[Mystic Mock]

Tbh this Show for three series back to back now has been pushing their luck with me on constantly killing off the competition of who's going to win a competition based Show about nine-ten weeks before the final.

I mean this one has got to be the most rigged Strictly win in the history of the Show, and it's not even like I'm an Annabel fan, but having her be eliminated before the final on top of also other big vote getters like Nigel and Angela Scanlon, you're basically left with a final where Ellie is facing divisive contestants, the production are ruining the excitement of a final when orchestrating finals to be that way (because let's face it they wanted Layton & Bobby to be controversial) and it leaves only one outcome going into the final which is boring.

I mean I even understand the rigging for Rose and Hamza despite not agreeing with those reasons within the spirit of the Show, I can at least understand though that the Show thought that they were doing good by ticking off certain types of winners that don't win Strictly very often, so it gives off a feel good factor.

No offense to Ellie but why was the Show so obsessed with pushing her to win? She seems like a likable person with decent dancing skills, but it's not like she was in the competition with murderers and rapists, so it was odd to see the Show go to such extreme lengths to remove her competition before the final.

And look just to clarify this is not a personal attack on Ellie, or me moaning because my favourite didn't win, I have been consistent over the past three seasons, I want a close competition where even going into the final it's not so obvious who's going to win, the fact that Ellie could hypothetically take a huge turd on stage and still win the Show is absurd to me, that can be Layton or Bobby in the same situation as Ellie and I would still be saying the same thing that I'm saying now, I really am trying to be consistent with my critique of the Show.

Strictly is slowly going the way of TXF, I honestly wish it wouldn't, but it's making a lot of the same mistakes.

1. Coronation winners from about week 3 or 4.

2. Deliberately orchestrating popular acts to be eliminated over less popular acts.

3. Praising nearly every performance like it's a masterpiece (the last two X Factor years were really bad for this) which on a Show like Strictly is awful because if every okay dance scores an 8/10, then wtf do we score decent dances?

4. More Sob Stories creeping into Strictly than there used to be years ago.

5. New judges like Anton & Shirley that without no intention to be malicious here, but Len & Bruno were better in those roles. I also preferred Darcy to Motsi, but Motsi can make me laugh sometimes so I'm personally okay with her as a judge, and at least she has good banter with Craig.

I personally still hold out hope that the Show can still save itself in terms of quality entertainment before it's too late, but I personally feel like with each year the Show is getting significantly worse, it's just that people like Tess, Claudia, Craig, and to a lesser extent Motsi are keeping the Show afloat.

Because imo this year had a lower dancing standard to some of the other Strictly years, and the rigging was probably at it's most obvious and insufferable because of the complete disrespect to what I think was the public's real fan favourite at the top four.

Tbf to Ellie though, she is a good dancer (better than Rose & Hamza on a technical level) so I'm not taking that away from her, but she should've had to face an actual challenge in the final, and I will always stand by that.