The preliminary scores are in from WhatNotToSing.com so I had to update my bar chart to see how the latest trends look. If you look at the bar chart in general it looks like everybody on average is actually getting worse! Even Pia Toscano, "Ms. Consistency", has seen her scores slip slightly over the past three weeks, but others like Jacob Lusk and Casey Abrams have seen some very dramatic drops. The only person breaking this trend is Stefano who went from a wild card contestant who was almost eliminated to one of the top two performances last night. Lauren Alaina also is up this week from last week, but still not back up to her top score back in the Top 24 week. I guess back in Top 24 week there were a lot more mediocre and bad performers to compare against, and now half of the contestants from then have been eliminated. Another way to look at the data is to look at the difference between the three weeks for the 12 contestants to see how they have increased or decreased in score.
The third column is for Lauren. I am not sure why her name did not make it to my bar graph. From here it is easy to see that nobody has shown any real improvement but Stefano. Thia has a slight score increase over last week, but her Week 1 to 2 drop was the largest of anybody, about 50 points.
Last week the WhatNotToSing.com scores were quite accurate at predicting the bottom 3 and who was eliminated with #7 Haley, #12 Karen and #13 Ashthon being in the bottom 3 and then #13 (Ashthon) being eliminated. If that holds true again this week it would be Naima, Karen and Paul in the bottom 3, but I think Paul has lots of crazed fans, so it should be Naima, Karen and Haley. Yes, three ladies again with another one going home, probably either Karen or Naima. After Thia's pretty but boring performance last night, I have pretty much given up on her being able to win the competition, and I think the only two ladies with a chance of winning are Pia or Lauren.