Hi, I'm kinda like new to SOFT but i've been actively participating in a lot of singing competitions and I'm very keen in joining more singing comps to improve.
But from this thread, from what I understand la, correct me if i'm wrong, it seems to me like the competition was cancelled because there was no eligible participants. Then, Musicsane and chiffon77811 are unhappy.
But I thought for competitions, it's the right of the organiser to decide whether the competition should go on what. There's nothing wrong to cancel the competition if there are not enough strong participants for the competition right? I mean if I wasn't selected for the competition, I would think that it's because i'm not good enough lor.
Then I find it very ridiculous that musicsane is flaming the credibility of the organisers of singing competitions. Cos like although your son "was tipped by many in the industry when doing demos to be the one to look out for", if he were "so good" as you describe (by the way, it isn't exactly very impressive either, no offence), he would already be a professional artiste. So it's very presumptuous to assume he would win all sorts of competitions he enters (by the way, did he even join this competition that's in the question? if he didn't why are you complaining?).
I mean, i've also joined a lot of singing competitions and been rejected sometimes, although i've won various smaller scale competitions. I think it's your attitude ba. Maybe both of you should access your individual singing capabilities rather than accusing the organiser of having 'no credibility' or no 'capability' lor. Just my thoughts. I mean if you were super impressive, why would you be turned down. Definitely doesn't make sense!
Sorry for being so lengthy but I just thought of standing up for the organisers cos I was also involved in my school's talentime production before and I know it's damn hard to do such stuff. And getting scolded for unreasonable reasoning is even worse.
Just my two cents worth.