Let’s have a game around American Idol.
To play the game, you must pick
- Who’ll win, and
- Who will be the runnerup.
You get a maximum of 20 points for picking either, but
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You only get half points if your chosen winner ends up as the runnerup, or vice versa.
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You can change your votes. But the later you change your vote the more points you will lose. After EACH quarterfinal round (the 32 remaining contestants are squaring off in groups of 8) a changed vote loses 2 points automatically. It doesn’t matter if you’re changing your vote because your pick got booted off, or if you just like someone else better.
If your pick doesn’t win or end up as runnerup, but DOES make the final eight and you picked them before their quarterfinal, you’ll get 1 consolation point.
So in theory you could get 40 points. On the other hand, if you picked the winner as the runnerup, and didn’t pick the runnerup, and picked her/him after all the quarterfinals, you would get exactly two points - (20/2)-(2*4).
Here are your choices:
BETTIS RICHARDSON
The non-partying member of the party trio
CHARLES GRIGSBY
Black kid who usually wears a knit cap
J.D. ADAMS
Handsome white kid who Simon praised during open auditions
JULIA DEMATO
Hairdresser who got into a tiff with her partners
KIMBERLEY CALDWELL
Blonde girl who was the ringleader of Julia’s group
LASHUNDRA COBBINS
Pretty, chocolate-skinned girl from the Nashville audition
MEOSHA DENTON
Don’t remember this girl
PATRICK FORTSON
Heavyset black guy - not the REALLY big one, though
ASHLEY HARTMAN
Very young blonde girl
CANDICE COLEMAN
Very small, young-looking girl with straight brown hair
CHIP DAYS
Don’t remember this guy
CLAY AIKEN
Geeky-looking redheaded guy with an amazing voice
COREY CLARK
Party on, dude!!!
EQUOIA COLEMAN
No relation to Candace. Only girl named “Equoia” in the world.
FRENCHIE DAVIS
Big Aretha-style girl with dyed hair who reconciled the warring girl foursome
GEORGE TRICE
Don’t remember this guy
HADAS SHALEV
Don’t remember her either
JACOB SMALLEY
Cutesy kid with curly hair
JENNIFER FUENTES
Cute girl, one of the first picked in the first show IIRC
JORDAN SEGUNDO
Youngest guy in the competition
JOSHUA GRACIN
The Marine. Salute!!! How does he get all this leave?
KIMBERLEY LOCKE
The other big girl who performed with Frenchie
KIMBERLY KELSEY
Unique-looking person - see Web site - struggled a bit in the last show
LOUIS GAZZARA
Don’t remember this kid
NASHEKA SIDDALL
No memory of her either. I feel like Leonard in the hotel room.
PATRICK LAKE
Rocker guy
REBECCA BOND
Memory problem again
RICKEY SMITH
Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
RUBEN STUDDARD
Great big guy with the sweet voice
SAMANTHA COHEN
No sir, don’t recall this one
SYLVIA CHIBILITI
Girl who sort of looks like Angela Bassett
VANESSA OLIVAREZ
Punk girl
All their pictures are available in the links.
PLACE YOUR BETS!!!