Season 11 Prediction Game

[Jaceegirl]

Yes, do feel free to jump in if you like! You might not be able to catch up to the leaders, but it's never too late to try and make a perfect guess (which has the reward of all of us being envious of your powers of prognostication and an underlined name in the result tallys for the rest of the year)!

Thanks so much to you and FannyMare. I was too late this week as I am just reading this the day after. I will jump in for next week, but I promise you I will not be able to make a perfect guess. I can't put my head into the teen voters minds to possibly guess correctly. I was one of those that have been hoping that HeeJun would finally be eliminated and of course now we know he was. I never saw that great voice that the judges did. I think he has always shown enunciation problems and I know he was trying to be funny, but for me I never took it that way. He was just hard to figure out. So just for fun I will join you in this fun game next week. Thanks jsciv for doing this. Does anyone know how long the judges save plays out?

[Fanny Mare]

Thanks so much to you and FannyMare. I was too late this week as I am just reading this the day after. I will jump in for next week, but I promise you I will not be able to make a perfect guess. I can't put my head into the teen voters minds to possibly guess correctly. I was one of those that have been hoping that HeeJun would finally be eliminated and of course now we know he was. I never saw that great voice that the judges did. I think he has always shown enunciation problems and I know he was trying to be funny, but for me I never took it that way. He was just hard to figure out. So just for fun I will join you in this fun game next week. Thanks jsciv for doing this. Does anyone know how long the judges save plays out?

I have no idea, I am sure someone does .I thought they were going to use it last night.If Hollie had been singing for her life, then imho they would have used it.

[razorbacker]

I think the judges save is good until top 5

[jammyjoe]

Can't use the Save after top 6

[echo226]

I think the producers of the show must really want the winner of Idol to be someone who will be successful. They want the winner to be someone who is famous initially, because of Idol, but then big because they sell lots of CDs. People like Kelly, Carrie and Scotty. Yes, I know others have done well like Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry, Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert. I question which performer has the ability to really sell music and TOUR. If you can't or won't tour, you can't sell music. So, IMO Jessica is the most likely candidate. Which stations would play Phillip's music? I'm just speculating.

Although Elise doesn't seem to do well with votes, I think she would be an ideal candidate. This is just of course, my opinion, but I think the judges wouldn't mind Elise winning at all __ but her chances are pretty slim. I also have a good feeling about Hollie, not winning but eventually being successful in the business.

[jsciv]

Wow my schedule is wrecked compared to previous years. Silly life being busy...

I'll have the results out on Monday.

[Jaceegirl]

Thanks to razorbacker and jammyjoe for the information on the judges save.

[jsciv]

One of these days life will let me get this out on Friday. Oh, I long for the Tuesday/Wednesday shows of yore when if I was late weekend plans wouldn't interfere. But we do have some results:

First Safe: Skylar Laine
Second Safe: Hollie Cavanagh
Lowest Votes: Heejun Han

Judges save not used.

Heejun's reformation story was not enough to get him the votes to stay, but other than that the females are back in the bottom. Oh, and I finally had to remember the correct spelling of Hollie's name. How did we do on the predictions?

Week 5 Results:

Arielflies: Elise Testone, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
BuckeyeAddict: Heejun Han, Skylar Laine, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
Debb70: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
DezBelle: Hollie Cavanagh, DeAndre Brackensick, Heejun Han = 13
echo226: DeAndre Brackensick, Skylar Laine, Heejun Han = 13
Fanny Mare: Skylar Laine, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 11
Gutmutter: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
jsciv: Heejun Han, Jessica Sanchez, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
kenny2604: Elise Testone, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
Madison_2008: Phillip Phillips, DeAndre Brackensick, Heejun Han = 8
mesachick: Hollie Cavanagh, DeAndre Brackensick, Heejun Han = 13
Misty8723: Jessica Sanchez, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
NFL1: Skylar Laine, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 11
norm: Elise Testone, Hollie Cavanagh, DeAndre Brackensick = 7
r2maybs: Jessica Sanchez, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
razorbacker: Joshua Ledet, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 5
RyMac: Heejun Han, Hollie Cavanagh, DeAndre Brackensick = 12
TeacherLady: DeAndre Brackensick, Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han = 15
Tigerusty: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
TLynnMartin: Skylar Laine, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 12
TNKY: Skylar Laine, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 11
Vote4Makar: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
xmaskat: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10
zanthia: Hollie Cavanagh, Heejun Han, DeAndre Brackensick = 10

No perfect guesses this week, but we do have a first. I've never seen EVERY SINGLE PERSON choose one particular contestant who ended up NOT in the bottom three. Apparently America at large has a far higher opinion of DeAndre then we think they have. The Hair Will Go On!

Though it was not to be this week, if you make a perfect guess any week during the run, your name will be underlined in the standings for the rest of the year, so it's never too late to get that perk.

Teacherlady was the best of us, with 15 points. A few other folks who managed to get Heejun plus one of the girls, and they all rose a bit in the standings while the rest of us just tried to keep our heads above water. Nobody left or entered our top 10 and that gap widened, but no margin is safe yet!

Week 5 Standings

1: BuckeyeAddict - 77
2: NFL1 - 75
3: Gutmutter - 74
4: TLynnMartin - 72
4: TeacherLady - 72
6: xmaskat - 70
6: echo226 - 70
8: zanthia - 69
9: kenny2604 - 68
9: TNKY - 68

11: norm - 62
11: Tigerusty - 62
11: RyMac - 62
14: jsciv - 60
15: razorbacker - 59
16: Arielflies - 55
17: r2maybs - 54
17: Vote4Makar - 54
19: mindy384 - 50
20: Misty8723 - 48
21: mesachick - 47
22: Helenmaco2 - 43
23: Madison_2008 - 36
24: Fanny Mare - 31
25: Tirlittan - 18
25: JLuvs: 18
27: LT1 - 17
28: Debb70 - 15
29: DezBelle: 13
30: Ellen - 12
31: Magnum - 6

[Gutmutter]

Yea! Still on the bus. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought DeAndre was a goner, or at least in the bottom 3. Thanks again, jsciv!

[TeacherLady]

Thanks, jsciv! I will try to keep my lofty standing, but I don't know...

I can't believe we ALL chose DeAndre to be in the Bottom 3, and we were ALL wrong!

You can count me as one of DeAndre's fans. But I figured nobody else had much love for him. Guess I was wrong.