Comments on: American Idol: Messing with the formula https://cliqueclack.com/p/american-idol-top-four-repeat/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Michael Noble https://cliqueclack.com/p/american-idol-top-four-repeat/#comment-35967 Wed, 01 May 2013 23:26:23 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=9316#comment-35967 “I thought when the save was used on Casey we DID see the bottom two eliminated the next week. Am I wrong??”

No, Nyela … you are not. I would hope that would be the case, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.

Everything going forward is an unknown with what the Idol PTB pulled.

And I agree with most of your other comments.

Additionally, the American public thanks you for putting in your two cents on the election voting system as well. Never too early to start thinking about those candidates and their promises …

]]> By: Nyela https://cliqueclack.com/p/american-idol-top-four-repeat/#comment-35959 Wed, 01 May 2013 22:30:30 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=9316#comment-35959 I thought when the save was used on Casey we DID see the bottom two eliminated the next week. Am I wrong?? I thought the original idea was we would allow a save, but it would result in two eliminations the following week. Or did they do that the first year only? Completely confused and unsure if my remembrances have any basis in reality.

Aside from that, we are always going to have trouble with the fourth or fifth place elimination. I can’t do the math because AI doesn’t release individual vote counts, but there will come a week that some voters will “vote to save” instead of voting for their actual favorite. Match that week with a week where one of the front runners has an off night and the *gasp* unthinkable happens. Goodbye, Chris Daughtry [who I still think was voted off due to tornadoes on vote night moving through his home territory].

Last week Candice was in the bottom two, according to Ryan. Could she have been this season’s Chris Daughtry without the one week “bye”? I don’t know, and neither can you. But being in the bottom two should activate her supporters to send her all their votes this week. [Yes, if you are reading this and voted for anyone other than your favorite last week, this is your WAKE UP call.] If Idol adds the two vote totals together, a good night tonight could change things.

Meanwhile, without making impolite comments about the vote system on Idol or doubting in public the integrity of the process, I would just like to suggest readers imagine a change in the Presidential Vote in 3 years. For all elections from primary on, actual vote counts will not be released, just ultimate winners announced. We could even have the candidate of the lowest vote total eliminated each primary voting day until one candidate remains in each party. Of course, we would guarantee an honest result by hiring Idol’s accounting house to certify the winner. Better yet, we could create a Congressional committee to oversee the hidden vote total process. I’m sure we would all be happy with that.

[Yes, this was a long and convoluted post, but I’ve been lurking all season and had to catch up my comment word count.]

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