Two more bite the dust tonight!

Well, I for one will be happy to see two more people leave tonight and get the crowd down to seven. That means I can stop updating two of the nine lines on my Facebook Fan graph! Since it has only been two days instead of three the rate of increase is not as great for any of the contestants, but we can note the trends to see who has the most momentum. The top three gainers in number of fans over the past two days have been:

1) Crystal - gaining 2,499 to 58,371 from 55,872
2) Lee - gaining 2,029 to 28,766 from 26,737
3) Tim - gaining 1,574 to 15,491 from 13,917

Everyone else gained 500 to 800 new fans over the past two days except for Big Mike who only gained 286 more. I never would have believed the number three gainer would be Tim a few weeks ago, but after watching some of the other performers I am starting to understand why. Lee and Tim both have a lot of momentum now, and Crystal just transcends everyone else as the clear favorite. For tonight's double elimination round it is easy to pick two of the bottom three (Andrew and Aaron) but it will be interesting to see who the final one of the bottom three will be. The obviously safe are now just Crystal, Lee and Casey, and the next safest contestant may actually now be Tim Urban! Checking the latest WhatNotToSing web ratings, the third lowest after Andrew (14, ouch!) and Aaron (42) is Siobhan (46) and then Big Mike (54) with Casey right behind him (55).  I cannot believe WhatNotToSing has Katie at 59 over Casey at 55 right now, and Tim at a whopping 65 for third place for the evening (behind Crystal at 80 and Lee at 74). My rankings for last evening (using my 10 point scale) would be more like:

1) Crystal - 8.0/10 - solid and not spectacular, but compared to the competition...
2) Lee - 7.5/10 - great vocals but starting to get as predictable as Crystal.
3) Casey - 6.5/10 - undo the hair bun and rock out more!
... the top three are great vocalists and guitar players, but all three need some more stage presence.

4) Mike - 5.2/10 - He is so much more enjoyable on the slow songs -- I cannot watch him otherwise.
5) Siobhan - 5.0/10 - She has a great voice but I am losing interest in her. She still seems to be holding back. 
6) Tim - 4.0/10 - Blah, bland boring but not as difficult to listen to as some of the others
7) Aaron - 3.8/10 - Even more boring than Tim, and that is saying something
8) Katie - 2.5/10 - I personally cannot stand to watch her perform anything.
9) Andrew - 2.0/10 - Without a guitar he seems lost. He needs to go home to his family; they need him more than we do.

The amazing fact now is I would rather still have Tim or Aaron on the show instead of Andrew or Katie. I actually like Aaron as a person but his performances just are not very interesting. Put a cowboy hat on his head and let him release a country album and be the male Taylor Swift. And I actually like Mike when he is performing a slow ballad, but not when he is actually being himself! Siobhan is an interesting case of someone with a ton of vocal talent, but something about her no longer clicks with me. I am almost to the point where I would not mind the bottom six going, and I want the top three (Crystal, Lee and Casey) to have wireless headsets and cordless guitar pickups and show more life out there.

I also just checked out last night's numbers from DialIdol and it is incredible to see that Tim actually received the highest number of total votes at over 22,000 (over Siobhan, Crystal, Katie, Lee or Casey.) How many supporters could VoteForTheWorst possibly have?