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Old 12-10-2013, 22:42
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I don't see how it's fair that someone should have to face the prospect of a sing-off which could result in them exiting the competition on the basis of eight minutes. All the other contestants get a far longer period of time. Who is to say that the voting figures would have changed substantially? There's a good chance of it. I call for this deeply unfair new 'twist' to be scrapped. It's just to add drama and put extra pressure and strain on the contestants, as if they don't have enough already!
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Old 12-10-2013, 22:45
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Dont agree i would rather the 1 with the least votes go straight home then we wouldnt have to have a long and protracted sunday show Which I only ever watch the last 15 minutes of anyway!!
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Old 12-10-2013, 22:48
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I don't see how it's fair that someone should have to face the prospect of a sing-off which could result in them exiting the competition on the basis of eight minutes. All the other contestants get a far longer period of time. Who is to say that the voting figures would have changed substantially? There's a good chance of it. I call for this deeply unfair new 'twist' to be scrapped. It's just to add drama and put extra pressure and strain on the contestants, as if they don't have enough already!
I think it's partly to get more people to watch the show live rather than on +1 or On Demand...
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Old 12-10-2013, 22:58
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Dont agree i would rather the 1 with the least votes go straight home then we wouldnt have to have a long and protracted sunday show Which I only ever watch the last 15 minutes of anyway!!
I agree that the results shows on Sunday drag on a little but a voting format where one contestant gets less chance to gain votes than the rest is unfair. I do seem to remember X Factor in the earlier days having a half-hour results show on the same night as the live shows where an act would be voted out, but that was on the basis that everyone would get the same amount of time. I can understand the X Factor producers wanting to change things to keep interest but sometimes change for the sake of change can backfire.
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Old 12-10-2013, 22:59
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Flash vote is a good idea.

The lowest votes act tonight could go on the first night for me.
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Old 12-10-2013, 23:11
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Flash voting would've actually worked if they had 16 acts in the live shows.

Get rid of the lowest act (16th place) on Saturday automatically, then do the usual bottom two stuff with 15th and 14th place on the Sunday.

Flash voting could've only have happened for the first four weeks this way, or we'd lose too many acts before the final, but I think that would've worked better rather than doing it for the entire live shows.

It would've been fair and a lot less complicated, too. Where are the wildcards when you need 'em?
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Old 12-10-2013, 23:15
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Problem with this flash vote is what happens if following the sing off the judges can't decide who to send home. We surely can't go to a deadlock as the flashvote act will obviously have received the least amount of votes as lines only open 10 minutes for them compared with the other act who had 24 hours.
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Old 12-10-2013, 23:24
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Problem with this flash vote is what happens if following the sing off the judges can't decide who to send home. We surely can't go to a deadlock as the flashvote act will obviously have received the least amount of votes as lines only open 10 minutes for them compared with the other act who had 24 hours.
If the vote is tied between the judges tomorrow night, Shelley will go home because she came last in the voting.

Yes, it's flawed, but the show doesn't seem to have thought it through at all...
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Old 12-10-2013, 23:44
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Maybe it won't go to deadlock this series? IIRC, the first series with four judges didn't go to deadlock until the final panel vote, when Beverley left over Hope.

Has it been confirmed that Shelley will go if the panel vote is tied?
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:22
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It will likely goto a dead lock eventually.
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:26
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Has it been confirmed that Shelley will go if the panel vote is tied?
Yes because after 10 minutes she had the lowest votes of them all. Now everyone else has had a day to continue getting votes. It's impossible for her not to have the lowest votes than anyone else tomorrow night.
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:31
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Yes because after 10 minutes she had the lowest votes of them all. Now everyone else has had a day to continue getting votes. It's impossible for her not to have the lowest votes than anyone else tomorrow night.
I'll rephrase the question - has it been confirmed that they'll return to the public vote if the panel vote goes to deadlock?
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:39
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Chances of anybody surviving after coming last in the flash vote are pretty slim.
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:44
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I'll rephrase the question - has it been confirmed that they'll return to the public vote if the panel vote goes to deadlock?
It was reported in the very first article that came out about flash voting that the Saturday act would go if it went to deadlock.

Since the article has been spot on in every other aspect, I expect it to be correct about this, but nothing has been confirmed.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:26
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If it is to avoid deadlock then why not announce the lowest votes at the beginning of Sundays show. Then the rest of the show people can continue voting. 8 minutes is very short time to vote.. I think its been mentioned before that the majority, or a very large amount, of the votes come in during the Results show usually.
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Old 13-10-2013, 16:05
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I don't see how it's fair that someone should have to face the prospect of a sing-off which could result in them exiting the competition on the basis of eight minutes. All the other contestants get a far longer period of time. Who is to say that the voting figures would have changed substantially? There's a good chance of it. I call for this deeply unfair new 'twist' to be scrapped. It's just to add drama and put extra pressure and strain on the contestants, as if they don't have enough already!
Totally agree with you, all the other contestants followers have plenty of time to vote, vote and vote again whereas Shelley's had about 8 minutes after Dermot gave out the numbers to phone. Very unfair.
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Old 13-10-2013, 16:08
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Nothing is fair in a competition like this.
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