I'm a fan of Shayla's and it seems she always gets cheated on the scoring. In the finals to tonight she deserved at 2 10's in her final dance and she got 9,9 and 8. WTF. Then Ruben gets all 10's. These judges have always favored Ruben and Alicia and I believe Shayla has been cheated. What do you guys thinks

InlovewithShayla, I agree with you, I'm so outdone with these scores. I don't even want to watch the show any longer. They need some fair judges.

I agree on the scoring, it's frustrating to watch. They are so completely subjective with their tastes and it rarely addresses form, difficultness, etc.

The scoring is totally not about dancing. Shayla dances circles around Rueben every week. He is a nice guy but his dances are very stiff although he nails most of the moves it lacks everything else. He has a heartwarming story and therefore I knew he would win. He is a nice guy but he dancing does not warrant 10s. It is so rigged. My husband who knows nothing about dancing watched two weeks and stopped because he said it was apparent that they want Reuben to win. Totally rigged.

I totally agree. I joined this board just to comment on this very thing. Shayla was totally cheated. Reuben is not a good dancer and it seems as though he was pegged as the winner from day one. I am not taking anything away from his weight loss which was awesome but his dancing not so awesome.

I am in total agreement. I was almost in tears watching how unfairly they scored Shayla. Ruben and Pinky was the top picks from the beginning. On the episode where Pinky didn't perform well, they decided not to eliminate anyone. Piny should have went home then. I will not watch this rigged up program anymore, because it just bring the ugly out of me. I hope that Shayla get a really good contract in ihe future. The judges should be ashame of themselves. How can they sleep at night! Ruben is a nice guy , but not a fabulous dancer. I truly hope that the show ratings plunge.

I am in total agreement. I was almost in tears watching how unfairly they scored Shayla. Ruben and Pinky was the top picks from the beginning. On the episode where Pinky didn't perform well, they decided not to eliminate anyone. Piny should have went home then. I will not watch this rigged up program anymore, because it just bring the ugly out of me. I hope that Shayla get a really good contract in ihe future. The judges should be ashame of themselves. How can they sleep at night! Ruben is a nice guy , but not a fabulous dancer. I truly hope that the show ratings plunge.

I totally agree with you. This show has been a big disappointment. Shayla clearly has been cheated out of this show. Along with some others who were good and and they got rid of them. Alicia should have been gone long time ago she should have never gotten as far as she did. Then to call everyone back and then give Alicia $5,000.00 wasn't it enough that she got the phone call. I guess you have to CRY YOUR BUTT OFF TO WIN IN THIS SHOW. I'm really supicious about their weigh ins. Because they couldn't see their weigh ins until the show. Ruben could not dance as good as Shayla. Neither could Pinky. Shaya dance her best. But you know what thats what they did to Jennifer Hudson. And she went farther than they ever would imagine. And she won a Academy Award! Go
Shayla nothing can stop you NOW!!!!!

I am in total agreement. I was almost in tears watching how unfairly they scored Shayla. Ruben and Pinky was the top picks from the beginning. On the episode where Pinky didn't perform well, they decided not to eliminate anyone. Piny should have went home then. I will not watch this rigged up program anymore, because it just bring the ugly out of me. I hope that Shayla get a really good contract in ihe future. The judges should be ashame of themselves. How can they sleep at night! Ruben is a nice guy , but not a fabulous dancer. I truly hope that the show ratings plunge.

I also like Shayla and I don't know if she's been cheated or not ---- I've always thought she was favored along with Pinky and Ruben. Those are the 3 that should have been in the finals, favored or not. Take for example her Rhumba - the judges were right on in that there wasn't alot of Rhuma in her dance hot as it was. Should they have given her all tens for not doing a full Rhumba? I think not.
If I'm reading one post correctly are you saying they didn't eliminate one week so Pinky could stay? please gimma a break.

What's REALLY UNFAIR is that even though it is a well-known and established FACT that MEN LOSE WEIGHT FASTER AND EASIER than women every time. Therefore, men and women should not be compared in the category of weight loss. It should be women compared to women and men to men. Or just don't count the weight loss, have it as a nice bonus to the contestants and just score the dancing.

Which is why some weeks Ruben would lose good weight but the actually body loss % was lower than someone else with a lower weight loss.... they went by body % loss. Had they of scored by just the dance Shayla still would have lost tonite. You can't deny that from day one Ruben has worked it which would explain his high weight loss compared to the other men. You guys can persist in this but Ruben from the beginning was consistent in both weight loss and his dancing. Their dance pro's were key but I suppose now everyone will say he got a better dance pro in an attempt to cheat everyone else. Geez.

If what your stating is true, which it's not, but if it were true...then tell me why we had ANY women in the finale? Why didn't we have 3 men? I can't believe all the ways people are trying to say that this was rigged, or certain contestants were favored, etc... And just having this as a dance program... then they'd have to change the name to "Dance", or "Dance Party", etc.. lol

However, I do agree with people about the dance partners given to the contestants. I feel that each dance partner should've been equal in dance knowledge, choreographing a dance, etc. In this case, I don't feel that all dance partners were equal or they just weren't putting forth the effort they should've. It was clear that Ruben's dance partner was better at choreography than the others were.

Everybody seems to want to blame the judges, but everybody forgets that it's the Dance partner/instructor the contetants are working with who layout and choreograph the dance. And alot of the time we heard the judges stating that they would've liked to have seen this or more of that, etc... That's the dance partners fault for a poorly choreographed dance.

I do feel very strongly that Rueben (sp) was paired with an extremely strong dance partner and for that I don't think it was fair. For the next go-round, if there is one, they should receive a different dance partner every airing. What you say??

Hilary danced HER a** off to carry Ruben. I loved their numbers only because of her! She was so effortless and flawless that it was a joy to watch her -- and Ruben just piggybacked on to her skill and natural talent. Ruben lucked out, because Hilary is clearly a trained pro who knows how to make someone look good.

I agree with most of the posts here. I do not feel that Ruben deserved to win for a multitude of reasons. I also don't feel that the first place winner wins $100,000 and the 2nd place winner, who lost by 1/2 lb gets nothing and the next third placer gets nothing. What a rip off!!! I was an avid fan of this show.... next season???? maybe not!

I am sure they will workshop and retool this show. There were too many flaws.

I just finished watching a play back of the show for final three. My problem is this.
I noticed the girl was literally dancing their asses off while Reuben was only stepping his moves out in a slow calm manner. I feel he did not put forth the effort as the others but he still manages to get 10. I believe either the show is fixed or the judges have their favorites and go off that. Also they score them as if they are professional dancers. These people on here are only amateur dancers, but still they are being judges on how they carry out their lines. At first, I thought the show would be pretty good, but I can honestly say, if there is a 2nd season, I would not watch due to the favoritism that seems to be shown by the judges.