Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 14)

Dancing with the Stars returned for its fourteenth season on March 19, 2012. Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli all returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers provided the music throughout the season, except as noted below.

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver won the competition over Welsh classical crossover singer Katherine Jenkins and Cuban-American Telenovela star William Levy, who took 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Driver is also the third NFL player (including retired) to win, after Emmitt Smith & Hines Ward from Season 3 and Season 12 respectively.

Overview
The cast was revealed on February 28, 2012 on Good Morning America. All the professionals from Season 13 returned except for Lacey Schwimmer, who was replaced by Chelsie Hightower. Two new professionals were added into the Dance Troupe: Henry Byalikov and Emma Slater. They joined Sharna Burgess, Kiki Nyemchek, Oksana Dmyrtenko, and Sasha Farber.

There was one dance for each finalist that they did not perform: Donald did not perform the Salsa, William did not perform the Waltz, and Katherine did not perform the Tango.

Starting the week of April 16, 2012 and for the next two weeks after that, the bottom two couples, after a combination of judges scores and viewer votes, competed in a dance-duel. Both couples performed at the same time and then the judges decided who left the competition that week.

This season introduced Ballroom Battles where Cheryl Burke, Mark Ballas, Louis Van Amstel, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff and Tony Dovolani chose a pair of amateur dancers and trained them to compete against other amateur couples. The teams of Burke, Dovolani and van Amstel competed in the final stage by performing a Jive. Burke's team were named champions by the judges with Dovolani's and van Amstel's teams taking second and third places respectively.

Couples
The 12 celebrities and professional dancers who competed were:

Scoring chart

 * Red numbers indicates the lowest score for each week.
 * Green numbers indicates the highest score for each week.
 * indicates the couple eliminated that week.
 * indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.
 * indicates the returning couple that was the last to be called safe.
 * indicates the winning couple.
 * indicates the runner-up couple.
 * indicates the third-place couple.

Averages
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale (the scores for the Motown Marathon from Week 6 are not included).

Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows:
 * Jack Wagner, Roshon Fegan, and Sherri Shepherd are the only celebrities not to land on this list.

Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances
According to the traditional 30-point scale:

Weekly scores and songs
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.

Week 1

 * Running order

Week 2

 * Running order

Week 3: Personal Story/Memorable Year Week

 * Running order

Week 4: Rock Week

 * Running order

Week 5: Latin Week

 * Running order


 * Judges' votes to save
 * Carrie Ann: Jaleel & Kym
 * Len: Jaleel & Kym'''
 * Bruno: Jaleel & Kym'''

Week 6: Motown Week

 * Running order


 * Judges' votes to save
 * Carrie Ann: Gladys & Tristan
 * Len: Roshon & Chelsie
 * Bruno: Roshon & Chelsie

Week 7: Classical Week

 * Running order


 * Judges' votes to save
 * Carrie Ann: Roshon & Chelsie
 * Len: Roshon & Chelsie
 * Bruno: Roshon & Chelsie

Week 8: Trio Challenge
All six couples chose one professional that was either previously eliminated or participates in the dance troupe, to perform with them in their Latin routine in an event known as the "Trio Challenge".


 * Running order

Week 9: Semi-Finals

 * Running order

Week 10: Finale Week

 * Running order (Night 1)


 * Running order (Night 2 - 24-Hour Challenge)

Dance chart
The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:
 * Week 1: Cha-Cha-Cha or Foxtrot
 * Week 2: Jive or Quickstep
 * Week 3: Rumba or One Unlearned Dance (Personal Story/Most Memorable Year week)
 * Week 4: One Unlearned Dance (Rock Week)
 * Week 5: Salsa, Samba or Argentine Tango (Latin Week)
 * Week 6: One Unlearned Dance & Motown Marathon (Motown Week)
 * Week 7: One Unlearned Dance & Team Dances (Classical Week)
 * Week 8: One Unlearned Ballroom & Latin Dance (Trio Challenge)
 * Week 9: One Unlearned Ballroom & Latin Dance (Semi-Finals Week)
 * Week 10 (Night 1): Judges' Choice & Freestyle (Finals Week)
 * Week 10 (Night 2): 24-Hour Challenge


 * Highest scoring dance
 * Lowest scoring dance
 * Danced, but not scored