I agree that Claudia, Ore and the Judge would make great finalists as they are the ones who have had no/little dance experience and have made progress- unlike those coming into the competition already as professional level dancers, Danny and Louise

Ha ha ha!!!!!

I dont think I am that confident that Louise is topping the public vote every week, some weeks yes, however I wouldn't say she did yesterday, from the comments on social media and all the stats etc I reckon Claudia may have topped it (under Danny).
As for the question of a Ore V Claudia D/O I think the judges would save Ore...expecially Darcy and Len and as Len has casting vote then it would be Ore. More to the question is what if it were Ore up against Louise...

Ore for sure in my opinion, though I think Claudia has been the better dancer & undermarked for several dances (to the one last week she was overmarked for).

Who would the Judges save in an Ore v Claudia Dance Off?

I wish I cared.

with those two it would have to come down to the performance in the dance off, they are different but equal in my book, just behind louise and danny who are also different but equal.

He's Ok.

Claudia has a Rumba to I am a Cider Drinker.

Then they would vote Claudia out!

I think theyd go& save Claudia& AJ

Made me laugh

If Kevin or Jo are in the dance off ,whoever they are with will not be saved.
If it's Kevin and Jo both in the dance off ....that would be interesting .

And that, kids, is how Scott Mills and Hairy Dave won Strictly

I think Ore v Claudia is the one possible dance-off permutation left (except maybe for the highly unlikely possibility of Danny v Louise) which would actually depend on the dance-off itself (or at least the dances they do next week), and would possibly be a split decision.

I don't think I could call it in the abstract, but as we know Ore has Foxtrot next week that might put him at a slight advantage given his great American Smooth was Foxtrot-based and there's a chance Claudia could be landed with the Rumba this week...

Without seeing the dances I would agree. The judges really like Ore - and Joanne - they don't seem to care for Claudia and AJ. Claudia's AT deserved at least one 10 and she didn't get it. Louise looked down in the cha cha thon and still got first place - which I personally don't think she deserved.

Ore without doubt, that's why he's virtually guaranteed a final place. I think Danny and Louise will make the final without ever being in the DO, so Ore would be up against Claudia and Judge Rinder. The judges will always choose Ore over those two.

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Well Craig certainly doesn't! He seems totally anti Ore as his 8 against every other judge's 10s would confirm!

Craig's 8 often seems to even out the OTT scoring of the others I've found.

I would expect it to be a tie. With Len intervenig to save one of them. But you never know who.

I think they would pick Ore.
Ore gets into the "personality" of the dance.
Claudia has trained as a gymnast since the age of 2 or something so it's not surprising that she is still doing the gymnastics.

Meg

Ore, no matter how he dances, with only Craig judging by the book.

I would give the judges the benefit of the doubt... although it is very obvious that they like Ore...
I think still depends on the dance... but having said that they always over-mark Ore to avoid the dance off... if claudia finished 3rd in cha cha chalenge... the bottom 2 could've been Ore and rinder.

I suppose they could shaft Ore knowing he's a real contender against Louise. They are going all out, IMO, to make Kevin a winner during Lens grand finale.

Oompa Lompma.......

I imagine they expect and would like a Danny win. The other three are just making up the numbers at this point IMO.

I think so too, I think Claudia is way better but for some reason they seem to think Ore can do no wrong even though he is a better showman than dancer. Hope I am wrong as I think AJ and Claudia are brilliant together.