XFactor did it, Will AI post vote rankings too?

[Tusk]

Posted at MJ's,

http://www.mjsbigblog.com/nigel-lythgoe-...d-more.htm

In this interview, Nigel says he's been wanting to do this for years and is chagrined since XF did it last year that now it will be perceived that AI is 'copying' XF

It’s very amusing to me. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for 8 or 9 years. We did it in England with Pop Idol. I’ve always been stopped doing it in this country with people saying ‘Oh no, people will stop voting if you show that the one person is winning–like a Carrie Underwood who won every week–people will stop voting.’ We always fought that back and said, ‘Well no…just because my soccer team is number 4 in the league, doesn’t mean to say I’m going to stop supporting them. I’m going to support them more.’ All of a sudden, they managed to do it on the X Factor. I was a little…’Damn. It now looks like we’re going to be copying them.’ The one thing I believe about American Idol, is that everybody else copies American Idol. Yes, I thought it was a good move. It doesn’t stop people voting. It makes them more passionate to see their person do well. I liked it. We’ll still discuss it. I’m not sure how we’ll do it

Showing where the posts are coming from, regionally?

I also like the idea of doing…like the conferences like the NBA do. Let’s see how the west voted for you…let’s see how the east voted for you…and build the figures up so you can see where the votes are coming in from. I think it would be exciting. I think we’d see if they’ve got hometown support.

[Haleylvr4evr]

NO!!!! I hated when XF did that....another reason why this will be the worst AI season ever

[Tusk]

NO!!!! I hated when XF did that....another reason why this will be the worst AI season ever

He hasn't said he will do it, but I agree..they shouldn't do it.

Even though I lost interest in last year's XF by the time Beatrice Miller and Lyric 145 were ousted, I felt posting the order of votes ended up with an anticlimatic last four or five shows. By that time, you know that Tate or Carly was never going to be knocked off.... The only acts that seemed to make any movement were the girl group (forget their name) and Emblem 3, which happen, coinicidentally, to both be Simon's acts.....

[Miguel]

If I were them, I would just declare:

[BLANK] gained the most votes this week.

[BLANK] lost the most votes this week

(compared to the prior week)

That way you would know who is gaining or losing strength but not necessarily who is at the top and bottom.

[Tusk]

If I were them, I would just declare:

[BLANK] gained the most votes this week.

[BLANK] lost the most votes this week

(compared to the prior week)

That way you would know who is gaining or losing strength but not necessarily who is at the top and bottom.

See? Now that would work...not show their positions to each other in the standings, but revealing how well they did compared to the previous week. Like for instance, so and so got X% of the total votes while this and that dropped down to this % of the vote for this week

That way you can see surges, like S10, Haley's percentage would grow week after week....

I can see that being exciting rather than the way they did it on last season's XFactor.
Doing it that way, since Tate seemed always in the lead, you would see his % not grow significantly, he was always in the lead ...at least it wouldn't reveal he was clearly ahead the whole time.... Interesting...

Good thinking Miguel

[riley]

It will never happen - Idol will never follow what XFactor does - they have the ratings and will continue on what they have been doing - inserting different drama. All the hype is just that - Uncle Nigel just creating some hype since the new season will be airing soon.