Now that the Top 20 is officially announced I can finish up my age distribution of the contestants. Last night two older guys were selected into the Top 20, Nick Boddington at 27 and Vincent Powell at 29 so that Tenna Torres is no longer the only person 25 or older. The guys do have more of a mix of ages, whereas the gals are primarily 18 to 23. If we group the Top 20 into 3 year age brackets we see the distribution as:
Curtis Finch Jr. is the only person in the 24 to 26 age range and there is no contestant who is 25 or 26. There had been six guys in that range in the Top 40, but they got rid of all of them but Curtis. It is interesting that the two oldest remaining guys, Nick and Vincent both go with the bald look.
I also noticed that
WhatNotToSing now has the full web ratings for all of the Top 20 for their 'Sudden Death' round, so I can sort them and color code them by gender:
Just like the producers wanted, 4 of the top 5 ratings are from ladies (Candice Glover, Kree Harrison, Angela Miller and Amber Holcomb, with only Vincent Powell representing the guys), and the 3 lowest scores are all for guys (Lazaro Arbos, Charlie Askew and Elijah Liu). Of the six contestants with ratings under 50, four of them are guys, the three already listed plus Nick Boddington. Only Janelle Arthur and Tenna Torres rated under 50 for the ladies. It is going to be very interesting to see how the voting will work this year and to see who gets eliminated week by week.
