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The sixth season of Vote for the Girls, also known as Vote for the Girls 2015 premiered on July 11, 2014 and ended on May 21, 2015. Ava Zinn and Holly Everman returned for their sixth season as did Kellie Rock and Kathi Jameson for their second. Four new moderators, Julia Passalt, Lanise White, Karly Ryder, Jr., and Kym Christian, signed on to replace Ariel Swaringen[1] [2] and Michelle Steele, both of whom died during the Spring cycle of the fifth season. However during the season, two new moderators, Kendra Ray and Rhonda Rhodes signed on to replace Kathi Jameson and Khayla Chow. The season is the first to have eight moderators. It is also the only season to feature Rhodes, Ryder, and Nermal Everman as moderator.

This season marks nine firsts in the site's history:

  • This season is the first to have a "Male Moderator Crew" that was scheduled for the following season, but due to the site's dismal record (as the site's only victory of 2014 was from the nineteenth season of Dancing with the Stars) and ratings plunge during the fall cycle (Ava Zinn posted on her Twitter page the site itself plunged as much as 61 percent on the site's YouTube channel compared to the same period in the previous season.) The male moderators, Leonard Lai and Clark Jones (both transgender males), unlike the main moderator panel (as they are all females and transgender females) make their Vote for the Girls picks while the Male Moderator's job is to make their Vote for the Worst picks and preventing a Vote for the Girls victory and offering a buyout to the moderator(s) to quit the respective competition before the program's results are revealed and Zinn will then inform the moderators of the Male Moderatror's "offer", the amount of which depends on the number of female contestants remaining in the competition, in exchange for not to continue with the competition.
  • Another addition was the "Moderator's Veto," which was first used before the So You Think You Can Dance season 11 finale to veto Valerie Rockey's loss to Ricky Ubela, who would have gave the site its first SYTYCD loss. The Moderators' Veto was used again before the The Voice season 7 finale to veto DaNica Shirey's elimination, which would have gave the site its second consecutive loss on The Voice following Shirey's elimination in the Quarter-Final (Top 8).
  • On the site's YouTube channel, the site posted Classic Vote for the Girls in place of The Voice Semi-Final and Final results due to no remaining females following DaNica Shirey's elimination.
  • This season is the first to have two victories (one male and one female) in the regular competitions starting in the spring cycle, as opposed to the last female standing format used in previous season cycles, due to Nick Fradiani and Sawyer Fredericks becoming the first male vocalists to be supported in the web site's history and eventually reaching the respective finales of both Idol and The Voice, of which Fradiani and Jax Cole became the web site's first dual Victories of American Idol (as well as securing Ava Zinn's tenth victory as moderator and the first moderator victories of Kymberly Alvaraz and Tracia Ward) while Fredericks is projected to win with Meghan Linsey the runner-up the eighth season of The Voice, securing Zinn's 11th victory as well as the second for Alvaraz and Tola--the latter of whom had her victory of Maneepat Molloy while Tola served on the Thialand adaptation when Molloy won Thailand's Got Talent and was imported to the American version since Molloy was a contestant on Rising Star.
  • On the fourteenth season of American Idol, Riley Bria and Daniel Seavey became the first male soloists as a pick for the site's female moderators on the Pink Team (Holly Everman, Kellie Rock, Lanise White, Thia Tola and Tracia Ward) while the transwomen on the Purple Team (Ava Zinn & Kymberly Alvaraz, Julia Passalt, Kendra Ray, and Rhonda Rhodes) had to choose him as either a Best of Worst or a Vote for the Worst pick. American Idol 14 winner Nick Fradiani became the first "Alex & Sierra" Idol pick as a Vote for the Girls pick for the site and chose him based on the fact that his girlfriend (Ariana Gavrilis, known as Yanni G) both auditioned separately yet present in the same room, marking the first time the website had supported a male American Idol contestant based on vocals and appearance alone (and was declared the web site's first male victory along with Jax Cole) in the case of Riley Bria and under the Alex & Sierra Rule in the case of Nick Fradiani.
  • It is also the first cycle in the web site's history where all of one team's Vote for the Worst picks (pink team) were eliminated before any of the opposite team's moderators, therefore female moderators on the Pink Team earned immunity after one week that occurred during the fourteenth season of American Idol and also the first season in the web site's history where all of Purple Team's supported contestants were eliminated before any of the Pink Team and/or Male Moderator Crew's therefore making it the the third straight American Idol season victory or Moderatrors' Save since the web site's fourth season.
  • This season is the first to officially declare a make-up victory (as well as the web site's only victory of 2014) from Dancing with the Stars upon the elimination of Tommy Chong and Peta Murgatroyd. With the victory, the site snapped an 11-month losing streak.
  • Valerie Rockeyand Riker Lynch became the first supported contestants in the moderator's supported home state (Indiana and Colorado) to reach the finale.
  • Tracia Ward, Kymberly Alvaraz, Thia Tola, and Kendra Ray join Ava Zinn as the moderators that become the winning moderator in the first season. Peri Johnson would be the sixth moderator the following season.

Valerie Rockey and Sadie Robertson were declared the female winners of the eleventh season of So You Think You Can Dance and nineteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, respectively as both overall runners-up chosen by Ava Zinn (becoming the winning moderator for the 14th and 15th time with the 15th being the last as a solo moderator.) Alfonso Ribeiero was announced as the overall winner of the nineteenth season of Dancing with the Stars and Holly Everman becoming the winning moderator for the third (and final) time as solo moderator. Upon the eliminations of Reagan James and Anita Antoinette, DaNica Shirey was the last female on the seventh season of The Voice and Kellie Rock becoming the fourth winning moderator (making Rock the second winning moderator with a supported contestant from her home state after Ava Zinn). Jax, despite finishing third, was declared the female winner of the fourteenth season of American Idol with Tracia Ward becoming the fifth winning moderator while overall winner Nick Fradianai won American Idol making Ava Zinn and Kymberly Alvaraz the first winning duo moderator in the site's history with Alvaraz becoming the sixth winning moderator and Zinn extending her own record with her 16th win as most wins for a moderator on the site. Riker Lynch and Meghan Linsey were respectively announced as the overall runners-up on the twentieth season of Dancing with the Stars and the eighth season of The Voice, respectively with the respective male and female victories and making Zinn and Alvaraz their second and third winning duo moderators in addition to Zinn becoming the winning moderator for the 17th and 18th time and Alvaraz becoming the winning moderator for the second and third time. Sawyer Fredericks and Rumer Willis were announced the winners of the eighth season of The Voice and the 20th season of Dancing with the Stars, respectively in addition to the respective male and female victories. Thia Tola and Kendra Ray respectively became the seventh and eighth winning moderators on the site, making it the first time in the site's history four of the five winning moderators (Rock, Ward, Alvaraz, Tola, and Ray) had won in their first season not counting Tola's imported victory from Thailand.


The site underwent a number of changes from the fifth season, including the addition of make-up competitions (as the site already followed So You Think You Can Dance since 2010) of SYTYCD officially being presented, as well as America's Got Talent and Dancing with the Stars in the event of a Vote for the Girls loss--the latter of which secured two of the web site's victories. The site also added Rising Star.