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The "Dance Off That Never Was": I wonder what would have happened if...
....Anastacia/Brendan and Melvin/Janette had tied on public votes...
![]() ![]() I wonder it that is already in or needs to be added to the 'Strictly Rulebook'?? |
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Virtually impossible to tie the public vote. So this scenario is hugely improbable, but they could always toss a coin.
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Wot?!
No poll?
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....Anastacia/Brendan and Melvin/Janette had tied on public votes...
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That would never happen.
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That would never happen.
Forty-seven years ago, nobody would have believed that Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand would tie in votes for the Best Actress Oscar Point being, nothing is impossible... |
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
Are you planning to sneak a crocodile in in future should you be blessed with tickets - or do you have an "insider"??? |
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
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In the case that a tie in the public vote means that they can't identify who's in the bottom 2 for purposes of the dance off it goes to Len's choice, based on the rules in years past. Based on everything I've seen of the rules, if it ends up getting particularly arcane and impossible to split the contestants they resort to "wot Len sez".
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....Anastacia/Brendan and Melvin/Janette had tied on public votes...
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So what will they do if Anastacia is in the dance-off again this Saturday? Could we be told?
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Four days ago, nobody would have believed a dance-off would ever be cancelled...
Forty-seven years ago, nobody would have believed that Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand would tie in votes for the Best Actress Oscar Point being, nothing is impossible... |
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I think the celebrity least in favour with the stalinist beeb would die by surreptitious application of a poisoned umbrella, and the last words on their dying breath would be "When do we really get to the moon?"
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In the case that a tie in the public vote means that they can't identify who's in the bottom 2 for purposes of the dance off it goes to Len's choice, based on the rules in years past. Based on everything I've seen of the rules, if it ends up getting particularly arcane and impossible to split the contestants they resort to "wot Len sez".
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I wonder if the same 'rule' would have been found to exist had it been Danny and Anastacia in the bottom two (ignoring for these purposes the mathematical impossibility and just looking at the principal of the thing)
it is a thing that couldn't happen - so is completely moot. The only way Danny could be in the dance off with Anastasia at this point, assuming that she retains her overall position would be for him to have scored considerably less than he did. Which would mean he wasn't as good as he was. Which would give us the same situation just with different names - and people would be asking, yeah, but what if it had been Melvin in the bottom 2.If we are going down the 'what would have happened if ...' - why not Robert and Oksana - at least they stand a theoretical chance of being the other couple. |
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We would never have been told that though would we? They lied about a rule so why not lie as to who received the least votes?
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We would never have been told that though would we? They lied about a rule so why not lie as to who received the least votes?
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
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Putting aside the fact that they didn't "lie about a rule"... there is an independent company whose job it is to count the votes. If the BBC were found to be ignoring the public vote and putting whoever they wanted in the bottom two, the independent company would just blow the whistle.
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Putting aside the fact that they didn't "lie about a rule"... there is an independent company whose job it is to count the votes. If the BBC were found to be ignoring the public vote and putting whoever they wanted in the bottom two, the independent company would just blow the whistle.
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How can you ignore the maths though?
it is a thing that couldn't happen - so is completely moot. The only way Danny could be in the dance off with Anastasia at this point, assuming that she retains her overall position would be for him to have scored considerably less than he did. Which would mean he wasn't as good as he was. Which would give us the same situation just with different names - and people would be asking, yeah, but what if it had been Melvin in the bottom 2.If we are going down the 'what would have happened if ...' - why not Robert and Oksana - at least they stand a theoretical chance of being the other couple. I don't have strong feelings at all about what happened. Either couple would have been a reasonable elimination. Was just speculating about the existence of this so-called 'rule' (which no one appears to have found in the terms and conditions except that there seems to be some leeway for them to decide what they want to do). I was just using Danny as the most extreme example. |
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
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I wonder what would have happened if Tess had been eaten by a crocodile mid-show.
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