Originally Posted by CloneClown:
“Heading for a Mark v Simon dance off next week?
I'm still amazed that for the first time the young male fitties are proving unpopular - very interesting voting and seems the public are wanting a very different 'champion' to support.”
Its got nothing much to do with support or personality or dancing. The SCD vote did the same to Ray and Spooney as its done to Simon. Small biases mean a lot when there's a lot of people competing for small votes - because the large numbers are going elsewhere. Its all about getting a fair small share related to your ability, and it doesn't take much to turn a small fair share to a tiny unfair share that puts you in the bottom two. He's also probably being hit by the votes going elsewhere for all sorts of other reasons.
This series has plenty of people to suck up votes. The people who vote on the dancing, have lots of other, better, choices, to vote for. There's 4 good dancers - thats more than usual.. One of those is from Eastenders, and the only really good male. The representative of Casualty is quite good too - channel and time slot may matter. . There's one fun candidate who may be attracting that vote, with little opposition, and being large may help too given some past BBC reality votes. Ola may have a personal vote, Judy may have a tennis fan. Scotish regional, Anton fan, and oldest contestant, vote working for her. Scott may have a radio 1 vote. Add those all up and the rest may indeed be fighting over voting scraps
You also have the negative voters, These seem to vote for whoever gets the worst marks. Some are just anarchists, others are anti-judge, others see low marks as an attack on them. Scott moaning about how he has worked hard and been undermarked, resonates with others. Some seem not to get the whole point - that someone is going , and just try and save whoever is most in danger.
If the people at the bottom pull in a vote on lack of merit, and the people at the top do on merit, its inevitable that its going to be people in the middle going home. The less of a support base they have , the quicker they will go.
There's not much they can do about it. Telling people their votes for the weakest are wrongheaded, just results in more votes for the weakest. Telling people to vote for the people in the middle is silly - as most people will never vote for everyone they think ought to stay till next week. People will vote for one of the best if they vote on dancing , or who they like most - not to stop the middleground going unfairly early. They can't even ask people to vote for who should go - as its open to tactical voting and the negative vote would target the best performers. .