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The Will pimping has been obvious since week one. But with Jessica as his partner, it was difficult to showcase his skills. Much to their chagrin, they were safe from the bottom three in weeks 2, 3, & 4, so they couldn't geet rid of Jessica. By the time they could in week 5, it no longer mattered since they were going to split up anyway. Had they hit B3 in weeks 2, 3, or 4, Jessica would have been axed. Now that he's free, he will be given all the show-off choreo to showcase his skills and build his fanbase. Obviously, this is Debbie Allen's choice. For Nigel, Will is a link to get SYTYCD more legitimacy in the dance world. Having Alvin Ailey last week and showcasing Complexions this week is a step in that direction. It's like having your daughter marry into royalty.

The Katee pimping is more recent, but they've started to give her the better routines and showcases to build her fanbase. I think she was and is Mia's choice (Katee has apparently trained under her, although it's nothing like the mentor/protege relationship Will has with Debbie). Now that she's worked past her quitter edit, Mia and the producers are fully behind her.

Chelsie is Mary's choice. If you notice, she has gotten a ballroom in three out of the past 5 shows, and received a Mia Michaels comtemp piece in week 1. She has been able to showcase her skills and build a fanbase. Getting rid of Kherington was a way to remove the other young blonde girl to funnel those votes to Chelsie. They will have to start cutting down Courtney soon, although she is probably lagging behind the other two female TCO's in votes.

Coming into the season, Nigel was looking at having a "raw" dancer coming in and winning it all, and that dancer was Twitch. The only problem is, he isn't that good of a dancer, lacking versatility and has horrible ballroom skills. Twitch is charisma over substance, which is where Josha comes in. He's got the requisite rawness, but unlike Twitch, he's a quick study a very adaptable. At this point, they both get enough votes that Nigel can probably wait until top 6 to decide. Rightfully, it should be Josh -- Twitch actually has no business being in this group of dancers. Josh has been getting tons of showcase dances (which, give him credit, he pulls off with style). Twitch gets protected at every turn, being given the easier to fake ballroom dances (two waltzes and a Paso, no hip shaking rumba or samba in sight), a dumbed down Mia routine, and hip hop here and there, with noting but compliments from weeks 1-4 and non-specific criticisms in week 5 (it wasn't "genuine"). Does anyone think it's a cooincidence that he got a hip hop as his second dance to wash the taste of the first waltz from the viewers' palates?

That leaves us with Courtney, Mark, and Comfort essentially out of the running if the producers can help it. Mark was thrown under the bus last week, and I wouldn't doubt if he was paired with Comfort and given a quickstep this week. They have been subtly criticizing Courtney for two weeks now, and she will get one of those, "sorry, but not good enough" critiques this week. Comfort can go at any second, they don't really need to do much to grease those wheels.

They'll probably let the final four duke it out fairly, but at this point, it would be shocked if it wasn't Katee, Will and Chelsie with Josh or Twitch. If Twitch gets a latin ballroom and bad critiques, then his time has finally run out. But they'll probably hold off on that until the week after. This week is the week to get rid of Mark. Had Mark gone last week, it would have been Gev's turn. They seemed to go after both of them with the critiques last week. While Mark was truly drowning with what he was given (a two step and a characterless, pointless Jazz piece were practically sabotage), I thought that some of the Gev critiques were unfair.