Originally Posted by jtnorth:
“But one thing obvious when Pop Idol/X Factor published their results is that votes vary massively from week to week. Most voters don't regularly vote for the same people. Phil could easily have had the most votes for dancing on his bad knee (about three weeks ago?) and then Laila had the most votes this week from the same floating voters. Plus Zoe going out will have changed the way people vote and reminded them that we were now down to few enough dancers for the ones at the top not to be safe any more.
Phil danced first when fewer people are watching - that really matters - and got praise from the judges. Plus that very leak will have made people think they didn't need to vote for him. I'm really sad that Phil's gone, and much as I like Ricky G too I expected the judges to save Phil. But Phil was very near the bottom of the leaderboard - it doesn't need a conspiracy to explain it.”
“But one thing obvious when Pop Idol/X Factor published their results is that votes vary massively from week to week. Most voters don't regularly vote for the same people. Phil could easily have had the most votes for dancing on his bad knee (about three weeks ago?) and then Laila had the most votes this week from the same floating voters. Plus Zoe going out will have changed the way people vote and reminded them that we were now down to few enough dancers for the ones at the top not to be safe any more.
Phil danced first when fewer people are watching - that really matters - and got praise from the judges. Plus that very leak will have made people think they didn't need to vote for him. I'm really sad that Phil's gone, and much as I like Ricky G too I expected the judges to save Phil. But Phil was very near the bottom of the leaderboard - it doesn't need a conspiracy to explain it.”
Agreed..on reflection, your analysis of the voting makes perfect sense.
I don't think there was much between Chris, Phil, Laila and Natalie..at their best. Even Ricky G performed out of his skin on Saturday. So, I don't think there was any great "injustice". Given the circumstances, I would have kept everyone in the competition (Laila would presumably have been unable to perform in the dance-off, so that would have been meaningless) but that's a different argument.







