How to Calculate an Edgic Rating

What Is Edgic?

Edgic, a blend of Editing and Logic, was first pioneered by members of the Survivor Sucks forums as a method to forecast each season’s winner from the edit alone. By examining a player’s portrayal, share of screen-time, and tone, Edgic assigns a rating to every contestant in each episode, hoping to determine the winner by the merge.

There are three parts to each Edgic rating; Rating, Tone, & Visibility

Rating is divided into 5 categories:

• INV (invisible — no confessionals, tribal council questions, or real development; at most a sentence or two at camp)
• UTR (under the radar — maybe a confessional or a few lines at camp, but still very inconsequential)
• MOR (middle of the road — a couple confessionals, fairly important, shown somewhat strategic but not a huge presence)
• CP (Complex Personality — we fully see their decision-making and inner thoughts; well-developed, not one-note)
• OTT (over the top — cartoonish, one-note, usually very present, though not always)

Tone is added to the end of the rating and is either:

• PP (extremely positive)
• P (positive)
• M (mixed or neutral — contains both positive and negative scenes/traits)
• N (negative)
• NN (extremely negative)

PP and NN are very rare.

Visibility is a number between 1 and 5:

• 1 — little to no airtime
• 2 — minimal but noticable presence
• 3 — moderate airtime
• 4 — significant airtime
• 5 — overwhelming airtime

A typical winner pre-New-Era would have several CPs and MORs, typically a positive tone, and higher (but not too high) visibility. Since Season 41, producers have fought back — Edgic has more often picked finalists as losers than winners. Pre-41, winners were picked about ⅔ of the time.