The GOLD Dance Glove (Series)

### Winner

JDlover (C01), Bunnylove14 (C02), MikeyRocks33 (C03), OZCAR LIAMZ (C04), JDisbae (All-Stars C01)

### Number of Episodes

49

"**The GOLD Dance Glove**" is an original online reality game (ORG) based on dance, music and digital art.

It was created, conceived and produced by Just Dance wikia user, **Esten Kei**. The show began at the **Just Dance wikia** where it still airs. It first aired on the 18th of December, 2015 and 4 overall cycles have been created thus far.

## **Game Process**

The game's mechanics/grading process is simple. Generally, on each episode, the casted artists get challenged by the host(s) on a specific assignement. Wether this assignement is based on designing a "Just Dance" coach, or doing other brand managing activities (like creating their own fanmade games), the basics of the elimination process are the same. The contestant with the best performance (highest final episode score) wins, and the contestant with the worst performance (lowest final episode score) gets eliminated. This goes on until only one contestant is left, who then gets the title of a "Just Dance Artist" which is the winner's title.

The process changes just a bit in cycle 4 (Froshes & Sophs) where the bottom two battle it out on a design challenge (Art Battle) and the judges vote for who they want to keep based on their creations. The person with the most votes from the judges stays and their opponent gets eliminated.

## **Contestant Scoring**

On a general note, the contestants' scores are the add-up of two special scores. The first score, called "Challenge score" [CH], is the score that represents their creation based on the assignement they were given. This score is given by the host(s). The second score, called "Community Vote score" [CV] is the score that represents the support a contestant got from the wiki public. Basically, a voting is each time held where the wiki public gets to anonymously vote for "who they support the most". The host(s) cannot influence the result of that score in any way, besides just voting theirselves.

Along specific challenges or cycle twists, there are more contestant scores that take place.

A score type that first appeared in cycle 1, is the "Contestant Council score" which was featured on Episode 5 as the episode's twist. However, that score type reappeared in cycle 3, this time with the name "Rival Vote" [RV] where it was featured on every Episode of the cycle as the whole cycle's twist. Basically, this score type is a negative score type which does not add to the contestants' final episode scores but damages them instead. This score represents the way the other contestants voted against an individual with the goal to cause that individual's elimination.

Another score type that was featured several times in TGDG is the "Anonymous Voting score" [AV]. This score may appear replacing the contestants' CV scores (cycle 1), the contestants' CH scores (cycles 2&3) or by itself as a third score (TGDG.A-S cycle 1). This score basically represents the public's vote on the contestants' creations, not knowing though who the creators are. The name "Anonymous Voting score" did not appear as this score's name until the very first cycle of TGDG ALL-STARS.

## **List of Contestants**

For a list of all the contestants that have appeared in TGDG, go **here**.

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