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| − | {{about|original American version of the web site|the United Kingdom adaptation of the same name|Vote for the Girls (UK)|the Australian adaptation of the same name|Vote for the Girls (Australia)|overall franchise|Vote for the Girls}}
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| − | | presenter = [[Ava Zinn]]<BR>[[Holly Everman]] <SMALL>(2014-present)</SMALL>
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| − | | opentheme = ''[[wikipedia:What You've Done to Me|What You've Done To Me]]'' by [[wikipedia:Samantha Jade|Samantha Jade]]
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| − | | endtheme =''[[wikipedia:Girls (Sugababes song)|Here Come the Girls]]'' by [[wikipedia:Sugababes|Sugababes]]<SMALL> (VFTG Victory theme)</SMALL> <BR>''[[wikipedia:The Man (Aloe Blacc song)|The Man]]'' by [[wikipedia:Aloe Blacc|Aloe Blacc]]<SMALL> (VFTG Loss theme)</SMALL>
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| − | | company = Aeverine Zinn Holdings
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| − | | channel = '''Main:'''{{YouTube|channel=voteforthegirls|YouTube channel (US)}}<BR>'''International:'''{{YouTube|channel=voteforthegirlsuk|occasional uncensored versions shown on the UK channel as a community service}}
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| − | '''''Vote for the Girls ''''', known as '''Vote for the Girls USA''' is an American internet website and internet television show created by American entrepreneur Ava Zinn. It is the flagship web site of the international ''[[Vote for the Girls]]'' internet franchise, where it was devised as her answer to [[Vote for the Worst]]. The internet series programs are produced by executive producer Ava Zinn and her company Aeverine Zinn Holdings.
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| − | Vote for the Girls is a website devoted for voting for only female contestants.
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| − | The site started in 2010, which is devoted to voting for the female contestants on the [[wikipedia:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Network]] television series ''[[wikipedia:American Idol|American Idol]]'' as well as ''[[wikipedia:The X Factor (U.S.)|The X Factor]]'', the [[wikipedia:NBC|NBC Network]] television series [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. TV series)|''The Voice'']], and the [[wikipedia:American Broadcasting Company|ABC Network]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Rising Star (TV series)|Rising Star]]''. Smaller campaigns have also been started on the site for ABC's ''[[wikipedia:Duets (TV series)|Duets]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]'' as well as Fox's [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (United States)|''So You Think You Can Dance'']] and NBC's ''[[wikipedia:America's Got Talent|America's Got Talent]]''.
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| − | On Vote for the Girls (VFTG), fans of the site are encouraged to "only vote for female contestants" - call in and vote for who, they view, as to end the male winning streak on Idol. According to the site, the purpose is "to support voting for the entertaining contestants who the producers would love to see win on American Idol" in order to make it a "real good show."
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| − | The similarities between Vote for the Girls and Vote for the Worst prompted VFTW creator [[Dave Della Terza]], to heavily criticize VFTG until Terza's site closed in May 2013, and more recently [[Vote Against the Producers]].
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| − | == History ==
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| − | {{main|History of Vote for the Girls (United States)}}
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| − | Since the site's very first season, fans of the site are strongly discouraged to vote for the male contestants (exceptions were added in the site's fifth season). If all the male contestants are eliminated before the singing competition's finale and/or the female contestant wins the show, not only does the site claim a "victory", but Zinn and the moderators that participated in the particular singing competition get rewarded (usually getting a massage, eating with Ava Zinn at a fancy restaurant, etc.) while the losing moderators faces punishment, usually doing very tedious tasks or more humiliating (usually cleaning the VFTG set and prepping for the next competition, handling the deliveries, such as sorting through the garbage, paying up on friendly wagers, etc.), if all the female contestants but the last one were eliminated before the singing competition's finale, the site promotes votes only for the female contestant and often the moderators get into screaming matches supporters of the site had to vote for the girl to a Victory; failing to support the female contestant to the Victory or all female contestants are eliminated before the singing competition's finale results in not only the "loss" and a subsequent "Vote for the Girls Punishment for Failure," but also Zinn and the VFTG moderators were forced to support the female contestants in a make-up competition (usually So You Think You Can Dance and/or America's Got Talent) during the summer as well as the moderators facing the aforementioned punishment, usually these are more humiliating, usually cleaning the VFTG set and preparing for the next competition, handling the deliveries, such as sorting through the garbage, paying up on friendly wagers, etc (since all the moderators are females--either by birth or transgendered women--in every October for Breast Cancer Awarness, following a Vote for the Girls Loss, all the moderators do not shave their legs for the month of October).
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| − | However, the site's biggest success happens to be So You Think You Can Dance as the site has had huge success as the make-up competitions for American Idol (and in later seasons The X Factor, The Voice, Rising Star, and other singing competitions).
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| − | === Background ===
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| − | [[File:VFTG_logo.png|200px|thumb|Previous Vote for the Girls logo. Used from April 28, 2010 to May 31, 2013]]
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| − | Vote for the Girls was started on Zinn's web site during [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 9)|season nine]] of American Idol after Zinn asked her friends on [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] to vote for [[wikipedia:Crystal Bowersox|Crystal Bowersox]] following the elimination of [[wikipedia:Siobhan Magnus|Siobhan Magnus]] on April 28, 2010. After realizing, in Zinn's view that Idol is a talent competition that a girl can easily win, VFTG was started as a personal campaign of Zinn's on her web site. A Wordpress website was soon created by Zinn to help promote the movement, as well as a Facebook page, [[wikipedia:Twitter|Twitter]] account, and YouTube channel (initially on Zinn's YouTube channel before moving to its own channel). After season 11 of American Idol, Zinn herself helped move the site to its own domain name to handle increased traffic, and VotefortheGirls.us as we know it was formed.
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| − | In all competitions (with the exception of ''Dancing with the Stars''), fans of the site are expected to vote only for female contestants (and in later seasons, included male-female duos, predominately and all girl groups since 2011 and approved male contestants known as "flex picks" since 2015) en masse with the Vote for the Girls moderators and to Zinn's high expectations to vote off the male contestants (later non-supported male contestants). Zinn demands that all males be eliminated at the earliest possible without regard to criticism and/or public backlash (meaning that fans of the site must vote for all remaining female contestants each week), introducing the possibility of an all-female finale, all-female final two, and/or a male-female finale or final two.
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| − | Zinn desires to complete every competition with a Vote for the Girls "victory", but performances by the male counterparts will cause her to call off the competition, if not end the competition with a Vote for the Girls "loss" or end the competition if there are no female contestants left in the competition, and discipline the moderator(s) that have chosen the Vote for the Worst contestant that wins the competition with a "Punishment for Failure". Once the competition ends with either a victory or a loss, Zinn determines which moderator(s) (if not all) is the wining moderator(s) for the "VFTG Victory" or the losing moderator(s) for the "VFTG Loss"
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| − | Zinn is free to ignore these rules if she sees fit. She has frequently disciplined moderators during the competitions if a moderator's performance is abysmal, a supported contestant withdraws from the competition (as it happened with [[Lanise White]] and [[Julia Passalt]]'s respective [[wikipedia:Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|''Dancing with the Stars'']] picks of [[wikipedia:Kim Zolciak|Kim Zolciak-Biermann]] and [[wikipedia:Tamar Braxton|Tamar Braxton]]) withdrew ''during'' the [[wikipedia:Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 21)|show's twenty-first season]], marking the first time two contestants withdrew in midseason while [[Ava Zinn]] and [[Kymberly Alvaraz]] was the only other moderator who was participating since [[Holly Everman|the pink team]] [[Kellie Rock|moderators were not]] [[Thia Tola|required to participate]] [[Tracia Ward|due to their victories]] on [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 12)|So You Think You Can Dance 12]], [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 8)|The Voice 8]], and [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 14)|American Idol 14]]), may override the provided picks with her own selection, or even declare a dual victory (as it happened twice in the spring cycle of VFTG 2015 on ''American Idol'' and ''The Voice'' with the respective male victories of Nick Fradiani and Sawyer Fredericks--both of them were supported male contestants--and the female victories of Jax Cole and Meghan Linsey), or since the seventh season with the implementation of the flexible pick format, have one moderator with two of her supported contestants in the final two.
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| − | There have been times where VFTG moderators resigned for medical reasons or they may leave on their own free will; though the latter is not encouraged, their wishes are ultimately honored.{{fact|August 2014}}
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| − | At the end of the competition in the event at least one female contestant makes the finale, or since 2015 with the implementation of flex picks, fans of the site are expected to vote for a particular moderator's supported contestants.
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| − | Until 2014, a female contestant must win the competition for that particular moderator. Since 2015, with the implementation of flexible pick format there are two Vote for the Girls "victories" declared in the event a female moderator's flex pick and her competitor's Vote for the Girls pick are either in the top two in the finale or the Moderators' Save is used on the female contestant and any moderator who has two females (her flex pick and her Vote for the Girls pick) in the top 2 gets two "victories" plus a specified reward and/or bonus (these are typically a shopping spree, dining a fancy restaurant, her favorite VFTG pick inducted in the Hall of Fame, etc.)
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| − | Rarely the site will have a look back at previous episodes (should there be no female contestants remaining in the covered shows). These have been rebranded as '''''Classic Vote for the Girls''''', some with a false ''[[wikipedia:All My Children|All My Children]]''-like theme and the opening sequence for ''Classic VFTG'' parodies the open of ''All My Children'' from 1990 to 1995 featuring past Vote for the Girls picks. These shows are interspersed with [[wikt:commentary|commentary]] from Zinn herself, usually before, during, and after the episode. The first Classic VFTG shows aired in August 2013 with the ''Duets'' competition. although these shows can also look back at an entire competition as well. The first such episodes aired on December 9 and December 16, 2014 with the respective American Idol 10 and 11 competitions in place of [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 7)|seventh season]] respective semi-final and final results of ''The Voice.''
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| − | The site has done six special episodes, titled:
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| − | #[[Ava's Virginity Auction]], aired July 11, 2014
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| − | #[[100 Women Picked]], air date January 4, 2015
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| − | #[[Kymberly Alvaraz]]: [[Ava's Virginity Auction|Buying Ava's Virginity]] and [[Kym Christian shooting incident|Shooting]] [[Khayla Chow]], air date October 23, 2015
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| − | #Vote for the Girls 5th Birthday Special, April 28, 2015
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| − | Ava's American Idol Audition was dedicated to Zinn's own ''American Idol'' season 11 audition in Pittsburgh in July 2011, [[Ava's Virginity Auction]] was dedicated to Zinn's decision to auction off her virginity if a female didn't win and reaction to the announcement, public backlash following the site's first loss on ''The Voice,'' and media firestorm that soon followed.
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| − | "[[100 Women Picked]]" and "200 Women Picked" are special episodes dedicated to these supported female contestants who had written to Ava Zinn with their stories on how the site allowed them to audition for talent shows themselves.
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| − | The site's YouTube videos often feature screaming matches among the moderation panel, guests, and audience members. Using a large steel can for an [[wikipedia:ashtray|ashtray]], Zinn often [[wikipedia:chainsmoke|chainsmoke]]s during the site's YouTube videos. VFTG's fans are known as "LesbianDozers", patterned after the studio audience with [[wikipedia:lecterns|lecterns]] decorated with the VFTG icon, from which Zinn's guests would go head-to-head against each other on their respective issues in later seasons.
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| − | Zinn's signature phrases "WGWG Commie" (in reference to the white guy with guitar that Idol pundits call and Communism), "Girl Hating Bastard" or "Girl Hating Bitch" (in reference to male contestants), and "Shush it!" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular. Zinn particularly enjoys making her guests angry with each other and often fans of male contestants angry with Zinn, which on a few occasions resulted in cyberbullying via Facebook and Twitter and physical confrontations.
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| − | ''Vote for the Girls''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[wikipedia:Title sequence|opening sequence]] and theme song is one of the show's most memorable hallmarks. The standard opening has gone through several iterations.<ref>Vote for the Girls opens over the years</ref>
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| − | Each episode usually opens with a [[wikipedia:tongue-in-cheek|tongue-in-cheek]] disclaimer introduced in the spring cycle of the sixth season.
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| − | ''Vote for the Girls'' was the first internet television program to be assigned the [[wikipedia:TV-14|TV-14]] rating, and is generally intended for adult audiences. The female moderators (notably Ava Zinn) use strong profanity, with the swearing words being bleeped by censors during a typical broadcast shown on the YouTube page. The use of such language serves as a means for Zinn to display how passionate the moderators are when they make their picks.
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| − | The show has had three different theme songs in its history: The first theme was ''[[wikipedia:Girls (Sugababes song)|Here Come Girls]]'' by the [[wikipedia:Sugababes|Sugababes]] from the April 28, 2010 debut until June 18, 2013. ''Girls'' is still used as a Vote for the Girls victory theme. The second theme was ''[[wikipedia:What You've Done to Me|What You've Done to Me]]'' by Australian pop singer [[wikipedia:Samantha Jade|Samantha Jade]] from June 1, 2013 to May 21, 2015. Since October 2015, the site's opening sequence and theme song was changed to a homage of [[wikipedia:Peabo Bryson|Peabo Bryson]]'s version of the soap opera ''[[wikipedia:One Life to Live|One Life to Live]]'' theme song used on that soap opera from 1985 to 1992 remade for Vote for the Girls.<ref name="Bryson SOD 34-22">{{cite journal |title=Ask Us |journal=[[wikipedia:Soap Opera Digest|Soap Opera Digest]] |pages=105–106 |date=June 2, 2009 |volume=34 |issue=22)}}</ref> Although ''Vote for the Girls'' adopted the ''One Life to Live'' 1985 theme music, "What You've Done to Me" is still incorporated into the show's introductions and closings.
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| − | When the U.S. version is broadcast in the U.K., Italy, Australia, Portugal and some countries, it features only the instrumental version. The U.S. uncensored version is often shown in the U.K., also featuring the instrumental version.
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| − | [[File:VFTG_logo_2013.png|200px|left|thumb|Vote for the Girls alternate logo. Used since June 1, 2013]]
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| − | Each reality-based competition begins with the, where Vote for the Girls moderators form their team of frontrunners, which began with the [[wikipedia:The X Factor (U.S. season 1)|inaugural season of The X Factor USA]] in October 2011 (two picks for American Idol and three picks for The X Factor USA in VFTG 3 (2012).) In VFTG 4 (2013), this was increased to three picks for American Idol, The X Factor USA, and The Voice of America. In VFTG 5 (2014), this was increased to four picks for American, Idol, The X Factor USA, and The Voice of America), whom fans of the site vote for through the remainder of the season. The moderators watch the audition phases and during the performances of the auditions; those interested in a frontrunner press their signaling device, which illuminates their seat.
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| − | In the “Opening Round” (auditions on Rising Star (US) - which are shown on the site's YouTube), at which point all moderators watch the audition phases and during the performances of the auditions; those interested in a frontrunner press their signaling device. The “Opening Round” episodes were introduced in VFTG 6 (2015) with Rising Star auditions that were taped on June 22, 2014; but were not shown until July 11, 2014.
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| − | In the “quarter-finals” (battle rounds on The Voice, boot camp or 4 Chair Challenge on The X Factor USA, and before the American Idol semi-finalists are revealed—the latter of the three are not shown on YouTube), at which point all moderators must have their frontrunner picks made. The “quarter-finals” episodes were introduced in VFTG 4 (2013) with The Voice of America 4 Battle Rounds in April 2013. But in VFTG 2015, the opening round and quarter-finals were dropped.
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| − | The finals episodes were introduced in VFTG 2 (2011). Starting with inaugural season of The X Factor USA, each moderator chose who their picks to win the respective competition. A new element was added in VFTG 3 (2012); moderators were given a "wild card", allowing each moderator to select one additional individual. This element increased to two “wild cards” for The Voice when Vote for the Girls added The Voice in November 2012. Another new element was added in VFTG 5 (2014): moderators were given a "Best of Worst pick", allowing each moderator to select one pick not eliminated during a finals round by another moderator, this is usually a female Vote for the Worst pick. In contrast, the site also added a new element upon the shut down of Vote for the Worst (it was reported that Zinn was acquiring the votefortheworst.com domain in May 2013 and redirect the URL to VFTG's site), and added VFTW picks (which are never revealed until the end of the competition) and in some episodes, Ava Zinn in a pre-recorded clip asking "Oh, mighty sound effects lady, is the Vote for the Worst pick eliminated from the competition?" or if a white guy with guitar is eliminated. Flex picks were introduced in VFTG 7 (2016) in which moderators are given a minimium of four male soloists or groups in addition to the regular female VFTG picks.
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| − | The site only claims "victories" with the successful runs of the American The X Factor season 1's [[wikipedia:Melanie Amaro|Melanie Amaro]]<ref name="VFTG-1" /> (Hurd's first and only victory), The Voice US season 3's [[wikipedia:Cassadee Pope|Cassadee Pope]]<ref name="VFTG-2">{{cite web |url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2012/12/19/vtfg-victory-cassadee-pope-wins-the-voice/ |title=VFTG Victory: Cassadee Pope Wins The Voice |author=Ava Zinn |date=December 19, 2012 |work=Vote for the Girls |publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings |accessdate=April 18, 2013}}</ref>, The Voice season 4's [[wikipedia:Danielle Bradbery|Danielle Bradbery]]<ref name="VFTG-4">{{cite web |url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2013/06/18/vftg-victory-danielle-bradbery-wins-season-4-of-the-voice/ |title=VFTG Victory: Danielle Bradbery Wins The Voice |author=Ava Zinn |date=June 18, 2013 |work=Vote for the Girls |publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings |accessdate=June 23, 2013}}</ref> The Voice US season 5's [[wikipedia:Tessanne Chin|Tessanne Chin]] (all Ava Zinn's victories as winning moderator thus far), The X Factor USA season 3's [[wikipedia:Alex & Sierra|Alex & Sierra]] (Holly Everman's victory), as well as three automatic "victories" following the eliminations of the aforementioned Arbos of American Idol season 12<ref name="VFTG-3" />, The Swon Brothers and Will Champlin finishing in third place on the fourth and fifth seasons of The Voice<ref name="VFTG-4" />, respectively. The site's first wild card pick of [[wikipedia:Candice Glover|Candice Glover]] and the site's pick of Danielle Bradbery eventually won the respective season of American Idol and The Voice. The victories of Glover, Bradbery, Alex & Sierra, and Chin marked the first time multiple victories have happened in any calendar year in the American version of the site's history as well as in the same calendar year, as well as zero losses for 2013. The victories are inducted into the Vote for the Girls Hall of Fame (see below).
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| − | Also the site claims "wins" when a male contestant is voted off. Two such notable eliminations were [[wikipedia:Colton Dixon|Colton Dixon]] on American Idol on April 19, 2012 and VEDO on The Voice (season 4) on May 14, 2013.
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| − | The site claims "losses" with the runs of the aforementioned Bowersox, Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alaina of American Idol 10, Jessica Sanchez of American Idol 11, and Carly Rose Sonenclar of The X Factor season 2, and notably Bridget Carrington of Duets and Ellona Santiago & Rion Paige of The X Factor.
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| − | The site has claimed several "painful bankrupts" with the notable eliminations of [[wikipedia:Pia Toscano|Pia Toscano]] of American Idol 10 on April 7, 2011; Jennell Garcia of The X Factor US 2 on November 15, 2012; [[wikipedia:Angie Miller (American singer)|Angie Miller]] of American Idol 12 on May 9, 2013; [[Judith Hill]] of The Voice on May 28, 2013. Toscano, Garcia, and Miller were Ava Zinn's (as well as VFTG's) primary picks to win American Idol (in an ironic twist of fate, the dates of the aforementioned eliminations have a connection to Zinn's late mother, Margaret, as Toscano was eliminated on what would have been [[Margaret Zinn|Zinn's mother]]'s 68th birthday and Miller's elimination on the day before the 11th anniversary of her death.)
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| − | The site also claims "painful eliminations" (later "robbed" picks) with the eliminations of Holly Henry on The Voice of America 5, RoXxy Montana, Rachel Potter and Ellona Santiago of The X Factor USA 3.
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| − | Beginning with Vote for the Girls' fifth season, a new feature to the site was added The Vote for the Girls Hall of Fame (which is featured on the site's app and at the opening of many VFTG episodes) including the victories of the VFTG Picks that made the finale of the competitions. In the sixth season, the VFTG Hall of Fame included the following categories:
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| − | *VFTG Make-Up Victories (Lauren Froderman, Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard, Amy Yakima, Valerie Rockey)
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| − | *Non-Finale Non-Victory (Angie Miller)
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| − | *Finale Honorable Mention (Crystal Bowersox, Lauren Alaina, Jessica Sanchez, Carly Rose Sonenclar, and Fifth Harmony)
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| − | A non-victory VFTG Pick is only inducted in the VFTG Hall of Fame for one of the following reasons: A male-female duo wins, a female from Indiana wins, an undefeated season (of which two picks are inducted by Ava Zinn based on other metrics), or the VFTG moderators. A Finale Honorable Mention is only inducted into the VFTG Hall of Fame for one of the following reasons: a female wins So You Think You Think You Can Dance and/or America's Got Talent (of which only the VFTG Pick that made the finale of the respective competitions finished Runner-Up).
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| − | The first non-winning, non-finale VFTG Pick was Angie Miller of American Idol 12 following the victory of Alex & Sierra of which Zinn states, "Angie Miller is in the VFTG Hall of Fame Angie clearly has great recording artist qualities. I heard something in her that was quite special. She had the best potential across any other pick in Vote for the Girls, and in my business I think long term. I definitely, definitely made the right choice. This, for a 19-year old recording artist, is a phenomenon. This woman is going to be a big success."
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| − | Starting in the sixth season (VFTG 2015), the site added two Honorable Mention categories to the VFTG Hall of Fame (Finale Honorable Mention and Honorable Mention as they are usually VFTG Picks that lost their respective singing competitions). The first Finale Honorable Mention VFTG Picks will be American Idol 9 Runner-up Crystal Bowersox, American Idol 10 runner-up Lauren Aliana, American Idol 11 runner-up Jessica Sanchez, The X Factor USA 2 respective 1st and 2nd runners-up Carly Rose Sonenclar and Fifth Harmony declared by Zinn because of the victories of So You Think You Can Dance winners Lauren Froderman, Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard, and Amy Yakima (since Yakima resided in the Detroit television market, which is a significantly viewed market on Zinn's other popular site, INNewsCenter, Amy Yakima's victory allowed both Carly Rose Sonenclar and Fifth Harmony as co-inductees). The first Honorable Mention in the VFTG Hall of Fame will be VFTG Picks So You Think You Can Dance 8 runner-up Sasha Mallory, American Idol 12 runner-up Kree Harrison, The Voice US season 4 runner-up Michelle Chamuel, and The Voice US season 5 runner-up Jacquie Lee declared by Zinn because both the winner and runner-up were both female.
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| − | Also in the sixth season, the site added a new element in the Vote for the Girls format called the Moderator's Veto, an element first used in Italy's ''[[Vota Femminili]]'' (Vote for the Girls (Italy)) and ''[[Rösta för Flickorna]]'' (Vote for the Girls (Sweden)).<ref>???</ref> The moderators are given the power to exercise a veto on two regular competitions (one in each cycle) and one make-up competition and spare the site from a Vote for the Girls Loss for that particular competition. If the Moderators' Save is used in a make-up competition, the moderators will not get to choose any Vote for the Girls wild card or steal picks on ''The Voice'' nor ''American Idol'' because no victory nor loss is declared. The Moderator's Save can only be used once per cycle (later twice per cycle) and it must be unanimous. The first recipient of the Moderators' Save on a make-up competition was [[Valerie Rockey]], which allowed the site to finally declare its first victory of 2014 based on the dual-winner format previously used on the [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 9)|ninth]] and [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 10)|tenth]] seasons of ''SYTYCD,'' as well as declining the first ever VFTG Loss on a make-up competition on September 3, 2014. DaNica Shirey became the first recipient of the Moderartors' Save in a regular competition, which allowed Shirey as the last remaining female on the seventh season of ''The Voice'' to be inducted into the site's Hall of Fame.
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| − | The first stage of every competition is the Opening Round (where the moderators make their picks of female frontrunners since the site's third season) that air during the auditions of ''American Idol,'' ''The Voice,'' ''Rising Star'' and ''The X Factor''. The female moderators are divided into two teams, most often based on the female moderator's birth gender, with the women (female birth gender) on the pink team and transwomen (male birth gender) on the purple. The two teams of three or four female moderators individually compete to become the winning moderator for her Vote for the Girls pick (or the site's supported contestant) as long as possible and the site's supported contestant(s) to win the competition outright as the site's goal is to eliminate all the male contestants and a victory for the site. Since the site's sixth season of the spring cycle, the female moderators competes against the male counterparts, the Male Moderator Crew, who make their picks of male contestants (or the site's boycotted contestants that are considered by some as the Ava Zinn version of Vote for the Worst). The male moderator panel's (typically homosexual males or transmen) job is to eliminate all the female contestants during the individual competition and preventing the site a victory.
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| − | The Male Moderator Crew was introduced in the site's fifth season as a new element of ''Vote for the Girls'' starting on December 3, 2013, offering a buyout to the female moderator(s) to quit the respective competition before the program's results are revealed. Until the fall cycle of the site's sixth season, a male moderator, whose appearance and voice were not shown, will phone down to Zinn's phone on the podium. The Male Moderator and Zinn will converse (the Male Moderator's voice was never heard) 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. At some point during the site's sixth season, the Male Moderator offers are posted on the site's Male Moderator Twitter page and revealed at the end of the competition with the site's Vote for the Worst picks.
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| − | The Moderators' Save was introduced in the site's sixth season as a new element of ''Vote for the Girls'' starting on September 3, 2014, in which all female moderators that unanimously chose the same female vocalist, and is the last remaining female contestant in the competition, fans of the site are still encouraged to vote for the particular contestant to win the competition. This continues until either the supported contestant wins the show (resulting in a victory for the site and the moderators are rewarded for the victory with the winning moderator choosing the reward) or is eliminated (all of the Vote for the Girls rules remained in effect prior to the addition of the Moderators' Save, meaning such a supported contestant's elimination before the show's finale will result in an automatic loss as there would be no remaining female contestants, and the moderators face punishment if the Moderators' Save is not used, yet the site's failure to support the female contestant to a victory as with any loss results in the site's female moderators being forced to participate in the site's make-up competitions.)
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| − | As mentioned above, the site only declares "victories" if a all the male contestants are eliminated before the singing competition's finale and/or the female contestant wins the show and the moderators are rewarded (these rewards are typically include a makeover, eating with Ava Zinn at a fancy restaurant, a shopping spree at a clothing retailer, etc.) Starting with the sixth season, if a moderator ends the competition (via the Male Moderator) with one or more females and/or VFTG picks left in the competition after taking the Male Moderator's offer and her Vote for the Worst pick (typically a male contestant) is eliminated within two weeks of competition's finale, she earns immunity (usually this moderator is told at an off-site location of her advantages, which can include automatic moderator renewal in the following Vote for the Girls season, selecting the specific theme of the reward or punishment of the respective Vote for the Girls Victory or Loss). The rest of the moderators are then informed of the decision, and in the event of a Vote for the Girls loss, this moderator does not have to participate in the make-up competition determined by Zinn, and she is sent to watch the make-up competition from the balcony along with the winning moderators that earned the Vote for the Girls Victory. The first such immunity occurred on August 17, 2014, when Kellie Rock became the first moderator to earn immunity. She made a $1.2 million deal with the male moderator before the Rising Star Quarter-Finals on August 10, 2014 with her VFTW pick of Joshua Peavy eliminated on August 17. In addition Julia Passalt made an $8 million deal (including a $4 million RV, two 30-night vacations to Sydney, Australia and London England and $3 million cash) with the male moderator before the Rising Star finale on August 20, 2014 with [[wikipedia:Jesse Kinch|her Vote For The Worst pick]] winning ''Rising Star''.
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| − | Otherwise, the site claims a "loss" if a all the female contestants are eliminated before the singing competition's finale and/or the male contestant (and/or the moderator's Vote for the Worst pick, which on the Ava Zinn version of that site are never revealed until the end of the competition or all the male contestants eliminated because of Zinn's commitments with Vote for the Girls, of which it is a stark contrast from the Dave Della Terza version of that site) wins the show and the Vote for the Girls moderators faces punishment, usually doing very tedious tasks or more humiliating (usually cleaning the VFTG set and prepping for the next competition, handling the deliveries, such as sorting through the garbage, paying up on friendly wagers, etc.), as well as Zinn and the VFTG moderators were forced to support the female contestants in a make-up competition (usually So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and/or America's Got Talent) during the summer in addition to the moderators facing the aforementioned punishment(s). With the addition of the "Moderators' Veto" since the site's sixth season, these losses can be declined by the moderator panel and none of the Vote for the Girls moderator panel faces punishment, yet the VFTG moderators are still forced to support the female contestants in a make-up competition. The first such time the moderator panel has rejected a loss occurred on December 2, 2014 following DaNica Shirey's elimination. Conversely, in what has since become a tradition for any VFTG Loss, Ava Zinn usually takes these Punishments for Failure as a blessing in disguise. Two clear examples occurred in the site's second season which Ava Zinn auditioned for American Idol and the fifth season which Ava Zinn went to a primary vegetarian diet.
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| − | One punishment that has become a tradition on the site since the [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 1)|first season]] is the moderators growing a leg beard for [[wikipedia:National Breast Cancer Awareness Month|Breast Cancer Awareness in October]] following a Vote for the Girls Loss on ''American Idol,'' ''The Voice,'' ''The X Factor,'' and ''Rising Star.'' In almost every October (following a Vote for the Girls Loss), the Vote for the Girls moderators, which are all females (either biological or transgender/transsexuals), grow their leg hair out during the month of October. The moderators join this worthy cause and raise awareness of Breast Cancer while skipping a month (and since 2014 as much as two months) of shaving their legs (though some have been critical of this punishment--a colleague while Zinn was also employed at Carey Services and friend of Zinn's late wife (Angie), noted in 2012, that one of Zinn's colleagues even got in trouble from HR for participating in Leg Beards for Breast Cancer.)
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| − | *Before the start of the site's third season, in addition to the American Idol audition wager Ava Zinn made with an unnamed individual. After Zinn returned to Indiana from her American Idol audition in Pittsburgh, Zinn made the first of two bicycle trips from Marion to nearby [[wikipedia:Muncie, Indiana|Muncie]] (hometown of Holly Everman and to visit Zinn's then-11-year-old Tiffani) and the second to [[wikipedia:Wabash, Indiana|Wabash]] (to visit Zinn's then-8-year-old Tabitha) on August 8, 2011 and August 17, 2011, respectively. As a condition of Zinn's American Idol audition and primarily to make up a shortfall, Zinn said the Muncie bicycle trip was necessary as she went to a BioLife clinic in Muncie when she decided to sell her plasma, but was later turned away either due to Zinn's gender transition or bureaucratic red tape. The bicycle trip to Wabash was to a local [[wikipedia:Kroger|Kroger]] since Marion (nor Muncie) hadn't had a Kroger location since the late 1970's according to Zinn's mother, but that changed when [[wikipedia:Ruler Foods|Ruler Foods]] opened in Marion in April 2013 while the Muncie location opened in the fall of 2013. A third, yet voluntary bicycle trip from Marion to Zinn's hometown of [[wikipedia:Van Buren, Indiana|Van Buren]]<ref name="Ava Zinn from Van Buren">In interviews, Ava Zinn says she lived in Landess, Indiana, but in 1992 the Landess home became a Van Buren mailing address, thus making Van Buren, Indiana as Zinn's hometown. In interviews, Zinn has stated she is from the "Van Buren suburb" or "Van Buren neighborhood" of Landess, Indiana. Ava then adopted Van Buren, Indiana as her hometown and rarely acknowledges Landess.</ref> August 10 and 11, 2011 to celebrate [[wikipedia:Van Buren Popcorn Festival|the Popcorn Festival in her hometown]] (and the first time she's returned to Van Buren as a woman) as a reward for the successful ''American Idol'' campaign of Lauren Alaina and & Haley Reinhart, though she did miss the ''So You Think You Can Dance'' season 8 finale, which Robyn Hurd was the sole moderator that night on Vote for the Girls due to her poor health while Holly Everman was on assignment in Muncie and could not host the program.
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| − | *Before the site's sixth season, as part of {{strong|BOTH}} Ava Zinn's moderator victory of Tessanne Chin on the fifth season of ''The Voice'' and Holly Everman's moderator victory of Alex & Sierra on the third and final season of ''The X Factor'' as well as the overall Vote for the Girls Punishment for Failure to help Christina Grimmie win the sixth season of ''The Voice'' and Jena Irene (Asciutto) on the thirteenth season of ''American Idol'', Zinn and Everman biked from their homes to a notable landmark in the Vote for the Girls' moderator's hometown as Ava Zinn biked from her Marion home to Concannon's Bakery and Cafe in Holly Everman's hometown of Muncie, Indiana on July 19, 2014, clad in a strapless jumpsuit (as well as stopping at a [[wikipedia:Dollar General|Dollar General]] in [[wikipedia:Gaston, Indiana|Gaston]] and local Dollar Tree, [[wikipedia:Walmart|Walmart]], [[wikipedia:Meijer|Meijer]], [[wikipedia:Speedway LLC|Speedway]], and an [[wikipedia:Aldi|Aldi]] store in Muncie--the latter of the six Ava Zinn said replaced an Aldi in Marion following an January 2013 incident, and has said will not set foot at the Marion Aldi until July 4, 2019 following false accusations Zinn was involved in a hit and run.) Holly Everman returned the favor spanning three days when she relocated from Casleton to Marion beginning on the afternoon of August 12, 2014 when she biked from [[wikikpedia:Castleton Square Mall|Castleton Square Mall]] in [[wikipedia:Castleton, Indiana|Castleton]] to [[wikipedia:Anderson, Indiana|Anderson]] to spend the night at the home of her sister-in-law and former VFTG moderator [[Hillary Matthewson]] then on the morning of August 13, 2014 (by that morning, Everman had just separated from her wife, Veronica Willis, after Everman's first DUI arrest four months earlier and was completely gone from Indianapolis--see the [[Holly Everman]] article for more) departed for Marion, Indiana and moved in to an apartment near Five Points Mall. Then on August 14, 2014 Everman biked from Five Points Mall to the [[wikipedia:Van Buren Popcorn Festival|Van Buren Popcorn Festival]] in Zinn's hometown of Van Buren, Indiana. However, in a Facebook post by Everman, it was revealed that Everman biked two days from moving Indianapolis to Van Buren via bicycle. Then the following Friday after the Popcorn Festival (August 22) Holly went back to Castelton to pick up her car after asking fellow moderator Julia Passalt to drive her to Castleton, unaware that Holly had been drinking that night.
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| − | Vote for the Girls started as a campaign on Ava Zinn's web site, aeverine.info (now known as AvaZinn.com) blog <ref>Ava Zinn web site</ref>. The very first ''VFTG'' pick during [[wikipieda:American Idol (season 9)|American Idol 9]] was [[wikipedia:Crystal Bowersox|Crystal Bowersox]], whom became the last female in the competition following the elimination of [[wikipedia:Siobhan Magnus|Siobhan Magnus]] at 9:00 PM Eastern on April 28, 2010. Bowersox lasted until the finale, and Zinn eventually got a big makeover (it was revealed that Zinn had placed a friendly wager between Patrice Refferty on who would make the season 9 finale; had Bowersox won, Zinn would have added a "Girls Night Out".) Following Bowersox's defeat, Zinn slammed supporters of American Idol 9 winner Lee DeWyze, and the site began to what eventually became a traditional "Vote for the Girls Punishment" for the loss as Zinn, Holly Everman, and Robyn Matthewson (then known as Robyn Hurd), abstained from shaving their legs in October to support Beards for Breast Cancer.
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| − | The site began to post full episodes on YouTube for the finals episodes were introduced in VFTG 2 (2011) during [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 10)|American Idol's 10th season]], the site gained its first bit of notoriety with the VFTG's first painful bankrupt with the elimination of [[wikipedia:Pia Toscano|Pia Toscano]]. That season also became a turning point for the web site due to its support of [[wikipedia:Lauren Alaina|Lauren Alaina]] and [[wikipedia:Haley Reinhart|Haley Reinhart]]. Zinn posted on her YouTube channel of the "VOTE FOR LAUREN AND HALEY" campaign after Toscano was voted off. Alaina and Reihart went on to last 6 more weeks in the competition, but it was largely unknown to the general public at this time, and slammed Vote for the Worst on Zinn's web site and called the winner "[[wikipedia:Scotty McCreery|Scrappy McCrabby]]". Lauren Alaina later broke the record for Vote for the Girls' longest-running American Idol pick, which remained intact until being tied with Jessica Meuse on the 13th season of American Idol and surpassed by Jena Irene. She remained VFTG pick for 12 weeks, from top 24 to the finale. She was the runner-up, as was Crystal Bowersox in Season 9. However following the elimination of Paul McDonald, Ava Zinn announced on her YouTube channel (which at the time hosted the VFTG episodes until Zinn created the official VFTG YouTube Channel) that she would be auditioning for the following season of ''Idol'' herself. Due to Zinn's age, it was the first and only opportunity that Zinn would ever try out.
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| − | Because of the successful runs of Bowersox, Alaina, and Reinhart on American Idol and Froderman, Moore, and Mallory on So You Think You Can Dance, Vote for the Girls has expanded its site to include The X Factor (since its debut in September 2011). With the addition of The X Factor, the site allowed each moderator chose who their picks to win the respective competition and new element was added as moderators were given a "wild card", allowing each moderator to select one additional individual.
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| − | Even before [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 11)|season 11]] of America Idol's premiere, Ava Zinn, the site's creator, [[Ava's American Idol Audition|auditioned as a contestant]] on Idol, and went undercover as a journalist reportedly exposing the previous season's gender voting bias and eventually would end the trend that Idol pundits call the "white guy with guitar" or "WGWG" factor. During American Idol 11, VFTG picked [[wikipedia:Hallie Day|Hallie Day]] and [[wikipedia:Erika Van Pelt|Erika Van Pelt]] in the semi-finals because they also auditioned at the same [[wikipedia:Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]] [[wikipedia:Heinz Field|audition]] [[wikipedia:David L. Lawrence Convention Center|venues]] as Zinn and [[wikipedia:Elise Testone|Elise Testone]] as the wild card. In what would become Robyn Hurd's final VFTG season (before her death on May 24, 2012), she and Holly Everman picked [[wikipedia:Hollie Cavanagh|Hollie Cavanagh]] and [[wikipedia:Skylar Laine|Skylar Laine]] in the finale of American Idol with [[wikipedia:Jessica Sanchez|Jessica Sanchez]] as the wild card. Cavanagh was VFTG's longest running contestant.
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| − | In May of 2012, Robyn Hurd announced that she had been battling with blood clots and, as before, guest moderators, mostly consisting of Zinn's friends and colleagues, filled in for her. Robyn Hurd died of a stroke on May 24, 2012, at her apartment in Fort Wayne, at age 51.
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| − | The ''Duets'' competition on ''VFTG'' was dedicated to Hurd's memory. Her death ended the 23 year era of the so-called "Big Three" I-69ers: Hurd (Fort Wayne), Ava Zinn (Marion), and Holly Everman (Muncie)--the latter moved to Indianapolis within the year of Hurd's death). During her tenure, Hurd was known for her ability to calmly portray events as they were happening. The site was unable to help Olivia Chisolm and Bridget Carrington during the only season of Duets, of which following Carrigton's elimination became the first (not counting Christina Grimmie's third place finish on The Voice in May 2014 and the eliminations of Audrey Kate Geiger and Dana Williams on Rising Star in August 2014) time in the site's history as a loss been declared before the finale followed by the third season of The X Factor in December 2013 (later reversed), in which the season ends.
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| − | In the fall of 2012, the site began officially following [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. TV series)|''The Voice'']], of which would become a turning point for the site ad drew the ire of Vote for the Worst. The very first ''Voice'' picks were [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 3)|season three]] Adriana Louise and Sylvia Yacoub (of Team [[wikipedia:Christina Aguilera|Christina]]), [[wikipedia:Cassadee Pope|Cassadee Pope]] and Michaela Paige (of Team [[wikipedia:Blake Shelton|Blake]]), and Melanie Martinez and Amanda Brown (of Team [[wikipedia:Adam Levine|Adam]]). This also marked the first time that the VFTG moderators chose which female would win. After the Top 12 eliminations of Louise and Paige, site creator Ava Zinn chose Pope and Brown, Holly Everman chose Brown and Martinez, and Michelle Steele chose Yacoub and Brown. VFTG's final pick was none other than Cassadee Pope<ref name="VFTG-3"/> following the Top 6 eliminations (and painful bankrupt, which has since become a tradition of VFTG) of Melainie Martinez and Amanda Brown, in which Pope became the last female in the Top 4 and put her through the finale where she won and gave the site its second victory<ref name="VFTG-3"/>.
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| − | In [[wikipedia:The X Factor (U.S. season 2)|season 2]] of The X Factor, the site started the live shows with Zinn picking [[wikipedia:Jennel Garcia|Jennel Garcia]], [[wikipedia:Fifth Harmony|Fifth Harmony]], and [[wikipedia:Carly Rose Sonenclar|Carly Rose Sonenclar]] with [[wikipedia:Diamond White|Diamond White]] as the wild card; Everman choosing [[wikipedia:Paige Thomas|Paige Thomas]], Diamond White, and [[wikipedia:CeCe Frey|CeCe Frey]] with Carly Rose Sonenclar as the wild card. The site claimed their first and only loss when Sonenclar was declared runner-up.
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| − | During the [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 12)|twelfth season]] of American Idol, Zinn, Everman, and Steele, made their picks as follows: Zinn and Steele chose [[wikipedia:Angie Miller (American singer)|Angie Miller]] with Everman choosing [[wikipedia:Candice Glover|Candice Glover]] to win American Idol with Zinn picking [[wikipedia:Kree Harrison|Kree Harrison]] as runner-up and Glover in 3rd, Everman picking Miller as runner-up and Harrison in 3rd, and Steele choosing Glover as runner-up and Harrison in 3rd. Vote for the Girls gained its first bit of notoriety when [[wikipedia:Lazaro Arbos|Lazaro Arbos]] was eliminated in the top 6 of Idol's twelfth season, and drew the ire of VFTG's rival, [[Vote for the Worst]], as Zinn said back in May 2012 that she was done watching American Idol only to resume watching on April 10, 2013 when she learned that only one male was left in the competition. Also Miller became Vote for the Girls' longest-running American Idol pick for the season, tying with aforementioned Harrison and Glover from the top ten to finale in which marks the first time in site history as a wild card pick had won and finally the site's first (and thus far only) American Idol victory<ref name="VFTG-3"/>, which was declared following the elimination of Lazaro Arbos<ref name="VFTG-3">{{cite web|author=Ava Zinn|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-as3gTKlHg |title=Vote For the Girls Epic Victory: American Idol 12 |publisher=YouTube |date=2013-04-12 |accessdate=2013-05-13}}</ref>.
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| − | For [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 4)|the fourth season]] of The Voice, the site chose [[wikipedia:Judith Hill|Judith Hill]] (from Team Adam), [[wikipedia:Sasha Allen|Sasha Allen]] (from Team [[wikipedia:Shakira|Shakira]]), Holly Tucker (from Team Blake), and Cathia (from Team [[wikipedia:Usher (entertainer)|Usher]]) during the Live Playoffs (or Top 16 as Ava Zinn calls it) with [[wikipedia:Sarah Simmons|Sarah Simmons]] as the wild card. Following Cathia's elimination, the site then chose [[wikipedia:Michelle Chamuel|Michelle Chamuel]] (from Team Usher), where she made the finale. After Simmons' and Hill's elimination, Sasha Allen, Amber Carrington, Michelle Chamuel, and Holly Tucker were originally selected for Top 6 week, but after the performances, the website switched the latter to eventual winner [[wikipedia:Danielle Bradbery|Danielle Bradbery]]<ref name="VFTG-4"/>, marking the first time the website had changed its mind on which contestant to vote for based on performance alone.
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| − | On October 1, 2013, Vote for the Girls began its fifth season as Ava Zinn rewarded the moderators with [[wikipedia:Indiana State Fair|Indiana State Fair]] tickets for the entire run as a "Reward for VFTG Victories" and awarded with a fine dining at K Bistro in Marion, Indiana.
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| − | For the [[wikipedia:The X Factor (U.S. season 3)|third and final season]] of The X Factor, Zinn, Everman, Steele, and Swaringen made their picks to win as follows: Zinn chose [[wikipedia:Rachel Potter|Rachel Potter]], [[wikipedia:Rion Paige|Rion Paige Thompson]], and girl group [[wikipedia:RoXxy Montana|RoXxy Montana]] with her wild card picks of [[wikipedia:Ellona Santiago|Ellona Santiago]] and [[wikipedia:Khaya Cohen|Khaya Cohen]]<ref name="VFTG-XFUS3">{{cite web|last=Swaringen|first=Ariel|title=The X Factor 3 Final 16 Are Set|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2013/10/11/the-x-factor-3-final-16-are-set/|work=Vote for the Girls|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings|accessdate=11 October 2013|coauthors=Ava Zinn}}</ref>, but made a rare pick of [[wikipedia:Alex & Sierra|Alex & Sierra]], making this the first time in site history that a male-female music duo (as well as the first and so far only male pick) had been picked and Zinn calls it as a rare "Vote for the Best of Worst". Everman also chose Potter and Thompson as her picks, but chose Alex & Sierra, stating that the VFTG Victory will be awarded to Sierra Denton if the duo wins X Factor) with wild card picks of Santiago and RoXxy Montana with her Best of Worst pick being girl group Sweet Suspense<ref name="VFTG-XFUS3" />. Steele chose [[wikipedia:Nicole McCloud|Lillie McCloud]], Khaya Cohen, and [[wikipedia:Sweet Suspense|Sweet Suspense]] with her wild card picks of Thompson, Santiago, and RoXxy Montana <ref name="VFTG-XFUS3" />. Swaringen chose Potter, Danielle Geimer, and RoxXy Montana, with wild card picks of Santiago, Thompson, and Alex & Sierra.<ref name="VFTG-XFUS3" /> <ref name=AlexNSierra>{{cite web|last=Zinn|first=Ava|title=Vote for the Girls Makes Historic pick|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2013/10/30/ten-ladies-on-the-voice-5-7-girls-and-vftg-makes-a-historic-pick/|work=Vote for the Girls|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings|accessdate=11 October 2013|coauthors=Ava Zinn}}</ref> The site's first loss of 2013 was declared with the eliminations of Santiago and Thompson on December 5, 2013, and the site's pick of Alex & Sierra proved to be controversial (see below). It was the second time in site history, after Bridget Carrington's elimination on Duets, that the site declared a loss (which was later reversed when Alex & Sierra won The X Factor).
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| − | For The Voice's [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 5)|fifth season]], only Zinn made her picks while Everman, Steele, and Swaringen abstained and refused to even make a pick. Zinn chose [[wikipedia:Tessanne Chin|Tessanne Chin]] from Team Adam, Olivia Henken and Jacquie Lee from Team Christina, Shelbie Z from Team Blake, and Kat Robichaud and Caroline Pennell from Team CeeLo.<ref name="VFTG-TVUSA5">{{cite web|last=Swaringen|first=Ariel|title=Ava's Picks for The Voice of America 5|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2013/10/22/vote-for-the-girls-adding-two-moderators-in-us-avas-picks-for-the-voice-5/|work=Vote for the Girls|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings|accessdate=11 October 2013|coauthors=Ava Zinn}}</ref>
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| − | For [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 13)|American Idol's 13th season]], the site added two new moderators. Kellie Rock and Kathi Jameson were added to join Zinn, Eveman, Steele, and Swaringen. Beginning with this competition, during the semi-finals and until the Top 10, opposing moderators have the ability to steal the pick that was cut by the original moderator. Each moderator can save two picks. All six chose Marielle Sellars, five moderators Jillian Jensen and Brandy Neeley<ref name="VFTG-AI13"/>. The site also chose [[wikipedia:M.K. Nobilette|M.K. Nobilette]] but declared a transmale and becoming available only to Zinn, Jameson, and Steele as Everman, Swaringen, and Rock were ruled ineligible to choose Nobilette as a pick but ultimately chose [[wikipedia:Jessica Meuse|Jessica Meuse]] to make it a "TRANSWOMEN vs. BISEXUAL WOMEN"<ref name="VFTG-AI13">{{cite web|last=Zinn|first=Ava|title=American Idol 13 Top 13 Revealed, All Males WGWG's|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2014/02/21/american-idol-13-top-13-revealed-all-males-are-wgwgs/|work=Vote for the Girls|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings|accessdate=21 February 2014|coauthors=Ava Zinn}}</ref>. The pick of Nobilette stirred up controversy as a fan of the site pointed out and mentioned on Twitter <ref name="VFTG-MK"> https://twitter.com/Jena_Irene_Fans/status/457984852265295872</ref>. [[wikipedia:Jena Irene|Jena Asciutto]] later broke the record for Vote for the Girls' longest-running American Idol pick, which will remain intact, surpassing Jessica Meuse on the 13th season of American Idol and Lauren Alaina of the 10th season of American Idol. Jena Irene remained VFTG pick for 14 weeks, from top 30 to the finale while Jessica Meuse remained VFTG pick for 12 weeks from the top 30 to the top 4. Meuse finished in 4th place, and is considered to be a candidate to make the VFTG Hall of Fame.
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| − | The site was unable to help [[wikipedia:Christina Grimmie|Christina Grimmie]] during the sixth season of The Voice, which resulted in the site's first loss on the program.<ref name="VFTGLossTV6"> {{cite web|title=Vote for the Girls Loss: The Voice of America 6|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2014/05/20/vote-for-the-girls-loss-the-voice-season-6/|work=Vote for the Girls|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings|accessdate=21 May 2014|coauthors=Ava Zinn}}</ref>. In addition, the site also declared its first "Double Whammy VFTG Loss" <ref name="GrimmieWasRobbed" /> which counts as two losses.
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| − | The American Idol 13 and The Voice 6 competitions marked the first time in the site's history that conflict with the contestants from ''American Idol XIII'' and ''The Voice'' prevented Zinn from completing the season. The male contestants on both competitions were mostly "white guys with guitars." The competitions became increasingly heated and the American public reacts defensively, refusing to accept the truth about WGWG's, and blaming others for no reason. Zinn concludes, "I think the competition's too far gone". After the eliminations of MK Nobilette, [[wikipedia:Majesty Rose|Majesty York]], [[wikipedia:Malaya Watson|Malaya Watson]], and Jessica Meuse landed in the bottom two the week following Watson's elimination, and Zinn tells in a YouTube video on April 18, 2014, the competition that's basically lopsided with dreaded WGWG's are not normal for this kind of competition and announces that she would be auctioning off her virginity, and it is implied that she called off the competition for that reason.
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| − | On July 11, 2014, Vote for the Girls began the sixth season with the site airing a [[Ava's Virginity Auction|special episode]] revolving around the events on ''American Idol XIII'', ''The Voice VI'', the subsequent VFTG Losses, and punishment that soon followed during and after the respective competitions with a new, specially-recorded interview with the moderators conducted by Zinn herself, and reading the complaints that several of Zinn's friends complained about her virginity auction and the consequent Punishment for Failure that followed after Christina Grimmie and Jena Irene's defeats: Ava Zinn and Kathi Jameson wore strapless tops with Zinn wearing thong panties occasionally, while Kellie Rock and Holly Everman [[wikipedia:breast binding|binding their breasts]] with Rock appearing as a [[wikipedia:Breast Cancer|Breast Cancer]] survivor if she had a double [[wikipedia:mastectomy|mastectomy]] and Everman (after shaving her traditionally long hair) appearing as a [[wikipedia:trans man|female-to-male transgender individual]].
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| − | The first Rising Star picks were [[wikipedia:Sarah Darling|Sarah Darling]], [[wikipedia:Myra Molloy|Maneepat Molloy]], and 12 other VFTG picks that raised the wall during the Qualifiers. On the episode taped June 29, 2014 (aired July 12, 2014), VFTG added "The VFTG [[wikipedia:iPad|iPad]]" to vote Yes for all VFTG Picks on the Rising Star ABC app via VFTG's Twitter account (@voteforthegirls). The site was unable to help [[wikipedia:Myra Molloy|Maneepat Molloy]] and Macy Kate to the finale. Likewise, the site was unable to help Dana Williams and Audrey Kate Geiger to win Rising Star, as well as a third consecutive loss (in addition to the second time after the elimination of Bridget Carrington on ''Duets'' two years earlier.)
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| − | Like the American Idol, X Factor, The Voice, and Rising Star campaigns, the site supports all female contestants on [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 11)|So You Think You Can Dance 11]] since Zinn says in a 2010 interview "the eliminations on SYTYCD are more fairer since one male and one female are eliminated each week." Zinn stated in July 2014, "Dropping SYTYCD in 2012 was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made as a webmaster." Zinn states that on SYTYCD (and also stated from American Idol 12 Top 5 to Top 3), "All the VFTG Picks are good." It should be noted that the site has been successful on SYTYCD.
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| − | The site added [[wikipedia:Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|''Dancing with the Stars'']] for the [[wikipedia:Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19)|19th season]] as an additional make-up competition. Unlike the site's [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (United States)|''So You Think You Can Dance'']] picks that are decided under the sole discretion of Zinn, Ava Zinn breaks the moderators into two teams most often based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation, with the women on the pink team, and trans women on the purple. The teams (similar to another Ava Zinn competition, "Santa Ava"--the Christmas Version of Zinn,) barring any reassignments by Zinn, are typically assigned VFTG picks under the sole discretion of Zinn herself. The male moderators are not allowed to make any picks on ''DWTS'' and the only time a loss would occour if none of the moderators picked the champion since the site has no "Vote for the Worst picks"<ref group="VFTG Picks">'''Zinn''' (Dancing with the Stars picks): "On Dancing with the Stars, there are no Vote for the Worst picks. All of the moderators' picks are good."</ref>. With the elimination of Tommy & Peta, on November 17, 2014, the site finally secured their first and only victory of 2014 after a similar elimination took place following Lazaro Arbos' elimination on April 11, 2013. Holly Everman earned her third moderator victory as Alfonso Ribeiero was declared the winner.
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| − | The sound effect for the VFTG Loss now includes the instrumental version of [[wikipedia:Aloe Blacc|Aloe Blacc]]'s [[wikipedia:The Man (Aloe Blacc song)|''The Man'']] following the known losing horns on ''The Price is Right''.
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| − | The site was unable to help Sugar Joans, Jessie Pitts, Anita Antoinette, Reagan James, and DaNica Shirey during the [[The Voice (U.S. season 7)|seventh season of ''The Voice'']], of which following Shirey's elimination became the second in the site's history as a loss been declared before the finale after Bridget Carrington's elimination on ''Duets'' in July 2012, at which point the competition ends. Unlike Carrington's elimination, the Moderators' Save was used to spare the site another loss following Shirey's elimination. Shirey became the second recipient of the "Vote for the Girls Moderators' Save" after Valerie Rockey's defeat to Ricky Ubela on [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 11)|the eleventh season]] of [[wikipedia:So You Think You Can Dance (United States)|''So You Think You Can Dance'']]. Kellie Rock became the fourth winning moderator.
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| − | The spring cycle of the sixth season was delayed due to the ongoing dispute between site creator Ava Zinn and the lessor of the Aeverine Zinn Holdings facility, which houses the Vote for the Girls set. The dispute has displaced Zinn and has been working with the parties involved to resolve the dispute. Before the [[wikipedia:American Idol (season 14)|American Idol 14]] Top 12 Result, Zinn was arrested for assault and disorderly conduct and was released on $10,000 bail.
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| − | The site was able to help Meghan Linsey, Sawyer Fredericks, and Koryn Hawthorne to the finale of the [[wikipedia:The Voice (U.S. season 8)|eighth season]] of ''The Voice'', in which both Fredericks and Linsey were named the respective winner and runner-up. Thia Tola became the seventh winning moderator (not counting the imported victory of Maneepat Molloy from ''Rising Star'') upon Fredericks' win overall and Linsey's female victory earned Zinn and Alvaraz their respective ninth and second win as moderator.
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| − | For the ninth season of ''The Voice,'' Zinn and Alvaraz picked the aforementioned flex pick Jordan Smith and Shelby Brown on Team Adam; Ellie Lawrence (on Team [[wikipedia:Gwen Stefani|Gwen]]); Emily Ann Roberts, Morgan Frazier, and flex pick Dustin Christensen (on Team Blake). Everman and Johnson picked Siahna Im (on Team [[wikipedia:Pharrell Williams|Pharrell]]). Julia Passalt picked Krista Hughes and Nadjah Nicole (on Team Blake, the latter of whom was cross-flexed from Everman and Johnson), Lyndsey Elm (on Team Gwen), and Celeste Betton (on Team Pharrell). Lanise White picked Andi & Alex and flex pick Chance Pena (on Team Adam) and Daria Jazmin (on Team Pharrell). Kellie Rock picked Regina Love (on Team Adam, later Team Gwen), flex picks Tyler Dickerson and Zach Seabaugh (on Team Blake), Riley Biederer (on Team Pharrell), and Korin Bukowski (on Team Gwen). Thia Tola picked Kota Wade (on Team Gwen), Ivonne Acereo (on Team Pharrell, later Team Blake), and flex pick Viktor Kirlay (on Team Adam, later Team Gwen). Kendra Ray picked Amy Vachal (on Team Pharrell, later Team Adam) and flex pick Barrett Baber (on Team Blake). Tracia Ward picked the aforementioned flex pick Mark Hood and Madi Davis (on Team Pharrell) and the aforementioned Jefferey Austin (on Team Gwen.)
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| − | == Co-hosts and moderators ==
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| − | The web site had originally planned on having four moderators following the ''Vote for the Worst'' format; however, only three moderators had been found by the time of the American Idol season 9 competition, namely [[Robyn Hurd]], [[Holly Everman]] and [[Ava Zinn]]. A fourth moderator, later identified as [[Kymberly Alvaraz|Kym Christian (now Kymberly Alvaraz)]], was originally chosen but she dropped out citing "image concerns". (Christian herself would be hired as an eighth moderator for the site's sixth season.) The site decided to continue with the three moderators format until season four. All three original moderators stayed on the moderator panel for three seasons.
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| − | Ava Zinn began hosting ''Vote for the Girls'' since its April 28, 2010 debut and Everman joined as co-host on October 1, 2013. In addition to hosting, Zinn also serves as Executive Producer of the show and continued as such since, gaining significant creative control over the series. Zinn signed off each broadcast, informing viewers with the public service message, "Help control your child's education: have them [[wikipedia:Vaccination schedule#United States|immunized]]"--a sign off that Zinn has used since 1999.
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| − | '''Key:''' {{colorbox|lightblue}} Previous {{colorbox|yellow}} Current
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| − | ! rowspan="3" | Moderators!! colspan=14 style=text-align:center; | Seasons
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| − | !! rowspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 1)|2010]]
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| − | !! rowspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 2)|2011]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 3)|2012]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 4)|2013]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 5)|2014]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 6)|2015]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 7)|2016]]
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| − | !! colspan="2" width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 8)|2017]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 3)|Fall 2011]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 4)|Spring 2012]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 5)|Fall 2012]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 6)|Spring 2013]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 7)|Fall 2013]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 8)|Spring 2014]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 9)|Fall 2014]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 10)|Spring 2015]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 11)|Fall 2015]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 12)|Spring 2016]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 13)|Fall 2016]]
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| − | !! width="65" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. cycle 14)|Spring 2017]]
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| − | ! colspan="15" style="background:cyan;" | Purple team
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| − | | [[Ava Zinn]]
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| − | | colspan="9" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="DUOModerator">Ava Zinn served as a solo moderator since the site's debut. In the spring cycle of the sixth season, she is joined by her significant other, [[Kymberly Alvaraz]], and become as a duo moderator onwards. Zinn continues to co-host.</ref>
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| − | | [[Kymberly Alvaraz]] || colspan="8" {{n/a|}} || colspan="1" {{n/a|Pink team}} || colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="DUOModerator">Beginning with the spring cycle of the sixth season, she is joined by her girlfriend, [[Ava Zinn]], and became as a duo moderator onwards. </ref>
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| − | | [[Michelle Steele]]
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| − | | colspan="4" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="6" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Deceased {{Death date and age|2014|5|10|1980|11|16|mf=yes}}<ref group="Moderator">Michelle Steele resigned on March 6, 2014.</ref>
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| − | | [[Kathi Jameson]]
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| − | | colspan="7" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Terminated on September 18, 2014<BR>Reinstated January 1, 2016
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| − | | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|
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| − | | [[Julia Passalt]]
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| − | | colspan="8" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="6" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | [[Kendra Ray]]
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| − | | colspan="8" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Took leave of absence on October 25, 2014. In the interim, [[Rhonda Rhodes]] and [[Tracia Ward]] filled in for Ray following Kendra Ray's arrest for her role in [[Kym Christian shooting incident|Kym Christian fatally shooting]] former Vote for the Girls guest moderator [[Khayla Chow]]. Prior to Ray's leave of absence, Kendra Ray replaced Kathi Jameson after Jameson's termination on September 18, 2014. Ray returned to the panel on November 17, 2014 </ref>
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| − | | colspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | [[Rhonda Rhodes]]
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| − | | colspan="9" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Deceased {{Death date and age|2015|3|14|1968|12|28|mf=yes}}<ref group="Moderator">Took leave of absence on October 25, 2014. In the interim between Rhodes' death and the season finale of the site's sixth season, Rhodes' widow, Tricia Adams-Rhodes, filled in as guest moderator. </ref>
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| − | | [[Lanise White]]
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| − | | colspan="8" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="2" {{n/a|Pink team}}
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Beginning with the fall cycle of the seventh season, she moved from the pink team to the purple team. </ref>
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|
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| − | | [[Rachael Passalt]]
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| − | | colspan="10" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="DUOModerator">In the seventh season, she is joined by her father, [[Julia Passalt]], and become as a duo moderator.</ref>
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| − | ! colspan="15" style="background:pink;" | Pink team
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| − | | [[Holly Everman]]
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| − | |colspan="8" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="6" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Took leave of absence on August 25, 2014. In the interim, her niece, [[Nermal Everman]], filled in for her after Everman's two DUI arrests. Holly Everman returned to the moderator panel on November 3, 2014.</ref><ref group="DUOModerator">In the seventh season, Holly Everman is joined by her niece, Nermal, and become as a duo moderator.</ref>
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| − | | [[Robyn Hurd]]
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="10" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Deceased {{Death date and age|2012|5|24|1961|3|16|mf=yes}}
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| − | | [[Ariel Swaringen]]
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| − | | colspan="5" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="6" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Deceased {{Death date and age|2014|3|22|1990|4|11|mf=yes}}
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| − | | [[Kellie Rock]]
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| − | | colspan="7" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="DUOModerator">Kellie Rock served as a solo moderator for the spring cycle of season five and all of season 6. In the seventh season, she is joined by her transgendered wife, [[Megan Rock]], and become as a duo moderator.</ref>
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| − | | [[Lanise White]]
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| − | | colspan="8" {{n/a|}}
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|<ref group="Moderator">White was suspended from the moderator panel for the remainder of the spring cycle of the sixth season on February 25, 2015. Thia Tola filled in for White in the interim.</ref>
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| − | | colspan="4" {{n/a|Moved to Purple Team}}
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| − | | [[Karly Ryder, Jr.]]
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|
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| − | | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"|Terminated November 14, 2014
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| − | | [[Kymberly Alvaraz|Kym Christian]] || colspan="8" {{n/a|}} || colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Took leave of absence on October 25, 2014. In the interim, Christian's mother, [[Julie Christian]], and daughter, [[Stephani Alvaraz]] filled in for her following a shooting on October 21, 2014. She returned to the moderator panel on December 1, 2014.</ref> || colspan="5" {{n/a|Moved to purple team.}}
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Nermal Everman filled in for her aunt [[Holly Everman]] while she was in rehab following her DWI arrest on August 23, 2014.</ref>
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:lightblue;"| Deceased {{Death date and age|2015|7|6|1994|7|10|mf=yes}}
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| − | | [[Megan Rock]]
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| − | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="DUOModerator">Beginning in the seventh season, Megan Rock is joined by her wife, [[Kellie Rock]], and become as a duo moderator.</ref>
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| − | | colspan="1" style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|<ref group="Moderator">Beginning with the fall cycle of the seventh season, she moved from the pink team to the purple team. </ref>
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| − | ! colspan="15" style="background:black;" | {{strong|style=color:white|Male Moderator Crew}}
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| − | | [[Leonard Lai]]
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| − | ==Seasons==
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| − | To date, six seasons have been broadcast, as summarized below.
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| − | |{{won|place=1|(VFTG Pick Name)}} || Indicates a Vote for the Girls Victory (finale only)
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| − | |{{won|place=2|(VFTG Pick Name)}} || Indicates a Vote for the Girls Make-Up Victory (finale only)
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| − | |{{won|place=3|(VFTG Pick Name)}} || Indicates a Vote for the Girls Victory after last male contestant's elimination
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| − | |{{no|VFTG Loss}} || Indicates a Vote for the Girls Loss after last female contestant's elimination
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| − | |{{no2|VFTG Loss}} || Indicates a Vote for the Girls Loss (finale)
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| − | |{{no result|'''Moderators' Veto'''}} || Indicates a Moderators' Veto to veto a Vote for the Girls loss
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| − | ;Moderator Victories
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| − | {{col-begin}}
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| − | {{col-3}}
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Ava Zinn|Ava]]"/"Team [[Ava Zinn|Ava]] & [[Kymberly Alvaraz|Kymberly]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Holly Everman colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Holly Everman|Holly]]"/"Team Holly & [[Nermal Everman|Nermal]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Kellie Rock colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Robyn Hurd|Robyn]]" (2010-2012)/"Team Hillary" (2013)/"Team [[Kellie Rock|Kellie]]"(2014-)
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Julia Passalt colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Julia Passalt|Julia]]"/"Team Julia & [[Rachael Passalt|Rachael]]"
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| − | {{col-3}}
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Michelle Steele colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Michelle Steele|Michelle]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Kathi Jameson colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Kathi Jameson|Kathi]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Kendra Ray colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Kendra Ray|Kendra]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Rhonda Rhodes colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Rhonda Rhodes|Rhonda]]"
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| − | {{col-3}}
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Ariel Swaringen colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Ariel Swaringen|Ariel]]
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Lanise White colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Lanise White|Lanise]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Karly Ryder, Jr. colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Karly Ryder, Jr.|Karly]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Kym Christian colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Kym Christian|Kym]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Tracia Ward colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Tracia Ward|Tracia]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|{{Thia Tola colorbox}}}} Victory from "Team [[Thia Tola|Thia]]"
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| − | <!--------------
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| − | : {{colorbox|White}} Victory from "Team [[Kathy Fountain|Kathy]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|White}} Victory from "Team [[Maya Wright|Maya]]"
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| − | : {{colorbox|White}} Victory from "Team [[Danielle Runecfraft|Danielle]]"
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| − | ------------->
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="4%" | Season
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Season Premiere
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Season Finale
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| − | !colspan="3" scope="col" colspan="3"| Record
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="20%" | Shows Covered
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Victories
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Last Female<br><small>(or Runner-up)</small>
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Winning<BR>moderator(s)
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Hosts
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Moderators
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| − | !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="10%" | Guest<br>Moderators(s)
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="col" |Victories
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| − | ! scope="col" |Losses
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| − | ! scope="col" |Saves
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 1)|One]]
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| − | |rowspan="2" | April 28, 2010
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| − | |rowspan="2" | May 26, 2010
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 1
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 1
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 0
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| − | | American Idol (season 9)
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| − | | {{no2|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Crystal Bowersox'''}}
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| − | |rowspan="4" | None
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| − | |rowspan="6" | Ava Zinn
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| − | |rowspan="8" | Holly Everman<BR>Robyn Hurd
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| − | |rowspan="2" | None
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| − | |-
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| − | |So You Think You Can Dance (season 7)
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| − | | {{won|place=1|Lauren Froderman}}
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| − | |{{n/a}}
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 2)|Two]]
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| − | |rowspan="2" | March 3, 2011
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| − | |rowspan="2" | May 25, 2011
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 1
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 1
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| − | |rowspan="2" | 0
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| − | | American Idol (season 10)
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| − | | {{no2|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Lauren Alaina'''}}
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| − | |rowspan="2" | Patrice Rafferty
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| − | |-
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| − | |So You Think You Can Dance (season 8)
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Melanie Moore}}
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| − | |{{won|place=2|Sasha Mallory}}
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="4" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 3)|Three]]
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| − | |rowspan="4" | November 1, 2011
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| − | |rowspan="4" | July 12, 2012
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 3
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 2
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 0
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| − | | bgcolor="{{Kellie Rock colorbox}}"|The X Factor (season 1)
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| − | |{{won|place=1|'''Melanie Amaro'''}}
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| − | |{{N/A}}
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| − | | bgcolor="{{Kellie Rock colorbox}}"|Robyn Hurd
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| − | |None
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| − | |-
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| − | |American Idol (season 11)
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| − | | {{no2|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Jessica Sanchez'''}}
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| − | |None
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| − | |{{nowrap|Raymond Passalt<BR>Amanda Smith}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |Duets (season 1)
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| − | | {{no|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Bridget Carrington'''}}
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| − | |None
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| − | |rowspan="2"|{{nowrap|Ava Zinn<br>Patrice Rafferty}}
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| − | |{{nowrap|Frank Davidson<BR>Raymond Passalt<BR>Patrice Rafferty<BR>Rhonda Spencer}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |So You Think You Can Dance (season 9)
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Eliana Girard<BR>Tiffany Maher}}
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| − | |{{won|place=2|Witney Carson}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |{{nowrap|Rhonda Spencer<BR>Patrice Rafferty<BR>Johnathan Steele<BR>Hillary Matthewson}}
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="8" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 4)|Four]]
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| − | |rowspan="8" | November 1, 2012
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| − | |rowspan="8" | June 18, 2013
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| − | |rowspan="8" | 4
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| − | |rowspan="8" | 1
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| − | |rowspan="8" | 0
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">The Voice (season 3)<span>
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Cassadee Pope}}
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| − | |{{N/A}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}"|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |rowspan="2"|Ava Zinn
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| − | |rowspan="2"|{{nowrap|Holly Everman<br>Michelle Steele<br>Hillary Matthewsson}}
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| − | |rowspan="2"|Raymond Passalt
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| − | |-
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| − | |The X Factor (season 2)
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| − | | {{no2|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Carly Rose Sonenclar<br>Fifth Harmony'''}}
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| − | |None
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor={{Holly Everman colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">American Idol (season 12)</span>
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Candice Glover}}
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| − | |{{won|place=3|Kree Harrison<br>Angie Miller}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Holly Everman colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Holly Everman
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| − | |Ava Zinn<br>Holly Everman
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| − | |rowspan="8"|{{nowrap|Holly Everman<br>Michelle Steele<br>Ariel Swaringen}}
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| − | |rowspan="8"|None
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" rowspan="4"|<span style="color:white">The Voice (season 4)</span>
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| − | |rowspan="4" {{won|place=1|Danielle Bradbery}}
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| − | |rowspan="4" {{won|place=3|Michelle Chamuel}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |rowspan="9"|Ava Zinn
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Holly Everman colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Holly Everman</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Kellie Rock colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Hillary Matthewson</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ariel Swaringen colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ariel Swaringen</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |So You Think You Can Dance (season 10)
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| − | |{{won|place=2|Amy Yakima}}
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| − | |Jasmine Harper
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="4" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 5)|Five]]
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| − | |rowspan="4" | October 1, 2013
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| − | |rowspan="4" | April 18, 2014
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 2
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 0
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| − | |rowspan="4" | 2
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}"|<span style="color:white">The Voice (season 5)</span>
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Tessanne Chin}}
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| − | |Jacquie Lee
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}"|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Holly Everman colorbox}}"|<span style="color:white">The X Factor (season 3)</span>
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Alex & Sierra}}
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| − | |{{n/a}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Holly Everman colorbox}}"|<span style="color:white">Holly Everman</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |American Idol (season 13)
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| − | | {{no result|'''Saved'''}}
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| − | |{{no result|'''Jena Irene (Asciutto)'''}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |{{nowrap|Holly Everman<br>Michelle Steele<br>Ariel Swaringen<BR>Kathi Jameson<BR>Kellie Rock}}
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| − | |rowspan="2"|Khayla Chow
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| − | |-
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| − | |The Voice (season 6)
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| − | | {{no result|'''Saved'''}}
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| − | |{{no result|Christina Grimmie'''}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |{{nowrap|Holly Everman<br>Kathi Jameson<BR>Kellie Rock}}
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| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="11" | [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 6)|Six]]
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| − | |rowspan="11" |July 11, 2014
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| − | |rowspan="11" |May 21, 2015
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| − | |rowspan="11" | 2
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| − | |rowspan="11" | 2
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| − | |rowspan="11" | 3
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| − | |Rising Star (season 1)
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| − | | {{no|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |{{lost|text=white|color=red|'''Audrey Kate Geiger<BR>Dana Williams'''}}
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| − | |{{N/A}}
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| − | |rowspan="18"|{{nowrap|Ava Zinn<BR>Holly Everman}}
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| − | |rowspan="3"|{{nowrap|Kellie Rock<BR>Kathi Jameson<BR>Lanise White<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Karly Ryder, Jr.<BR>Kym Christian}}
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| − | |{{n/a}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">So You Think You Can Dance (season 11)</span>
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| − | |{{no result|'''Moderators' Veto'''}}
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| − | |{{no result|'''Valerie Rockey'''}}
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| − | |bgcolor="{{Ava Zinn colorbox}}" |<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn</span>
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| − | |rowspan="2"|Nermal Everman
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| − | |-
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| − | |America's Got Talent (season 9)
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| − | |{{no2|VFTG Loss}}
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| − | |Emily West<BR>AcroArmy (3rd Place)
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| − | |{{N/A}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor={{Holly Everman colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Dancing with the Stars (season 19)</span>
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| − | |{{won|place=1|Alfonso Riberio & Witney Carson}}
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| − | |{{won|place=2|Sadie Robertson & Mark Ballas}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Holly Everman colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Holly Everman</span>
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| − | |{{nowrap|Kellie Rock<BR>Lanise White<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Karly Ryder, Jr.<BR>Kym Christian}}
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| − | |rowspan="2"|{{nowrap|Stephani Alvaraz<br>Julie Christian<BR>Kendra Ray}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor={{Kellie Rock colorbox}}|The Voice (season 7)
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| − | |bgcolor={{Kellie Rock colorbox}}|'''Moderators' Veto'''<BR>{{small|{{date|2014-12-2|mdy=yes}}}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Kellie Rock colorbox}}|'''DaNica Shirey'''<BR>{{small|Eliminated in Quarter-Finals}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Kellie Rock colorbox}}|Kellie Rock
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| − | |{{nowrap|Kellie Rock<BR>Lanise White<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Kendra Ray}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |rowspan="2" bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">American Idol (season 14)</span>
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| − | |rowspan="2" {{won|place=1|Nick Fradiani<BR>Jax Cole}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Nick Fradiani</span>
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn & Kymberly Alvaraz</span>
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| − | |rowspan="6"|{{nowrap|Kellie Rock<BR>Rhonda Rhodes<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Tracia Ward<BR>Kym Christian {{small|(with Ava Zinn)}}<BR>Kendra Ray<BR>Lanise White}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor={{Tracia Ward colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Jax Cole</span>
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| − | |bgcolor={{Tracia Ward colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Tracia Ward</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |rowspan="2" bgcolor={{Thia Tola colorbox}} |<span style="color:white">The Voice (season 8)</span>
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| − | |rowspan="2" {{won|place=1|Sawyer Fredericks<BR>Meghan Linsey}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Thia Tola colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Sawyer Fredericks</span>
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| − | |bgcolor={{Thia Tola colorbox}}|[[Thia Tola|<span style="color:white">Thia Tola</span>]]
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| − | |-
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Meghan Linsey</span>
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn & Kymberly Alvaraz</span>
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| − | |-
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| − | |rowspan="2" bgcolor={{Kendra Ray colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Dancing with the Stars (season 20)</span>
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| − | |colspan="2" {{won|place=1|Rumer Willis & Valentin Chmerkovskiy}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Kendra Ray colorbox}}|[[Kendra Ray|<span style="color:white">Kendra Ray</span>]]
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| − | |-
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| − | |colspan="2" {{won|place=1|Riker Lynch & Allison Holker}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn & Kymberly Alvaraz</span>
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| − | | |
| − | |-
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| − | ! scope="row" rowspan="7"| [[Vote for the Girls (U.S. season 7)|Seven]]
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| − | |rowspan="7" |October 19, 2015
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| − | |rowspan="7" |TBA
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| − | |rowspan="7" | 2
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| − | |rowspan="7" | 0
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| − | |rowspan="7" | 0
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| − | |rowspan=2 bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">The Voice (season 9)</span>
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| − | |colspan=2 {{won|place=1|Jordan Smith}}
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| − | |bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}} rowspan=4|<span style="color:white">Ava Zinn & Kymberly Alvaraz</span>
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| − | |rowspan="4"|{{nowrap|Kymberly Alvaraz<BR>Holly Everman<BR>Perri Johnson<BR>Kendra Ray<BR>Kellie Rock<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Thia Tola<BR>Tracia Ward<BR>Lanise White<BR>Ava Zinn}}
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| − | |rowspan=7 {{N/A}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |colspan=2 {{won|place=1|Emily Ann Roberts}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |rowspan=2 bgcolor={{Ava Zinn colorbox}}|<span style="color:white">Dancing with the Stars (season 21)</span>
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| − | |colspan=2 {{won|place=1|Bindi Irwin & Derek Hough}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |colspan=2 {{won|place=1|Nick Carter & Sharna Burgess}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |American Idol (season 15)
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| − | |{{Pending}}
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| − | |{{TBA}}
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| − | |{{TBA}}
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| − | |rowspan="3"|{{nowrap|Kymberly Alvaraz<BR>Holly Everman<BR>Karly Jameson<br>Kathi Jameson<br>Perri Johnson<BR>Hillary Matthewson<BR>Kendra Ray<BR>Kathy Roberts<BR>Kellie Rock<BR>Julia Passalt<BR>Thia Tola<BR>Tracia Ward<BR>Lanise White<BR>Ava Zinn}}
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| − | |-
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| − | |The Voice (season 10)
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| − | |
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| − | |
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| − | |-
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| − | |Dancing with the Stars (season 22)
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| − | |{{Pending}}
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| − | |{{TBA}}
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| − | |{{TBA}}
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| − | |-
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| − | ! colspan="3" scope="col" |Overall
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| − | ! scope="col" |11
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| − | ! scope="col" |7
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| − | ! scope="col" |5
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| − | |-
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| − | |}
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| − | == Reception ==
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| − | Although ''Vote for the Girls (USA)'' often gets poor views and ratings on the site's YouTube channel, its first few years on YouTube were relatively encouraging. Vote for the Girls has generated controversy over the years in numerous areas. Many of the controversies have centered around the site's format and misandry. Another major source of controversy that has spanned multiple seasons has been the activities of moderators such as undisclosed criminal charges. Often times, Zinn will take Ricki Lake's [[wikipedia:cathphrase|"All That" catchphrase]] from her 1993 talk show as Zinn's high fashion, personality, and sex appeal, and transform it to open hostility directed towards supporters of the male contestants and guests in the form of blowing [[wikipedia:cigarette|cigarette]] smoke (or E-cigarette smoke) in their faces, shouting her catch phrase ''"Shush it!"'' at them (or rarely at a moderator), and occasionally ejecting them from the set. The site has become a pioneer in the "Trash Tube" genre; and Zinn's use of [[wikipedia:profanity|foul language]], rare violent in-studio fights, and extremely [[wikipedia:dysfunctional|dysfunctional]] guests lead to the site becoming becoming Zinn's most successful web sites on the national scale.
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| − | ===Ratings===
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| − | Despite the ongoing changes with VFTG over the years and longer length videos, the national ratings for the site often gets poor reviews on the YouTube channel compared to the site overall. In fact, the YouTube channel's ratings usually are disliked.
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| − | However, ''Vote for the Girls (USA)'' is popular in 14 states:
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| − | *Indiana (the home state of moderators Ava Zinn, Holly Everman, Karly Ryder, Jr., Tracia Ward, Ariel Swaringen, and Michelle Steele as well as VFTG picks Marrielle Sellars of American Idol 13 and Valerie Rockey of So You Think You Can Dance 11)
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| − | *Pennsylvania (the home state of moderators Kellie Rock and Robyn Hurd as well as The Voice 7 pick DaNica Shirey)
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| − | *Wisconsin (home state of Lanise White and Rhonda Rhodes),
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| − | *Texas (the home state of The Voice 4 winner Danielle Bradbery),
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| − | *Minnesota (the home state of moderator Julia Passalt and VFTG's The Voice 6 pick Kat Perkins),
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| − | *Colorado (the home state of moderator Kym Christian and VFTG pick Rachel Crow),
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| − | *Florida (the home state of The X Factor winners Melanie Amaro and Alex & Sierra, The Voice 3 winner Cassadee Pope and So You Think You Can Dance 9 winner Eliana Girard),
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| − | *California (the home state of American Idol 11 runner-up Jessica Sanchez),
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| − | *Massachusetts (the home state of The Voice 4 runner-up Michelle Chamuel and American Idol 12 VFTG pick Angie Miller),
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| − | *Georgia (the home state of American Idol 10 runner-up Lauren Alaina, So You Think You Can Dance 8 winner Melanie Moore, and The Voice 7 pick Anita Antoinette),
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| − | *North Carolina (the home state of VFTG picks Kat Robichauld and Majesty Rose York),
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| − | *Illinois (the home state of former moderator Kathi Jameson, birth state of Zinn, and VFTG picks Haley Reinhart, Alice Lee, and CeCe Frey),
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| − | *New York (the home state of VFTG Pick Pia Toscano) and
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| − | *New Jersey (the home state of The Voice 5 runner-up Jacquie Lee and VFTG picks Christina Grimmie).
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| − | ====NFL connections to VFTG====
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| − | Most of the site's moderators and supported contestants are located in markets with teams in the [[wikipedia:National Football League|NFL]]. In particular, the three original moderators (Ava Zinn, Holly Everman, and Robyn Hurd) had been longtime fans of teams located in Indianapolis – with the exception of Robyn Hurd, whose supported NFL team, the [[wikipedia:Pittsburgh Steelers|Steelers]], is located in Pittsburgh. In later seasons, many of the site's moderators and supported contestants where NFL teams were located. In December 2014, all of the site's moderators - with the exception of Kendra Ray, whose closest NFL team to her home state of Iowa is primarily the [[wikipedia:Minnesota Vikings|Minnesota Vikings]], located in Julia Passalt's home market of Minneapolis, secondarily [[wikipedia:Green Bay Packers|the Packers]], located in Green Bay; and a third team is the [[wikipedia:Kansas City Chiefs|Kansas City Chiefs]].
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| − | '''NFC teams in markets related to Vote for the Girls moderators'''
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Chicago Bears|Chicago Bears]]''' (''Ava Zinn,'' Kathi Jameson, and '''Tracia Ward''')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Green Bay Packers|Green Bay Packers]]''' ('''Rhonda Rhodes''' and '''Lanise White''')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Minnesota Vikings|Minnesota Vikings]]''' ('''Julia Passalt''' and ''Kendra Ray'')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Tampa Bay Buccaneers|Tampa Bay Buccaneers]]''' and '''[[wikipedia:Philadelphia Eagles|Philadelphia Eagles]]''' (''Kellie Rock'')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:San Francisco 49ers|San Francisco 49ers]]''' ('''Thia Tola''')
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| − | '''AFC teams in markets related to Vote for the Girls moderators'''
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Denver Broncos|Denver Broncos]]''' ('''Kymberly Alvaraz''')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Indianapolis Colts|Indianapolis Colts]]''' ('''Ava Zinn''', '''Holly Everman''', Ariel Swaringen, Michelle Steele, Karly Ryder, Jr., and ''Tracia Ward'')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Kansas City Chiefs|Kansas City Chiefs]]''' ('''Kendra Ray''')
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Pittsburgh Steelers|Pittsburgh Steelers]]''' ('''Kellie Rock''' and Robyn Hurd)
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| − | * '''[[wikipedia:Oakland Raiders|Oakland Raiders]]''' ('''Thia Tola''')
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| − | | |
| − | Of the site's current moderator panel, only Ava Zinn, Kymberly Alvaraz, Julia Passalt, Kellie Rock, Thia Tola, and Tracia Ward lived in areas that served markets containing significant fan bases for nearby secondary NFL teams. Ava Zinn has (and to this day, still) has watched Chicago Bears games for years, while Tracia Ward had watched Indianapolis Colts games in South Bend. Kellie Rock watched Tampa Bay Buccaneers (from 1987 until 2009, though five of her seven children still call Tampa home) and Philadelphia Eagles games while she and her sister, Robyn, also watched Eagles games for years until Robyn's death in 2012 (ironically both Kellie Rock and Robyn Hurd had watched most of the Steelers' games). In recent years though, due to the popularity of Peyton Manning in both Indianapolis and Denver, Zinn and Alvaraz watch Denver Broncos games as well as Colts games since the two began a long term relationship in November 2014. Thia Tola does often watch Raiders and 49ers games since the San Francisco market has teams in two conferences.
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| − | ''Vote for the Girls (USA)'' is also very popular in 10 of the 32 [[wikipedia:National Football League|NFL]] markets:
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| − | According to Ava Zinn, towards the end of the 2010-11 TV season, she felt that Vote for the Girls could produce a better site and overcome Vote for the Worst by using a format other than the "Producers Have A Choice, Viewers Don't" philosophy Zinn created VFTG with. An outside source was brought in and concurred that the site could do a better job on YouTube production by adapting a new format. The analysis added that Vote for the Worst did not have its own YouTube channel, VFTW's admins and moderators never had experience in hosting a television series nor even auditioned for shows like ''American Idol'' or ''Star Search,'' while Ava Zinn did audition for the 11th season of ''American Idol''. The analysis also added that Zinn's philosophy format gave nothing to viewers which suggested that its site was any better than VFTW. With this in mind, VFTG began developing a format which would involve the production of full episodes online via Zinn's web site (and later the site's own URL) within 48 hours after the result, along with updates at the conclusion of the elimination results. This concept was known as "a VFTG Full Episode" as a way to suggest that VFTG was better than VFTW or Vote Against the Producers since VFTG produced an episode presentation of the results show. In 2011, the new format was put into place and by 2013, its format had already been licensed by Aeverine Zinn Holdings for foreign adaptations of ''Vote for the Girls'' franchise has produced their own shows representing as many different countries. These adaptations, as of September 2014, have aired in the United Kingdom as [[Vote for the Girls (UK)|''Vote for the Girls UK'']] (of which Zinn also hosts) and the most recent series to enter production, [[Vote for the Girls (Australia)|''Vote for the Girls Australia'']], is set to air in June 2015. Zinn will also be hosting the Australian version, at which will make Zinn of having the rare distinction of simultaneously hosting shows in three different countries. In August 2014, Zinn announced six new foreign adaptations in Brazil, Turkey, Isreal, and Holland.
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| − | In 2013 and 2014, the site reached its ratings peak, at one point becoming the first web site to beat ''[[Vote for the Worst]]''. It featured almost non-stop bias against males during one 2013 episode—and other TV personalities complained after the site chose not to support Josh Kaufman<ref name="GrimmieWasRobbed">{{Cite web|url=http://voteforthegirls.us/2014/05/21/vftgs-5-most-robbed-contestants-on-idol-x-factor-the-voice-of-all-time/|title=VFTG's 5 most robbed contestants|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=22 June 2014 |website=[http://voteforthegirls.us Vote for the Girls US]|publisher=Aeverine Zinn Holdings |accessdate=22 June 2014}}{{cite episode|series=Vote or the Girls (USA)|network=AvaZinn.com|date=June 22 2014|credits=Aeverine Zinn Holdings}} NOTE: On the episode cited above, Zinn stated that a "Double VFTG Loss" is declared if a male from Indiana wins and a "Double VFTG Victory" is declared if a female from Indiana wins. Zinn indicataed this rule applies to all singing competitions.</ref> on The Voice.<ref name="ScottSwan">??</ref>
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| − | Mainly Zinn's use of [[wikipedia:profanity|profanity]] is [[wikipedia:bleep censor|bleeped]], but later episodes were bleeped for explicit language, sometimes to such an extent that speech became [[wikipedia:Understanding|incomprehensible]]. In addition, [[wikipedia:nudity|nudity]] and the partial exposure of [[wikipedia:breast|breast]]s or [[wikipedia:buttocks|buttocks]] are [[wikipedia:pixelization|pixelated]].
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| − | By October 2014, Vote for the Girls creator Ava Zinn and former [[Deutschland Voting für Women]] (Vote for the Girls Germany) moderator Tulissa Kümmert acknowledged increasing competition in the reality talent show competition landscape—notably increased usage of smartphones, had an minor effect on the overall performance of Vote for the Girls.
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