Vote for Your Favorites in the PureDWTS Season 18 End-of-Season Awards!!!
So against my better judgment, I decided to resurrect these awards, after skipping them for a few seasons 😛 Just figured that everyone had some pretty strong opinions about this season, and would want to discuss (or argue…) about some of the finer aspects of this season…so here’s the gist:
1.) You get one vote per award category.
2.) If you don’t see your first choice listed, you are able to write-in votes for SOME of the categories – but here’s my strong words of caution: seldom do write-in votes win these awards, so I would encourage you to only write-in if you feel really strongly about something; if your write-in vote is grossly misspelled, doesn’t make sense, or cannot be understood, I’m throwing it out – I’ve had too many seasons of weeding through pages upon pages of write-in votes that were only slightly above jibberish in terms of clarity. And if you decide to be a little jerk and answer questions like “Which was the best dance of the season?” with “All of Meryl’s dances!!!” or “tie between Meryl’s tango, Candace’s contemporary, Amy’s Argentine tango, and Charlie’s jazz”, I’m throwing out your vote. Pick ONE – like all of the people courteous enough to actually follow the rules of this poll.
3.) Polls will be up for ONE WEEK – so get your votes in NOW.
4.) We’ll reveal the results in the coming weeks, along with our commentary on how they panned out.
Got it? VOTE AWAY!!! 😀
I loved these! Glad you’re bringing them back!
I did a write in for the first poll. I said Charlie’s Foxtrot was the dance of the season, because for me, it was.
I picked “Sail” for the worst song choice because… It just was. Especially for LATIN night.
Biggest controversy, to me, was the hosing of Charlie.
Kenny was definitely the best guest judge. Though I did find Ricky to be a ton of fun.
And after marathoning all her dances, I definitely say Amy was one of the most improved dancers on the show. Candace improved only towards the end, unfortunately. But Amy just went up, up, up all season.
Yes Charlie’s Foxtrot! Totally forgot that one! I am adding it right now!
Redfoo remains my favorite Guest Judge. There are aspects of this show that need a good shot of a sense of humor.
Can’t remember to forget you by Shakira and Rihanna was the WORST song choice not just for the Argentine Tango by NeNe and Tony but quite possibly be the WORST song choice in the history of DWTS
Best dance- Charlie and Sharna Jazz
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Best guest judge- I surprised myself by going with Ricky Martin instead of Kenny Ortega. I prefer guest judges who know and love dance, which would be Kenny, but Ricky’s genuine enthusiasm and spot-on critiques won me over.
Biggest Controversy- Abbie Lee Miller. You know how when a cat pees on the carpet, the smell lingers no matter what you try to get rid of it? Well that’s ABL. A hideous smell that never goes away short of a nuclear blast.
Most improvement- Amy to infinity.
Worst song- That JLo song that I hate so much I can’t even bring myself to type out the name of it. Man, this season was full of some crappy songs
Thanks for the poll Courtney. Hope you had a great Indy race day!
@Susan2 – I did have a great race day 🙂 Thanks!
Well, the write-in votes for best dance are already well over a page long. Thanks guys…
Thank you for bringing back the polls! Hope going through the results isn’t too much of a headache :/
Best dance – Charlie and Sharna’s Jazz 🙂
Worst song – I think this season had a lot of candidates for worst song, but I went with the JLo one…I can’t stand it.
Best guest judge – I liked Ricky Martin. He was fun and seemed to really care about the couples.
Biggest controversy – to me it was the Switch-up and how they handled the twitter voting. But thankfully it was only for one week!
Most improved – Candace
I think the switch up started out as a big controversy but when the producers saw the reaction they (very wisely) made it just a one-week experiment. The voting for the switchup was the bigger controversy as you might recall.
For those of you writing in “Charlie & Sharna Mary Poppins dance!!!” as the best dance of the season…I hate you. IT’S ALREADY A VOTING OPTION – it was their jazz routine.
And it still blows my mind how many alternate spellings people can come up with for “Maks”…
I peeked at the results – it boggles my mind what some of the Meryl fans are voting on. 🙂
I didn’t realize quite how *many* truly horrible song choices we had this season, until I looked at the options in the poll…that being said, I went with the JLo song, because I *really* can’t stand it.
Best dance is always so hard – it was super close between Amy’s AT and Charlie’s jazz, and then there all the really great dances that weren’t there, like Charlie’s foxtrot, Amy’s jazz, etc. – but you’ll be happy Courtney – I didn’t do a write-in. 🙂
Another tough category was which controversy was the worst; I went with Charlie getting hosed, but if the option had been “partner switch voting” instead of “partner switch”, I may have chosen that. They really outdid themselves this season with doing really crappy stuff, didn’t they? Overall, the season left a bit of a bad taste behind it, kind of like the All-Star season; so many wonderful dances and memories tarnished by the judges’ crazy scoring and TPTB’s manipulations. Sigh…
I liked the switch up, I thought it was fun to see how the different pros approach teaching etc. I didn’t like Maks and his I only trust Val with Meryl nonsense, but it is hilarious that she broke her toe working with Val. Not funny that she was hurt, thought I should clarify. The treatment of Charlie by the producers and the judges was awful so I voted for that. I have never seen anything so transparent and rude to one of the nicest guys ever on the show. I thought Amy improved so much and I still am amazed by her. Thanks for all you guys do!
I did a write-in for Best Dance. For me it was Amy & Derek’s Quickstep, because as an amputee myself, you just aren’t supposed to be able to do what she did with running blades. Flabbergasted in the best way!
Worst song: I agree with the majority so far. That JLo song. What. Even.
Biggest controversy was ALM. But more so because of the concern before she was on that she would be lowballing the celebs because of certain pros, but that didn’t really happen. I thought the post episode controversy was actually her over scoring some people, not because of their dancing.
Best Guest Judge was hard for me, because I didn’t feel any of them really added anything. Ultimately I went with Robin Roberts.
Most Improved in terms of dance ability caused me to vote Amy, but confidence wise, it was Candace.
@CM While I voted for James’s Contemporary, I have to agree that Amy’s QS was probably my second favorite dance of the season and probably right up there with my favorite dances ever on the show. I was just blown away.
There were so many bad song choices this season it’s hard to pick just one. Ultimately I went for Mo Money Mo Problems. They really need to improve the song selection next season.
This isn’t a category but if I had to pick a “Best Song Choice of the Season” it would probably be between “Supercalif…”, “Under the Sea” and “Human”. Loved all of those song choices along with their respective dances.
BEST song choice is between 3 IMHO
1) Heart upom my Sleeve by Avicii (Amy and Derek Argentine Tango)
2) New York New York by Frank Sinatra (Charlie and Sharna Foxtrot)
3) Montserrat by Bajofondo (Meryl and Maks Argentine Tango)
I have loved this site all season I live in the UK and our version (original DWTS) turned 10 last week and is the most watched reality television show in the UK Strictly come Dancing (our name) has an almost cult following with a 30 min sister show.
Off topic: Candace discusses DWTS and production’s Q & A of the celebs to get the ‘blurbs’ they need on The Blaze via a wetpaint link. If the mods give me the nod, I’ll post the link…otherwise…happy searching at wetpaint.com
Best Dance: Charlie & Sharna’s Jazz and Meryl & Val’s AT, with Danica & Val’s quickstep a close second
They’re the one’s I can’t stop rewatching. They still give me the same emotional reaction like the first time I saw it.
Worst song: Sail by AWOLNATION. Completely atrocious song for a Paso. Honorable mention goes to that stupid JLo song.
Biggest controversy: For knowledgeable fans who can see through TPTB’s bullsh*t, Charlie getting hosed all season. For the less astute viewer, it’s Julianne vs. Maks.
Best Guest Judge: Kenny Ortega. So much respect for him.
Most Improved: Definitely Amy. Absolutely nobody thought she’d make it so far. But she was an absolute natural dancer and gave it her all every week.
You can send us the Blaze link at the Contact Us link – but don’t bother with Wetpaint. In case you haven’t noticed, it certainly appears they get all their story ideas from the comments on this site.
Yes I have noticed that. Basically she just says the producers encouraged her to continue to talk about her faith throughout the show. They were off camera asking questions then “editing” how they pleased. Not that anyone would be shocked by that revelation (no biblical pun intended)! I’ll send you the link and you decide if its worth further notice.
Skip the WetPaint link. Her comments I refer to are in the video that
is attached to the article. Typical WetPaint.
I voted but wanted to throw some love to Charlie’s Foxtrot and Nene’s Foxtrot as personal favorites of mine.
Come to think of it, this season had plenty of memorable dances and outstanding work. Meryl and Val’s AT took the cake for me. I think THEY should have been paired together because, for me, Maks didn’t bring it in the choreography dept. VAL on the other hand, went all out on this one and she beautifully executed it.
Now, Charlie’s foxtrot? Theatrical, which I loved. Smooth, which I love. AND that song? Yep, I was sold and Charlie IMO knocked it out of the park.
Nene’s foxtrot??? OHHHHH I loved this one!! I know the main focus was on the drama between her and Tony this week, but by golly did I love this dance? I think, while it was basic choreography, Nene handled it well AND gave it that extra pizazz. She OWNED that character and channeled Cruela De Vil perfectly? What else helped? For me, it was the band. Whoever was singing the song sent me out of my chair getting into the music so to speak. All 3 factors helped this become one of my favorites of the season, if not my sentimental favorite.
Other favorites? Amy’s AT (my jaw dropped), Danica’s QS, James’ Tango (w/Cheryl) and Contemporary, Candace’s Contemporary, Amy’s Contemporary, Meryl’s Contem—I mean Rumba, and Drew’s Cha Cha (w/Witney)
Overall I really loved this season as far as the dancing goes!
I don’t know how you narrowed down the choices for “Worst Song” because this season had some truly terrible music! At any rate, I chose the awful J-Lo song. Ugh.
My choices…
Best dance: I liked Meryl and Val’s Argentine Tango a lot so I went with that.
Worst song: J-Lo’s I luh ya papi. Not only was it annoying, imo it was a terrible samba song.
Biggest controversy: Abby Lee Miller. Of course the Maks/ALM fiasco with Derek clapping in the background & many other pros (Val, Sharna, etc etc) pretty much trashing her teaching style in terms of drama.. and then ALM had really weird and erratic scoring going on.
Best Guest Judge: I liked Kenny Ortega too, but I went with Robin Roberts.
Most Improved: Candace. I thought her dance ability and confidence grew quite noticeably throughout the season. It was nice to see!
Best Dance: Charlie & Sharna’s Jazz!!!!
Worst Song: The Jennifer Lopez song.
Biggest Controversy: I was going to put Abby Lee. But I decided to choose Charlie getting hosed every week.
Best Guest Judge: KENNY ORTEGA!!!!!
Most Improved: Amy
Hi there – this is my first time commenting on the site so please be gentle with me. I agree with all of the commenters on the awful JLo song. I had to turn the sound down it was so bad. And yes – Abby Lee Miller was a bad choice and just created an awful vibe to the show that night, especially her erratic scoring and comments. In one spot when she is speaking to Maks and Meryl you can see Len turn his head toward Carrie Ann with his hand over his face in horror; it’s a golden give way moment on how the other judges felt about her too. Thank you so much for the poll and this website. It’s just fabulous.
Glad I got back from vacation in time to weigh in on this one.
My fave dance was Charlie and Sharna’s Jazz, although once time washes away the bitter taste in my mouth, there will be many dances from S18 I will enjoy revisiting.
Worst song for me was Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems because it was so ill-suited to a samba. That papi thing was hideous too, but other pros could have msde it work, whereas the c-bros didn’t even try.
For me the biggest controversy was the hosing of Charlie, but taking the larger view, I have to say it was ALM judging.
I don’t think any of the guest judges added value. So I went with Kenny Ortega for having some cred and no controversy.
I saw the most growth from Candace, but hands down the celeb whose season impressed me the most was Amy’s. The way she had to not only learn steps and choreo, but also figure out how to move her body to get her prostheses in the
…right place at the right time was mind boggling.
Sorry. No idea what caused my comment to post before I finished.