Now we have had the full rota of dances and they start playing catchup......I have sat down and worked out who has done what and who has what still to dance.

ALL the couples have 3 ballroom and 3 latin still apart from Ricky Wittle who has someone managed to be left with 4 ballroom and 2 latin ......how did that happen....

Jade and Phil both have 3 difficult latins left Rumba Paso and Jive.

Ali has both the Tango and the Paso still to do which may not suit her 'girly' style.

Ricky G (has the Rumba next ) has both the Salsa and Samba still to do which frankly I cant wait to see.

Natalie and Vincent and Laila and Anton still have the Rumba

Craig still has the American Smooth if you were Flavia would you be happy about that.

Invisible threads make me cry...

This series is racing by.

They'll be performing two dances per week soon.

I can't wait for that! It's my favourite part of the competition when they double up!

Yes, I've usually got a firm favourite by then, so it all starts to get quite serious!

Great idea for a thread... I was hoping someone would write up a list so we could have a go at guessing what order they have to tackle them!

If no one has done it, I may even try to put the whole list together tomorrow..

I have done it Sara I will post shortly.

Ali Foxtrot Tango VW Cha Cha Paso Samba

Zoe Quickstep VW Tango Cha Cha Samba Salsa

Jade Foxtrot Tango American Smooth Rumba Paso Jive

Ricky G Quickstep VW Tango Rumba Samba Salsa

Ricky W Quickstep American Smooth Foxtrot Tango Cha Cha Jive

Natalie Waltz Quickstep Foxtrot Jive Rumba Samba

Chris Waltz Foxtrot VW Cha Cha Paso Samba

Laila Waltz American Smooth VW Rumba Paso Salsa

Phil American Smooth Foxtrot Tango Rumba Paso Jive

Craig Waltz Amercian Smooth VW Cha Cha Paso Salsa

Done the same as Jan, but split it into Ballroom/Latin

Ballroom:

Ali and Brian - Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz, Tango
Chris and Ola - Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot
Craig and Flavia - Waltz, Viennese Waltz, American Smooth
Jade and Ian - Tango, Foxtrot, American Smooth
Laila and Anton - Waltz, Viennese Waltz, American Smooth
Natalie and Vincent - Waltz, Quickstep, Foxtrot
Phil and Katya - Tango, Quickstep, American Smooth
Ricky and Erin - Tango, Quickstep, Viennese Waltz
Ricky and Natalie - Tango, Quickstep, Foxtrot, American Smooth
Zoe and James - Tango, Quickstep, Viennese Waltz

Latin:
Ali and Brian - Cha Cha, Paso Doble, Samba
Chris and Ola - Cha Cha, Paso Doble, Samba
Craig and Flavia - Cha Cha, Paso Doble, Salsa
Jade and Ian - Rumba, Paso Doble, Jive
Laila and Anton - Rumba, Paso Doble, Salsa
Natalie and Vincent - Rumba, Jive, Samba
Phil and Katya - Rumba, Paso Doble, Jive
Ricky and Erin - Rumba, Salsa, Samba
Ricky and Natalie - Cha Cha, Jive
Zoe and James - Cha Cha, Salsa, Samba

I dont know whether we are great fans or a bit sad

Thanks you two

Having studied your lists, I can't see one couple with an obviously easier route with more dances left that suit them than not.

The key will be when they start performing two dances and can 'cheat' the system by focusing on one because that's the routine they will perform in the dance-off. The couples will be hoping they aren't given their least favourite dance before then.

I'll go with 'great fans'. Thank you both for the lists.

I hope some of the couples can produce a great tango. It's one of my favourites and yet we see so few great ones. Perhaps Jade and Ian can do it.

Not looking forward to a Ricky G Rumba.

I hope Phil gets to do a Quickstep. I think it could be a good dance for him.

Looking at your lists, I think there is lots to look forward to.

But, there are 6 dances left each and 8 Saturdays left 'til Xmas.....so, how are they going to make up the extra dances?

For one of two weeks they dance Argentine Tango and redo a previous dance and the other is the final,

OK, so there are 7 dances and 7 Saturdays...

So they can't have any 2 dance weeks this year then - unless they introduce new dances.

This is odd, I hope there's new dances. That would be amazing..

I think Jade might be one to watch from this point on- ballroom will be fine. Ian normally produces entertaining Jives, although she'll probably lose marks for technique, and Rumba and Paso are probably less problematic for her than some of the other latin.

Laila I think also has less difficult dances (for her) ahead, apart from Salsa. But they could slip that into a two-dance week and have a strong crowd-pleasing ballroom as their other dance- maybe AS.

Ali I suspect may have done her strongest dances already . She'd better have a heck of a Foxtrot up her sleeve!

I know, I think Ali's rumba would have been "her" dance. Maybe she'll do a good Lisa Snowdon/Rachel Stevens Cha Cha Cha and get 37.

See above - there aren't enough dances left to have 2-dance weeks given that they only have 7 dances left and 7 weeks to do them.

Well they normally do three weeks of two dances, the third being a repeat and an AT so there's only 4 dances that'd have to remain for it to work.

I seem to remember they break them in gently to the 2-dances-a-week schedule, with a group dance. Who can forget Gethin in an airforce uniform? And last year didn't they do a jitterbug, with the girls in odd sparkly shoes?