Let’s have a contest!
The AIRPC challenges you, the American Idol fan, to correctly guess the full order of the 12 remaining finalists, from the #12 finisher (e.g. tonight’s loser) to the fifth American Idol champion. So to enter, simply put in your entire list, numbering them from #1 (the champion) through #12 (Dead meat on March 15) as I will now demonstrate:
- Lisa Tucker
- Chris Daughtry
- Katharine McPhee
- Mandisa
- Taylor Hicks
- Paris Bennett
- The Pickler
- Ace Young
- Elliott Yamin
- Bucky Covington
- Kevin Covais
- Melissa McGhee
So I have picked Lisa Tucker to beat Chris Daughtry in the final, with Melissa McGhee going out.
SCORING: For every Idol you correctly pick on exactly the correct week of elimination, you score 3 points. For every Idol you pick on an adjacent week of elimination, score 1 point. (E.g. I will get 3 points if Elliott goes out on Week 9, 1 point if he’s out Week 10 or 8.)
However, the scoring is different from the #1 and #2 spots:
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If you correctly guess the champion, score 8 points. If your championship guess is the runner up, score 5 points; third place, one point.
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Your choice for runner up scores 5 points if you hit it. You get 3 points if your runner up wins the whole enchilada, 2 points if they finish third.
Plus more bonus points: If you hit a turkey - e.g. hit 3 perfect predictions in a row, so for instance if Pickler, Bennett and Hicks went 7-6-5 as I have predicted - you score 1 bonus point. If you hit a fourth straight pick, 2 more bonus points (so 3 bonus points overall.) Five in a row? Three more bonus points!
Plus… if you correctly guess the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place competitors, that’s 5 bonus points.
Entries may be entered into this forum up to the beginning of the Wednesday, March 15 results show. You may edit or re-enter your picks up to that point but not one minute later.
It’s like the death pool, except no one dies. I’ll bite!
- Chris Daughtry
- Katharine McPhee
- Mandisa
- Taylor Hicks
- Lisa Tucker
- Paris Bennett
- Elliott Yamin
- Ace Young
- Kellie Pickler
- Bucky Covington
- Kevin Covais
- Melissa McGhee
I’m really hoping you have a software program to keep track of the scores… 
- Chris Daughtry
- Katharine McPhee
- Elliott Yamin
- Mandisa
- Taylor Hicks
- Ace Young
- Kellie Pickler
- Lisa Tucker
- Paris Bennett
- Bucky Covington
- Melissa McGhee
- Kevin Covais
Ok, let’s give this a shot…
- Chris Daughtry
- Lisa Tucker
- Mandisa
- Katharine McPhee
- Taylor Hicks
- Paris Bennett
- Ace Young
- Elliott Yamin
- Kelly Pickler
- Bucky Covington
- Melissa McGhee
- Kevin Covais
This definitely gets tricky the further along you go, since that’s when the dinks over at votefortheworst.com have more and more influence.
I’m predict a Kevin Corvais/Mandisa finale, followed by the summer blockbuster, “When Mandisa met Kevin.”
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If in fact they have any significant influence at all, which I doubt.
Eh, I’m going for dark horse upset:
- Taylor Hicks
- Mandisa
- Katharine McPhee
- Chris Daughtry
- Lisa Tucker
- Kellie Pickler
- Paris Bennett
- Elliot Yamin
- Ace Young
- Bucky Covington
- Melissa McGhee
- Kevin Covais
I’ve been mucking with this for too long. I can’t handicap it. I can call the first three or four eliminations, then it gets sticky… and lots can change between now and then.
- Mandisa
- Chris
- Kellie
- Katharine
- Kevin
- Taylor
- Lisa
- Elliot
- Ace
- Paris
- Bucky
- Melissa
Wow, I hope not, but that’s a guess…
The order I think they’ll leave.
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The Pickler
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Ace
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Mandisa
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Chris Daughtry
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Katherine
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Lisa Tucker
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Taylor
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Elliot
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Paris
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Bucky
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Kevin
-
Melissa
The order I think they should leave
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Mandisa
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Chris
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Lisa
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Taylor
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Elliot
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Katherine
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Paris
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Kellie
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Bucky
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Ace
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Melissa
-
Kevin
Just to clarify-- my first list is how I think they’ll get voted off. That’s the one that counts for this contest. My second list is how I hope they’ll get voted off.
Performances count so much at this point. I think Mandisa could power her way through a great song and nail a top two spot but there are far too many people who don’t like soul voices and/or humongous butts and an even larger number of teenage girls with auto-dialers who will keep Ace around for a long, long time.
I still have time before the East Coast feed starts…
- Katharine
- Mandisa
- Elliot
- Chris
- Lisa
- Paris
- Pickler
- Ace
- Taylor
- Bucky
- Kevin
- Melissa
1 Taylor Hicks
2 Paris Bennett
3 Katharine McPhee
4 Chris Daughtry
5 Kellie Pickler
6 Mandisa
7 Ace Young
8 Kevin Covais
9 Lisa Tucker
10 Elliott Yamin
11 Melissa McGhee
12 Bucky Covington
I tried to work in a couple of shockers along the way.
Folks, remember: the cutoff is 8 EST on WEDNESDAY!!! You can vote even after tonite’s performances!
Your phraseology makes it a bit confusing, but I am assuming you structured your list the way everyone else did and you are calling the whole enchiliada for the Pickler, with Melissa being the Season 5 weasel. Please correct me if by some insane circumstance I am wrong.