What do you think that makes Hadi Mirza won the Asian Idol? Cute face? Nice voice? Or interference from cellular operators (since Singapore is dominating some of the ASEAN cellular operators, and the voting was only held over the SMS)?
Cute face is quite makes sense. Nice voice,.. mmm.. most of the judges said that whether Malaysian, Philippines or Indonesian that have a great chance to be an Asian Idol, but not Singaporean. An interference from cellular operators? Mmm.. I think that’s too far.
I have a different answer,.. I never guarantee that it is accurate,.. it’s just my prediction. The reason to me is the bad voting rules.
As we all know, as a voter we have to submit 2 different names in our SMS. Submitting only 1 name will be ignored. That rule was created based on assumption that all of the voters are idealist voters. An idealist voter would submit their best singer for name#1 and their second best singer for name#2. But hey,.. how many percent were the idealist voter? Can a fanatic or nationalist at a same time be an idealist during their voting?
As a fanatic,.. they want their idol to win. And as a nationalist, they want their country to win. And what makes somebody win is when his/her votes are higher then any other contestants. In other words, we have to create a gap between our idol and other contestants. And it can only be done if we were NOT voting for considered-to-be second best contestant or other contestants that have a good chance to win. Putting our idol’s closest rival for name#2 will be too risky. It will be safe for our idol,.. if we submit the worst singer or other singer that have a little chance to win as our second name.
I’m afraid most of ASEAN people think that way. Malaysians support Jaclyn Victor, but they afraid Indonesian’ Mike or Philippines’ Marcelo will be competing Victor, so they chose Hadi Mirza instead of Mike or Marcelo for the second name. And so does Indonesian, Philippino and Indian. As a result, Hadi Mirza has groups of voters in all countries that make him won the Asian Idol. Even as I said before, those voters chose Hadi Mirza only as a tactic for creating a gap between their idol and the closest rival.
That is just a prediction,.. I’m not saying that Hadi Mirza is not a good singer,.. It’s just my curiosity, based on the fact that no one in my family or my friends said that Hadi Mirza is the best among all contestants, while at the same time they said Jaclyn Victor or Marcelo probably will defeat Mike.
So Asian Idol Inc,.. hire me as your voting consultant, ha..ha..
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