I would guess that Scott (and to a lesser degree Matt)'s dance will come down to whether they want him to have a "comeback week", or if they want to keep him(/them) mid-table to try to force a Gav-Ann Bottom Two.

For Scott I'd say Paso or AT if the former, and Cha-Cha/Charleston if the latter (can you imagine Scott doing the latter in his current state of mind? Jesus wept...)

It's not about the length of the series - it's the fact that they haven't gone to two-dances-a-week like they usually do. Compare this year to series 5 - same length of series, same number of couples, but this year had one extra dance (Charleston). The difference is that in series 5, they danced two routines from week 9 onwards, whereas we're now in week 10 and still on one routine each.

If they'd done...
> Weeks 1-8 ~ one dance
> Weeks 9-11 ~ two dances
> Week 12 (final) ~ usual
...they could have fit all the dances in, but they haven't!

Let's say Matt gets to the final. With one dance this week and two in the semi, he will have danced 12 of the 14 styles, but we'll be left wondering, for example, "I wonder what Matt's paso doble would have been like?"

I just don't think it's right that someone could win the series without having performed all the dances!

Confirmed

Matt and Aliona doing the Jive


So confirmed are

Pamela and James = VW
Gavin and Katya = Foxtrot
Ann and Anton = American Smooth
Matt and Aliona = Jive

Which means Kara and Scott are on latin

And the judges could realistically place them like this - and get rid of Ann

Pamela and James 6 + 1 = 7
Kara and Artem 5 + 2 = 7
Matt and Aliona 4 + 6 = 10
Gavin and Katya 3 + 3 = 6
Scott and Natalie 2 + 5 = 7
Ann and Anton 1 + 4 = 5

I hope Kara has the Rumba.

Me too, Ive just said that to the hubby.

Just a thought...
Nobody has performed both the Tango and the Argentine Tango.

I'm betting that the couples will only dance one or the other, not both.

Me three.

I think it would be a beautiful dance.

Probably to something from Love Story

And I would guess Scott has the Paso

I dont know why but Im hoping he has the Charleston.

If so, then looking likely to be a high scoring week for the both of them.

If Scott has the Cha Cha, he'll be dreadful.

We had a Charleston last week - we haven't had a paso or a cha cha for two. So I would doubt Scott has the charleston

I agree. A Cha Cha without hip action is like a Waltz out of hold. No doubt he'll still get a score of 30+ for it, however bad it is!

Matt's jive should be quite good, as he's already sort of familiar with the basics.

watch the judges undermark him - they are trying to keep pamela in because she doesn't poll well with the public

Whilst I agree that Pamela's Charlston was overmarked this week, she may come out and dance a beautiful VW this week and deserve a much higher mark than Scott

Out of interest (as I havent been around here much lately) have polling figures been leaked? I would be intrigued to find out who is polling the most votes at this stage

The public vote is as follows- please don't ask how I know - but my source is accurate

1. Matt
2. Scott
3. Ann
4. Gavin
5 & 6 Kara and Pamela - but they are interchangeable with each other

Thanks

That really surprises me...I thought Kara would have come higher in the poll...I think a final without her would be a travesty....she's so consistantly good

I think what has gone against her is that she has already done a strictly on off show

But how does that explain Gavin being in the bottom two? (Its probably maths based and that aint my strongest point!!!)

Is this the dance he learned with Darren and Lilia for Blue Peter ?

Yes. I know it was a while ago and he has a busy schedule etc, but I'm sure it'll help him a bit.

YES IT IS

Thanks, I knew that he had experience of one of the dances but wasn't sure which

Hang on a sec....so Matt has already learnt the jive?

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OK - leaderboard was

Pamela and James 7 + 2 = 9
Kara and Artem 6 + 3 = 9
Matt and Aliona 5 + 7 = 12
Scott and Natalie 4 + 6 = 10
Patsy and Robin 3 + 1 = 4
Gavin and Katya 2 + 4 = 6
Ann and Anton 1 + 5 = 6

Gavin bottom two because he got less public votes than Ann