-1.
Career totals - Tribal Council
| Idols found: | 1 |
| Idols played: | 1 |
| Votes voided: | 1 |
| VFB: | 7 |
| Tribals: | 10 |
| VAP: | 5 |
| Made: | 0 |
| For winners: | - |
| Received: | 6 |
| Total jurors: | 7 |
Tom Swartz - Pictures
SA:
Philippines image gallery -
SA: Philippines intro shot -
SA: Philippines intro shot -
Freshly sorted to Luzon -
Opening sequence confessional -
Luzon trying to catch up, Ep1 RC -
Bonding with Neil over shelter building -
Pre-challenge lineup, Ep1 IC -
Working on the fire building -
The losing Luzons -
Not thrilled that Seamus is targeting him -
Talking to Ace -
Heading to Tribal -
Talking to Nico, Ep1 Tribal Council -
Made it through with an alliance! -
The "Big five" alliance chats, Ep2 -
Trying to catch up for Luzon, Ep2 RC -
The losing Luzons, heading back to camp -
Pre-challenge lineup, Ep2 IC -
Luzon, trailing again -
Luzon loses on -
Luzon, Ep2 Tribal Council -
After two tie votes, it's come to rocks -
Tom is safe, Neil is not
Tom Swartz - Interviews
SA:
Philippines interviews Pre-game interviews
- None found.
Post-game interviews
- M-Net video interview (8/17/18): "Tom speaks"
- Landi Groenewald at KFM.co.za (8/17/18): "Survivor SA Winner, Tom Swartz on winning Season 6"
Tom Swartz - Bio
SA: Philippines bio Official M-Net SurvivorSA: Philippines bio (May, 2018):
"This what-you-see-is-what-you-get family man has loads of experience when it comes to literal “survival” skills. As an adventure camp manager, Tom builds shelters in the wild for a living and sees himself as the natural provider for his tribe. His skills include fishing, hunting, building shelter and making fire, but how will he fair in the social game?
Tom is a self-proclaimed loud mouth who loves the sound of his own voice. Not scared of confrontation, could this be his downfall in such a socially delicate game?"