therealljidol | Green Room - Week 24

If you tripped right now, you might accidentally fall into the Top 25.

Let's take a moment to consider that. Because I'm not entirely sure the full impact has hit everyone quite yet.

Counting Second Chance, we have had 261 contestants this season. Everyone left is within a breath of reaching the Top 25. That's pretty darn good.

Give yourself a moment to pat yourself on the back.

Now that your hands are preoccupied I can strike!!! Oh wait, sorry. . . kind of a bit of impulse there. ;)

What I mean, of course, is "job well done".

Of interest, to me, is that there do still seem to be divisions in the ranks among vets and newbies, or to be more accurate, people who became friends in previous seasons vs people who are playing for the first time. Maybe it's not "divisions" so much as they are "priorities". It makes sense, people who grow closer tend to admire each other's work and share similar tastes in what they like and don't like as much. From my perch, I've seen it before, but it hasn't felt quite like this.

Then again, this is also the highest number of veterans we've ever had left at this stage of the competition. So that is bound to shift that perception in new and interesting ways.

It's worth noting - because I mentioned it just the other day and someone said they had never heard this stat: Thus far, every single Idol season has been won by a newbie. No veteran has ever won. No man had ever won. No non-American has ever won! Will this be the season where one or more of those is broken? Only time, and the voters, will tell.

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Having Gary mention the Top 25 is close scares me... Makes me this something evil will happen in voting to being us down to that number :P

I vote and even rec who I like, and most of my rec's are non-flisters, containing a mix of vets and newbies.

I think it's still anyone's game right now. Everyone that's left has a good chance to make it to the top and I really won't be surprised at anyone winning (besides myself that is.)

I think a guy has a very good chance of winning this season. All the men that are left are very strong and I could see any one of them winning easily. Obviously I'm rooting for my boy to be the first, and I'm not going to lie...I think he stands a very good chance, as does the others.

IKR? He's scaring me and making me think we're going to lose 8 people this week! I'm not ready to be down to top 25 yet! And I don't want to lose 8 people at once... we just lost 6 this week!

I know! I'm sooo not ready to lose that many people yet...and so not ready for more evil just yet!

I think I'm mostly scared of this prospect because I'm not sure my entry this week measures up to the other stuff I've read so it could be my week to go!

But, then... I could go any week, so I suppose that's no surprise ;)

Yeah, I'm afraid this is an off week for me too...I really struggled with the topic, mainly because my brain hasn't been cooperating with me this week. I should have wrote my entry about that :P

I know I can go at any time, but I really don't want it to be this week!

I think for me it's just that I put everything into my round two entry because I knew that was going to be even tougher competition that I'm not sure I had enough energy left for my regular entry. Still, I did write it before the poll closed for round two and didn't feel like I could improve on it, so I think I'm just being particularly harsh on myself this week since I've read such amazing pieces by other people.

I think my problem is that I was so happy with my last two weeks entries, I wanted to do that again (even thought that's rare for me), and when my mind wasn't working, I tried too hard and ended up just stressing myself out...

Yeah, writing two entries like that? I'd find it hard to do all that too. I'm scared this week :$

Oh, that's definitely part of it for me, too. I was very proud of all of my intersection pieces, as well as the one I wrote just before that, and my round two entry, so I'm not sure this week's one compares to those.

You wrote two entries a week for ages, though :P

Precisely. Plus, I tend to like my intersection pieces more than my normal pieces anyway...but that's because I always work with awesome people.

Haha that's right! I forgot about that! Theidea of it now intimidates me, but I'm just freaking out anyway!

I can totally relate ;)

IKR? For some reason things were different then!

Totally different. Then again, I'm just in freak out mode this week...silly girl hormones combined with Gary taunting us with evilness....

Butting right into this thread to say: I'm never sure about my entries when I submit them - I often can't tell whether something I've written is good or not until I've had some distance from it - which isn't really possible in the context of idol. This is partly why I enjoyed intersecting so much: I had someone right there who could say, "I like X, but I don't get Y" or whatever. These short deadlines are definitely challenging for me! :D

Most of my entries get pre-read by one or two people, which helps me feel a little more confident about them. That happened this week, too, but I still feel differently this week than I have in other more recent weeks.

Last week's intersection piece was pre-read by three people, seeing as I had two partners and the person I normally ask to read, read it before posting XD My round two entry was looked over by two people. Both of my intersection entries was looked over by two people. Maybe that's why I'm feeling different about this one - it's my first entry since before the intersections where only one person has previewed it!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who went 'WAIT, THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR ONE VOTE'.

It's a lot of people at this stage, sure....but I wouldn't put it past him :s

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