It doesn't mean that Chelsea have the best footballers though.

Quite. All down to referee favouritism if you ask me.

The judges are people, they have their favourites, just as we do. I don't think they get orders from up on high telling them what points to give in the cha cha cha thing, but I do think that was going to be the order whatever the dancing had been, because the judges see what they expect to see.

Basically I think it's lowercase predictable rather than scandal FIX and I don't think the marking was about Ed, but if I was a Claudia fan I'd be miffed. I don't think the judges are corrupt but I do think they are blinkered. Just how I feel watching it all for years.

As a Claudia fan I am most definitely MIFFED.

It was very naughty of the judges to do that. I like Claudia.

Thank you for being observant. It shows who is being provocative.

I agree that the role of the Judges is to mark on dance performance and content and the public to vote for their favourite. In the past, Tess would always say "vote for your favourite" but I see she does not do that now. We just have Claudia Winkleman attempting to be heard over some overly loud mariachi band or Chas and Dave and no one can hear what she is saying.

I just feel that the Judges do not always vote according to performance and content but have their own idea of who they want in the final and if those contestants need a little help, then it is given in the way of marking them as high as possible in order to try and keep them out of the dance off.

You only have to look at Greg and Claudia's dance off. Gregg was clearly the better dancer in the dance off while Claudia seemed to have given up and made numerous errors. However, the power of the Judges came through and while being the better in the dance off, Greg was evicted. I like Claudia and hope she goes through rather than Louise as she has far more obstacles to overcome re height than Louise does.

You never hear the Judges taking into account the age, size, weight differences but why not? If this is purely a dance contest, then pick celebrities with equal abilities. As it's a mixture, you have to take everything into account, not just performance. In the first few years, the Judges actually commented on the "journey" of the celebrities and made allowances for the difference in ability but around season 4, something changed. It's a given that Danny Mac is probably the best celebrity we have ever seen on SCD so if you were Ed Balls, why take part in a contest that you stand no chance of winning if it were all down to the judges? And please lets hear no more of this "it's a disgrace that you are in the dance off, you don't deserve to be here" from them. The show is to entertain the public and the public have voted. (we think, as we don't know what the public vote was or ever will be).

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I will not resort to name calling, some evidence above.

I have posted evidence above,

I just love all these FIX threads!! Every year they appear and yet there's not a single shred of PROPER evidence, just 'I believe my chosen celeb was marked down because another celeb got a higher mark'.

Still, I suppose it keeps some folks happy when they are burning with self righteous indignation.

They were the best dances so why wouldn't they be top of the leader board????

its not evidence as such, its opinion.

and we already got plenty of that.

BIB There is no arguing with this

Oh dear, your favourite isn't one of the better dancers and, therefore, is getting a lower score from the judges than the celebrities who are a threat to them. It's very sad

I completely agree with this

Probably true. But marking by expectation defeats the point. Its worse even than those singing competitions where the judges can't hear the singing, and mark on the dress rehearsals......

Its also naive to assume some issues won't shape the result. They would have been in major trouble if Ore had been sent home the week after the media was full of reports about the succession of ethnic minority candidates . There's also a fortuitous history of those contenders who can't do the tour, going home before they could win, or emerge as the main contender.

The general standard of marking here is also shoddy . Allowances are not made for physical matches, difficulty is not rewarded, novelty is rewarded or penalised, sometimes both, and negative comments often consist of small, disputed, points noted in passing, a thumb here. a posture there, or subjective judgements about acting - that none of those judges is qualified to make. And comments often don't match marks, or other markers' comments.

And the process doesn't start, and end, with the marking. There's the dance, music, costume, and staging choices, and running order - which all shape what can be good, and what people will vote for, before and after the event.

I can understand how you do not see the Judges fixing the results, you cannot even read my posts.

I have made it quiet clear that I regard Danny Mac as the best celebrity dancer that SCD has ever seen or are you saying he is not one of the better dancers?

Now that is sad.

It certainly does feel very manipulated...

With the results now going how the judges wanted i.e: Ed out, regardless of who he ended up in the DO with they'd probably always save the other party

Next year a simple way to avoid all fix cries would be to just abandon these "athons/challenges" all together so there's no possible manipulation... other then the leader board of course...

Will be an interesting change when the old fossil Goodman finally fly's off to sunny America, never to be seen again. Hopefully the new judges will spice things up alittle & shake up the formula! Been kinda repetative this series

It's actually very simple there is only a limited number of people who will vote for the worst dancer. They've been doing it since show 1. As other contestants have been voted out the majority of the voters have less dancers to split their voters between. ie: Ed getting 10% of vote meant that the remaining 90% was split between 14 contestants. Last night the 90% was split between 5 dancers.

How many posts do you have to rack up before you can legitimately start a thread? (Asking for a friend)

Very Mystic Meg, given the results (which were fair and not a fix)


I know. I wish they'd watch something else, or use that righteous anger for something that actually matters in the real world

That is not evidence, I could find plenty of posts from other Strictly fans claiming Strictly is fixed, would that be evidence?

Exactly

Neither she or her husband are on the show anymore, I'm sure anything Strictly related that comes out of their mouths is sour grapes.

I think the scoring has for the most part been fair and they have booted out those that deserved to go.