Should American Idol Copy Dancing With the Stars?
May 19, 2007 by Jeanne
Some of you have complained about the voting system on American Idol and you’ve said the Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) procedure is better.
Currently, Idol viewers can vote as many times as they can get through during the specified time period. I went to Wikipedia and here’s what I got for the DWTS system:
Scoring and Voting Procedure
The scoring begins with the judges’ marks. Each judge gives a 1 to 10 score, allowing for a perfect score of 30. With multiple performances, the scores would all be added at the end of the program. The scores for all competitors are added together and each contestant’s “judge share” is determined by dividing their score by the sum of all the scores combined and recorded as a percentage. This percentage is then added to the percentage of North American votes received by each contestant. The bottom two couples are identified in the results show, and the couple with the lowest combined total is eliminated.
Do You Think that American Idol Should Adopt a Similar System?
I don’t know if anyone else is aware of this but, in England they had a problem on one of their televisio show. They were jamming the phone lines or something. Some producers got fired. What about the world europe song contest ???
Using this system might put an end to all these different controversies. Who know’s? Maybe it could work.
I would like to see the contestants voted on fairly. one vote per person I think this would be fair.
for sure one vote per person should be the rule. Also, i dont think even the voting system on Dancing with the Stars is working well.
on idol i would like the judges to have one third of the vote, the public one third (with the restriction of 1 vote per person) and the other third to be determined by a panel of people in the music industry. producers and preformers etc.
I completely agree. I don’t know if you guys have seen the clips I have put up from the France Idol (Nouvelle Star) but the judges have to weigh in at the end of every performance. They hit a button that says whether they liked it or not. I like that.