Here are the contestants ranks by average compared to there place in the competition.
1Harry - 35.6 1st
2Chelsee-35.3 2nd
3Jason 34.8 3rd
4Holly 32.8 4th
5Alex 30.3 5th
6Anita 29.7 7th
7Robbie 27.2 6th
8Rory 26 12th
9Lulu 24.8 10th
10Russel 24.3 8th
11Dan 23 13th
12Audley 22.7 9th
13Edwina 18 14th
14Nancy 15.6 11th
What does everyone think?

I think the public have been exceptionally well-behaved with their voting this series. Either that or the judges now exist just to reflect public opinion back at itself, and they've got better at guessing.

Yes I agee, but Rory should have gone further without a doubt!

I think Rory is slightly flattered by getting waltz and quickstep in his first few dances, which are practically Erin's speciality dances, and good for him given his age/flexibility. A couple of more weeks in and he'd probably be down around Russell's level I think.

I believe his ballroom dancing was far better than Russel's. The judges scores reflect on that.

For the public to agree exactly with the judges about the top 5 is pretty impressive. However I think the top 7 on both lists were clearly the best dancers (maybe Rory too but I didn't really get to see much of him).

0.3 between Harry and Chelsee. Then 0.5 to Jason. Very close at the top.

But the judges ain't all that tbh.

Rather better than in some previous years

Or rather overmarked compared to previous years?

Not sure how that follows. Anyway I don't subscribe to the overmarking conspiracy theories

I wasn't being cynical, just making the point that it's difficult to compare the competence of the contestants over the years just by looking at the scores. It's only natural for the judges' marks to "drift" a bit over time, for whatever reason (for instance, Len has been getting more and more tolerant of divergence from "proper" dancing - unless it's Aliona, of course!).

Actually, I genuinely had the feeling that there was a small amount of overmarking (relative to previous years) in this series - but I may be wrong here.