Weetapidol Pool Picks

I can't speak for Weetabix, but I haven't watched any Idol this season--not because I don't want to, but because I've been busy working, moving into a new house, and being pregnant. However, whether or not we manage to liveblog any episodes this season, it wouldn't be a season without the Weetapidol Pool!

Word on the street is that we have a Top 13, so rank them in the comments, in the order in which you think they will be eliminated. The winner this season will receive the American Idol-related merchandise of their choice! (You're going for Lee DeWyze's CD, I just know it, right?)

Here are the contestants if, like me, you have no idea who these people are.

Weetapidol Top 13 Pool Results

Sorry for the delay on the pool results, guys, but this Top 13 business really threw us for a loop. You see, Weet concocted a very elaborate spreadsheet last year to eliminate scoring error (not that we ever had any, and of course, it caused a scoring error last year. Ah, comedy!) but the whole thing was based on V-Lookups and other Excel madness and it was all built around having 12 contestants. Except now there were 13! Except then they eliminated 2 of them! GAH! So the spreadsheet took some tweaking. Also, because of the Double Elimination this week, they didn't really say who had the least votes and who had the second least, so the 12th and 13th person on your lists were both treated as a 12th spot. This should help everyone because it's no loss of points if you picked both of this week's eliminated contestants and if you guessed that, say, Scott would be eliminated last night, if he does go all the way, you'll earn one more point than you would have otherwise.

If you have any questions about scoring, we have an explanation of our point system here (only you now have a maximum of 13 points in any given week, since there were 13 finalists) and note that because of the double elimination, this week you could have earned a possible 26 points.

Also, it is not too late to get pool picks in. You won't receive any point earning opportunities for this week (see Weet's score) but historically, the latecomers have done very well in our Weetapidol standings. Leave your picks in the comments!

This year, we tabulated the Weetapidol Hive Mind again. We'll post the rankings next week, since we may have some late entrants to the pool that will change the averages, but the Hive Mind correctly picked that Jasmine and Jorge would go this week. Next week, the Hive Mind has doomed Kris Allen. We shall see what America decides!

If you have any questions about scoring, please feel free to inquire in the comments!


Mopie 26
Shari H 26
Jeremy 26
Weetapidol 26
Kelly S 25
Wendi 25
Eden 25
Kim 25
Gila 25
TeKay 24
Aine 23
Martha 23
Shmuel 20
Weet 0

Congratulations to Mopie, Jeremy and Shari, who all correctly picked both ousted contestants, and to everyone, who together predicted this week's results show as well!

The Weetapidol Pool Waits for No Man (Not Even Seacrest)

Tonight, it appears that we'll be hearing from the Final Top 13 (wasn't it 12 last year? What's up with that, Seacrest?!) which means that you'll need to be thinking about your Weetapidol Pool Picks as you watch the show tonight. If you're interested in participating in the Pool, reply to this post with your picks ranked in order 1, 2, 3, etc, 13, with the #1 person being the person whom you think will eventually WIN American Idol in May and the 13th person being the person whom you think will be eliminated this week. Here are the Top 13, in no particular order:

Alexis Grace
Michael Sarver
Danny Gokey
Allison Iraheta
Kris Allen
Adam Lambert
Lil Rounds
Scott MacIntyre
Jorge Nunez
Jasmine Murray
Megan Corkrey
Matt Giraud
Anoop Desai

Participation in the Weetapidol Pool is free and the winner will receive some American Idol-related prize. Past prizes have included the Dreamgirls Soundtrack and Daughtry! CDs. In the event of a tie, Pie and Weet will contrive some sort of humorous tie-breaker, but let's be real, we're all doing this for fun. Your picks must be posted in the comments of this here entry by Wednesday by 8 EST/7 CST/6 MST / 5 PST.

What will you do, Weetapidolers? What will you do?