Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Better Bets Forgotten
Odds are now out for the X Factor competition. To be quite honest, we don't really understand gambling - to us it's a mystery on a par with the Marie Celeste and the continuing pop career of Mariah Carey - and even when we do get our heads around it we're always so fearful of losing that we don't exactly risk breaking the bank. Indeed, even during our time in Las Vegas, a place where you're expected to leave with, at most, 50% of the money you arrived with, we spent most of our time on the penny slot machines and felt we were being a bit dangerous and high-roller-esque when we tried the 5 cent machines. Anyway, our analysis, and we use that word in it's loosest possible sense, reveals that the favourites to win the whole thing seem to be either Rowetta or, TiaPL's own favourite, G4 which means that either for once we've got our finger on the pulse of the pop scene or, as we suspect, people are simply betting on who they can remember from the series. Favourites to get booted on Saturday seems to be a straight battle between Verity and Voices With Soul, presumably because they just don't have the spark needed to excite a Saturday tea-time audience. Mind you, it could just be us reading the odds entirely wrongly and they're just being listed in reverse alphabetical order. Despite G4's apparent popularity, Louis is still the favourite to be the first manager given the chop. It's things like that which cause our failure to grasp gambling in any way, shape or form.
