Kris

Adam

and Allison

were easily the best performances of the night. Unfortunately Kris might get hosed a lose to weaker performance. If so, he’s a shoe-in for the wild card.

I’m hoping Megan gets the third spot. At the least, I think it will go to a girl.

- Adam Lambert
- Allison Iraheta
- Megan Corkrey

And I will note for like the 100th time–I hate, hate, hate this format. So many good singers who WOULD have had a second chance during Top 24 won’t go on. If we got to vote again, well, I could deal with it, but we have absolutely no say at this point (aside from next week’s voting), so if your favorite (for me it was Ricky) doesn’t come in third (and I voted for him last week–a lot), then he may well not make it into the Top 12. Unfortunate and frustrating.

I’m pretty sure they’ll bring back some of the others (Matt G. and Megan, and maybe others) for the Wildcard round.

Interesting. Even the straight, married guys at my work had praise for Adam’s performance last night and thought he was by far the best of the night.

suebrody – the “I won’t vote for Adam because I don’t like flamboyance/OTT singing/whatever” that really means “I won’t vote for Adam because he’s gay” really disappoints me. Too bad people still can’t move past that and just vote based on his worthiness as a vocalist. I couldn’t care less about his sexual preference. I just know he’s a hell of a singer and he entertains me. I can’t wait to see what he does on the show this season.

He may not have performed to his best potential last night. But he sure has balls for taking on “Viva La Vida.” If it wasn’t for a bad case of vocal nerves, he would have been the best of the night.

Matt also has a quiet X-factor. He is appealing, humble, sincere, and has that inward determination to do well in the music business. Quit bashing the guy for one mediocre performance. At least it was memorable. Which I can’t say for the rest.

Top Female: Allison Iraheta

Top Other: Megan Corkrey

I have read the process somewhere but the numbers stop changing at 11 pm central time, right when the East and Central timezones stop voting and the Rocky and Western timezones stop. Don’t know how that is a representative sample but that is what I have noticed the last two weeks (not necessarily last year).

The dynamic WAS interesting for the 3rd slot, as you point out, as Jesse also blew by Megan in the last 30 minutes.

Again, we don’t know how accurate it is but the busy signals did give an indication that Michael Sarver stood the best chance to win the wildcard last week with Anoop being the next highest vote getter…exactly as it turned out.

This site is not always right, e.g., as I remember saying Michael Johns was safe last year when he was ‘voted’ off.

Still, if the results call the top 3 tonight again, that is more validation of their methodology which, as I indicated above, may not even take into account Western voters and obviously doesn’t include text messagers.

Interestingly, and scary to me, was that Matt B. had a lot of support early. Not as much as Sarver the week before but significant support. Is there a demographic here that we don’t know about for this show? I doubt it but you never know. Some think Matt B. was good last night but I can’t believe anyone thinks that Michael S. deserved the wildcard last week, yet he was hands down, all night, on the dial idol site the 3rd highest vote getter based solely, it appears, on a surge in the first 30 minutes of the voting.

As for the 3rd spot, Dial Idol was playing ping pong with Megan and Kris for most of the voting period. Matt B. came in later on and Matt G. snuck it at the very end. If I’m correct, Dial Idol’s scores don’t reflect the entire 2 hour voting period which means that any of those 4 could be the 3rd place person. I think Kris had it the longest though.