X Factor 2010

[Beanie]

No surprises then, that forecast bet was a stonker. Atleast a better show than last night. Would have liked Rebecca to win though, but she blew all her easy chances.

Lots of things to say(mainly ignore pretty much all the leaks bar othh's) but will go through them when we have percentages.

[Gavster]

A great winner's song too. Such a shame our X-Factor doesn't choose our eurovision entry.

[Beanie]

Could the original beat it to #1 tho? BC fans won't be happy...

Cheers for all the thoughts and discussion on here chaps, an enjoyable series(despite too many awful performances)...onto sports personality now

[Rob44]

big shame rebecca didn't win, but matt's ok.
i found this one the hardest to predict so far, so thanks to everyone on here who helped keep me out of the red... just!

[Gavster]

So voting out...

Matt top of the voting 9/10 weeks, losing to Mary in one of the weeks. It's was the Matt/Mary show for 5 weeks where the 2nd place was then shared between Katie, Cher and then Rebecca towards the end of the series.

[Beanie]

I was personally rooting for Rebecca too Rob, even if my book wasn't quite.

Incredible...

So much for Abigail's leaks being sound - just a lucky guesser by all accounts. I'll be sticking to OTHH and no one else in future...

Katie 2nd in week 7! Daily Star leak was correct as well(did they not say that Mary had not been outwith the top 2 in the first 3 weeks?)

Waiting for percentages now...

[Gavster]

Right that's it, I'm outta here. See all interested parties in the Eurovision forum in the coming months.

As for SPotY, I had some e/w on Hamilton @ about 8.0, and Tom Daley e/w @ 100.0

Good night

[Beanie]

Votes:

http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/user...s/vote2010.pdf

On first view...

-Abigail was officially talking *****, just guessing correctly.

- OD lucky to beat Cher into 4th(2.5% in it)

- Rebecca was closing on Matt fast tonight

- Mary started very strongly - Simon needed to put the brakes on quick, and did

- Cher was below Mary last week, of course

- Cher was below Paije in their vote off, Katie was below TreyC in their vote off - as we knew at the time, that was why it didnt go to deadlock.

- From that, as if we werent 100% sure already, the judges are well aware of how the votes have gone before the vote off.

- OD got between 10-12% every week - never built on their vote and never troubled the top 2. As OTHH revealed a couple of days ago.

- OD almost bottom 3 with Wagner and Katie 2 weeks ago.

- Rebecca got the lions share of Cher's votes once she was out

- Wagner never more than about 1% away from the singoff.

I could go on all night - luckily I wont!

[yorkieacermark2000]

Well as i said i knew Abigail was talking shit and she proved it tonight by saying Rebecca was coming 3rd 3 minutes before lines closed, so glad i was correct. Shocked how close Cher was to OD as well tbh

[Winrew]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12999037

Three Virgin Media employees have been sacked after using internal data on X Factor voting to bet on the show.

The three staff members bet on the outcomes of the show's weekly eliminations.

The Gambling Commission investigated after being alerted to suspicious activity by online bookmaker Betfair.

"We are satisfied that the bets placed were substantially unfair as the individuals involved had inside information," the commission said.