Reply To: Song-Fu 2
But what if the masters deliberately gave bad advice so they wouldn’t lose the competition to a challenger? 😉
I don’t know if I like the panel of judges idea. I guess it would guard against canvassing for votes, but then you’d have people eliminated not only on the basis of a single song, but on the basis of a single judge’s reaction to the song. Well, okay, not a single judge, but a lot fewer than there are now.
Also, it’s probably the ones they don’t select that would benefit the most from feedback… but it’s better for the listeners if the ones who continue get it. Hmm. I know… the challenger with the least votes gets to spend a week in a studio with the Masters (yeah, I know this is too expensive and time-consuming, just pretend it’s reality-TV for a second), getting advice. If this challenger does not go on to win the next competition, then the Masters have failed.
Or the winning challenger could also join in on this training week, and then for the final round there’d be a three-way playoff between the worst challenger, the best challenger, and the winning Master, and the Master loses either way, because either his music is bad or his turning-challengers-into-winners skills are. Or, have the two losing Masters conspire to help the winning challenger. That could actually happen in the current competition, in secret, over the internet. And the people who go through this training from the Masters would receive a fake Masters degree.