Originally Posted by Kez100:
“It is possible for any one to get through to the final. The reason being, if it is not possible for someone to be saved from a dance off then we have the same situation as last year with Tom. The whole situation with new tie votes system and an extra judge was brought it - at considerable cost - to ensure that the public COULD save someone, if they vote enough for them, obviously.
So, Cola might not win but they can - whatever the judges do. Otherwise we have Votegate all over again.”
“It is possible for any one to get through to the final. The reason being, if it is not possible for someone to be saved from a dance off then we have the same situation as last year with Tom. The whole situation with new tie votes system and an extra judge was brought it - at considerable cost - to ensure that the public COULD save someone, if they vote enough for them, obviously.
So, Cola might not win but they can - whatever the judges do. Otherwise we have Votegate all over again.”
Well, that's almost true. In a three couples standard final, the public will be guaranteed to get their favourite to the final. It's not true when the final is only two couples, cos the judges get two bites at the cherry in a three-person semi.
What the rules do now is just not make it impossible for the third placed judges contestant to avoid a dance-off. They can mathematically avoid the dance-off. But that's not quite the same thing as saying if the public give them 90%+ of votes they'll be in the final. The judges can still vote their leaderboard in such a way that the public vote counts for nothing, and the public favourite gets kicked by them in a dance-off.




