![]() It’s a clever, and I’d say necessary, safeguard. While many of those saving votes went to sixth-place finisher K’Lee, they also ended up saving the eventual top two – Laura Daniel and Manu Vatuvei. The two lowest-scoring couples (combining the judges’ and viewers’ votes) would repeat their dance from that week, with the judges voting to save one of the pairs. In the 2019 season, the judges were often given the chance to save a couple. It’s a bizarre format shift, and seems there only to pad out the Monday night’s hour. Matthewson was still third, and went home. It just added an arbitrary amount to the leaderboard, and didn’t meaningfully change anybody’s placing. In theory, that makes sense – it’s a chance for someone who fluffed in their individual dance to make up for it. This week, the groups were scored as a whole, with one group getting 7/10 and the other getting 8/10. Last week, they were scored individually in the group dance. On the second night of the week (DWTS airs on Sunday and Monday nights), the contestants split into two teams to do the opposite style of dance to the one they performed that week (ballroom or Latin) and are judged accordingly, with the score being added to whatever they got for their individual dance. The big difference this season is the group dance. One of the group dances from week two of Dancing with the Stars (Photo: Eddison Te Reo) A general presence in people’s lives can also help there’s a reason why radio hosts, celebrity chefs and sports people tend to do especially well in these shows, because people have very specific, parasocial relationships with those figures. A particularly vocal or active fanbase (Jazz Thornton having 1.8m followers on TikTok, for example) can change things. ![]() There are countless factors as to why one star gets a bunch of votes and others don’t that have nothing to do with dancing. If two great dancers – who are beloved stars in their own right – go home in your first two weeks out of six, check your beakers because your formula’s out of whack. I’d argue that if Celebrity Treasure Island was put up to a public vote, it might not have had the same (joyous, correct) ending. In the latter, a team can carefully edit around a winner so everybody’s happy in the end, but it’s not working this year. This is one of the risks of doing a reality show live rather than a pre-taped production. On the flip side, it can also mean that a great dancer, or a beloved celebrity, can be damned by a lack of public interest (see: above). That means that a bad dancer can be saved by public vote because people really want to see them kept in the competition (see: Seymour, David). ![]() The public then votes, and the final result is determined by a 50/50 split of both. The three judges give a score out of 10 for each dance, meaning there’s a maximum of 30 points available. If you’re not aware of how the voting structure works on Dancing with the Stars, it’s pretty simple. Eli Matthewson and Johnny Williams dance a Viennese waltz (Photo: Three) Because if we didn’t, then we might see two of the better dancers going home before they’d even really warmed up. You could feel the panic in the usually calm and collected Sharyn Casey’s eyes as she pleaded with us that if we wanted to see our favourite celebrity dancer next week, we had to vote. Both eliminations seemed shocking not just to the audience, but to the hosts.
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