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Tonight the final twelve contestants were announced. Beginning next week, the show will move to a bigger stage, and the theme weeks will begin. (I am looking forward to the final round, because from this point on, it will get easier to recap each show. )

Of course to get to the final twelve, four contestants had to be eliminated. Those four were:

Kinnik Sky had a difficult time getting the audience to care about her. Either a sensational song some time during the competition, or more interview time to get her nice personality over may have helped.

Ayla Brown (one of my favorites) seemed to have been missing some sort of "TV charisma". I am sad to see her go, because I am sure that she would have improved from week to week. Of course, Ayla never had a chance to win it all, so keeping her in would have delayed the inevitable.

Ayla's final song choice was interesting, as it portends her elimination. "Unwritten" is a "This is the first day of the rest of your life" kind of song. A perfect sentiment for an eliminated contestant. (You know: since Ayla's performance two days ago, I have listened to Natasha Bedingfield's song a bunch of times. I really like her as a singer.)

Will Makar -one of my early favorites- wasn't able to hit a homerun either. He may have shown some serious limitations with his singing had he stayed on longer.

Gedeon McKinney's elimination was a slight surprise. He may have had a few more weeks left in him. I think that he was a bit weak in the "cool" department.

With that, we now have our Final Twelve (in no particular order):