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"Vote For The Worst pick tracker."
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"Vote For The Worst pick tracker." |
For keeping an eye on who the Worsters back, how well it's working (or isn't), and factoring in their overall voting influence on the competition.Right now, with the opening round format -- 24 (sort of) sing, 10 get voted through, and 2 move on as wild cards -- their votes could have some real impact. This is the stage where ballots tend to majorly scatter: a few extra percentage points here and someone who wouldn't have had an encore night gets to send their clothes to the laundry. If they want to say they have power, tonight was their first chance of the season to prove it. However, they went with Brett. Yes, he was bad. He was majorly bad. He was two notes from being horrible, which would have been two notes more than he actually hit. But I think the show is so desperate to have him advance that if he didn't get voted through, they'd choose him as a wild card -- and I'm pretty sure he's going to be voted through. So for now, the Worsters may just blend into the pack. (I personally would have taken Jordan based on the sheer stupidity of his song choice. And the shoulder pops.) It does give the caricature artist a lot (of hair) to work with. We'll see who they take from the females tomorrow. But right now, the real battle of the season may be to see who can land in the absolute bottom... 
Remember: with the immediate cutdown in place, they'll have to go to a single pick next week.
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03-02-11, 07:45 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Vote For The Worst pick tracker." |
The guys side certainly does seem to be an embarrassment of riches for the Worsters this year. The guy who wants the votes will have to do something to stand out in the entertainingly bad kind of way.
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03-02-11, 09:42 AM (EST)
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2. "RE: Vote For The Worst pick tracker." |
Brett hit me as Carrot Top trying to do a very bad Morrison imitation, for comedic value only. And it wasn't so funny, either.
Jordon, embarrasing on all counts. It's going to be a tough one to call, for the Worsters as well as the judges. They had a lot riding on both these guys, and may feel they will be semi-crucified (whatever that amounts to) if they chop either one. But most sane, un-deaf people would have to admit, those two were just B. A. D.!! 
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03-03-11, 01:00 AM (EST)
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4. "For the women:" |
Rachel.Keep in mind that VFTW also bases their choice in what they feel will be entertainment value. Rachel wasn't the worst performer on the XX side of the divide: personally, I'd make a major argument for Julie. But the panel's commentary made me feel Rachel was the designated victim of the evening -- not to mention having that state determined before she ever started -- and that frustrates me. I voted for her. I just don't know if it'll do any good.
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03-03-11, 10:41 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Caricatures are up." |
I don't think there is any way in HECK that Rachael will move on to the finals, but if she did, she'd certainly be in the VFTW running with the male worster.Julie may make it to the finals on looks alone, and maybe on previous perfomances. But it's going to be a tough call based on the good performances last night. I counted six that I would definately vote through, and had a tough time eliminating one, and bringing back a WC to boot. The girls, IMHO, did a much better job, and with the exception of Racheal, didn't make utter fools out of themselves with jerking and jumping around, the way their male counterparts did. Oh well. We'll see....
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03-03-11, 11:19 AM (EST)
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8. "RE: Caricatures are up." |
we'll see what happens next week with wc round...but usually they focus only on one person per night...we'll have to see what Nigel will do for voting no way he doesnt have america vote
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03-05-11, 06:53 PM (EST)
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10. "Poll for the worst." |
While VFTW makes their selection during the performance show, they are asking for a little pre-airtime input from their visitors about who the site should back next. This is a snapshot of the current in-progress vote tally.Selection Votes
Ashthon Jones 17% 813
Casey Abrams 6% 299
Haley Reinhart 14% 669
Jacob Lusk 7% 344
James Durbin 8% 366
Karen Rodriguez 3% 163
Lauren Alaina 1% 59
Naima Adedapo 13% 653
Paul McDonald 7% 358
Pia Toscano 1% 49
Scotty McCreery 16% 790
Stefano Langone 3% 165
Thia Megia 3% 126
4,854 votes total (If you want to vote, the link is on their front page.) The poll numbers can be skewed fairly easily (and fans of a singer will sometimes try for VFTW's block as an 'every call counts' strategy), but the top four are telling. Ashton as what people feel was a quota wild card, Haley as the arguable weakest of the voted-through females, Naima for not being mainstream, and Scotty as the genre-locked. For the record, I voted for Haley. I'm not a Worster, but I don't always have an inherent objection to their tactics -- especially not in this Year Of The Blatant Script.
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03-14-11, 06:44 PM (EST)
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17. "RE: Caricature up." |
He still looks vaguely organic. That can't be right.
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04-08-11, 08:31 AM (EST)
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20. "The hate mail flows." |
You pretty much had to expect some after Pia left, and most of it is telling the Worsters how stupid they are, they didn't eliminate Pia, they have no influence whatsoever in the show, etc, etc, and frequently bleepable etc. The haters repeat themselves and each other. A lot.The Worsters did not eliminate Pia. They can't vote against people. They didn't force her through the airplane door to freefall into B3 and out. All they can do is boost someone else's total: getting the least votes is in the hands of everyone who screams about a given person going out and did nothing to stop it. VFTW has no control over the B3 beyond trying to keep one person out of it. Pia's plummet cannot be blamed on them, nor should they be trying to take that much credit for it. But I wind up thinking this every season: to say they have no influence is to be a willful idiot. Power voters can rack up a lot of ballots on this no-limit show, and the Worsters are experienced. If you gave them credit for no more than two thousand active members posting an average of five hundred votes each, then guess what? That's a million extra votes going to their chosen one. Take a week where Ryan throws 'Fifty million votes!' out as his we're-so-popular number and the Worsters accounted for two percent of the total. Claiming an extra two percent here and there does nothing is pure stupidity. Haters gotta hate, but they don't wanna think. Fifty million votes, Ryan claims, and neglects to mention that the number can be generated by much less than a million people. Two thousand dedicated power voters using all the tricks can do a lot. This week, Paul was safe. And next week... ...well, we've still got two females left. For now.
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04-08-11, 09:24 AM (EST)
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21. "RE: The hate mail flows." |
*nods*It doesn't take that many power voters to at least keep someone out of last place. What they can't control is who didn't get the votes this week, and who the voted off person's voters move to can sometimes be enough to drop someone below the line. Add to that most seasons have at least one "oh that one has to be safe and I want to make sure this other person doesn't go home" week. It may be a little early this season as there isn't as much obvious fodder what with the judges loving everyone and saying everyone could win. If most people are running pretty even in the voting it doesn't take much for any one of them to drop into the bottom slot, and Pia didn't have much other than she's cute and she Divas it up and that hasn't usually been the big draw in most seasons. Even if you fit one of the standard archetypes there really needs to be something that sets you apart from all the other people just like you to get the votes.
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04-21-11, 07:28 AM (EST)
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22. "New pick: Casey." |
It's a combination of his overall body of work, the White Guy With Whatever That Is He Just Dragged Onto The Stage factor, the fact that he's already walking dead, and a deep-seated hope that if they just keep him around long enough, we'll get a live incontinence episode that doesn't involve Steven's mouth.Naturally, the first reactions gathered (including from a few of their own) say they just sold out by taking someone based on how far they were already set to go. After all, if they grab someone who's been given T4 by the script, all this does is let them declare VFTW Victory a few times while blending in to the voter support which already exists. And you could make that argument except for two things: Casey has the highest potential (and range) for weird moments and technically, he already went home. If you had to be saved, then at some point, the bulk of the voters had you in a virtual B3. No resurrectee has ever won the show -- and that's a challenge. Casey's fanbase won't take this well. Assuming anyone can find them.
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23. "Prechosen." |
After getting an unusual dose of comedy out of the way this past week through visitors saying 'You only picked Casey because you knew he'd win, you cowards' and the Worsters replying that Casey was in trouble and needed their support -- guess what? Casey was in trouble and needed their support, plus that of a hundred thousand other people. So long to Casey. And while the site generally waits for performance night to make their next choice, there was really only one place to go, and you get there by following the gleam of the bowtie. That's night: the next Worster choice is the lovely lusty Lady Lusk. Now there's someone who isn't going to take it well. Between this and the Gaga in-show premiere of Judas, I'm sure some very severe prayers are going to be sent in the general direction of the lightning department. And the response-to-date of the site's detractors? Telling them they should be voting for Lauren. Subtle. Waiting on the caricature.
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05-06-11, 07:40 AM (EST)
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26. "They didn't expect to win this one." |
LAST EDITED ON 05-13-11 AT 04:06 PM (EST)And they didn't. Jacob's gone, and the polls are open once again. However, with the 'entertainingly bad' factor mostly out of the race, the Worsters are now asking who their site visitors find to be the most annoying. It took me less than a second to vote for Lauren -- but I'm in the current minority: Scotty & James were running neck and neck, just two votes apart. Personally, I think the major voting mystery (as always, assuming votes are actually counted) is what happened to Lauren's fanbase last night. Haley safe was a decent probability: Haley vaulting over her was a lot lower. The producers want to scare up another rally, they have to want a Top 3 of Lauren, Scotty, and James -- but the first spot in that just became a little less certain.
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05-06-11, 09:39 AM (EST)
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28. "RE: They didn't expect to win this one." |
Yup, I went and voted for Lauren at the VFTW site last night. Both she and my vote are no-brainers.
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05-13-11, 07:17 AM (EST)
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30. "Haley puts a crick in The Agenda." |
The producers felt that one.For a while now, I've felt The Powers That Shouldn't Be wanted a country/rock finale. James vs. Scotty was the ideal, James vs. Lauren was an unlikely backup, and Haley breaking though to the top three wasn't going to happen if they had to put away the usual bus, hand her a cape, and toss her into a jet engine. But then Wednesday happened. Randy strapped on the cape, went in for the toss -- and took a knee to the genitals. (Or as the Worster front page has it, was strangled by a chain.) It's kind of hard to put a negative spin on a standing ovation without looking like an idiot, and he didn't come within ten percent of managing it. In fact, all he did was get the Worsters behind Haley -- along with potentially triggering a good old-fashioned Simon Backlash, patent extremely established. There's some extra influence here, of course. People are already questioning the sellout timing on the Star story, with some calling it a potential attempt by The Agenda to undercut James. Unlike Big Brother, some shows don't rank the success of their seasons by the number of people who might wind up in jail. For James, I'll call it a childhood incident narrated by the world's most dubious source and let him pass until a real witness emerges -- but you can see how the producers might have freaked. Sacrifice their ultimate F2 in order to save the long-term headlines? Possible -- which means Randy's backlash-trigger could have been vaguely deliberate. But the long-term result is the same: James is derailed, Haley moves on, and we should give the Worsters a little credit for the result. (Gawds know the early-arriving newbies are handing them virtually all of the blame.) And now -- well, as said on the ECST last night, I feel Haley's best move is to go solid rocker for the next show, let Lauren and Scotty split the country votes, and surf the divide into F2. (She has a slim chance to beat Lauren from there. I don't think anyone can take out Scotty.) And to paraphrase their celebration thread, it would save us from Two Hours Of Jesus, which is the sort of saving you just can't get in church. Next week is going to be interesting. The Write Protests For James threads are just going to be annoying.
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05-13-11, 06:15 PM (EST)
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33. "RE: Haley puts a crick in The Agenda." |
I only saw the cover nd the blurb at VFTW. This came from his stepfather? That's even worse. And sad. So, so sad.
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05-13-11, 06:23 PM (EST)
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34. "RE: Haley puts a crick in The Agenda." |
I think I saw ex-stepfather, not that it makes it any better, but maybe that means the guy is out of James' life and family.
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36. "RE: Haley puts a crick in The Agenda." |
LAST EDITED ON 05-14-11 AT 01:08 AM (EST)The producers felt that one. Even the established online bookies felt that one. *Rake, rake.* Agree with your call in general. Haley has an outside edge to take it. It's going to come down to the narrow line in the vote splits. Or the rapture. Which, if I'm not mistaken, is in seven days.
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05-20-11, 07:22 AM (EST)
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37. "For the finale: Scotty." |
Their poll ran neck and neck -- Lauren and Scotty were less than a hundred votes apart every time I looked -- but this makes up a good part of their rationale. (Warning: as always, the Worster commentary under the article goes past PG-13.)http://tinyurl.com/6g6em6w Uh-oh. I know that's a small sample size, but still -- uh-oh. And you have to worry when some of them are considering sitting this one out... For the rest of their reasoning, see their front page. And prepare for the caricature (when it appears). This one will not be kind.
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05-20-11, 09:15 AM (EST)
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39. "RE: For the finale: Scotty." |
Do you really believe VFTW has any impact?
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05-20-11, 09:48 AM (EST)
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40. "RE: For the finale: Scotty." |
Without going into a long-form explanation which will only bring the Trumps out of the woodwork: I think they make up between 1.5-2% of the vote, and there are days when that is enough to save someone. But I also feel that Scotty's so far ahead, the extra numbers will just blend into his landslide -- and I'm honestly not sure anyone's counting votes this season anyway.
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05-20-11, 01:28 PM (EST)
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42. "RE: This is not a caricature." |
just a tad... and mike handling lessons, too...
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05-21-11, 04:25 PM (EST)
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43. "How many votes did Haley get?" |
According to Nigel (through Twitter), she got something over 25,000,000. Of course, Nigel lies a lot. This is actually a first: someone is bothering to fabricate a contestant's rough total. No idea how the other supposed 70m split between Scotty and Lauren (other than Scotty having more of it) -- but Haley getting 25 million? Huh. If we take that even remotely seriously... ...which is the part I'm having trouble with.
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05-26-11, 03:02 PM (EST)
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48. "RE: In their own view:" |
After I posted that he reminds me of Howdy Doody, I thought, he looks like Alfred E. Neuman too! 
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05-26-11, 03:39 PM (EST)
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49. "RE: In their own view:" |
Just don't post either of those deductions at VFTW -- they got sick of hearing it about three hours after his audition.
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05-26-11, 04:32 PM (EST)
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50. "RE: In their own view:" |
I don't go to VFTW - and I really didn't see the similiarities until you posted that picture. His ears stick out way more in print than on TV!
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06-04-11, 01:27 PM (EST)
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53. "RE: Closing bids." |
Durbin, the person who won it posted it on the thread about the auction over there.
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