Dancing with the Stars winner was predicatable

The Las Vegas odds makers got the finish right. Donald Driver finished first and was followed by Katherine Jenkins. William Levy was third.

Don't fret that you finished second, Katherine. Rightardia suspects some big opportunities will be coming her way.

There were five great teams this season. Roshon Fagin /Chelsea Hightower and Maria Menounus/Derek Hough were excellent teams that could have easily finished in the top three.

Next season Dancing with the Stars will have an all star competition. Mario Lopez has said he has been invited. Will he go? Hope so.


These are the people we would like to see in the All Star show: Apolo Anton Ohno , Hélio Castroneves, Kristi Yamaguchi, Brooke Burke, Gilles Marini, Donny Osmond, Mýa, Donny Osmond, Nicole Scherzingerm, Erin Andrews, Jennifer Grey, and Ricki Lake.

We hope Marie Osmond an Bristol Palin aren't invited back because neither one is that hot of a dancer. 

Rightardia has some ideas on how to determine the winners in the next season. First there are two types of learning curves:

Some people learn quickly as with the dotted line, peak and then never get beyond a certain level. Other people represented by the solid line learn slower but end up at a higher level of performance. Obviously, some of the people who don't have much dance experience won't start to peak until mid-season.

In this respect, the winners in the first half of the season are unimportant.


But all of the dancers need to stay competitive enough so they aren't eliminated in the fist five or six weeks.

Another issue is the judges rate objectively until the semi-finals and finals,

In the semi-finals, the team with a perfect judges score was eliminated and the team with the lowest score progressed. Arrrgh, partisan viewers! We saw this last season, too.


The judges rated three dances in the finals, two on Monday and one today. 

One team had 90 points and the other two had 89. Essentially, the judges scores in the finals were irrelevant because all three team were scored nearly identically.


The viewers will end up pick the winners. Rightardia has some ideas on how to figure that out, too.


The best dance in the finals was performed by Daniel Driver/Peta Murgatroyd with a country dance. Cowboy Troy provided live music. It was cool.

By the way, check out Peta's six pack in the open to the DWTS performance recap.

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Does the Dancing with the Stars odds make any sense?

How do you explain this? 

New Las Vegas Odds for this week:

Donald Driver 3/2
Katherine Jenkins 7/4
William Levy 19/10

Rightardia suspects the oddmakers are privy to viewer voting.

It is our impression that Jenkins should finish first followed by Donald Driver and William Levy in third place if this were a real dance contest.

Predictably, the judges rated everyone within one point last night defaulting to a viewer pick.

Although Katerine Jenkins is the best dancer, she is from the UK and is unlikely to have a strong following in the US. William Levy is relatively unknown, but a NFL player like Driver is more well known.

Drivers' country dance last night was outstanding and he used his strength to an advantage.

Wisconisn will be voting for Driver so the cheesehead vote will probably make Driver the winner.

Of course, Rightardia muffed the results in the semis, so one never knows.

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Is Dancing with the Stars Fixed?

Tuesday the Dancing with the Stars results were shocking. One of the teams that finished first on the leaderboard on Monday with a near perfect 59/60 points was eliminated. The team with lowest score made it through to the finals.

How is this possible?

Even more curious, Good Morning America predicted one of the male contestants would win. How would they know?

A lot of the objectivity dropped off DWTS when Bristol Palin became a contestant. Apparently, there was a desire on the part of the show's producers to make sure she went on tour.

DWTS does not publish viewer ratings, but apparently this information is available to the odds makers and some media people.

Rightardia looked at the dances of .Maria Menounos, Kathrine Jenkins, William Levy and Donald Driver. Peta Murgatroyd, Donald 's partner, thought they were finished but apparently Donald's NFL fans saved the day.

In Rightardia's opinion, the first three should have made it through and Donald Driver should have gone home. Driver simply doesn't have the body flexibility to be a great dancer. He should be destined to finish third next week.

In fact, Rightradia thought that  Roshon Fegan  was a better dancer than Donald Driver, but he is young and still building a fan base. Fegan was eliminated two weeks ago.

The real problem is that the judges aren't rating the contestants correctly in the semis. Almost all of the ratings in the semi-finals were 9s or 10s. This means the fans make the pick and unfortunately the dance fans seem to have been rather clueless in the past two or three seasons.

Once the semifinals start, each judge should be given four cards for each round with a 7, and 8, a 9 and 10. After all four dancers complete a set, they should be rated from top to bottom.This means that after two rounds the lowest rating would have around 42 points and the top dancer would have around 60. 

This is the way the leaderboard looked on Monday: 

William Levy and Cheryl Burke 59/60

Maria Menounos and Derek Hough 59/60

Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd 57/60

Katherine Jenkins and Mark Ballas  56/60

Three points separated the leader from the low scorer.



Shame on the judges. No wonder the finals have been controversial for the past three seasons.

One other comment. Rightrdia was surprised when the pro dancers were interviewed and they were asked about the contestants who weren't their partners. Cheryl Burke noted that Maria Menounos was injured , but that Derk Hough would push her on to finish the competition regardless of her injuries.

Rightardia perceives Maria Menounos as a fierce competitor, We never got the impression that Derek was manipulating her to stay in the competition.

We saw Derek and Maria on Good Morning America and they were both gracious and positive about last night's outcome.

There is no point in crying about spilt milk, but we hope the judges start doing their jobs next season by rating the dancers more objectively in the semi-finals.

Well, it could happen.

Regardless, Derek and Maria were the real winners. It is shame we could not see them dance one more time next week.

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Rightardia predicts Maria Menounos will win dancing with the stars

Maria Menounos and Derek Hough

The Maria Menounos/Derek Hough team seems to have the momentum to win. The top three dancer/choreographer pros are in the finals: Derek, Mark Ballas and Cheryl Burke.


Peta Murgatroyd is abit of a mystery because this is her first season with dancing with the Stars (DWTS). We expect that her partner may make it through the semi-finals.

Donald Driver has an NFL career and is more well known than William Levy. William will likely be eliminated tonight because of his viewer base is not as strong as Donald's.

Katherine Jenkins pulled out her lower back last night and reflectorical spasm. She will probably dance tonight, but could be eliminated because of her injury related performance.

If Katherine makes it to the finals we would expect her to finish second after Maria Menouus. Donald Driver will likely end up in third place.

This appears to be likely because Derek Hough is an outstanding choreographer and dance teacher. His choreography appears to be at the top of its game.

However, a simple error can run into catastrophe at this stage of the game.

Anything can happen tonight!

The Tuesday show just started and Katherine made it through to the finals. 

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