So the dancers who didnot had any screen time can shine when top 20 begin thru their dancing and YES thru their personality. If this is a show where the judges pick the winner and not the public,maybe personality didnot count so much, but with the public voye, I had to say both skill and personality had to be 50:50.

Thats why this show always called the winner “American favourite dancer” and not “American Best Dancer”.

Anyway, hope this year had a wonderful routines by the choreographers. I had noyiced this year probably was the worst year for the ballroom dancers, maybe only 2-3 finalist made into top 20? The hip hop style had around 4-5 finalist. The rest are jazz and contemporary dancers.

I forgot how sexy Neil was. And Pasha — smoking!

Can’t wait to see more of Mark and Gav this year. I found some stuff on Mark, and he’s a corographer from Hawaii — I’ll find the link in the a.m. and post it. I’ll admit to being a bit of a girlie-girl, I always find a guy to crush on. It’s going to be fun and will help with the Cook withdrawals.

Thanks again MJ (and others!) for all the links.

not sure if anyone has said this already re: cannon fodder, but i think it’s not as pronounced on SYTYCD as it is on IDOL. in fact, last year we hardly saw sabra during the pre-top 20 shows (if at all) and then she won. i think you will see during the top 20 critiques that the judges are very rarely merciless without reason, and it seems that they don’t just put people in the top 20 to tear them down, which seems to happen on IDOL a lot more often, to the point of everyone wondering why on earth would the judges have put so-and-so through to begin with, other than to tear the person down!

Nice to know the little-seen contestants arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t cannon fodder,

Some of the unknown dancers are definitely cannon fodder. Although, they are all talented, there are different levels of talent and believe it or not, some that are lacking in personality. They are not all liked by the judges and that becomes evident after the first routine. The judges are all skilled at “judging,” but they have their biases. They definitely put four people (give or take) into the Top 20 that really shouldn’t be there. Of course, the judges put the pairs together too, so that can help or hurt the contestants.

However, I love this show! The routines are amazing, and the kids are unbelievable to watch (especially after the first couple of weeks)!

I also like that way the voting is done, so there are no “shock eliminations.” They have a bottom three and the judges save two, without ever revealing who had the least number of votes. And, the guys and girls are not necessarily eliminated in pairs.

that picture looks like a skittle spill. They should be dancing about magic rainbows.

LOL! When I saw that pic, I thought the SYT people just went down to the local rail yard and said, “Hey? Any of you guys want to make our banner?”

SexyBack

Wow! How tough is it to make it through Hell Days and then, at the very end, get cut. OY!

B — Loved your choices. :thumbup_tb: Definitely mine, too.

It will be very, very difficult to match last year. It was stunningly good, but I have high hopes since the same choreographers are in place and I know the judges picked some talented dancers. (There’s just too much talent on this show in my view.)

Thanks, mj, for capping the show.

I wonder if I can get ticketsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.

I’ll bet you could!

I must say I really enjoyed the equivalent of “Hollywood Week” show last night. I found it quite compelling. First time I’ve ever watched this show, but I’m hooked. I wonder if I can get tickets….

http://bloggingsytycd.blogspot.com/2008/06/music-from-vegas-week.html

ETA: I really wish Evan had gotten through. He goes to my college, and even though he’s not actually from my city, he would probably be the closest thing to a celebrity we’ll ever have.