DS Favourite poll violently disagrees with ICM poll, bookies prices, and rumours about last Saturday's phone votes. To attempt the most accurate forecast yet, based on multi-voting by the most committed Stricly fans here, please select the option(s) below closest matching your plan.

Please select maximum one option per candidate.
Please select maximum three options in all.

The final voter and vote counts for the 3 candidates will be reported here at 3pm on Saturday. Poll set-up requested from Mods, with multiple choices accepted, maximum 3 choices.

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Plan still undecided

Not voting at all

Kara - 1 vote
Kara - 2 votes
Kara - 3 votes
Kara - 4 votes
Kara - 5 votes
Kara - 10 votes
Kara - 20 votes
Kara - 50 votes

Matt - 1 vote
Matt - 2 votes
Matt - 3 votes
Matt - 4 votes
Matt - 5 votes
Matt - 10 votes
Matt - 20 votes
Matt - 50 votes

Pamela - 1 vote
Pamela - 2 votes
Pamela - 3 votes
Pamela - 4 votes
Pamela - 5 votes
Pamela - 10 votes
Pamela - 20 votes
Pamela - 50 votes

Not deciding until I've seen them dance!

50 votes?

Hi soulmate61,

Users can now add polls to their own threads via the 'Add a Poll to this Thread' option in the 'Thread Tools' drop-down menu.

Poll now open.

Still undecided.

Did you vote for that option because I did and only one vote is showing.

Ditto!

Not voting. But if I did it would be my fav from the go, Pamela.

Dear Mods,

Please, could this poll be pinned for just 2 days?

Thanks, Father Christmas will remember your good deed.

May I say this is by far the prettiest poll I've seen. Looks quite psychedelic

I am one of the few not voting, unable to vote from Ireland.
After a stuttering start SCD8 looks all set to light up the sky with Christmas skyrockets and massive audience participation.

No substitute for star quality.

bumpsadaisy

Who's going to add all the votes up and announce the winner?

Umm... I voted for all of them

Dotti, I am at 3pm on Saturday, using all my thumbs, fingers and toes:

sum of (number of voters x number of votes per voter) = total votes deciding the destination of the glitterball.
Not everybody logs on here during daytime, so the votes to date may not be perfectly representative of the forum. Tonight around 9pm I shall report the half-way vote count.

You cast an equal number of votes for each of 3 candidates?
Are you bankrolled by RBS?

lol, I'll eat my hat if everyone who's claimed they will vote 50 times actually does!

We all know Kara's going to win this poll and the show tomorrow.

The situation is quite crazy and unprecedented.

Bookies are still offering Matt as favourite to win £8 to a £11 bet, Kara to win £22 to £11 bet. DS versus the bookies cannot both be right. It is the irresistible force versus the immoveable object.

There are now more polls than mushrooms after rain, so bumpsadaisy.

I think she will win the poll, I don't take it as read she will win the glitterball.

Still undecided, but likely not to vote at all, or at least not until I've seen the showdances, as I like all 3 couples

I just can't see the polls being so wrong - I think all the discrepancy shows is the difference between the kind of people who place bets and the kind of people who vote.

The betters are probably banking on the advantage that nice young men tend to have in reality shows.

Anybody planning on voting 50 times needs to be locked away in tiny room for the good of both themselves and civilisation as we know it.

I shall vote once as I have approximately 300 better things to spend my money on.

Bets at this stage are based on the amount of money placed. One person could put a huge bet on and this would alter the odds. Bookies would shorten the odds accordingly as if they won they would have to pay out more money.

Just as this year the odds on a white Christmas are much shorter than previous years because more people are having a bet because they believe the chances are greater of it being true, or fewer people have placed larger bets with the same net result.