Swany,
The competition format you just discussed.. in your reply.. (the
second.. was what I did up until a year ago) When I stopped running competitions. It was a very successful format for us and many now do it because it was an extremely fair system to many.
It is a "marketability and honest talent" judging system and weeds out the bias in a nanosecond. It really shows how honest the show producers and the KJ really is.
SM2U