Perhaps, but it was mostly Danny Noriega who caused Danny Noriega to be eliminated. He had 2 terrible performances out of 3 in the semis (Superstar was OK) and was such an amazingly obvious flamer that even some of the tweentard girls that should have been his core supporters figured it out and defected to the less obviously gay David Archuleta and Jason Castro.

His unexpected elimination was helped by Chakezie and David A, who gave two of their best performances ever on top 8 guys night. Chakezie probably picked up as many uncommitted people as he could, while David stole away many disenchanted Danny fans.