Malaysian Idol vs One In A Million - Part2

Competition Format

Malaysian Idol format follows closely in line with the already successful Idol phenomenon franchise. Its very simple -> Audition -> Central Eliminations -> Top 24 -> Top 10 and after that each week the lowest contestants who garnered the lowest number of votes gets the boot. Its as simple as that.

One in a million IMHO tries to take its shape out of the shell of Malaysian Idol ... again not wanting to be closely associated with MI. Instead of those simple format mentioned above for MI, One in a million tries to add some so called "added flavor" which for me more confusing, unfair and at times STUPID.
One in a million started out with auditions -> Central Eliminations -> Head To Head competition [Top 20]-> Second Chance -> Top 12.

Central Eliminations is the joke for the competition, why ? ... Though most part of the central elimination is acceptable but at times I am disturbed by the gimmicks from the producers

i) Male - Female group elimination -> unfair
Heres the rule, there will be 9 person in a group whereby each will try to outsing each other and the top 4 from each group progresses to the next round. It does not take long for the fans to notice how unfair this system goes because there are weak groups and there are strong groups. At times, not even the best of the weak teams can match those of the contestant from the strongerteams that could not make the cut... this is so unfair for the contestants who have better package ... if they are to do this . they should at least have to group the contestants equally ... I am tottaly against such idea which is unfair to deserving contestants.

ii) BLIND TEST-> STUPID
Of all the gimmicks, this one is the biggest joke. Well at first its sounded as a good idea. The contestants will sing behind a closed area where the judges can only evaluate the contestants voice quality instead of their physical appearance[Pity u Paul]. But then again ... the timing of the blind test is done at a very late stage of the elimination that I wonder whether it makes any difference or not. I mean by this time, the judges already know whom they are listening to because they are so used to the contestant by now. At times you can even see that the judges tries to act dumb as all they do not know the identity of the singers ... at the end of the day ... the blind test started out as a good idea but the timing of when it is done is simly stupid.

However, having said that One in a million did have something that is rather interesting in terms of its competition format. Blind test is actually a good idea in only it can be done in a stage whereby the judges does not have the time to "know" who are who. Another catchy idea is the personality test, I like the idea where each contestants personality is put to test. The entertainment industry nowadays professes alot on the packaging of an artist themselves. Whats the point of one having all the talent in the world but cant be packaged into a "sellable" figure. However the one that I love most is the head-to-head battle whereby the Top20 would be ranked first. Then the top10 got to choose whom they want to sing against. The one which outperform the other will be chosen as the top10 while the loser will get another chance to perform once more to strive for another 2 places to make it Final Top12. You will be surprised that the lower ranked contestants at times outperformed those whom the were pitched against. But then this shows that as a contestants you can never let your guards down because it can cost you ... DEAR !