OK, so now the four acts eliminated in week one of the competition will be put to a public vote to decide who gets to rejoin the competition. For Fantasy X Factor it will basically work like this:
- You will notice that in the selction boxes for elimination and winner is the term “WILDCARD”. You can pick this to represent the winning act from the public vote, and it will become that act from next week. Please be aware that there is no guarantee as yet that having already won a public vote, the Wildcard won’t be immune from elimination this Sunday, therefore the risk is yours to take.
- You can also opt to transfer the Wildcard into your team blind of who it ends up being. They will become that person when we know who they are, and will score points as normal from this weekend’s shows.
- You will get no credit for having Frankie in your team, it is just an unlucky event, similar to a player getting injured in Fantasy Football.
- Similarly you will get no credit if you had one of the wildcard acts in your original team line-up and you had to transfer them out. Logically if that was the case I’d have to dock you all the points your replacement act has scored in the interim.
- If you had one of the wildcard acts as your choice of winner in week one then I’m a bit more sympathetic. Because I advise people to change their winning act when someone gets eliminated you are being made a one-time offer: You can revert back to your original 40 point guess, but you must do it blind of knowing which act does get back in. If your original choice fails to get back in then you must repick at next week’s points level. If you want to do this then please state your intention in the Transfers box.
- If each Wildcard act sings on Saturday night’s show, they and the judges will score accordingly. No live performance = no points.
Don’t forget to get your choices in by 8:15pm on Saturday. If you have already made some orders, feel free to resubmit with new ones in light of this week’s events. Don’t be scared to ask a question if you need to, but these decisions will stand.
I will e-mail all managers this message this evening to make sure everyone is clear.
Are you assuming for this (and is it assumed generally) that the wildcard act will go back to being mentored by their original mentor?
Or is there the possibility that they will be automatically mentored by Gary, as a direct replacement for Frankie?
That’s a very good question. I largely suspect they will be mentored by whoever was mentoring them before, but I guess we will find out in due course. Assume you are backing the judge rather than the category, but also assume that if Gary is automatically getting the act he won’t score +3 for the viewers choice and +1, +1 and +1 for the three losers, he will just score a straight three.
I’ve noticed that Kelly is pulling on Twitter for Amelia, which implies that they will indeed go back to their original mentor.
Yes this does appear to be the case.
I had Amelia as predicted winner week one so now I have to think about this between now and Saturday.
I have all forms on file if anyone would like reminding as to who they had down in week one.
I ummed and ahhed about this rule, but felt in the end it’s in keeping with the spirit of the competition and includes an exciting risk/reward (but not The Risk, obviously) element whilst being as fair as I think I can make it.
and amelia is back!
the week after i change judges because gary had more than kelly! (not complaining about the system brig, just about SODS LAW!)