So even if a couple is low in one area, they can stick around if they\u2019re high in another. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is where it comes into play where sometimes the bottom of the leaderboard couple maybe has only 25 percent of that score pie, but they got 80 percent of the vote pie and that surpasses some people who maybe have higher scores,” the dancer added. “Vice versa\u2014maybe some of those people who are getting really high scores and have 90 percent of that score pie are only getting 10 percent of votes, but it\u2019s still high.”<\/p>\n
This is why both the scores and the votes matter.<\/p>\n
“What I\u2019m trying to say is it really does even itself out,” Lindsay shared. “Because, like I said, if you have low scores but you\u2019re getting a majority of the votes, that could be enough to help you surpass somebody who\u2019s maybe getting higher scores. But also, if you have really high scores but low votes, that still could keep you in because those scores can help.”<\/p>\n
And while fans can still be frustrated if their favorite team goes home, she suggested the system ultimately works. In fact, the 31-year-old said she\u2019s “been on both sides of the spectrum” in terms of getting high scores but a low number of votes as well as low scores but a higher amount of votes\u2014recalling how her season 21 partner Alek Skarlatos “wasn\u2019t the best dancer, but a lot of people really loved him\u201d and they made it to the final three.<\/p>\n
“It happens across the board and it\u2019s good,” Lindsay stated. “Because if you\u2019re dancing really, really, really well, then you\u2019re going to get high scores and won\u2019t have to rely as much on votes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So even if a couple is low in one area, they can stick around if they\u2019re high in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-55040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}