Well, Karen had a sweet voice and a similarly sweet personality, but she just was not interesting enough to win enough votes to stay on the show. That means we are down to 11 contestants, with only one more to remove before the Top 10 for the tour are determined. It looks like the odds are good that the tour this year will be 6 guys and 4 gals, the question is who is the girl to get cut next week, Haley or Naima. One way to check is with the American Idol betting odds at bodog.com, but they have them both set at 75/1 long shots. Here are the odds which they updated last night compared to the ones before this week's competition so we can see the difference:
Since the beginning of the week there have been some order changes as Casey has dropped from being tied with Lauren as the second favorite to being the 5th seed. Scotty has moved up from being tied with James for 4th to being tied with Lauren for 2nd. Paul and Jacob are now tied at 6th position, where Paul had an edge over Jacob and Thia just a few days ago, and Thia and Stefano are now tied at position #8 (an increase for Stefano.) In fact Stefano saw the best drop in odds from the start of the week from 18/1 to 16/1, with the only others who saw improvements being the leading 4 favorites, Pia from 7/2 to 11/4, Lauren from 9/2 to 7/2, Scotty from 11/2 to 7/2 and James from 11/2 to 5/1.
The WhatNotToSing.com web rating scores continue to predict the bottom three and who gets eliminated fairly well, with #9 Haley, #11 Karen and #12 Naima being in the bottom 3 and then Karen leaving. It will be very interesting to see who will be in the bottom 3 next week. Naima and Haley are very likely candidates but there will have to be someone else too! Will it be Paul, Thia, Jacob or who else? Stefano seems to have momentum, but I thought Paul and Thia have some large fan bases, and I am not sure about Jacob. We will have to see how they all perform to see who the bottom three will be, but most likely either Haley or Naima will be going home.
