Stop the nonsense about Rigged Show

No show at the national level can risk having their credibility ruined by ensuring one contestant is selected over another at this early stage. What do they have to gain? Stop all this conspiracy theories about "gambling" and "vote fixing", etc.

I think there is a simple reason for the results. First, there are way too many contestants in each round that are being disqualified (4 out of 7). This will naturally lead to bad results. Secondly, those from big cities have an inherent advantage over the others as they have a larger group of people who they know and who will support them. For example, if someone lives in a multi-story building, every person in that building would vote for him, additionally, people they know will be lobbied to vote for this particular contestant. I'm sure you've heard about "6 degress of separation", well it's all the more valid in large metros. This gives even not-so-good contestants a leg up at this early stage when the votes are being divided amongst multiple contestants who are not all that familiar to the viewing public. This explains why someone who is less talented from a larger city can garnish more votes than someone who is more talented from a smaller city. It's nothing more than that.

The main problem is that the current II system itself is flawed. You can't expect people to vote for 3 top contestants out of 7 and expect good results. It's unnatural. Now if the criteria was to eliminate one, you'd see much better results.

If u say that people from small cities hold a disadvantage what would say of Antara, Sandeep and Yeshashree, they were all from small cities.And if people from big cities hold an advantage why werent Jyotsna, Sreekumar, Kshitij, Lekha, Nakash (all Mumbai)n Dilpreet(Delhi) get selected??

Stop the rubbish!!

Ok, let me try again to explain to you. I said when two contestants are relatively close to each other, the one coming from a big city will have an advantage. In the examples you are mentioning, two of the 3 are from Bengal where there has been a HUGE amount of support for the Bengali contestants. This explains why they are being selected. As for Sandeep, I'm not sure where he was from so I can't comment on that. Obviously, the pattern does not work in ALL instances, but if you analyze the data carefully, that there is merit to what I'm saying (for an overwhelming number of cases).

Secondly, if you don't like my premise, you can shoot it down (by reasoning). There is no need to get offensive about it. This is a place to have civil debates, so let's keep it at a civil level.

Coming from my own sibling who is a reality show producer in India for one of these channels..all the shows are rigged including the one he is doing.lol 😆..he says if they don't do it then people will not even watch a single episode..so they have to have the control over the show to make people watch it week after week and discuss it, get involved in it etc etc..so sweetheart if a reality show producer says they are rigged then they very much are 😊

Originally posted by: Foobar111

Coming from my own sibling who is a reality show producer in India for one of these channels..all the shows are rigged including the one he is doing.lol 😆..he says if they don't do it then people will not even watch a single episode..so they have to have the control over the show to make people watch it week after week and discuss it, get involved in it etc etc..so sweetheart if a reality show producer says they are rigged then they very much are 😊

There is a difference between a show being manipulated/stage managed and rigged. Ofcourse all shows are manipulated (how a contestant is shown, the kinds of questions, showing someone in good light and another in bad). but I do not agree that they actually give fraudulant tabulations of viewer votes. There is nothing to be gained by that and we all know shows would do things that help them gain something. So, I don't share your cynicism

Hi rolm,

A very nice observation from your end. You are very right from your perspective but there's something I would like to repeat here (and I don't care the flak I attract from other cynics as a result of this comment) and that is all channels do manipulate results to an extent. I did mention this before that Sony is influencing voting system. What proof I have? I really can't say and nobody in fact, who felt that pinch can produce any proof but it is true. As far as voting system is concerned, I think it is difficult to elect the 'perfect'contestant owing to the geographical dynamism of our country. Hope you understand.

Originally posted by: rolm

There is a difference between a show being manipulated/stage managed and rigged. Ofcourse all shows are manipulated (how a contestant is shown, the kinds of questions, showing someone in good light and another in bad). but I do not agree that they actually give fraudulant tabulations of viewer votes. There is nothing to be gained by that and we all know shows would do things that help them gain something. So, I don't share your cynicism

I don't want you to share my cynicism..when I said rigged that didn't mean script of the show ..that meant even deciding who will progress in the show...anyways from my side its end of discussion on this topic.

dude...this big a show cant be manipulated!!!!!!!
simon cowell wud have s troke if he even knew that his show was being disreputed like this for the sake of a few measly contestants!! lols!!!
so pls ppl...its seriously not tht important!! and seeing how the rating of the show is going down...no1 wud even be that bothered!!!!