Droid, I do agree with your bottom four (aka cannon fodder). I'm going to venture that Kristy Lee or Chikezie will go out at 12, with the other going out at 11. I'm thinking Amanda will hold out long enough to make the tour (at 10 at least).

As for the top four, I also think you are right that those four are front runners. Where we might have some upsetting of the apple cart is with that middle four. That group is very much the type that could pull out some surprises and capitalize on a bad week from one of the top four to slide up into that arena.

A lot of this year is really going to come down to individual performances of any given week. Seven seasons in and with chart sales of former Idol contestants to go by, it's really started to be more of a crap-shoot on how well folks place and how well folks do on the sales (and the two not always going hand in hand).

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