Dancing with the Stars returns on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The last episode was the Halloween show, as the DWTS crew took a week off with the election coverage last week.
Episode 8 of this season will be a monumental one, and it marks the overall 500th episode of the show. It also marks the third-to-last episode of the season, with the finale coming on Nov. 26.
The last episode featured plenty of fireworks. Carrie Ann must have been possessed by a spirit because she was dealing 10s left and right. We got our first actual 10 of the season (take that Gene Simmons!), and once the milestone was broken, there were several given out. The episode was divided into an individual round, and then there were three dance-offs.
Despite the fact that she won her dance battle against Stephen Nedoroscik and was tied for the second-highest individual score, Jenn Tran was eliminated. There are only six contestants remaining.
Tonight's episode will be a reunion-type show celebrating how far the show has come. Fan favorite dancers from the past will return to the ballroom, the company will perform a dance to the song that opened the pilot of DWTS, and each contestant will pay tribute to a past dance.
In the second round, the instant dance returns. Competitors will not have a week to prepare, but now they will get their song and dance style five minutes before having to perform them.
Here are the results for Episode 8 of Dancing with the Stars, which starts at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Individual Results
This will be updated, during the show. Dancers are listed in the order they appeared.
Kinney got the first perfect score of the season. Minutes after Nedoroscik looked like he was going to, but finished with a 29.
Instant Dance Results
It was announced during the broadcast that behind the scenes footage for the instant dances can be found on the DWTS TikTok channel @officialdwts. Yes, your eyes aren't deceiving you, Kinney had yet another perfect score.
Dancing with the Stars results from Episode 7
Individual Results
Dance-off Results
Chandler Kinney receives three bonus points and immunity in this section for having the most cumulative points in the season thus far.
Who was eliminated on Dancing with the Stars?
- Episode 2: Anna Delvey and Tori Spelling
- Episode 4: Reginald VelJohnson and Eric Roberts
- Episode 5: Brooks Nader
- Episode 6: Phaedra Parks
- Episode 7: Jenn Tran
How does Dancing with the Stars scoring work?
The show's scoring is divided into two categories: Judges and audience. During the episode, the three judges each give the dancers a score from 1 to 10.
This season, Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli return as judges. Before the audience votes, the judges give the dancers a maximum of 30 points. There are some guest judge appearances and their votes are also out of 10. When a guest judge is included, the maximum points goes up to 40.
This is where the scoring can get confusing. It isn't exactly the number of points a dance gets, but how that number relates to the total number of votes the judges gave out. Let's say the judges give out 100 points throughout the round; Dancer A gets 10 and Dancer B gets 20. Before audience votes are tallied, Dancer A will have 10 percent of the judge's vote and Dancer B will have 20 percent.
Let's say Dancer A got 35 percent of the public vote, and Dancer B only got five percent. Dancer A's final score would be 45 percent of the vote and Dancer B would have gotten 40 percent. In this example, dancer A would move on and dancer B would be eliminated.
Scoring is the percentage of the judges' votes added to the percentage of the audience's votes for a total score.
How to vote for Dancing with the Stars
You can cast your vote for your favorite dancers either through ABC's website or text messages. A number will pop up on the screen during the broadcast, and you can text the dancer's first name to that number to register a vote.
Usually, you are limited to casting up to five votes or the number of contestants remaining, whichever is higher. This year, you get 10 votes per competitor, per voting method.
Voting is only live during the original DTWS broadcast in the ET/CT slot.
