The American Idol Results Prediction Contest

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:

  1. Lisa Tucker
  2. Chris Daughtry
  3. Katharine McPhee
  4. Mandisa
  5. Taylor Hicks
  6. Paris Bennett
  7. The Pickler
  8. Ace Young
  9. Elliott Yamin
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Kevin Covais
  12. 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:

  • If you correctly guess the champion, score 8 points. If your championship guess is the runner up, score 5 points; third place, one point.

  • 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!

  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Katharine McPhee
  3. Mandisa
  4. Taylor Hicks
  5. Lisa Tucker
  6. Paris Bennett
  7. Elliott Yamin
  8. Ace Young
  9. Kellie Pickler
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Kevin Covais
  12. Melissa McGhee

I’m really hoping you have a software program to keep track of the scores… :wink:

  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Katharine McPhee
  3. Elliott Yamin
  4. Mandisa
  5. Taylor Hicks
  6. Ace Young
  7. Kellie Pickler
  8. Lisa Tucker
  9. Paris Bennett
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Melissa McGhee
  12. Kevin Covais

Cool! I’ll play!

  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Katharine McPhee
  3. Kellie Pickler
  4. Taylor Hicks
  5. Bucky Covington
  6. Mandisa
  7. Melissa McGhee
  8. Lisa Tucker
  9. Ace Young
  10. Elliott Yamin
  11. Paris Bennett
  12. Kevin Covais

:: crosses fingers::

I’m in

  1. Mandisa
  2. Chris Daughtry
  3. Taylor Hicks
  4. Katharine McPhee
  5. Elliott Yamin
  6. Lisa Tucker
  7. Paris Bennett
  8. Bucky Covington
  9. Kellie Pickler
  10. Melissa McGhee
  11. Ace Young
  12. Kevin Covais

Oooh, me too:

  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Mandisa
  3. Katharine McPhee
  4. Kellie Pickler
  5. Taylot Hicks
  6. Elliott Yamin
  7. Lisa Tucker
  8. Ace Young
  9. Paris Bennett
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Kevin Covais
  12. Melissa McGhee
  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Mandisa
  3. Katharine McPhee
  4. Taylor Hicks
  5. Paris Bennett
  6. Kellie Pickler
  7. Lisa Tucker
  8. Ace Young
  9. Melissa McGhee
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Elliott Yamin
  12. Kevin Covais

Ok, let’s give this a shot…

  1. Chris Daughtry
  2. Lisa Tucker
  3. Mandisa
  4. Katharine McPhee
  5. Taylor Hicks
  6. Paris Bennett
  7. Ace Young
  8. Elliott Yamin
  9. Kelly Pickler
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Melissa McGhee
  12. 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.

  1. Lisa Tucker
  2. Mandisa
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Katharine McPhee
  5. Elliot Yamin
  6. Taylor Hicks
    
  7. Paris Bennett
  8. Ace Young
  9. Kellie The Pickler
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Kevin Covais
  12. Melissa McGhee

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:

  1. Taylor Hicks
  2. Mandisa
  3. Katharine McPhee
  4. Chris Daughtry
  5. Lisa Tucker
  6. Kellie Pickler
  7. Paris Bennett
  8. Elliot Yamin
  9. Ace Young
  10. Bucky Covington
  11. Melissa McGhee
  12. 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.

  1. Mandisa
  2. Chris
  3. Kellie
  4. Katharine
  5. Kevin
  6. Taylor
  7. Lisa
  8. Elliot
  9. Ace
  10. Paris
  11. Bucky
  12. Melissa

Wow, I hope not, but that’s a guess…

The order I think they’ll leave.

  1. The Pickler

  2. Ace

  3. Mandisa

  4. Chris Daughtry

  5. Katherine

  6. Lisa Tucker

  7. Taylor

  8. Elliot

  9. Paris

  10. Bucky

  11. Kevin

  12. Melissa
    The order I think they should leave

  13. Mandisa

  14. Chris

  15. Lisa

  16. Taylor

  17. Elliot

  18. Katherine

  19. Paris

  20. Kellie

  21. Bucky

  22. Ace

  23. Melissa

  24. 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…

  1. Katharine
  2. Mandisa
  3. Elliot
  4. Chris
  5. Lisa
  6. Paris
  7. Pickler
  8. Ace
  9. Taylor
  10. Bucky
  11. Kevin
  12. Melissa
  1. Mandisa
  2. Chris
  3. Katherine
  4. Lisa
  5. Taylor
  6. Ace
  7. Pickler
  8. Paris
  9. Covais
  10. Elliot
  11. Bucky
  12. 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.