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I’m glad she’s gone. She was a mess in Hollywood week and didn’t deserve to go to the top 36 on that basis alone. Add all of her other baggage on top of that, and it’s a good thing for AI that they finally dumped her.

Question: IIRC, on all previous AI seasons, IIRC, the initial top 10 or top 12 were always divided equally as to guys abd gals....(ignoring those who are GLBT)

Under this season's format..in theory they could end up with twelve of the same sex. Wonder how this will play out, or if it will affect the judge's choice of wild cards....

Once the semifinalists are revealed, they will be grouped into three groups of twelve and Idol will begin three weeks of broadcasts in which twelve semifinalists will perform during two-hour pre-taped Tuesdays at 8PM ET/PT performance episodes and the results of the subsequent home viewer voting will be revealed during live one-hour results shows airing Wednesdays at 8PM ET/PT.

At the conclusion of each results show, the male and female semifinalists who received the highest number of home viewers votes for their previous night’s performance will instantly become a Top 12 finalist. In addition, another semifinalist that had received the next-highest number of votes after the performance episode — regardless of whether he or she is male or female — will also become a finalist.

Then on Thursday, March 5, Fox will air a special “Wild Card” performance episode in which each semifinalist group’s highest remaining votegetter who didn’t already automatically advance to the finals will get a second chance to perform along with several additional semifinalists that the judges will select.

After all the “Wild Card” semifinalists perform, the judges — not the show’s home viewers — will immediately select three of them to complete the season’s twelve finalists.

American Idol’s eighth-season Top 12 finalists will then take the stage for the first time on Tuesday, March 10, with one finalist’s journey coming to an end the following night.

--------------------------------------------------------- Looks like the judges want to make sure that they can bring back people that the viewers try to get rid of.