I don't think it would influence anyone's decision either way - the opportunity to learn ballroom seems to strike a deep chord with a lot of people, celebrities and "commoners" alike, lol. -And it's good exposure and a paycheck after all. What it really affects is how enjoyable it is for us, the audience. Personally, I would exclude anyone who uses any sort of dance or choreography in their profession, including figure skaters (Yeah, I know, it's an unpopular view, as much as it's said the two are "completely different", they're really not all that different. There are concepts for ballroom that will be well known to a figure skater, even if executed differently). Pro football players in certain positions (receivers, eg) also take ballet quite extensively in some coaching programs, so I would exclude them too if they've taken lessons in the last say....5 years. The spirit of the show is that these are supposed to be B- listers with little or no familiarity with dance learning on the fly and competing on a more-or-less level field, at least experientially. The ringers - and they're ringers - negate that. I'd also like to see them get back to scoring on the actual requirements of the dances. What I've seen pass for rumba and samba in the last couple of seasons really stretched the bounds of those definitions. There's nothing wrong with educating the audience about dance a little while they're at it.

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How well could either Erin or Evan do the final jive or freestyle of Nicole and Derek? How well could Nicole and Derek do either Erin or Evan's finale dances? It was clear who should have been chosen as the winners and I'm happy the voters agreed. I have no idea how someone came up with a calculation that the audience lost 25% of the contribution because of an extra dance. Points are points - the judges just had more points to spread over the final three but the share of the contribution remained the same.

I agree that if I thought this show was a conspiracy to choose one person from the beginning to win I would not enjoy it either. I felt that way with Donny last year and thought we would see a repeat of the Olympian win this season. Evan was projected to win before the dancing started based on history. I think everyone expected to see Nicole and Evan in the finals - Nicole just outdanced him.

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I know it has been almost a month since the finals, and every time I think about how this season ended it still upsets me. I have never before watched any sort of competition, sporting or dancing or whatever, and truly felt like the winners were determined before the competition even began. A judges job is to be completely unbiased and objective and judge on what you see not on who you think the winner should be. ABC and the judges panel deserves any and all criticisizing they receive.

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so what! he is still fantastic!!!

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What do you really think of the idea of a second chance season? There are a lot of people complaining about how this season ended, but aren't really looking for a resolution to the situation. To me the only way to resolve it is to let Evan dance again. The only way to do that is in an all star/second chance type scenario. Some have said, well I don't think he would do that, and maybe he wouldn't. I don't know, but he himself said after the quickstep that he wanted to do it all over again.

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I'm on board with both of you on this one. Louis is amazing at choreography, and he always seems to have very good relationships with his partners....and I don't ever remember seeing him really argue with one of his partners. He has always been so supportive. I have watched him from season one as well and I always look forward to seeing him on the show. I also saw him once when they did the DWTS tour (he did a lot of the choreography for that too) and a total thrill is the only way I can describe it. I wish they would do the tour again!!

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"just an opinion but I really believe Louis seemed to be having the best time with Niecy!....it didn't seem to matter to either of them what their scores were they really seemed to connect and have fun....it was a pleasure to watch....and personally I believe they could have stayed and Chad should have gone because I think he is just awful....but aain just my opinion."

Yes they did seem to have so much fun, and really that is a great quality of Niecy! The show will be lacking comedy now, but I am now supporting Evan. I do agree that Chad should've been booted first.

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Yeah, Nicole and Derek's Paso was amazing! Great show.

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