[silent_jonny]

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.

What a convoluted mess.

Leave it to Idol to take something simple and turn it completely ass-backward.

[retrokitten]

Yeah, I was trying to explain it to someone and it just made no sense and they had no clue what I was trying to say. It’s like you need a chart to follow the system.