^^^ I would fly to see her. I always dreamed of attending an AI contestant's homecoming. 🥹   Sadly I live in Pennsylvania and am pretty broke...That and I have only flown back and forth from Disney World way back in 1999. So yeah... 😆 

Maddi is the most frustrating contestant of the season by far.   Both her live performances sounded good prechorus. Take for instance the most recent one. The first 20 seconds sound really pretty up until she hit that headvoice note, then it goes into the wordy singing part..which was alright. Then the chorus had no oomph to at all. Was the case with her top 12 to a lesser extent.     I get that any other contestant would do even worse covering these same songs. Heck, even the original artists dodge a majority of the the chorus live! (Based on the performances I saw) So kudos to Maddi for tackling literally every word and not doing a terrible job... But that doesn't really make the performance itself less underwhelming vocally, and at the end of the day this is a singing competition. Just frustrating cause she has a really good voice.    

1   Laura Fox & Denys Samson - "Cruel Summer" (Contemporary Ballroom): 20 Katja Mia & Ervinas Merfeldas - "Cuff It" (Cha-Cha-Cha): 10 Blu Hydrangea & Simone Arena - “Dance the Night” (Salsa): 12 Blu Hydrangea & Simone Arena - “Tattoo” (Contemporary Ballroom): 11 Rosanna Davison & Stephen Vincent - “Lady in Red” (Rumba): 12 Laura Fox & Denys Samson - “Galway Girl” (Quickstep): 1 Katja Mia & Ervinas Merfeldas - “I Need You” (Charleston): 12 Laura Fox & Denys Samson - “yes, and?” (Cha-Cha-Cha): 13 David Whelan & Salome Chachua - “Paradise” (Contemporary Ballroom): 13 Laura Fox & Denys Samson - “Take On Me” (Tango): 12 Katja Mia & Ervinas Merfeldas - “Everlasting Love” (American Smooth): 2 Blu Hydrangea & Simone Arena - “Texas Hold ‘Em” (Quickstep): 12 David Whelan & Salome Chachua - “Whole Lotta Love” (Paso Doble): 12 Katja Mia & Ervinas Merfeldas - “Levitating” (Salsa): 11 David Whelan & Salome Chachua - “Wrapped Up” (Salsa): 12 Laura Fox & Denys Samson - “Monster Mash” (American Smooth): 1 Laura Fox & Denys Samson - “Make It Look Easy” (Showdance): 11 Blu Hydrangea & Simone Arena - “I Am What I Am” (Showdance): 20 David Whelan & Salome Chachua - “You Never Can Tell”/“Misirlou” (Jive) [Reprise]: 13   + Rosanna & Stephen Rumba  - Laura & Denys Quickstep

I'd be simple. Get ready to instant save her guys, I want her in the finals.

1   Detlef Soost & Ekaterina Leonova - “Tum Takketà” (Samba): 1 Gabriel Kelly & Malika Dzumaev - “Nothing Else Matters” (Tango): 99   + Gabriel & Malika