Personally her Blind is my least favorite performance of hers and while she did great in the Battle, I preferred Kyle. So the Playoff and Top 12 were a pleasant surprise.
See I considered that being the reason but also he literally lost every other vote in both seasons. In season 18-20 they did the thing where the IS considered of 1 artist on every team and in the 4 instant saves Nick participated in, his artist lost every single one of them, even when his artist got the pimp spot in one of them. Michael winning the 4 way KO in S18 was not super shocking because Michael/Samantha were the only ones that didn't bomb. On the contrary, Devan was one of if not the only person to perform badly in his 4 way KO pairing and yet by some miracle he won