Monday, July 03, 2006

Live 比一比 - June Grand Finals 成绩大公开

The Grand Finals was packed with screaming supporters and was it a hot event or what? We even have supporters who made supporting “banners” out of neon sticks!! What creativity!!


Anyway, after a round of normal unplugged presentation and a second round of a ROCK version of the contestants’ songs, the results were announced as per below:

Champion – Patrick Chua

1st runner up – Jeff Teay Che Wai

2nd runner up – Jessica Zhuang Rui Jing

And the other prizes were awarded to:
Best Hosting – Jeff Teay Che Wai
Best Star Appeal – Loh Feng Yi Charlotte
Best Vocal Tone – Max Ho Ming Xuan


Towards the end of the night, it was brought to our attention that certain fans were not satisfied with the result and felt that their friend should have won instead. They also misunderstood that more supporters = sure win!!

The management would thus like to take this opportunity to share the results of yesterday’s Grand Finals to discount the above wrong concept.

Audience Voting
1) Charlotte: +2
2) Patrick: -13
3) Jessica: -25
4) Jeff: -31
5) Kok Leong: -32

We shall not explore the list further, but for those interested parties, the lowest for audience voting stands at -57.

From the above results, Charlotte apparently has got the most audience’s votes (or most number of “supporters”), but as the judges felt that she chose the wrong song and could not bring out the best of her voice/ song, she did not clinch any of the top 3 position.
On the contrary, though Jeff was ranked 4th by the audience, he came in 2nd overall!! And what’s more, he even got the Best Hosting award!!
As all of you should see, numbers does not equal winning.

Why is that so?
1) Our voting system do not just have positive votes. Audiences can cast negative votes if the contestant is really not to their liking. Similarly, they can cast more than one positive vote if they think other contestants are good too!!



2) Unlike Singapore Idol or project superstar, our voting system is 50: 50. Half of the points come from our judges (based on the contestants’ singing abilities, hosting skills and stage presence), which will compensate for any biasness from the audience (if any).

We would like to stress that the “Learning Process” is the main aim of the competition. We are definitely glad to see contestants improving as they progress through the rounds. So keep on striving, improve and we’ll see you in next month’s contest!!Remember, the “Best” is a subjective thing, everyone has different likings and dislikes.