The Show
The couples danced each week in a live show. For the first two weeks, the couples danced ballroom on Friday and Latin on Saturday (the couples were split into two groups but not men and women like previous years); from the third week all the couples danced on Saturday only. Each judge scores them out of ten, giving them a total score out of forty (fifty from Quarter Final onwards). The couples are ranked according to the judges' scores and given points according to their rank, with the lowest scored couple receiving one point, and the highest scored couple receiving the most points (the maximum number of points available depends on the number of couples remaining in the competition). The public are able to vote for their favourite couples, and the couples are ranked again according to the number of votes they receive, again receiving points – the couple with the fewest votes receiving one point, and the couple with the most votes receiving the most points.
The points for judges' score and public vote are then added together, and the two couples with the fewest points are placed in the bottom two (if two couples have equal points, the points from the public vote are given precedence). As with the two previous series, the bottom two couples will have to perform a dance-off. Based on that performance alone, each judge then votes on which couple should stay and which couple should leave, with Goodman (as head judge) having the last and casting vote. Unlike the previous series, there was no results show (except for the last three weeks when it was on the same night), instead there was a single extended programme on Saturday evenings.
Series 7 saw the first new dances added to the competition since Series 4. The three new dances were the Charleston and the Rock 'n' Roll in Week 11 and the Lindyhop in The Final. Additionally, the couples' Showdances in the final were scored by the judges for the first time since series 1.
Read more about this topic: Strictly Come Dancing (series 7)
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