Originally Posted by katmobile:
“Or make them do the worse rather than the best scoring dance.
It's unfair that you get through a dance-off by having one dance that you can do well and one you can't do so well surely it negates the whole point of dancing two dances which shows you can do both the ballroom and latin - Lisa got through on her ballroom in which actually she was gapping AGAIN! in the dance-off ergo danced it worse in the dance off than the main show but because she'd got 39 for it in the show the judges had to go with her rather than Austin. If he ended up in the dance-off he was doomed and he knew it.”
It would be fairer, as the 2 worst dances were only seperated by one point this week (Last week though, even the 2 lowest scoring dances for Lisa/Christine were a full 9 points apart - the same point difference as their two best dances!)
I really do think when you get to the 2 dance stage, then the judges choice should go. The judges get two chances to rank the couples anyway and the public only one. Add the dance off and they have 3. The top with the public vote can have way more votes than even the person second on pv and it still not alter anything at all.
Two dances leads to too many variables. It seems that a couple with one really good dance and one dud is preferred to a couple with 2 dances on the same level. Comparing the merits of relative dances becomes more subjective - is simple and basic performed well better than a faster, more complex routine that is a bit raggedy round the edges?