Originally Posted by gorlagon:
“I think it will be very interesting if Tom *did* win the public vote last week, even with some (we don't know how many) votes not being cast by people savvy enough to see the waste and some more (we don't know how many more) votes being cast by people savvy enough to see the waste AND vote tactically for one the girls instead.
Either way, he'll have had fewer votes and the girls will have had more than they otherwise would have. So, if Tom still tops the viewer league then, as far as I can see, if the tie hadn't happened, he'd have had a 50% chance of going through without dancing off last week. And if he had, he'd have won the whole thing by a country mile.
Therefore, for me, it's a 50% chance Tom is going into this final with an unfair handicap.”
“I think it will be very interesting if Tom *did* win the public vote last week, even with some (we don't know how many) votes not being cast by people savvy enough to see the waste and some more (we don't know how many more) votes being cast by people savvy enough to see the waste AND vote tactically for one the girls instead.
Either way, he'll have had fewer votes and the girls will have had more than they otherwise would have. So, if Tom still tops the viewer league then, as far as I can see, if the tie hadn't happened, he'd have had a 50% chance of going through without dancing off last week. And if he had, he'd have won the whole thing by a country mile.
Therefore, for me, it's a 50% chance Tom is going into this final with an unfair handicap.”
That's not necessarily the case, gorlagon. It wasn't just Tom's supporters who may have felt it a waste of time to vote last Saturday. I'd imagine fans of either Rachel or Lisa would have had to have been supremely confident that their girl would have survived a dance-off against Tom. For that not to happen, Rachel or Lisa would have needed a near meltdown situation to occur in their routines. Possible, of course, but not probable.
