Maybe they should ask a series of questions to each person phone voting to ascertain they are voting for the "correct" reasons. Each phone call would last 5 minutes as the caller was grilled on their motivations and this would raise more money for CIN. People who dared vote for anything other than the best technical dancer (who may not entertain or inspire them at all) would be banned from voting ever again.

Or we could just realise that whatever the final line-up is, it really won't be a travesty like, say, world famine is.

LOL nicely said shappy!! because maybe when we thought about it we woiuldnt be voting for the best, or not realising we are not! if that makes sense!! lol

here here, what with this one trying to tell me I have Not been watching a Dance comp and some other person who seems to have felt it necessary to Cross-post that same point elsewhere, I am beginning to wonder just who are these people/what planet are they from when they clearly can't recognise Dancing.

PMSL!!

You are all arguing over this being a dancing competition or entertainment, it is both, and yse you want to look at good dancing as well as good journeys from the celebs.

However, the main point of the posts that everyone has done and the judges marks are that they are subjective and not objective. The judges may be informed and so able to mark, but some of the marking has been quite Eurovision (ie Greece and Cyprus always give each other top marks!!)

The public vote is also subjective and everyone is entitled to their view and its their phone bill at the end of the day.

To actually say who was the best dancer is a matter of personal opinion and untill dancing becomes a race against the clock and you can see the first person past the line it will always be subjective.

The judges seem to mark on different criteria each week anyway as can be seen by the difference in scores between CRH, Arlene and Len, Bruno 2/3 weeks ago.

If that's the case minihoy. May I ask if you voted for Will Thorp a few weeks back. He wasn't that gifted and struggled in every dance but pulled out all the stops to produce a scorching Tango while James stayed in despite his poor Jive. Or indeed Patsy last week who after a bad Cha Cha Cha came back with a positive "can do" spirit and did a great Jive and American Smooth

I didn't vote for anyone in the first few weeks - found it hard to warm to any couples, and it doesn't really matter in those first weeks anyway!

Nat
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If it really doesn't matter then how come you know so much about James journey of improvement?