OKAY BIG UPDATE: I’ll make this quick:

  1. Noelle will not be dancing tonight.
  2. Her partner Russell will dance with a choreographer.
  3. A female WILL be eliminated tonight, but it won’t be Noelle.
  4. Noelle will have a week to recover, if she can’t, then the eliminated girl from Week 1 comes back and Noelle is off the show.
  5. How does this effect you? If you picked Noelle and she does not recover by next week, then she will be the Week 1 person voted off, not the girl who goes home tonight.
  6. If you want to change your picks, you have exactly 45 minutes (5pm PST).
  7. I may include a small bonus to those who get it right tonight but lose it if Noelle drops out… I just need to figure out what would be fair.
  8. Sorry for all of this confusion… but you know you love it. ;)

Here’s my source.
BREAKING NEWS: Read this bit of news about two of the dancers before making your picks. And if you’ve already submitted, you have the chance to change your picks until 2pm PST…that’s 5pm on the east coast… and to be honest, I’m lenient, so as long as the show doesn’t air on east coast, if you get it in a little late, I won’t deny you.

This is the first Bonus Pick Post of the FDL. It is also the official entry into the game and required for all players. Please read the rules carefully.

  1. Submit a comment to THIS POST with one guy and one girl that you think are going home on Tuesday night’s show. There will not be an elimination show this week, due to the World Series (American Baseball), so the judges will be watching the performances and making their decision that night.
  2. Make sure that in the comment’s Name Field you write something that matches you to the email you’ll be sending next week with your full picks. Including your email in the comment’s Email Field, for example, would be the best way (Your email address will NOT be posted in the comment or anywhere else publicly). Otherwise you’ll have to be sure when you send me your full card of picks that you include a name that’s the same as the one you include with your comment. If you don’t, I may have a hard time figuring out who is who.
  3. In the comment field that says website, include the web address you want to represent your online presence (ie your blog, twitter, tumblr, facebook, blip etc.) This is optional, of course.
  4. Leave this comment anytime between now and 2pm Pacific Standard Time this Tuesday (10/27/2009)
  5. If you change your mind after submitting, no problem. Just submit another comment the same way with different name(s). I’ll accept the later of the two as your official picks.

Doing the above will officially enter you into the game. Then you’ll have until 12pm PST on the day of Week 2′s performance show to submit your full card of picks to dance@johncabrera.com. Please read the rules on how to format that submission as well as how these Week 1 picks will be factored into your total points.

Week 2 is also likely to have no elimination show and be judged the same way. I haven’t decided yet whether I’ll include a Bonus Pick for that week if it doesn’t… but just check back here. I’ll post something either way.

I actually think there’s something interesting about the judges choosing who goes home that night. They aren’t going to have much time to decide, so theories that the judges rig things may play less of a roll this elimination. If those theories do play a role, I think it’ll be even more obvious, because they’ll have less time to come up with a realistic excuse.

Okay, so let the FDL begin. Submit your Week 1 guy and girl dancers below as a comment. I suggest doing it sooner rather than later, if you’ve already decided. I won’t post anyone’s comment until after the show airs, so you won’t be able influence your decision by seeing who others have picked. But I WIIILLL! Hehe!

And if you’d like to catch up on the past audition episodes and you don’t have them recorded, Register here at my blog, then send me a tweet, message, email (my first name AT johncabrera.com), etc. saying you’ll be joining the FDL, and I’ll give you permission to read special posts designed to help you catch up.

Good luck.