Pre DWTS Season 16 Finale Poll Results vs. ABC Voting Mishap Theory
DonaMadrina wrote to us and pointed out some interesting results on some polls taken before the Dancing With The Stars finale. With or without the ABC mishap in their voting system last Monday night, TV Guide’s polls tipped Kellie Pickler to take home the Mirror ball trophy at 59%, Zendaya received 27% pf the votes, while Aly Raisman earned 9% and Jacoby Jones 5%.
In a poll at Digital Spy, Kellie garnished 51.78% of the votes, Zendaya garnished 34.3%, Aly garnished 8.12%, and 5.8% of the votes went to Jacoby.
In our Poll at PureDWTS, Kellie topped the votes at 64%, Zendaya got 30% of the votes, and Aly and Jacoby both tied with 3% of the votes.
Lastly, and not that the Dial Idol polls are accurate always (as we’ve highly stressed in the past), but, they tipped Kellie to win as well. DonaMadrina has been watching this source closely and tells us she’s never seen such a “landslide in raw numbers for any season, but this season, there was.” Though another interesting thing to note is that alumni and Dancing With The Stars season 11 winner Jennifer Grey was a landslide winner in other polls at the time, but, not at Dial Idol.
It begs the question, but, with or without the voting mishap at ABC, Kellie was going to win and deservedly so in my opinion. What do you think and let’s see what Heidi thinks too? Thanks so much Dona!!!!
Heidi: Online polls are crap. Dial Idol is CRAP. I don’t feel that that can be stressed enough. However, when ALL the polls (or 95% of them) and Dial Idol together show a certain outcome it begins to have the air of legitimacy – or at least strong possibility. But still, going forward, don’t hang your hat on one poll or another, and certainly don’t cherry pick polls to make your case. Any poll or Dial Idol taken by itself is indicative of NOTHING, especially when that poll can be spammed. Word to the wise. 🙂
As good as Zendaya was, Kellie was a bit better. She had a unique look and personna for each dance and “got lost in the dance” in a way even super-stars don’t always do. When Ann Miller danced, it was Ann Miller front and center. Cyd Charisse did better at what Kellie accomplished.
Though the season had me totally fed up with the producers, it has only been a week and I already miss watching Derek and Kellie dance. Sad to not have that to look forward to now. They were wonderful.
Thank you for your unwavering deliverance of dish, insight, dance wisdom, humor and snark this season, as in all seasons, you lovely ladies of Pure are half the fun, and you are appreciated. I’d send you a bottle of moonshine in gratitude, but I wouldn’t know where to send it, so my thanks will have to do. Thank you.
Not saying that the result would have been different but for international fans they were not able to vote. I also don’t trust online polls as not every fan goes online to vote on those polls.
Seeing as how many international fans aren’t watching the show, I don’t have a problem with that.
As for polls, I normally don’t believe online ones either, however they sure were right this time.
Your poll, are serious, isn’t this site strictly dedicated to founding over any and all things Derek Hough, so you can spare us your bias poll. Your poll was about as accurate as Mitt Romney taking his own poll with the exception that he didn’t get the extra assistance from ABC to rigged the votes like Derek and Kellie had otherwise we would have the :::edited by Heidi:::.
Your Duo were helped by DWTS Producers because that is how they wanted it all along Although there are so many things that are unexplainable but when you can explain to me why your duo NEVER trended on twitter once but somehow managed to win the Twitter Vote; when you can explain to me why on the winning night the second place winner was trending, not once but twice, DWTS was even trending, but nowhere to be found were your so called winners, talk about a poll indicator, then I’ll except your prejudicial and slanted polls results. But I guess you are comfortable taking a win anyway you can even if it weren’t rightfully earned but the Star was shining on Zendaya that night and has been getting brighter ever since. … and the Stars that your pro Derek has worked with, tell me, where are they NOW?!!?!? TALK ABOUT A CAREER KILLER, including his own, he can’t manage to do anything outside of DWTS!!
Being that this is a censoring site, dedicated to banding and deleting all opposing opinions, I don’t expect my comments to stay up here for very long. This is to be expected from a crowd who orchestrates their own fantasies even if it’s not the truth or reality, when one is desperate they will take it any way they can and that is what this site was created it to…
It was always Kellie for me I was sick of the dancing princess, they pimped her too much. I wasn’t overly keen on the flat shoes due to Vals napoleon complex
A word to those little darlings who continue to try to post here – luckily you are small in number, but not never bright. Opposing opinions DO stand here – but not when accompanied by all kinds of nasty, racist and just plain ugly commentary directed at EVERYONE.
You want an opposing opinion posted here? Try doing it within the guidelines of this site, which means no name calling, etc. Simple concept…but apparently not simple enough.
ETA: Changed my mind. Decided to edit one and let it stand just so people can see the crazy.
Ya see, this is what we deal with on a daily basis – people not grounded in reality.
The reality is Derek and Kellie trended every week – with peaks HIGHER than Zendaya’s, but never sustained as long as her until the final night and that killer freestyle. As thinking people recognize, you can have the highest peak but if it’s not sustained over a long duration, someone else can still get more tweets as a whole. I have someone send me screencaps EVERY week of the trend in case I want to post it. The little simpletons crying about the trends on twitter are even posting graphs of the trending topics – both Zendaya and Kellie – but they start at midnight, which means that they’ve orchestrated YOUR reality, sweetheart. Who but someone looking to fool people makes a screencap of graphs starting at midnight when the trending started four hours BEFORE that?? People who orchestrate fantasies, that’s who. 😀
Anyone with a working brain can recognize that Zendaya was the one pimped to high heaven every single week and the reason is clear – She WORKS FOR DISNEY!! ABC has nothing to gain from “rigging it for Kellie” to win – nothing at all.
The rest of your commentary is pretty much irrelevant, delusional bullshit. Thanks for playing. You want to post again, clean it up or I will delete you with great pleasure.
When a poll is done with all age groups, income levels, casual viewers and diehard vans, both twitter/facebook/online people AND those who are not, then I’ll give the poll results some thought. Otherwise not so much.
Polls are a fun thing for fans to participate in, I’ve done it myself. But you have to take the results with a grain of salt.
For me personally I pulling for Zendaya and Jacoby to win until about midway though the season. Then it seemed to me that Zen’s dancing plateaued a bit, while at the same time Kellie’s dancing slowly started to ascend.
I know most don’t think it was her best dance but for me her Rumba was the one that put me squarely in her corner. She had some bobbles that I think was caused by having her husband sing that lovely, meaningful song while they danced. Her courage in being able to show her vulnerability in that dance really moved me. Her line and shapes were truly gorgeous. Almost angelic.
From that point on, she was the one for me.
I have to be honest. I was one of those who thought Derek, while an exquisite dancer and choreographer had enough mirror ball trophies. I’ve completely done a 360 with regards to him, due to his partnership with Kellie this season.
It’s nice to proved wrong sometimes. It keeps you humble. That’s a good thing!
It’s nice to proved wrong sometimes
I gotta say, sorry to the mods, because I couldn’t even be bothered to read through that poor excuse for English.
Hey, Alllwftopic, you know the poll on this website was only one of MANY to predict Kellie as the winner, right? Every other website — except for Wetpaint — also had Kellie as the winner.
As far as Twitter trends, lol, I got sent trends that started at 4 a.m. that supposedly “accurately” showed Zendaya as the winner…except Kellie was the only one that trended worldwide. Who’s constructing their own fantasies, again?
“where are they NOW?!?!?” Nicole Scherzinger? Oh, she’s a judge on the X-factor in the U.K. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
I thank you again Mods for keeping the crazies away! That sample of hate was enough for me. I don’t know how you deal with it on a daily basis. Hats off to you!
I smell an Emmy for Derek and that’s the reason, or, another this show loves him. Apart from his outrageous choreography, every show would love an Emmy, Derek is your man
If allwtftopic failed to see Kellie trending multiple times, then it did not happen? Funny how there is criticism for bias on this site other sites are pretty default Val and Zendaya appreciation sites or Derek always is favored and cannot do anything right sites. Maybe not an issue or being run out of those sites but anti Derek bias aside, it is just ridiculous how bias they are that sometimes feels like I saw a different show.
There was talk of international votes lost and I say 1) that is fine bc they probably did not see the show and 2) how big of a voting block would that even be? I am guessing most votes on this show is from phone votes.
When I heard “voting problems” I was convinced of another debacle like ssn 15 which had such OBVIOUS interference But after hearing details and how it all went down, this season is likely the most accurate in years. Really crazy, what you mods put up with.
And about Derek .. any word about Emmys. Will anything be put in nomination? Ridiculous he doesn’t have several already. Real problems with THAT committee of judges. Isn’t the Emmy board a group that no-one knows how they get on the committee, who are influenced by a couple of specific people and biased towards one particular style of dance? Yeah, fair !
Derek’s AT, waltz/paso”story”,FS and the gravity dance are so superior in quality and content than anything the others offer up on this show or other dance shows, that certainly he should be nominated buT will he be? especially for the FS and gravity dance? I have heard a few grumblings and more the last few days about Derek “borrowing”choreo !! How ridiculous is that statement? ALL dance steps and majority of “moves and flourishes” originated somewhere. When was the last time you heard that some dancer INVENTED a new move? Derek himself said, he had seen a couple of those moves he did with Kellie, that he had seen them before but never attempted them because he didn’t think he could because of the abilities/size (or daring)of his partners. They are pretty rarely done, I think, especially the “ship’s mast” and the transition move around his back onto his lap. The majority of guys who include these things in dances mostly are built like brick walls, a lot of brute strength. The moves are called, controlled or strength moves and many of them are done by the dance partners using leverage, one against the other. Tricky, dangerous and takes a lot of precision. And there’s been a reason, no-one has ever attempted to do an homage b4 to the Astaire dance. It wasn’t just an achievement in dance and choreography but it was also a technical feat of production and filming. Complicated. And Derek’s? twice as complicated because he danced with a partner, Astaire did not. I was sure this partnership would suffer because of how incredible Shawn was. But it just shows what a genius and great teacher is. If he gets a partner who trusts him, concentrates and really WANTS to dance, it will be amazing. They truly deserved the win and it seems the majority agreed.
Oh allwtftopic, lets see….Ricki Lake has her own TV talk show that was nominated for an EMMY, I do believe. Jennie Garth also has a TV show. Shawn Johnson JUST rode in the Indy 500 parade over the weekend. We ALL know where Brook Burke is and Jennifer Grey is now 52 years old. She’s MADE her money if she’s done anything it’s a behind the scenes type thing. Maria Menounos is now filming a reality show for Oxygen Network, which she landed WHILE she was doing DWTS with Derek. Had she not been paired with Mr Hough, she’d not gotten past the 3rd or 4th week.
Derek was the ONLY Pro(excluding those who are new-Val,Tristan and Peta) who didn’t have a previous partner return for ALL STAR Season. Mark had 3(Shawn,Bristol and Sabrina, Cheryl had two(Emmitt and Gilles). I’d say a good reason for that his because his previous partners are now successful in their own right and were too busy to appear on All-Stars.
Zendaya was a star in her own right before DWTS. She’ll make Disney PLENTY of money, don’t you worry allwtftopic. THAT’s why they were pimping her so badly so they could earn MORE money. Zendaya broke several ballroom rules badly(NOT wearing heels for one) and was NOT ONCE called on it!! Anyone else would’ve been especially if paired with Derek.
FYI – Lots of Canadians vote on-line. We are considered international voters and we see the show the same time you do. 🙂
Freestyle isn’t likely eligible, mimi. It was performed too late in the season. While it meets the standard deadline, there’s no way to make the DVD deadline and I don’t think he can substitute it.
Emmy nominations come out in July. As we have seen in the past, the nominations and wins are heavily weighted towards contemporary and SYTYCD – neither are surprising since most of the voting block is going to be contemporary dancers and Nigel Lithgow spends a TON of time campaigning for his people. Since it’s decided by a committee of 12 people, Derek’s odds are better than any other DWTS pro, but still no where near as good as, say, Stacy Tookey (which DWTS had on to choreograph a dance) or any of the other SYTYCD choreographers. I keep hoping that Derek’s body of work will, at some point, be impossible to over look. I would say that this year is his last shot – he’s got three contemporary dances with different partners in the mix. With the removal of the results show, the opportunity to choreograph something emmy worthy is going to be drastically reduced. No matter how good his partners are, it’s rare for a celeb/pro dance to get nominated. The good news, for Derek, is that he’s MORE eligible than he’s ever been. There’s his body of work, which would be dances with both Kellie and Shawn, then there’s his contemp dance with Allison Holker from Season 15, then there’s Defying Gravity (provided that his partner also choreographed – if not then that goes into the “body of work” under his name only), and the dance with Mark – all would be separate nominations because they were done with different partners.
If DWTS was smart, they would get in there and fight for that Defying Gravity dance – that stands to have all kinds of production nominations, in addition to choreo, if they fight for it.
Why do people insist on arguing about stuff that is totally ridiculous like what the pros partners are doing or what is happening in Maks fans fantasies? Really – there is some stuff that you just have to roll your eyes at, and this was one of those times.
Sure Meggie – but that is kind of beside the point. It’s an American TV show and the Canadians don’t factor into either the demo or the total viewers numbers, therefore don’t impact Ad dollars. Besides, I think what Sharna and others are REALLY worried about is their home countries and the potential votes.
Either way, it doesn’t matter because ALL pros and celebs have international fans – so when you eliminate everyone except the US, it affects all the couples equally. At least this season, since none of the celebs is from another country.
Yes…IF they were smart, the key phrase, and hopefully they are. And also if they were smart, they’d be paying him anything he asked for and making any scheduling concessions they can to keep him around besides giving him anything he needs to prepare and develop all the ideas running around in his head. When they lose him, the show will go back to the lackluster choreo and work as the first few seasons and that won’t cut it with all the competition out there. I mean, there will probably be an interesting offerings now and again from Karina, maybe Sharna, but for the imagination, visionary, boffo-produced, entertaining routines they need him. I keep hearing about a couple of the other men on the show having some promise, but honestly, I don’t see it. Two in particular, dance more “Broadway style ” and thst is good to have because of the audience demographic but they have to be able to come up with other interesting things and so far, it hasn’t happened with any of the other pros. And I’m not talking abt the Cherm-bos. It looks like a sure thing that they can only deliver 1 or 2 good dances a season and then they get so side-tracked with desperation and are so not tuned in to the combination of things they have to do for their partners and the audience, it just won’t happen unless the path is paved, like season 15.
About the only change I can think of that was good, was adding the trio dance. Possibly too, the not usually done dances like Flamenco, disco. But the circumstances and having couples do 4 final dances is too much. It rattles the pros, EVERYBODY is exhausted and that leaves room for mistakes and more injuries. I think one less would at least make for better finals dances from everyone. And Derek truly should have an Emmy for his body of work…so may amazing dances and not just this season.
Even with Canadian votes, which I did consider, I doubt it is the highest portion. Just going off what happened with The Voice, guessing online voting reflected all text and phone voting. I think in even voting method, I think a clear favorite emerges and I would bet maybe the margins maybe slimmer, but guessing Kellie would have won. Tracking polls (which no Derek fan or he can control contrary to what the non Derek fans may think), Kellie always led the who you want to win. Not who you think will win. I bet Kellie already is everyone’s favorite and then delivers that freestyle, off of that amazing argentine tango, she (not Aly) peaked at the right time and delivered. I also think people were disappointed by Zendaya’s freestyle which no one openly admits. Even on afterbuzz, you can see how diplomatic they were being. It was kinda like Mya’s freestyle. Not bad…but just okay. She is Zendaya so she rocked what she got. Much like Mel did fine with the freestyle Maks choreographed but feel both C brothers not strong in freestyle department. Or even Tony. Melissa’s freestyle to Kellie’s no comparison. Melissa’s was all just lifts. Suri from afterbuzz put it best, pretty but left cold. She did not feel it while with Kellie’s, it wasn’t just the movement but you felt it. That is what made that such a stellar freestyle.
I found it hilarious when I saw on one forum, an open Mark and Val fan thinking Derek copied (he said he saw that move…much like Kym, Mark even Val admit seeing moves from others) but failed to admit Mark blatantly copies all the time from sytycd and not to mention there was one week where we saw Mark, Val and all borrow from Derek. Not to much that move has been done by cirque, which I am sure Derek saw. But that one move did not win it. It was piecing together the story which Kellie had to sell. One thing this season confirmed for me is Mark is creative too but I feel Mark at times the concept is better than execution. Like he hopes the gimmick or effects is enough. Or with Tony, the cool lifts are enough. I find Karina and Derek the two pros that get the emotions and story out. Like Karina with her rumba with JR. Also loved her rumba with Ralph and really incorporating the Karate Kid moves in the paso because it was him. Those are little things why I really feel Derek could be a terrific director. I can see him pulling those emotions out of an actor for a film.
Also hilarious when those same fans say how dare we question or infer when Val or Maks mean on a tweet (really, tweeting lol after you lost says something, Val) but they of course know how devious and real motives behind Derek creating things like the gravity defying dance. He just wants the Emmy. It can’t be just because he thought it was a cool idea to do on live television. If anything, Derek, has shown he is about the art.
I think this is dwts best chance for an Emmy. Last year Smash won so you never know. That show has tons of supporters from theatre folks and all. But sytycd had a weak year IMO with choreography. Nothing stood out like past years. If anything, Derek (fan or not)has so many amazing choices. I would love to see what he submitted. I am guessing heart cry, his quickstep with Shawn and the gravity defying dance. I also loved his mambo with Shawn even more. Really amazing and I loved Julianne’s mambo to that same song that got an Emmy. Who knows but as for what he has done…well choreographing for the top contenders for Olympic gold and producing your own tv show (and seriously pros, wouldn’t you want to get that gig…play nice with Derek and Julianne) and rumors of him and Julianne’s own Vegas show among things seems good.
Also from Sharna’s joking but very seriously “locked ABC contract”, and his own words, sounds like Derek had to pass on things as well because of that ABC contract.
One of many things sadder than the fam’s poor sport is people claiming Kellie is lying about no dance. She admitted to gymnastics as a kid and cheerleading but never dance. Yet like Brooke, they are not giving her credit for just being a natural. Also the false idea being spread like only Derek never does assigned dance. Um, no. Look no further Val with Kellie. Somehow people with Zendaya people forgot his gimmicks. He had Elisabettea in a bed for his very first dwts dance! Also the Derek hid Kellie’s feet with smoke and mirrors. He never did straight dance. Um. Quickstep! Samba! Also with Zendaya’s shoes, bet if Kellie or any of his past partners did that been Maria with her broken feet, we would never hear the end of it.
Just sad how people are stuck with Derek favored, he gets breaks, etc. but never step back as Kristin mentioned and see what actually happened. And maybe, just maybe, the C brothers have not won more because of what they did than what Derek did. I mean, I read some convinced abc site down was to get Derek a win or Val was told to use the race cars. That is as Maria said, cray cray!
Sorry I meant Derek has delivered when it counted but more that it is not some evil producer edit in favor for Derek. Seriously some said Derek was only not allowed to supersize his freestyle. Last I heard, they all could do whatever they wanted.
@Allwftopic….
All I can say, other than what’s already been said, which you’re not listening to anyway…..
You need to listen more in English class, because you have confused 2 simple words.
You used EXCEPT in this: ” Although there are so many things that are unexplainable but when you can explain to me why your duo NEVER trended on twitter once but somehow managed to win the Twitter Vote; when you can explain to me why on the winning night the second place winner was trending, not once but twice, DWTS was even trending, but nowhere to be found were your so called winners, talk about a poll indicator, then I’ll except your prejudicial and slanted polls results.”
EXCEPT:
ex·cept
1 [ik-sept] Show IPA
preposition
1.
with the exclusion of; excluding; save; but: They were all there except me.
conjunction
2.
only; with the exception (usually followed by that ): parallel cases except that one is younger than the other.
3.
otherwise than; but (followed by an adv., phrase, or clause): well fortified except here.
4.
Archaic. unless.
You SHOULD have said ACCEPT:
ac·cept
[ak-sept] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.
to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
2.
to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.
3.
to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation.
4.
to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept the office of president.
5.
to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
I could focus on more, but will stick to EXCEPT and ACCEPT. And it DOES make a difference.
Could an Emmy be garnered just on choreography alone? Or does the performance have to be stunning as well.
Some people can sure be sore losers. Big deal if Zendaya and Val were trending at twitter. Just because they were trending does it mean that’s an indication that they won or should have.
Zendaya was always trending because she has 2.7 MILLION Twitter followers. DUH!
It’s entirely possible that the show will no longer be able to afford Derek what with the falling ratings and all.
If any of you recall last year it was all about how Derek had TOO much supersizing in his FreeStyle, so this year it’s BASIC, after all, it was an option to do whatever you chose. And now the resounding cry, “he didn’t do what we did” throw a bunch of shit at the wall and see what sticks. He actually PAID attention all season, made the season about his partner and not just about winning and made his choice that way. You know, I can understand tho, it must be hard. Not only is he movie-star gorgeous and has a whole bunch of different talents, but he is also a nice guy, people like and respect him and on top of all that, he is very SMART. Tough combination. And the dance world is kind of small and as a couple of the other pros mentioned they used to baby-sit for Derek+Mark and now he is outdoing them. What none of these people, pros included can accept, is that Derek can do it ether way.he can do BIG, bombastic or quiet and touching. It’s called talent, showmanship, an all-round entertainer.
How about some levity!
MY POEM FOR THE WEEK AFTER
TWAS THE WEEK AFTER
Twas the week after our favorite dancing show
And all through the house, TVs have no glow
Not even a peep from Tom Bergeron we hear
No pros performing sparkling dances are near
No sequined costumes flowing across the floor
No pitter-patter of dancing feet, oh no, no more
Where is the band, did Harold Wheeler disappear
The music stopped, we have no tones for our ear
The couples have all gone home, it just can’t be
There is no more dancing for our eyes to see
What shall we do until Season 17 comes back
Our DVRs and YouTube will take up the slack
We blow a kiss good-bye to a season of dance
Oh how we wish we had just one other chance
To see the dancers again in all their regal glory
Return soon dancing show to tell another story!
Written By Lois A Troutman, May 27, 2013
WE MISS YOU, WE MOURN YOU, WE SHED A TEAR, OUR LOVE WE SEND!
DANCING WITH THE STARS COME BACK AROUND THE DANCING BEND!
@sandy, I think stunning performance should go with choreo though amazing choreo by itself can win like Wade’s wins IMO. But when I think of Mia’s bench dance or Nappy Tabs win, the performers were key. Alex Wong and Twitch sold that dance and Travis Wall made that bench dance stunning and got Mia the win IMO.
@ph, I can see the show not affording Derek or any of the veteran pros. I can see Henry or Witney being pros because they would be cheaper. I am sure ratings wise the results show will do better than ABC’s Tuesday night replacements but if they garner a younger audience, abc would be fine. But if not, they may bring the results show back.
But dwts has great ratings, but as mentioned by others, not cheap. I remember when top shows that still do strong in ratings get cancelled, it has more to do with the cost. It gets to expensive especially when veteran cast members garner higher salaries the longer they are on the show. First thought was I don’t think dwts could afford all the veteran pros. That is why I think getting j.Lo as a judge is not likely. She will command a higher salary and it is not like her on AI stopped their ratings erosion.
I think it’s supposed to be just choreography, Sandy, but of course if the performance isn’t good it won’t get nominated.
See, that’s the problem when the show pimps a celeb constantly… it makes their fans think that they are *pre-destined* to win. But FWIW, when I would talk to random ppl about DWTS at work, they would all tell me that they loved Kellie & Derek. They were truly capturing the audience.
Also, the night of the freestyle, I had tweetdeck up and I had columns for both Kellie & Derek mentions. I swear that their timelines were going 100 mph for almost 2 hours (starting when their freestyle aired in the east coast) of people commenting on their freestyle. I had never seen that before, going that fast, with so many people tweeting abt their dance, for that long. I knew right then something very special had happened & I had a lot of hope for them winning the next night.
So whatever polls mean to you, Derek & Kellie’s freestyle captured the hearts of millions of people & they voted for them. It does help that Kellie has had a strong season and sustained her improvement every week. I just thought that all of the pimping and false advertising of how perfect Zendaya was by the judges was going to fool America.
And to the sore losers of the second place couple… whine and complain all you want, but it doesn’t change the reality that Kellie Pickler won Dancing with the Stars. Nothing and nobody will ever take that away from her!
I expect fewer contestants as a way of controlling costs. Although it’s hard to believe that the show does make a nice profit.
Truth is, right or wrong this win will always have a asterisk beside it because of the online voting mishap. There will always be a question behind it.
I actually saw people complaining about Derek’s freestyle, saying that he “broke the rules” of the supersize freestyle, because he was SUPPOSED to supersize it, and instead he stripped it down. So stopping it down was against the rules of “supersize freestyle””…..
So you have a dance that by definition has no rules, and people still find a way to claim Derek broke all the rules in the dance…
You can’t make some of this stuff up if you tried.
Thanks Heidi 🙂
Thank you to all who posted comments after #5. I was seriously going to make corrections–a hard habit to break when you’re a teacher! I held back from posting a comment because I was truly blown away (in a very bad way) by the distorted “logic” that was presented. I guess it’s too much to ask of posters like #5 to read and digest everything first before expressing themselves. Tsk!
Lori (as well as other previous posters), thank you for addressing the spelling/grammer issue in the post by Allwftopic. It is a sad post on many levels, but if there’s at least something that Allwftopic learns from this, that’s progress.. although I doubt it. I’m still amazed that some people don’t realize it’s hard to take them seriously when their thoughts are mostly incomprehensible.
Thank you Lois!!! LoVeS!!!!! Good job again!
No, actually it won’t, Megan. Only to Zendaya fans who don’t understand the logistics. LAST season is the one you should be questioning when they let the votes stand after just as many flaws.
Posts #19 & #24 🙂 🙂 🙂
“There was talk of international votes lost and I say 1) that is fine bc they probably did not see the show and 2) how big of a voting block would that even be? I am guessing most votes on this show is from phone votes.”
My comment about Canadians seeing the show at the same time as others was in response to the above comments by Melissa. I may have interpreted it wrong, but I thought it was a kind of diss to the international fans.
PH, I agree that not counting the online votes affected all the celebs equally.