SYTYCD for 7/22: Top 10 Results

Things are getting tough. Nigel summed it up well, saying that no one is leaving because they didn’t dance well.  Still, someone has to go so we can pick a winner.  Now that we’ve hit the top 10, it’s all individuals and we have a bottom four rather than six.

In the bottom:
Mitchell
Clarice
Ricky
Jordan

Ricky was the biggest surprise here.  He rocked his performance this week. I guess he hasn’t built up enough of a following to keep him out of the bottom.  Hopefully, his solo during the results plus his performance next week will change that. I do think he’s in the top two or three guys this season.

I was both happy and surprised that Caitlynn dodged the bullet and Jordan ended up in the bottom.  They both had great performances this week, but Caitlynn’s Argentine Tango must have really resonated. Or, as I’d like to believe, the voters are with me in seeing Jordan’s detachment from her partner while she dances.

In the end, Mitchell and Clarice went home (as expected).

Mitchell has been an uneven dancer since the beginning, having great nights and not so great nights. This week was a particularly bad one for him.  While he was dancing with Caitlynn, he could fall back on supporting her, which was easy for him. Now that he was dancing with an All-Star, there was nowhere to hide.

Clarice has been on the edge for a while.  Among the current crop of contestants, she’s definitely the trailing girl.  That made her leaving a no-brainer.

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Things are going to be tough now.  The girls fall into two groups, with Melanie & Sasha way ahead and Caitlynn & Jordan trailing.  Even then, the difference is so small that any mistakes in performance could be fatal.  The guys are a bit different. I’d say that Marko is the definite front runner, with Ricky & Tadd trailing him, and Jess bringing up the rear.  The three bottom guys have all had voting issues, and it’s difficult to see how Jess could keep up in anything other than Broadway.