Not the lifeline vote only actually helping Ryan once

:joker:

5AM did much better than I thought they would in the final. :clap1:

Shocked that Emily didn't destroy everyone in the voting in week 4

The duet with Nicole turned it around. It was clear to see. Otherwise, he was probably third.

Bye

At least Honey G was never in the running

Disgusting how people voted for Nicole when she was not a contestant

I can't believe the change in the final ughhhhh

I KNEW Ryan would have beaten Honey G in the vote when he went. Also Matt was 0.9% from being bottom 2 a week earlier.

Saara staying top 2 after week 5's sing-off :clap1:

News article - Voting Statistics Revealed
 

James has posted a new TiBB frontpage article.

Excerpt of article quoted above. Read full article here - http://www.thisisxfactor.com/x-facto...-revealed.html

Some fascinating results here, particularly that Saara and Ryan were never actually bottom two in the bottom three.

The vote freeze sucks but I called it

Also find it interesting that it was actually Matt and 5AM (and not Emily) leading the way for the first half.

She should've reprised The Winner Takes It All, giving Matt the song that's on the John Lewis advert to sing for no reason at all is one hell of a ****ing pimping, and I expect he picked up 5AM's votes and also casual voters.

I wonder if Saara would've won if they froze the votes after Saturday's show and then reopened them after the 4 performances tonight ended

Oh my god Saara survived over Freddie by only 2% in the deadlock!!!

I would like the time stamp on when Matt took the lead in the finale vote.

Probably within 20 minutes of them being reopened. I think it was just a case of more 5am fans preferring Matt

I also think Saturday's percentages overall are fascinating, they're all within a few percent of each other. Usually the 3rd placer is floating around 15% are they not?

Just makes you wonder what a better duet than Clean Bandit might've done for them, and whether Matt's votes would then subsequently have gone to 5AM, or whether Saara would've been in prime position to take the title.

What an interesting series to analyse :clap1:

This annoys me

Third place actually tends to hover between 20 and 26% usually but I do agree that it's fascinating how close it usually is, here's the percentages of all the 3rd placers that were revealed:

Eoghan Quigg - 25.33% (JLS ahead by 5.32%)
Stacey Solomon - 20.1% (Olly ahead by 6.6%)
One Direction - 20.72% (Rebecca ahead by 12.08%)
Amelia Lily - 26.5% (Marcus ahead by 8%)
Christopher Maloney - 16.8% (Jahmene ahead by 14.7%)
Luke Friend - 29.7% (Nicholas ahead by 2.4%)
Andrea Faustini - 22.2% (Fleur ahead by 10.5%)
Che Chesterman - 20.3% (Reggie n Bollie ahead by 14.9%)
5 After MIdnight - 31.3% (Matt ahead by 2.1%)

5 After Midnight have come the closest it seems, just 2.2% from being in the final 2.