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4_2_it,

This seems to be a super tuff competition to vote in. Maybe change it back to top 3 in the finals?

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Having a worthy challenger with a lot of votes go down in the preliminaries just makes the finals that much more interesting. As it now stands, if the top 3 were the finalists, I doubt the end result would change, but force the supporters of #3 to select someone else and #2 in the preliminaries has a shot at winning. That was part my theory (along with only having 6 entrants) in changing it to the top 2 and I think it makes sense.