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Oh do they do a share/split style ending then? A bit like Golden Balls used to?

I think you'll find the entire point of Comic Sans is to print A4 certificates for infant school children to award them for being nice to each other or completing all the reading books in the red section

I don't think we'll know if the traitors have played a good game until we get to the end. I know that sounds kinda obvious but it's smart as a faithful to keep the traitors close and make it clear you're suspecting other people so they don't murder you - It feels to me that the narrative at the moment from the producers is making it look like the traitors are in a strong position, which in turn makes me think that we're going to get a faithfuls win. I agree with the above that I haven't seen any evidence that anyone would choose to keep Rachel until the end so I'm currently expecting that she'll go at some point, even if it's near the end and people are just saying that they only want to keep the people they are 100% confident about. For Rachel and Stephen to win, they need to decimate the obvious faithfuls like James and Faraaz. Out of those remaining, I feel like the only way they can win is if they do something like: Round table: Matthew Murder: Faraaz Round table: Roxy or James Murder: Jack or Jade Wouldn't surprise me to see Jade win though, I feel like her narrative has been set up to end up besting the attacks at the round table (even though I feel she's not really had it that bad tbh, certainly nothing compared to Reece)

01 Slow 02 Can't Get You Out Of My Head 03 Hand On Your Heart 04 Spinning Around 05 I Should Be So Lucky 06 Especially For You 07 Xmas 08 Tears On My Pillow

This is me, I'm absolutely useless with it these days. If you asked me now to recall songs from the contests last year I'd struggle to name more than about 20 in total I think - and I'd be even worse at previous years! There's a huge amount of the winners I can't recall at all as well, generally if I didn't really like them then I'm none the wiser (as proved this month 😂)

Well I was totally surprised by that reveal... partly as I was watching a few live performances of the song they did at the end earlier today after the song has been featuring in Gazza's 1992 thread, weird timing!

I think it is JB - the clue suggested cooking etc and JB was on celebrity masterchef

No I haven't had one of those for a while, and tbh there's been next to no new music I've discovered to put on one over the past 3 months or so. I also find I enjoy the contest the most when I feel like I've entered something that I'm currently really loving, whenever I send something that I liked a few months back I always find the contest can be a bit of a chore as I'm not really even that behind my own entry - notable exception if it's something I really love from a long time ago like Tori last contest or when I sent Jam & Spoon. Fingers crossed there'll be some new and exciting things released before the next one!

My favourite #1 of the decade also (unsurprisingly) and the longest running #1 on my chart at 11 weeks, the first of many for her. I was so invested in the song at the time as I’d been a fan of it for a while before the Uk release, I can remember getting emotional when it was announced as #1 as it had been so close all week. In fact I rarely cry at anything really yet Robyn making #1 did it 😂 (If anyone is interested the other rare times I cried, two were at Babe successfully herding the sheep and the the team carrying the bobsleigh at the end of Cool Runnings(!)

It would be amusing if Matthew got murdered at the point where he’s hoping to get a letter to become a traitor

The only benefit there is that I'm not sure anyone ever pays attention to what James says. I think they're all pretty certain he's a faithful, but are also pretty certain he's not that smart.

Twilight Zone was one of 2 Unlimited's better tracks so it was good to see it be successful, or at least I thought so at the time. Good to see another Wonder Stuff track in the top 10 too, I didn't care for them that much at the time but I did eventually get their best of years from now and found myself liking pretty much everything on it. But obviously the main news is that we've been graced with the presence of one of the best songs of the year in the form of Stay. I absolutely loved it at the time and remember really hoping it would do well. I can also remember my dad telling me that the mad one in the video used to be in Bananarama and me really struggling to process that news.

Stephen has been much braver than I'd have guessed he would be throughout this season but wearing that outfit today was a new level.

I’ve spent hours and hours trawling for tracks since Friday and have yet to find anything I’m even vaguely interested in sending 🤷 - aside from the track I laughed about previously in the thread because they’d already won and tbh that’s not even that great

How times have changed on Buzzjack, the iconic 'Life' not making it anywhere near qualification :(

I'm starting to think that Stephen has the best chance. He weathered his storm and then cleverly managed to take advantage of Fiona's self destruction in a way that removed the theory around him as well. He really doesn't seem at all suspicious at the moment, the only thing is whether he's got a close enough relationship with any of the faithfuls that any of them would choose him as enough of a certainty to keep him at the end. I wonder if the likes of Adam, Sam and James will actually win just by being more certain of each other's status as faithfuls. I think Harriet had decided that she'd had enough - she was smart enough to know that her performance was unlikely to end well, especially as the remaining traitor would almost certainly murder her if she had been successful in getting Rachel. I appreciate that with how it panned out, she would have been comparatively protected via all the confusion around the shields but she didn't know that would happen at the time she chose to throw that grenade in at breakfast. I totally agree with some other comments I've seen online that sales of her book and obtaining fame as an author will have been more important to her than potentially winning a share of the prize. It's just a shame she implicated other people, going out whilst being 100% correct on Rachel would have been a better story for her than going out whilst also waffling about potentially 5 traitors being left and naming other people incorrectly. I'm guessing the traitors have tried to murder Jessie. They don't know who had the shields so at least writing Jessie would have the added bonus of keeping Matthew believing they were sticking to the agreement. If I were them I'd have just recruited Matthew though I think on the basis that he's just given people quite a lot of reasons to be suspicious and if he's in line to be banished, it's better for Rachel and Stephen if Matthew is banished as a traitor.

Gutted that Harriet was quite so direct, I mean it was great that she was so fierce but unless something twists dramatically she's made it so difficult for herself to make it to the end

I'd say go for multiple veto entry attempts and then switch at 23:59 on Friday to the 9 minute ambient track regardless

I met my parents at the weekend and my mum, who is usually very measured and chilled and positive about things, could not stop talking about how much she disliked Fiona!

That's my favourite Wet Wet Wet track, which doesn't say a lot really as I only think it's nice enough. I did however buy that on CD so clearly I didn't wait until my birthday before starting to buy them after all. I'd never considered that they could have been influenced by Beautiful South but I can kinda hear it now that Snake has mentioned it, also may explain why I liked it as I was a big fan of that band at the time. A shame that Justified and Ancient couldn't sneak a week at the top - or that Freddy Mercury didn't wait until mid January before passing away(!) - I'll take solace in the fact that it wasn't really ever that close to making it though. Prodigy are the other act worth mentioning for me, great to see them rocketing up to #2. Their really early material isn't my favourite era from them, but it's good to document how they started out in rave and how they progressed their sound and production as the decade went on.

I think the host has so much to deal with during a contest that the least we can do as participants is to make sure we vote correctly and minimise disruption for them.

When I was struggling for an entry I was sooooo tempted to send a Pet Shop Boys track, sort of wish I had done now

I Can Only Disappoint U is a decent effort from Mansun, although it's been largely forgotten about so I'm not surprised it didn't get many votes.

Looking forward to this! Although on first glance, there will have to be something absolutely extraordinary in there for me to not already know where my 12 is heading <3

No way at the best song already having 2 votes!!! I am persuaded by Jessie Where’s comment about Liberty X so have also voted for that