I don't normally vote, but tonight I wanted to support Ricky and Erin, as it went pear-shaped for them.

I started dialling as soon as the number came on the screen and got the engaged tone. Sat pressing re-dial until the lines closed and still got the engaged tone. Actually began to think the BBC were going to announce the lines were down, allowing them to make numbers up after Jade dropped out.

Then Ricky is in the bottom two.... How does that happen - if we are to assume his line is constantly busy due to heavy voting?!

I voted for Laila and Anton and got through ok...obviously I suppose given their final position.

I voted once each for Nat & Laila

Saving my votes for Team Cola for when they reach the final. Then I'm going to go voting mad.

I voted for Ricky W and got through.

I gave 4 votes for Laila.

So how come the one on the bottom had really busy lines?

I voted 8 times for Natalie . And got through each time.

I voted for Chris and Ola and was worried because I was getting throught quite easily.......but he was safe phew.

Natalie got all of my votes today.

I didn't vote this week. I am losing any interest.

Voted once for Ricky W and Chris and got through ok.

Did vote for Ricky G last week and the week before and got through ok too.

As I have said as part of another post - I had an absolute nightmare trying to get through to vote for Ricky and Erin and Laila and Anton - constant engaged tone until the last 3 or 4 mins. In fact hubby made the same remark as OP regarding the phone lines going down.

I ask the same question I started trying to vote from the moment the lines opened and only got through in the last few mins so WHY were they in the bottom two if so many people were "allegedly" voting for them to make their numbers constantly busy - and btw I vote every single week and have not had this problem before in ANY series

i didnt vote this week....... :/

I voted for Ricky and Erin and got through.

I didn't vote at all and now that Jade is out can no longer visualise feeling the urge to spend my cash on a Saturday night.

This all sounds very suspicious to me.

I voted twice for Nat.

I couldn't get through the first couple of times.

4 times for Chris and Ola, twice for Natalie - gave Chris my spare Jade votes

Voted once for Natalie and Vincent, and husband voted for Ali, no problems. Someone else voted for Natalie and Vincent about 33 times and got through o.k. ! Amazing !

33 times? Are they made of money?

tried to get through for cola but couldn't

Because he only had 2 points from the Judges.
He probably got loads of votes but that's a seriously big hill to climb if others higher up the leaderboard are popular too.

Even getting the highest phone vote (6 points), if for example Chris (leaderboard 4 points) got 5 points from the phone vote, he beats him and Ali would only need 4 phone points to beat him (5 from the leaderboard).
Last edited by Bonnie96 : 22-11-2009 at 03:30

I don't usually vote until the semifinals.

Unless I have a particular favourite and they get mauled by the judges.

I got a constant engaged tone when I tried to vote for Chris & Ola. I did manage to get through once, though.

Having watched since series one, I do understand the voting system, however, my point is, if the line was constantly engaged, that would imply that the maximum number of calls were being made to that number. Logic would tell me that would put him at the top of the viewers vote.

When I have occasionally voted in the past this series, I have never got the engaged tone; I felt it was strange enough to make my posting.

Anyway, he's gone now, so we will never know.