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| + | The American web site ''[[Vote for the Girls (United States)|Vote for the Girls]]'' has, since its 2010 launch, employed a number of [[wikipedia:villain|villains]], known as male moderators, competing against the main female moderators. |
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| | + | ==History== |
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| | + | From April 2010 until May 2013, the female moderators on Vote for the Girls competed against arch-rival ''Vote for the Worst''. Usually, the female moderators compete to get all the male contestants eliminated before the females, much in the same tradition as the later incarnations. As is the case with the Ava Zinn-era of Vote for the Worst, the male moderators were not referred to specifically by a nickname. |
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| | + | Since Vote for the Worst's debut, most of the VFTW picks have been male contestants. In the Dave Della Terza era then competing with VFTG, the site had six ''American Idol'' wins with Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCrerry, and Phillip Phillips, the latter of the three defeated [[Ava Zinn]]'s final picks of Crystal Bowersox, Lauren Alaina, and Jessica Sanchez, respectively. |
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| | + | During [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 9)|the ninth season of ''American Idol'']], [[wikipedia:Tim Urban|Tim Urban]] broke the record for Vote for the Worst's longest-running American Idol pick ever, as well as tying for longest pick ever with Jaydee Bixby of ''Canadian Idol'' Season 3. He remained their pick for nine weeks: from the top 24 to the top seven. He was eliminated in 7th—the same week as Sanjaya Malakar in Season 6. Michael Lynche was originally selected for Top 5 week, but after the performances, the website switched to Casey James, marking the first time the website had changed its mind on which contestant to vote for based on performance alone. VFTW chose [[wikipedia:LeeDeWyze|Lee DeWyze]] for the finale, and he won defeating Vote for the Girls pick [[wikipedia:Crystal Bowersox|Crystal Bowersox]]. This supported VFTW's theory that a female will never win the show again. According to bloggers at VFTW, the seasons have resulted in "3, white, male, brunette, soft-rockers" winners in a row in addition to Della Terza's first victory. |
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| | + | One thing that was in Zinn's favor over Della Terza though was [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 7)|season seven]] of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', Vote for the Girls' first make-up competition following Crystal Bowersox's defeat, Ava Zinn took time off to mourn the death of her wife, Angie, and a sexual assault in Indianapolis. VFTG chose eventual winner [[wikipedia:Lauren Froderman|Lauren Froderman]]. |
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| − | The '''male moderators of [[Vote for the Girls (United States)|''Vote for the Girls'']]''' ('''Villains''') is one of the two [[wikipedia:Conference (sports)|conferences]] of the American web site ''Vote for the Girls''. The American web site has since its 2010 launch, employed a number of [[wikipedia:villain|villains]], commonly known as the '''''Vote for the Girls'' Villain Panel''', '''Zinn<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Villains''', or male moderators, competing against the [[wikipedia:antagonist|female moderators]] or the Moderators.
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| | + | [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 10)|Season ten]] of ''American Idol'' became a turning point for the Zinn-Della Terza rivalry due to Zinn's support of candidates [[wikipedia:Pia Toscano|Pia Toscano]] and Della Terza's support of [[wikipedia:Paul McDonald (musican)|Paul McDonald]]. Zinn, Everman, and [[Robyn Hurd]] campaigned heavily to vote out the male contestants. After Toscano's [[Piarolling|controversially]] were voted out of the competition, Vote for the Girls selected Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alaina as their picks to make the finale. Alaina went on to last 8 more weeks in the competition (that has since been tied with Jessica Meuse and surpassed by Jena Asciutto), becoming a cultural phenomenon while gaining momentum along the way with support from local news personalities, such as [[Karly Ryder]] and [[Patrice Rafferty]].<ref>??</ref> Zinn recalls the 'Vote for Lauren and Haley' campaign as her "most memorable Vote for the Girls candidates ever" and helped make Vote for the Girls a household name. |
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| − | This conference and its counterpart, the [[Vote for the Girls (United States) female moderators|female moderators]] (Moderators), currently contain 16 individuals each, making up the 32 individuals of Vote for the Girls. <!--------- Both conferences were created as part of the [[AFL–NFL merger|1970 merger]] with the rival [[American Football League]] (AFL), with all ten of the former AFL teams and three NFL teams forming the AFC, and the remaining thirteen NFL clubs forming the NFC. --------> A series of expansions and division realignments have occurred since the launch of ''Vote for the Girls'', thus making the current total 16 clubs per each conference.
| + | Della Terza was successful during seasons [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 10)|ten]] and [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 11)|eleven]] of ''American Idol'', supporting the 4th and 5th "white guys with a guitar," [[wikipedia:Scotty McCreery|Scotty McCreery]] and [[wikipedia:Phillip Phillips|Phillip Phillips]]. Meanwhile Zinn was successful during seasons eight, nine, and ten of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', supporting winners Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard, and Amy Yakima. |
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| − | Since the web site's launch, [[Archibald Coolranch]] has won eight Villain titles, the most of any villain in the conference (second to only [[Ava Zinn]]), and are its current title holder.
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| − | The '''National Football Conference''' ('''NFC''') is one of the two [[Conference (sports)|conferences]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. This conference and its counterpart, the [[American Football Conference]] (AFC), currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL. Both conferences were created as part of the [[AFL–NFL merger|1970 merger]] with the rival [[American Football League]] (AFL), with all ten of the former AFL teams and three NFL teams forming the AFC while the remaining thirteen NFL clubs formed the NFC. A series of league expansions and division realignments have occurred since the merger, thus making the current total 16 clubs per each conference.
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| − | Since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, the [[Dallas Cowboys]] lead the NFC with the most conference titles (8). The current NFC title holders are the [[Atlanta Falcons]].
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| | + | Despite having almost always accompanying Ava Zinn and Holly Everman on VFTG promotions, Robyn Hurd spent most of 2011 sidelined by varicose veins and pulmonary embolism diagnosed in late April 2011 after her wedding with [[Hillary Matthewson]] in Iowa City, Iowa; she was forced to host and moderate VFTG while Zinn and Everman took the summer of 2011 during the SYTYCD 8 competition while Zinn had a busy schedule with her American Idol season 11 audition in Pittsburgh, the Mississinewa High School Class of 2001 Reunion, ongoing issues with her children moving away from Marion, Indiana, returning to her hometown of Van Buren for the town's Popcorn Festival (which began the same night of the [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 8)|So You Think You Can Dance 8]] finale) and Holly Everman was also dealing with the death of [[Garfield Everman|her brother]] and subsequent alcoholism following Toscano's elimination; Robyn was the only VFTG moderator for the SYTYCD make-up competition with the site supporting of eventual SYTYCD 8 winner [[Melanie Moore]] and runner-up Sasha Mallory. For Robyn Hurd, the situation was agonizing. |
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| | + | [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 11)|Season eleven]] of ''American Idol'' saw the site gain major momentum as Ava Zinn announced on April 18, 2011 she was herself auditioning as a contestant (it is interesting to note that this was Zinn's only chance due to Zinn being 28 years of age and is currently the only Vote for the Girls moderator to ever achieve that feat). Vote for the Girls supported [[wikipedia:Jessica Sanchez|Jessica Sanchez]] during the time that Ava Zinn favorite [[wikipedia:Erika Van Pelt|Erika Van Pelt]] was eliminated,<ref>??</ref> as well as [[wikipedia:Skylar Laine|Skylar Laine]] when more popular Hollie Cavanagh was eliminated.<ref>??</ref> |
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| + | In January 2013, Vote for the Worst's creator, Dave Della Terza, announced that the site would be shutting down, but not before covering one final season of ''American Idol''. The shutdown was planned for June 2013, though it was not specified whether the site would simply be discontinuing all updates and left behind as an archive, or whether it would disappear entirely.<ref name="shuttingdown" /> The last VFTW pick was Kree Harrison. Vote for the Worst was unsuccessful during season twelve as Lazaro Arbos was the last male VFTW pick until the top 6 which saw an all-female top 5 and finale (while at the same time, Vote for the Girls achieved the first ''Idol'' victory after three years); this was the same all-female finale in the very first VFTW season, when they selected Janelle Arthur. |
| − | Since 2010, the Villains has 25 staff, organized into two [[wikipedia:Conference (sports)|sub-conferences]] ([[Blue Team (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue]] and [[Red Team (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red]]) of four [[wikipedia:Division (sport)|divisions]] each with three villains, unless otherwise noted: [[Blue Team East (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team East]] (four villains), [[Blue Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team North]], [[Blue Team South (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team South]], [[Blue Team West (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team West]], [[Red Team East (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red Team East]], [[Red Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red Team North]], [[Red Team South (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red Team South]], [[Red Team West (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red Team West]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=15| [[Blue Team (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=6 | [[Blue Team East (Vote for the Girls USA)|East]]
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| − | | rowspan=2|'''Raquel & Sheena'''
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| − | |Raquel Anderston
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]]/[[wikipedia:Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[wikipedia:Virginia|Virginia]]
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| − | |Sheena Anderston
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Shane Spence]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador|Stephenville]], [[wikipedia:Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], [[wikipedia:Canada|CANADA]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Glenn Swaringen]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Kokomo, Indiana|Kokomo]]/[[wikipedia:West Lafayette, Indiana|West Lafayette]], [[wikipedia:Indiana|Indiana]]
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| − | | rowspan=2|'''Aiden & Charlotte'''
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| − | |Aiden Walker
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]]/[[wikipedia:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[wikipedia:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
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| − | |[[Charlotte Bakula|Charlotte Walker]]
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Saint Louis, Missouri|Saint Louis]], [[wikipedia:Missouri|Missouri]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=3 | [[Blue Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)|North]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Mark Watts]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[wikipedia:Washington (state)|Washington]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Chris Winfrey]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]], [[wikipedia:Ohio|Ohio]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Zoe Zidanne]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]], [[wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=3 | [[Blue Team South (Vote for the Girls USA)|South]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Hunter Diaz]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], [[wikipedia:Florida|Florida]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Karen DuBois]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]], [[wikipedia:Louisiana|Louisiana]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Ted Shields]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]], Indiana
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=3 | [[Blue Team West (Vote for the Girls USA)|West]]
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Liza Black]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], Missouri
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Bryant Cortos]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Calgary, Alberta|Calgary]], [[wikipedia:Alberta|Alberta]], CANADA
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| − | |colspan=2|'''[[Louis Durant]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], [[wikipedia:California|California]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=14| [[Red Team (Vote for the Girls USA)|Red Team]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=4 | [[Red Team East (Vote for the Girls USA)|East]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Phil Allen]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Albany, New York|Albany]], [[wikipedia:New York (state)|New York]]
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| − | | rowspan=2| '''Kristin & Erika'''
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| − | |Kristin Cassidy
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]], [[wikipedia:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
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| − | |Erika Cassidy
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[wikipedia:Nevada|Nevada]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Dan Doakes]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Charlotte|Charlotte]], [[wikipedia:North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=4 | [[Red Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)|North]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Steve Baker]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[wikipedia:Ohio|Ohio]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Stephanie Reeves]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], New York
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| − | | rowspan=2|'''Luka & Lydia'''
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| − | |[[Luka Runecraft]]
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]], [[wikipedia:Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
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| − | |[[Lydia Delagatto]]
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Racine, Wisconsin|Racine]], Wisconsin
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| + | Since Della Terza's version of Vote for the Worst ended and the Ava Zinn version, Vote for the Worst picks have only been male contestants, which are never revealed until the end of the competition. Zinn's version banned gay males (as M2F picks), lesbian females (as F2M picks), and most notably transgender females, as Vote for the Girls and Zinn's version of Vote for the Worst picks are evident when the Ava Zinn version began. Since the impementation of "flex picks" in 2014, in addition to the female contestants |
| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=3 | [[Red Team South (Vote for the Girls USA)|South]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Leanna Claussen]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[wikipedia:Tennessee|Tennessee]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Eboni Hill]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[wikipedia:Alabama|Alabama]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Clark Jones]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[wikipedia:Texas|Texas]]
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| − | ! style=background:white rowspan=3 | [[Red Team West (Vote for the Girls USA)|West]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Lauren Rodriguez]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]], Texas
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Kye Sanchez]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:San Diego, California|San Diego]], [[wikipedia:California|California]]
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| − | | colspan=2|'''[[Diane Simon]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]], Tennessee
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| − | ;Former Villains | + | After ''Vote for the Worst'' closed in 2013, there were only two male moderators for the Ava Zinn-version of Vote for the Worst – Lawrence Hederick and [[Leonard Lai]]. [[Clark Jones]] joined Hederick and Lai in 2014 after previously appearing periodically as a substitute male moderator. Fans of VFTG have speculated Della Terza was the first male moderator. |
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| + | As of 2015, Lawrence Hederick, [[Leonard Lai]], and Dave Della Terza are currently the only male moderators to have declared victories over the female moderators since the launch of Vote for the Girls. |
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| − | |colspan=2 |'''[[Vote for the Worst|Dave Della Terza]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Naperville, Illinois|Naperville]], [[wikipedia:Illinois|Illinois]]
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| − | |2004
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| − | |2013
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| − | |colspan=2 rowspan=2 |'''[[Leonard Lai]]'''
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| − | |rowspan=2|[[wikipedia:Terre Haute, Indiana|Terre Haute]], [[wikipedia:Indiana|Indiana]]
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| − | |rowspan=2|2012
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| − | |rowspan=2|2015
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| − | |colspan=2|'''''deceased''''', died on October 26, 2015{{BR}}Lai's husband, [[Danni McClannahan|Daniel]], inherited Lai's villain history.
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| − | |[[Lanise White]] & [[Danni McClannahan]]
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| − | |[[Purple Team East (Vote for the Girls USA)|Purple Team East]]
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| − | |colspan=2 |'''[[Vote Against The Producers|Lawrence Hederick]]'''
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| − | |Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| − | |2013
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| − | |2015
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| − | |[[Bryant Corots]]
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| − | |[[Blue Team West (Vote for the Girls USA)|Blue Team West]]
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| − | |colspan=2 |'''[[Archibald Coolranch]]'''
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Kalamazoo, Michigan|Kalamazoo]], [[wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]
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| − | |2010
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| − | |[[Andrea Coolranch]]{{BR}}{{small|(granddaughter of Archibald Coolranch, daughter of Mindy Coolranch)}}
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| − | |[[Pink Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)|Pink Team North]]
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| − | |rowspan=2|'''Tavon & Devin'''
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| − | |Tavon Savage
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]], [[wikipedia:Arkansas|Arkansas]]
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| − | |now known as [[Bria Savage]]
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| − | |rowspan=2|[[Purple Team South (Vote for the Girls USA)|Purple Team South]]
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| − | |[[Devin Martin]]
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| − | |[[wikipedia:Baltimore|Baltimore]], [[wikipedia:Maryland|Maryland]]
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| | + | The site currently has has five permanent male moderators: [[Archibald Coolranch]], [[Clark Jones]], Lawrence Hederick, [[Luka Runecraft]], and [[Glenn Swaringen]]. Each episode typically features two or three male moderators. Occasionally only one male moderator is present when appearing alongside a guest personality from a program either airing on a NoSirGifts-owned station, produced by Aeverine Zinn Holdings, or distributed by NoSirGifts, or taped at NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Studios. |
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| + | The men are now referred as "the VFTG ''The Male Moderator Panel'' " when making public appearances with the main female moderators. As part of the change, starting in December 2014, the site's male moderators are now listed in VFTG's credit roll. Beginning with the 2015–16 season, the male moderators wear microphones so they can be heard when they are talking with Zinn or another female moderator. On some episodes only two male moderators are featured, usually with Holly Everman or Kellie Rock serving as a third male moderator . |
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| | + | Starting in 2015, the male moderators added additional roles. Their roles expanded on the show's website, including male moderator interviews to participating in their own "reality" web series, ''Male Moderator Search'', where they served as judges (in 2012 and 2014). In a 2016 episode, the male moderators, [[Frank Davidson|five]] [[Bob Imperial|male]] [[Kevin Stapleton|television]] [[Phil Sorensen|news]] [[Tim Doogan|personalities]] at NoSirGifts flagship station and CBS affiliate [[WTOR-FTV|WTOR]] along with [[Stephen Christian]] will participate in an episode theme on April Fool's Day in which the male moderators swapped roles with the main moderator panelists. |
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| | If a moderator reward for a VFTG Victoy is a trip to a locale in the United States, the prize may be presented on the large screen in the back of Studio 47 with Holly Everman usually turning over the prize announcement to a news personality from the local NoSirGifts owned station. This practice began in 2015 as the show typically leads in to the local weekend news broadcast since this program is distributed from NoSirGifts. | | If a moderator reward for a VFTG Victoy is a trip to a locale in the United States, the prize may be presented on the large screen in the back of Studio 47 with Holly Everman usually turning over the prize announcement to a news personality from the local NoSirGifts owned station. This practice began in 2015 as the show typically leads in to the local weekend news broadcast since this program is distributed from NoSirGifts. |
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| − | This chart of the [[2015 NFL season#standings|2015 season standings]] displays an application of the NFL scheduling formula. The [[2015 Carolina Panthers season|Panthers in 2015]] (highlighted in green) finished in first place in the [[NFC South]]. Thus, [[2016 Carolina Panthers season|in 2016]], the Panthers will play two games against each of its division rivals (highlighted in light blue), one game against each team in the [[NFC West]] and [[AFC West]] (highlighted in yellow), and one game each against the first-place finishers in the [[NFC East]] and [[NFC North]] (highlighted in orange).</div>
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| − | Currently, the thirteen opponents each team faces over the 16-game regular season schedule are set using a pre-determined formula:<ref>{{cite web|title=2012 Opponents Determined|url=http://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/2012-opponents-determined.pdf|publisher=[[National Football League|NFL]]|accessdate=January 23, 2012|date=January 2, 2012}}</ref>
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| − | Each NFC team plays the other teams in their respective division twice (home and away) during the regular season, in addition to 10 other games assigned to their schedule by the NFL. Two of these games are assigned on the basis of a particular team's final divisional standing from the previous season. The remaining 8 games are split between the roster of two other NFL divisions. This assignment shifts each year and will follow a standard cycle. Using the 2012 regular season schedule as an example, each team in the NFC West plays against every team in the AFC East and NFC North. In this way, non-divisional competition will be mostly among common opponents – the exception being the two games assigned based on the team's prior-season divisional standing.
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| − | From April 2010 until May 2013, the female moderators on Vote for the Girls competed against arch-rival ''Vote for the Worst''. Usually, the female moderators compete to get all the male contestants eliminated before the females, much in the same tradition as the later incarnations. As is the case with the Ava Zinn-era of Vote for the Worst, the male moderators were not referred to specifically by a nickname.
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| − | Since Vote for the Worst's debut, most of the VFTW picks have been male contestants. In the Dave Della Terza era then competing with VFTG, the site had six ''American Idol'' wins with Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCrerry, and Phillip Phillips, the latter of the three defeated [[Ava Zinn]]'s final picks of Crystal Bowersox, Lauren Alaina, and Jessica Sanchez, respectively.
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| − | During [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 9)|the ninth season of ''American Idol'']], [[wikipedia:Tim Urban|Tim Urban]] broke the record for Vote for the Worst's longest-running American Idol pick ever, as well as tying for longest pick ever with Jaydee Bixby of ''Canadian Idol'' Season 3. He remained their pick for nine weeks: from the top 24 to the top seven. He was eliminated in 7th—the same week as Sanjaya Malakar in Season 6. Michael Lynche was originally selected for Top 5 week, but after the performances, the website switched to Casey James, marking the first time the website had changed its mind on which contestant to vote for based on performance alone. VFTW chose [[wikipedia:LeeDeWyze|Lee DeWyze]] for the finale, and he won defeating Vote for the Girls pick [[wikipedia:Crystal Bowersox|Crystal Bowersox]]. This supported VFTW's theory that a female will never win the show again. According to bloggers at VFTW, the seasons have resulted in "3, white, male, brunette, soft-rockers" winners in a row in addition to Della Terza's first victory.
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| − | Della Terza was successful during seasons [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 10)|ten]] and [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 11)|eleven]] of ''American Idol'', supporting the 4th and 5th "white guys with a guitar," [[wikipedia:Scotty McCreery|Scotty McCreery]] and [[wikipedia:Phillip Phillips|Phillip Phillips]]. Meanwhile Zinn was successful during seasons eight, nine, and ten of ''So You Think You Can Dance'', supporting winners Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard, and Amy Yakima.
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| − | Despite having almost always accompanying Ava Zinn and Holly Everman on VFTG promotions, Robyn Hurd spent most of 2011 sidelined by varicose veins and pulmonary embolism diagnosed in late April 2011 after her wedding with [[Hillary Matthewson]] in Iowa City, Iowa; she was forced to host and moderate VFTG while Zinn and Everman took the summer of 2011 during the SYTYCD 8 competition while Zinn had a busy schedule with her American Idol season 11 audition in Pittsburgh, the Mississinewa High School Class of 2001 Reunion, ongoing issues with her children moving away from Marion, Indiana, returning to her hometown of Van Buren for the town's Popcorn Festival (which began the same night of the [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 8)|So You Think You Can Dance 8]] finale) and Holly Everman was also dealing with the death of [[Garfield Everman|her brother]] and subsequent alcoholism following Toscano's elimination; Robyn was the only VFTG moderator for the SYTYCD make-up competition with the site supporting of eventual SYTYCD 8 winner [[Melanie Moore]] and runner-up Sasha Mallory. For Robyn Hurd, the situation was agonizing.
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| − | [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 11)|Season eleven]] of ''American Idol'' saw the site gain major momentum as Ava Zinn announced on April 18, 2011 she was herself auditioning as a contestant (it is interesting to note that this was Zinn's only chance due to Zinn being 28 years of age and is currently the only Vote for the Girls moderator to ever achieve that feat). Vote for the Girls supported [[wikipedia:Jessica Sanchez|Jessica Sanchez]] during the time that Ava Zinn favorite [[wikipedia:Erika Van Pelt|Erika Van Pelt]] was eliminated,<ref>??</ref> as well as [[wikipedia:Skylar Laine|Skylar Laine]] when more popular Hollie Cavanagh was eliminated.<ref>??</ref>
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| − | Both the AFC and NFC were created after the NFL [[AFL-NFL Merger|merged]] with the [[American Football League]] (AFL) in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=x-fo055624a&article_id=608&chapter_id=13&chapter_title=Sports&article_title=Pro_Football_History|title=Pro Football – History|accessdate=2009-04-03}}</ref> When the AFL began play in 1960 with eight teams, the NFL consisted of 13 clubs. By 1969, the AFL had expanded to ten teams and NFL to 16 clubs. In order to balance the merged league, all ten of the former AFL teams along with the NFL's [[Cleveland Browns]], [[Pittsburgh Steelers]], and [[Baltimore Colts]] formed the AFC, while the remaining 13 NFL teams formed the NFC.
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