World of Dance, By the Numbers – Week 9
Well, only one more week of this season of World of Dance and our finalists are Eva Igo, Les Twins and Swing Latino. I had a few problems with this episode as you may have gathered if you read my post on what could be fixed for next season of World of Dance. 🙂 Specifically, Jennifer’s score disparity between Les Twins and Keone and Mari, not to mention her comments to Ne-Yo when he gave Keone and Mari a 100. I find that exchange to be both telling and disturbing.
In any case, let’s take a look at how the scoring broke down.
I gotta believe that the judges not only were judging the dances in front of them, but were also thinking about the final three and who they like the most. This is almost certainly true of Jennifer and I think it’s likely true of the two men as well, although maybe not as consciously.
With that in mind, Derek gave his highest score of the night to Eva Igo – in fact, he was on target to not give anyone better than a 95 until he got to Eva who he gave a 97. Ne-Yo, on the other hand, threw out a 100 to Keone and Mari – part of me wonders if he saw what Jennifer was doing and was trying to counteract it. He did it wrong if he was, because he gave Les Twins a 99. Eva got his third highest score. Jennifer gave Les Twins her highest score of the night, Eva her second highest and Swing Latino the third highest. Coincidence? I doubt it. I seriously doubt that after watching Keone and Mari over the course of the season she gives them a 90 – not fourth place for her, but fifth. That’s…crazy.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she ranked them 1. Les Twins, 2. Eva and 3. Swing Latino – and I suspect that’s how the show will end as well, unless the two men start busting out the 100s for Eva. And they could. 🙂
Looking back, Jennifer has give Les Twins the high score of each round out of ALL the dancers – for those where we saw all three judges scores. The writing has been on the wall for her since the first week. Derek also gave Les Twins his highest score in round one, but after that, he’s all over the place – seems much more open to scoring a particular dance, with less agenda. Ne-yo joined the club with Les Twins in the first round, but after that he was on the Keone/Mari train, giving them the high score of the night in at least two rounds.
What does this mean? No idea. 🙂 There’s not really much else to say at this point – just watch the show and see what happens.
This season it has been hard to figure out the best way to do the numbers and analyze them – so you tell me: do you think there are other ways to look at the numbers? Did I leave anything out??
JLo’s intentions were definitely made clear week 1. She’s made it obvious who her favorites were based on her scoring. As you said Hedi Neyo and Derek have kinda bounced all over the place in who receives the highest score every week from them.
It seems as though to me that Derek has a soft spot for Eva and that Neyo has warmed up to her a bunch as well. This may be doing a lot of reading into something, but Derek did some sort of a Q&A on reddit a few days ago and one of the questions he was asked is if he has anything planned dance wise with Les Twins for a collaboration and Derek said no as of now. The way I understand it Derek is going to be on Fallon with the winner tomorrow and I think dance with them. May just be some people myself included reading into things, but for some reason I feel like Eva might be able to pull off the upset.
I had thought for several weeks that Les Twins were winning it and I had kinda accepted it even though I wanted so badly for it to be Keone and Mari. Mainly because of the supposed “leaks” from people that were at the taping, which also claimed Kinjaz came in second. I almost feel like the leaks were done to drum up drama so that way if an upset happens it would cause people to talk about the show.
As I’ve said before whatever happens tomorrow I’ve enjoyed watching the show this summer. I would like to see Eva win but won’t be surprised if it is Les Twins. It would be funny if after everyone saying that its going to be between Eva and Les Twins Swing Latino comes in and wins it all because they are the total underdog at this point.
Yep, they have pushed Les Twins from the get go. I’ll never forget the week with Kyle Van Newkirk. 🙁 I really hope Eva wins tonight, but, it will probably be Les Twins.
Brittany, the question on Reddit was if he was going to “work” (meaning dance) with Les Twins, I believe, so I don’t hold out too much hope on his response. It’s a shame the question wasn’t on video – I’m pretty good at reading his face and he’s a horrible liar. 🙂
From the narcissistic perspective of JLo, it could be Eva’s night because Jlo mentored the juniors. JLo has been scoring her favourites well from the beginning, and yet she afforded Eva just enough votes to keep her in contention and moving on to the finals. Jlo could spin it as her “tough love baby” and now look at how wonderful she is. We’ll see.