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Good show tonight, only low-light, for me, was the Jive which was very under-powered but I understand these guys and girls are verrrry tired!

Anyway, my wish for the top 4:

1. Katee
2. Joshua
3. Courtney
4. Twitch

but my prediction….

1. Joshua
2. Katee
3. Twitch
4. Courtney

Great show!

Here in San Diego, Fox used to broadcast on channel 6, and the CW on channel 5. But thanks to some corporate shenanigans, they’ve swapped channel numbers. No big deal, except on Dish satellite TV, CW is on 6 and Fox is on 69, in both standard definition and high definition.

Reprogramming my DVR for this week’s So You Think You Can Dance final I was surprised to see that SYTYCD was not available in HD, only in SD. A little further investigation and, sure enough, the program guide lists America’s Top Model will be showing on the HD Fox instead of SYTYCD. Huh? So I emailed Dish about it and got the following response:

Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and confusion caused by this issue. Unfortunately, CW is not available in HD which will be showing the programming. FOX is airing CW’s normal programming and CW is airing FOX’s. Because of the swap there have been programming changes. CW will be showing standard definition programming that used to air on FOX as HD

Ok, so that cleared that up!

Well I pretty much got it right. I’m very excited that Courtney made it through instead of Chelsea and I really didn’t expect Mark to out-vote Twitch. Going to be a great top 4: Katee and Joshua for final 2, I’d say……

Round 1 to: Mark and Joshua, Katee and Chelsea.

Wow, Mark and Courtney were on fire in their jazz number – Twitch probably has the popular vote to carry him through but he should be worried. I feel bad for Courtney, great dancer, awesome tonight, but I don’t see her having the support that Katee or Chelsea have.

Round 2 to: Joshua and Mark, Katee and Courtney

Based solely on tonight, I think it should be Joshua, Mark, Katee and Courtney (Chelsea loses solely on her lame ballroom solos) but I think Twitch and Chelsea will make it instead. We’ll see!

Ok, Will and Comfort in the bottom two so far.. I am 2/2…..

Mark’s up…. a little early in the order for him to be in the bottom two but surely he is the one going home tonight?

OMG, he’s safe?! I think he thought he was going home, too. No way Will is going home yet so is it Joshua?

No, no, no, Twitch in the bottom two??? No way can he be going home tonight, but now I’m worried. Got the girls right, at least.

So – Comfort and Will?

Awesome solo from Courtney, just brilliant. And Twitch – no one does it like him. If he goes, I’ll be very sad..

Bye Bye Comfort, you should have gone last week.

Phew, Twitch survives but I am very surprised about Will leaving tonight.

Mark and Courtney next week, I think.

And America? Vote for Twitch next week, don’t assume he is safe!

Ok, the final 8, keep checking back for live updates…..

Final Scores….

Joshua and Chelsea – 17
Mark and Comfort – 13
Twitch and Katee – 17
Will and Courtney – 17

If I factor in the solos, and individual performances amongst the partner dances, my prediction for bottom two:

Guys: Mark, Will.
Girls: Comfort, Courtney (but maybe my beloved Katee).

Going home: Comfort and Mark.

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I hate to do two posts so close together but whilst here (in CA) we don’t yet know who are the first two to leave the top 10 (well, top 9 + Komfort) I wanted to go on record with my final 4 prediction:

• Final 2 guys – Will and Twitch
• Final 2 girls – Katee and Chelsea

My final two prediction in a week or two.

Oh – going home tonight? Er, Mark and Komfort

[Update] Ok, America got it 100% wrong. Actually I was split between Mark and Gev but no way should Kherrington have left tonight. Shame on you all who voted for Komfort. But, it doesn’t affect my final 4 prediction.

A little disappointed in tonight’s show. Maybe you can’t live-blog a show and still be involved in it? For the most part, the judges seemed to agree with me in most places. Mary surprises me a lot with her comments on ballroom routines, I am sure she would not say the same if it was a couple she was teaching.

Tough to come up with overall placings but ….. my top 2:

• Katee and Joshua
• Kherrington and Twitch

and bottom 2:

1. Courtney and Gev
2. Komfort and Thayne

Ok, this is what I think of as Broadway. Top marks for yellow dance pants, Courtney. I think they are portraying the story well, plenty of lines being hit well, maybe a little too much in the face rather than in the bodies? Er, it’s over and I haven’t really decided what I think.

Score: 8/10

We had Jive, now it’s time for it’s laid-back cousin. Last season (season before?) of course we had Benji, the undisputed King of Swing (at least in his own mind) so there is a lot to live up to.

Some difficult connections going on here, nice and laid back like WCS should be. Can’t help feeling they’ve dumbed Benji’s routine down a little. My favourite girl Katee isn’t doing it for me in this routine. Hmm… I’m left feeling “so?” at the end of that.

Score: 7/10