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Think you have what it takes to spot America's favorite dancer?

By Daniel Fienberg Friday, May 27, 2011 3:14 PM

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Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe and Cat Deeley of 'So You Think You Can Dance'

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HitFix made its first foray into Reality Fantasy Leagues with our "American Idol" showdown and we feel pretty great with how that experiment went.
 
In all, we had roughly 1000 players in our HitFix Open League for "American Idol," in which the top prize was an 11-inch MacBook Air.
 
Enthusiastic congratulations to our winner, Amy Weiss.
 
Our champ writes in, "I'm from Chicago and I'm 23. My friend Danny (who first introduced me to HitFix a couple of years ago and is an absolute uberfan--he finished 6th) set up a league and invited some friends. A few of us probably took it a little too seriously and had some intense instant message discussions on Thursdays while we each debated what to do. Ultimately, every week I would try to synthesize the general sentiments of the Idol blogosphere and trust my own intuition. I was lucky to put myself in a pretty good spot after the top 13 and didn't make many moves unless I was sure they were necessary. I had a lot of fun playing and it ended up being much more successful than my fantasy baseball team!"
 
Amy's bracket had the eliminated contestant properly positioned for seven of 10 single-elimination weeks and nailed both eliminated contestants in the double-elimination week caused by Casey Abrams and The Judges' Save.
 
HitFix had a number of Featured Players including past contestants Phil Stacey and Melinda Doolittle, plus several established "Idol" pundits. Not to toot my own horn, but I pretty much dominated the Featured Players category. No, I'm not particularly awesome (I only finished 25th overall) but, I did have Scotty McCreery slotted as my winner from the day the competition opened. That probably helped.
 
Because Fantasy "American Idol" did so well, HitFix is expanding our fantasy roster with Fantasy "So You Think You Can Dance." The new season began on Thursday night and Liane Bonin Starr will be providing regular recaps for HitFix. We're still a couple weeks away from the announcement of the "SYTYCD" Top 20 and the weekly eliminations, but our fantasy league is now open. I plan to do FAR worse in this league.
 

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A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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    Jeff W

    There must be a better show you can do this with. Top Chef? Survivor? I know neither's starting soon, but I'm not watching So You Think You Can Dance just to play this game.

    May 27, 2011 at 3:35PM EST Reply to Comment
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      dan Jeff - This is just the show we're doing now to keep the mechanism in motion. Rest-assured that "Top Chef" and "Survivor" are candidates for fall fantasy leagues... Also? "So You Think You Can Dance" is fun!

      -Daniel

      May 27, 2011 at 3:48PM EST
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      eriklk So You Think You Can Dance is infinitely more watchable than Idol. It's pretty much the same format, but it has better judges, a better host, better music, infinitely better stage show, the performances are original, not pale imitations, and above all it's more unpredictable as contestants are forced to leave their comfort zones. It's not as good as Survivor or Top Chef (or my favorite reality show, MasterChef Australia), but unlike Idol, it's actually pretty fun.

      May 28, 2011 at 10:51PM EST
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    Karyn

    Thanks to you I also picked Scotty to win. Sadly you didn't give me any other hints as to the rest of the order of elimination, so I had no chance.

    May 28, 2011 at 9:36AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Jason

    Will there be a 2012 AI game?

    February 7, 2012 at 5:30PM EST Reply to Comment

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