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Sunday February 18 - Audition 1 (3 hours) Monday February 19 - Auditions 2 Sunday February 25 - Audition 3 (3 hours) Monday February 26 - Auditions 4 Sunday March 3 - Hollywood 1 Monday March 4 - Hollywood 2 Sunday March 10 - Academy Awards Sunday March 17 - Top 24 Part 1 Monday March 18 - Top 24 Part 2 Sunday March 24 - Top 20 (3 hours) Monday March 25 - Top 14 Reveal -- Sunday March 31 - Top 14 Monday April 1 - Top 13 Sunday April 7 - Top 12 Monday April 8 - Top 11 Sunday April 14 - Top 10 Monday April 15 - Top 9 Sunday April 21 - Top 8 Monday April 22 - Top 7 Sunday April 28 - Top 6 Sunday May 5 - Top 5 Monday May 6 - Top 4 Sunday May 12 - Top 3 + Homecomings Monday May 13 - Top 3 Results (1 hour) Sunday May 19 - Top 2 sing off (1 hour) - if ABC were smart, they would use the NBA Playoffs to lead into the Idol Finals Monday May 20 - Live Grand Finale (2 or 3 hours) In a perfect world, I'd get the Main Competition (Top 14 onwards) back to the FOX format, where we eliminate contestants on a weekly basis on results shows the night after, but with the technology to do live voting and eliminations in the same episode, there is a nice compromise somewhere. I did keep the FOX-style performance-show-then-results-show-the-following-night from the Final Three onward. And of course, the Judges' Save (and Double Elimination, if the Save is used) would be in play.

1. Juila Gagnon (P) 2. Triston Harper 3. Abi Carter (P) 4. Roman Collins 5. Jayna Elise 6. Kayko 7. Nya 8. KB Richens 9. McKenna Breinholt 10. Will Moseley 11. Jordan Anthony 12. Jack Blocker 13. Mia Matthews 14. Emmy Russell This is the same thing as my "Rank The Top 14", but the difference here, is that this list can evolve based on what happens in subsequent weeks.

1. Juila Gagnon (P) 2. Triston Harper 3. Abi Carter (P) 4. Roman Collins 5. Jayna Elise 6. Kayko 7. Nya 8. KB Richens 9. McKenna Breinholt 10. Will Moseley 11. Jordan Anthony 12. Jack Blocker 13. Mia Matthews 14. Emmy Russell

"Naked in Manhattan" by Chappell Roan

1. Julia 2. Abi 3. Triston 4. Kayko 5. Quintavious 6. McKenna 7. KB 8. Jayna 9. Nya 10. Jordan 11. Roman 12. Ajii 13. Will 14. Kennedy 15. Odell 16. Mackenzie 17. Mia 18. Jack 19. Jennifer 20. Emmy

"You Need Me Now" by girl in red

Outside of the winner singing their victory song at the end of the Finale results show, probably - we have over twenty seasons' worth of performances to go back and search for something more emotional than this lol

IIRC, Fantasia was tearing up while she was singing this as her victory song, so this was par for the course lol.

JULIA. As she should.

Abi

It seemed to me that KB paused because she was overcome with emotion

WHOA.

Quintavious is about to sing "Hollow"... Hopefully he nails this

I'm happy that OBJ advanced, but I can't believe that KBlocks didn't make it

I loved her song, but her performance could have been more convincing.