Voting has officially closed and votes have now been validated. Those who picked two participants and voted twice, I disqualified the votes. Sorry I had to. But for those who just accidentally (I assume) duplicated their votes, I just removed the other one so not to count as two votes by one user. It's because some users voted twice with only one candidate. They must have accidentally voted twice. So I just deleted the duplicate vote.
Even without these participants knowing about who voted who, I still keep it fair. And I didn't partake in the voting cause that would be unfair to my participants as I will be judging the finals. It will look like I have favoritism... Well, if favoritism means liking everyone's entries then yes I have favoritism. hahha So far I am liking all the entries. The efforts and the time they put into making their entry is already a reason, addition to that, they all have nice voices in their own special way... 🤭
Me judging the finals will be like me as a 'judge' and not me as the 'host'. I will set aside my 'title' as the host and judge them honestly based on their entry.
So let's not keep the participants waiting, here are the 2nd batch of finalists from week 2:
@Sarahmay with 54.4% of votes
@Mark012207 with 8.7% of votes
❇Mark012207's Entry Click Here❇
@curlypopp with 8.7% of votes
❇Curlypopp's Entry Click Here❇
and @Eybyoung with 8.7% of votes
*The last three mentioned tied up and will move on to finals*
Yeah I know I was supposedly only choosing three winners for this week. But since those three are tied up with 8.7% votes, I can't let one of them stay behind. So I decided to just let them move on to finals. Can I get a Yey?!! Yey!!! 🥳🥳
But we will still only pick winners for the grand prize, 1st runner up and 2nd runner up for the finals.
Again, I'm still waiting for @wakeupkitty 's confirmation if she'll join to judge. But anyhow, I will be judging the finals and that's 25% of your final score and 75% from your votes.
[UPDATE: @wakeupkitty and @heartbeat1515 already confirmed their participations. Welcome our two more judges. 🥳🥳]
Wildcard Edition is still not sure. I'm still thinking about it. So if you want a wildcard edition for your favorites that didn't get into the finals, let me know already. I will finalize this idea in 2 days after this article has been published. Stay tuned for more updates regarding the wildcard edition and the Finals...
REMEMBER!! For the finalists, You also need to write good quality content in your entry like thoughts you have regarding the song, why you picked the song, how you feel about the song or while singing the song, or a story related to the song. You don't need to write about all the topics I mentioned, these are just suggestions for your content. Your write-up that comes with the entry will be judged too.
Use the Grammarly app or grammarly.com website for English write-ups. If you decide to write in Tagalog, that's fine. I can understand it. Any other language that you wish to use, it will be accepted as well. I will just use a translation website to understand it. Make it something fun, interesting, sad, and captivating, whatever you like as long as you make it interesting.
Voice quality is a must, but hearing the participants' entries, that's no longer an issue. Pick a song that compliments your voice. For example, soft voices, pick soft-toned songs. Duets in Finals is also accepted, I will listen to how you harmonize with your duet partner. But make sure you got more exposure than your duet partner. I will give the prize to your duet partner if they're the highlight of the recorded song you submitted. 😆😆 (Just kidding).. Playing with a band is also accepted.
I will ask help from my husband-is a bassist, and my friends-they are bands (I would not mention them, you might know some of these bands, but I want to keep their privacy), so I think I can judge it well with their help of course. They're willing too.. I already asked them. Their genres are reggae, Pinoy rock, metal, ska, alternative, etc... Yep, they are quite few.. I needed to ask them one by one for this.
Hey, I'm not telling this to brag, (or maybe a little bit 👺) I'm telling this for you to have an idea about my judging. I will ask them for their opinions. Oh YES, I will share the link to them for them to listen for your entries. Maybe assign one finalist to each of them or maybe ask them to listen to all if that's not too much to ask. 😅😅😅
So... That's how my judging will work. Based on professionals' opinions and based on my opinion. I will still have the last say though, it's just like asking them what they think.
A lot of work huh.. hahha That's okay though. I love what I'm doing and I'm proud of it. So it's really not something that I'm getting tired. I will work on this contest like I should to make all your efforts and our sponsor's effort to be worth it.
Soooo.... Good luck to our finalists and good luck to me hahaha...
Please stay tuned for the update regarding WILDCARD EDITION and the details for the finals.
For now, just chill and relax.
Congratulations to our 7 finalists from week 1 and week 2!
Here are our 7 finalists that will be joined (hopefully) by the winner for the Wildcard edition (if it is pursued)
🎶Charlotte's Entry Click Here🎶
🎶Hykheinysha's Entry Click Here🎶
❇Mark012207's Entry Click Here❇
❇Curlypopp's Entry Click Here❇
and @Eybyoung
*Please be ready for your final entry💜
Links related to this contest:
Search for the first Readcash Singing Author Idol
1st Batch of Finalists(Week 1 winners)
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!! 💜💜💜🥳🥳🥳
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Congrats to @curlypopp more wins all the way I gat to hear about this late