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Edgic Guidelines


Observations (In new order)

1) The winner may have ups and downs, but is typically not too UTR/INV or too OTT.
2) The winner will typically have a fair amount of meaningful editing and typically won’t be ignored in long stretches.
3) Typically the winner is not overly Positive or Negative.
4) The winner is very unlikely to receive an INV rating during the course of the season, and will likely receive at least a 2 visibility in Episode 1.
5) Over the course of the game the winner's presence and visibility should end up closer to the average of all the players. (The winner typically gravitates to near the top in MOR differential, which calculates the closeness to average in presence, tone and ratings).
6) Typically the winner is surrounded by players who keep our focus to distract us from the winner. These players are often OTT and much of the complexity and strategy centers in this core group. This core group can be a combination of members of more than one complex group, rather than all being from one, original tribe.
.....old 5) The tribe (or the core group that will surround a surprise winner) that has the most complex dynamics and strategy usually contains the winner.
.....old 6) Typically the winner is surrounded by the player/s receiving the distracting edit.
7) The winner will have substantial comments/insight from many of the jury members that may resurface in front of the jury or mislead the audience on voting.
8) The ending is typically set up to be a somewhat of a 'surprise'. You either don't expect the winner or second place to be there. These two are often manipulated in the editing to make each look like they have a chance to win.
9) If two people are a 'known final pair' then the likelihood of them actually being the final two is slim. It would need to be a situation that cannot be avoided (i.e. Amber/Rob)




Complex tribe:

1) Complex tribe has nothing to do with strategy -the average person doesn't care. It has to do with dangling, loose ends -anxious for us to revisit.
2) Complex tribe gets the most focus pre-merge.
3) In theory, the reason the tribe seems complex, is because the focus may be surrounding the winner or final core players.

Ratings

INV - Invisible

1) Irrelevant, no confessionals or tribal council questions in the early episodes, little or no confessionals or tribal council questions in the mid to late episodes.
2) The player's editing was insignificant to any character development.

UTR - Under the radar

1) UTR means a character that is either underutilized or deliberately hidden (the trick is figuring out which). In story terms, they are kept out of focus. An UTR edit means the player may be seen, but they aren't seen doing or saying anything of major significance. Since showcasing players who do nothing isn't very entertaining, UTR edits do tend toward low visibility, but that needn't be the case.
2) Players who receive significant face time, but little to no speaking time.
3) The UTR Edit within an episode will typically be void of direct conflicts and character insight.
4) If the player gets some significant screen time, but doesn't do anything special, then you rate it UTR.

MOR - Middle of the road

1) MOR means something between UTR, CP, and OTT. They say and do enough to avoid UTR, but they're not emphasized caricatures or developed personalities. This is a holding episode for characters who could be CP, but the story didn't particularly involve them, or for normally UTR characters who couldn't escape inclusion in the story. As such, winners are often portrayed as MOR at some point in the story. However, a consistently MOR edit is not a good thing because these characters are more just kind of there.
2) Someone who gets an odd positive and negative mix, but not in an Over the Top manner.
3) If the player did something that you feel makes them better that UTR, but not enough to qualify for CP, then you rate MOR.
4) MOR can be used to describe characters who were mostly UTR with a fair amount of CP.

CP - Complex personality

1) CP means a character that is well-developed. Their editing has depth to it, and their choices are presented to the audience so that we get an insight into their thinking. We generally see their strengths and flaws. Not too surprisingly, these are the major players in the course of the game, and it is their choices that shape the story.
2) CP shows complexity of thought about the game, and or complex emotions that might be construed as Positive or Negative. "Players" like Brian, Shii Ann, Jeff Varner, or Chris, during the normal course of their editing, would in my mind be complex because they were always in the game. and many of their edits related directly to the strategic maneuvering in their tribe (successful or not).
3) Someone who expresses internal conflict over a situation, someone who expresses a "deep" or turbulent emotion like remorse, loneliness, or betrayal expressed intelligently and not like "You're a liar, T!;" someone who demonstrates a complex strategy or bold strategic move and their reasoning for it. There has to be something shown in interviews that contradicts what we've seen or adds conflict to the scenario.
4) If the player gets quality screen time and is either shown multiple times being strategic or shows a multi-dimensional side, then you go with CP.

OTT - Over the top

1) OTT means a character that is being characterized or simplified. In story terms, they are the villains and heroes, the ones we love to love or hate. A consistently OTT character is presented as a distraction to the other players. Of course, not all OTT players stay that way, and often an OTT player will go UTR for awhile if the editors want to bring them back to the main storyline as a more well-rounded character. Contrasting OTT edits in the same player (OTTN v. OTTP) generally mean a more complex edit over the course of the show.
2) OTT players are generally always edited in a Positive or Negative light.
3) A mixture of positive and negative editing ends up being neutral overall.
4) Usually lacking in strategy, or strategy not expressed with much internal conflict - but they can have lots and lots of conflict with other people; no remorse if N and no "evil" strategizing if P - only focusing on loyalty or saving one's own skin


Tone

PP) Extremely positive.
P) Positive.
No rating Static neutral
M) Dynamic Mixed neutral - If you think someone was noticibly P AND N within one episode.
N) Negative.
NN) Extremely negative.


Visibility Measures the amount of presence that a player had in an episode. Visibility includes confessionals, speaking time, face time, second person visibility and tribal council questions (TCQ).

1) Low visibility.
2) Medium low visibility.
3) Average visibility.
4) Medium high visibility.
5) High visibility.


Second Person Visbility (SPV)

Second person visibility is a count of the number of times a contestant is talked about by other contestants (either in confessionals or during game play footage) in a significant context. It excludes simple lists of contestants names (e.g. Katie saying that her, Janu, Ian and Wanda will vote for Coby) or simple descriptive passages (e.g. Caryn saying that Jeff looked funny riding a horse).”

Revision: Many contributors to Edgic have noticed that there are differences among the SPVs shown that we believe might be materially significant to the overall edit. Because of this, the classification of SPVs for Survivor 12 will go beyond a basic tally of number of SPVs and will analyze the nature of each SPV. These are all tallies for the individual that is spoken about – the “second person.”

SPV Tone:

Positive, Negative or Neutral. Regardless of whether the SPV is accurate or not, the general tone of the SPV content is noted.

SPV Type:

I) (inconsequential); General in nature, without significant substance or tone. Example: “John and I went to get the tree mail.” This is a difference in SPV analysis; for S12 all mentions of another person will be tallied. They may be – as previously believed – irrelevant. But they are SPVs, so they will be tallied.
S) (Strategic) The content discusses the strategy of the second person (NOT of the speaker. This will be included in the speaker’s rating, not in an SPV rating.)
G) (General) The content is of a general nature, more than inconsequential but not strategic. Example: discussions of injuries. I liken this to the standard MOR Edgic rating.
R) (Reinforced) The content of the SPV is reinforced by images of the second person acting in a way described in the SPV. Example: “John is really lazy,” followed by images of John sleeping and lying about when others are working.
C) (Contradicted). The content of the SPV is contradicted by images of the second person acting in a way contrary to the SPV. Example: “John is really lazy,” followed by images of John working very hard. This SPV, which doesn’t occur often, has so far without exception been used as a strong negative indicator against the speaker rather than the second person.

Not all SPVs will have an R or C. In fact, most won’t.


Game Strategy Ratings

S0 - Nothing Strategic. Either the player is not present in the episode (INV) or his comments are always narration about camp life, not strategy.
S1 - Somebody in the background during strategy sessions, or shown making one short confessional about his boot decision. Could even be shown taking a minor role talking about strategy but with no confessionals about strategy.
S2 - Somebody who is shown in multiple strategy sessions, or talking with different people, or rallying to boot somebody, etc. - but isn't all over the place when it comes to strategy.
S3 - These are the people who dominate the strategy talk. The greatest example of S3 for me is Brian C. in the "bait Blake" episode. Every time Brian is shown, he is being strategic, explaining the game from his point of view, we know what his plan is and how's he going to make it work. Every strategic thing is shown through his eyes. Usually an S3 person will be shown strategizing almost all the time they're on screen.


Posting Schedule

Thursday - Episode airs and all posters begin posting ratings.
Monday (Noon) - All ratings are due.
Monday (Noon Pacific Time) - Episode Tally is posted with close calls listed. (any rating where there is not at least 55% agreement), discussion on close calls begins.
Wednesday (by Noon) - Discussion on close calls ends.
Wednesday (by 6) - After considering discussion, Category Watchdogs and Player Watchdogs make the final call. If they disagree pastordice will have the final say.
When the vote fails to reach a 55% majority the player WD and Category WD will each choose the rating they feel best represents the edit from any rating consisting of more than 20% of the vote. If they disagree, the overseer will choose the rating he/she feels is best between the two WD ratings or any other rating that consists of more than 33% of the vote.

Assignments


Category Watchdogs

1) Rating watchdog: beatles20147
2) Tone watchdog: OnlyTheHunter
3) Visibility watchdog: Warrior
4) Overseer watchdog: pastordice


Player Watchdogs

Adam...........Monkeyhunt
Becky...........guatemala fanfic
Billy..............scepticA
Brad.............AmberKnecht
Candice........fatlittlefingers
Cao Boi.........millardfilmore
Cecilia..........MasterDarkNinja
Cristina.........jefferbean
Jenny...........speedyforme
Jessica.........Teekus
Jonathan.......dennydoylelives
J.P...............JaMalle
Nathan.........unduli clone
Ozzy............SPunKeeMonKee
Pavarti.........nikkidj
Rebecca.......Survivor2345andbeyond
Sekau..........Oowatanite
Stephannie...craig
Sundra.........I LUV TIJUANA
Yul..............cantthinkofaname



Special Watchdogs

SPV Watchdog - scepticA
Strategy Watchdogs - MasterDarkNinja and The Israeli Devil
T.C. Voting Watchdog - OnlyTheHunter
Recap / J.P. Watchdog - OnlyTheHunter





Your main responsibility is to make sure your "player or category" is getting a fair rating each week. So many times we all give our ratings, chaperone tallies and Warrior charts them. Your job will be to give it that second look and send up a flare if something looks odd.
Everyone will be rating ALL the players as normal. If people want to make a special effort with their 'watchdog' player, that will be cool too. The main thing is to just keep an eye on final ratings each week so that 'your' player is not being falsely rated.

Official Tallies: chaperone

Webmaster: chaperone

Edgic Charts: Warrior

SPV and Charts: Warrior

Confessionals: ILUVTIJUANA (Please check ILT's thread for confessional count and content.)

Edgic Guidelines: Warrior

Strategic Comments: MasterDarkNinja


Episode Reference

Episode 1 discussion starts on page 4...Tally on page 13
Episode 2 discussion starts on page 20..Tally on page 38
Episode 3 discussion starts on page 42..Tally on page 57
Episode 4 discussion starts on page 68..Tally on page 89
Episode 5 discussion starts on page 99..Tally on page 113
Episode 6 discussion starts on page 122.Tally on page 133
Episode 7 discussion starts on page 153.Tally on page 161
Episode 8 discussion starts on page 166.Tally on page 180
Episode 9 discussion starts on page 188.Tally on page 199
Episode 10 discussion starts on page 204.Tally on page 215
Episode 11 discussion starts on page 223.Tally on page 235
Episode 12 discussion starts on page 242.Tally on page 255
Episode 13 discussion starts on page 264.Tally on page 272
Episode 14 discussion starts on page 271.Tally on page 285
"The Edgies" presentation starts on page 292