[Lil' Lavery]

Coming into this thread I expected it to be about confounding rules, complicated scoring, inconsistent real-time scoring, or possibly even mentor involvement levels. Those are thing that actually tend to confuse the public, in my experience. But dancing and excitement?

I know more spectators and VIPs who are thrilled with the dancing than are turned off by it. In fact, while it's not what draws many to the event, I don't think I've encountered any visitors that were openly upset or confused by the dancing. I see judges or other guest speakers engage in the dancing or encourage it, which seems to suggest to me that outside observers might actually, you know, enjoy it.