It was the hardest week to call so far, and things are definitely getting interesting on the StrictlyDB predictions game leaderboard as Matt goes from zero to hero – a bit like Pete in the ballroom.

Not a bad scoring week for the team, and we were delighted to celebrate our second ‘Perfect Score’ as James called everything correctly and scored a perfect 8 (3 for top, 3 for bottom, 1 for elimination and 1 bonus for getting everything correct).

We’ve had our own predictions game leaderboard shake-up here at StrictlyDB after Week 4,  and Steve, who’s feeling sabotaged by the new T.A.S.H.A rule, is not happy…

Steve, our developer, who has never seen a show storms even further into the lead on our Strictly Predictions leaderboard this week (even though he had no idea it was Movie Week!)

Is it beginner’s luck or can his winning streak continue into Week 4?

Although a minority, male pros and female celebrities have held most of the two top spots on the judges’ leaderboards so far in 2024. This reflects a wider trend in which male pros dominate on almost every performance metric.

However, female pros win overall when it comes to Strictly’s most important statistic, and we think they can add to their tally in 2024.

Nick & Luba’s American Smooth last week was the 2,500th ‘scored’ routine on Strictly (not including the ‘non-scored’ Showdance routines from Series 2-6 or the ‘a-thons’).

To celebrate this landmark, in this week’s blog we look at some previous milestone performances on the show.

It’s Week 2 of our Predictions game where we predict who will be top and bottom of Saturday’s leaderboard plus who will get the Strictly shove.

There’s extra sparkle today as we discuss who could shine or stumble in Movie Week (although Steve didn’t even know Week 3 of Strictly means we’re all at the movies!)

As Sunday’s show came to a controversial close, we took time to reflect on how we did with our predictions. Little did we realise the controversy had only just begun…

It’s nearly time for Week 1 and the hot topic of debate here at StrictlyDB is our first Strictly leaderboard of the season. More specifically, who is destined to shimmy to the top and who will stumble to the bottom with a flop. So for a bit of fun we thought we’d share our thoughts….

First routines on Strictly have ranged from the sublime (Zoe Ball & Ian scoring 35 in Series 3) to the ridiculous (Quentin Wilson & Hazel scoring 8 in Series 2).

In this week’s blog, we crunch the numbers to see which specific scores for a ‘first routine’ have most often been the precursor to an eventual place in the Final.