DWTS Season 14, Week 3 – Dancing by the Numbers
What do you get when you have a five way tie at the bottom of the leaderboard? A big fat mess, that’s what. 🙂 Jaysus, the over scoring continues. I thought Sherri, Jaleel and Gladys were all over scored for sure. Katherine was as well – knock it off with the two 10’s already. She was great and beautiful (and she made me very weepy), but how can you dance so much of a waltz out of hold and still get a 29?? ANYONE else would have gotten dinged for that big time. Donald (love him) starts off with what would have been called a lift if Derek or Maks had done it…and CAI decides she’s on vacay as the lift police. Figures. But on the upside – finally CAI decides to critique William. About damn time. Keep up the good work. The tongue bathes are ridiculous and that 10 was so not deserved.
I saw quite a few people saying they would be surprised if there was more than 10k votes between the top scorer and the bottom rung – Nah, there was more than that. Try 18k – a pretty good number, but not massive. Combine that smallish spread with SERIOUS voting issues, a real bottom two last week, fake crying this week and you got one unpredictable situation.
Yes, if you are a Derek or Maks fan, you know that voting was pure hell last night. Web site was continually saying that I used all my votes when I hadn’t even cast one – this was after an hour or two of “bad gateway” messages – meaning their servers were getting hammered, most likely. And this was at the BEGINNING of the show. Same issue with the phones; call and get the message that you’ve used all your calls from this phone number …on the first call. Again, right after Derek and Maria danced. I saw that Maks fans were having the same issues with the online voting, so I’m assuming that was an issue across the board. So, the passionate fanbases will rule the day, more so than usual. You had to be seriously patient and/or determined to vote last night.
Let’s look at the couples and their percentages of the total:
The Judges Scores and Percentages
Place | Celebrity | Score | Percentage |
1. | Katherine | 29 | 10.36 |
2. | William | 28 | 10.00 |
3. | Maria | 27 | 9.64 |
4. | Donald | 26 | 9.29 |
5. | Jaleel | 25 | 8.93 |
5. | Roshon | 25 | 8.93 |
7. | Sherri | 24 | 8.57 |
7. | Jack | 24 | 8.57 |
7. | Gladys | 24 | 8.57 |
7. | Gavin | 24 | 8.57 |
7. | Melissa | 24 | 8.57 |