Campus SuperStar Season 2 (2007)

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Campus SuperStar (zh-c|c=校园 SuperStar) is a spin-off of Project SuperStar, a popular singing talent-search competition in Singapore. The contestants comprise students from secondary schools, junior colleges and Institutes of Technical Education (ITEs). This is a little different from Project Superstar, where contestants must be at least 18 years old to participate.
To date, there have been 2 seasons of Campus SuperStar. This article is on Season 2.

Registration Details (Season 2)

1st Audition

cite web | title = Are you the next Campus SuperStar? | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=486&SubCategoryID=19 | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-01-22 ] cite web | title = 【校园SuperStar 2】 招“声”! | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=484&SubCategoryID=20 | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-01-22 ] The audition was opened to students from all Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges and ITEs who wear school uniforms. Contestants could obtain registration forms at the venue, or print out the form from the website. Contestants must also register and audition in their school uniforms. The 1st Audition for Season 2 started on March 16 with the male contestants. It was scheduled to be only held on 2 days. Audition for female contestants was scheduled on Saturday March 17. The venue was at the Toa Payoh HDB Hub. Each day, audition started as early as 9am. Due to overwhelming response, the 1st Audition was extended to 4 days until 19 Mar 2007.

2nd Audition

cite web | title = Campus SuperStar Myth-Busters – what you need to know | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=539&SubCategoryID=19 | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-03-22 ] From 1st Audition, judges shortlisted close to 100 boys and 200 girls, from a pool of approximately 4500 participants. These 300 shortlisted candidates were subsequently auditioned one by one on March 31, Saturday at MediaCorp from 1pm to 10.30pm. This was done indoors for a panel of 5 judges so that they have a clearer rendition of the quality of the contestants' voices. 60 contestants was shortlisted for 3rd Audition.

3rd Audition

cite web | title = Campus SuperStar 2 Top 20 Revealed! | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=556&SubCategoryID=19 | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-04-16 ] The 3rd Audition was on 14 April, and started at 1pm. Similar to 1st Audition, the venue was at Toa Payoh HDB Hub. There were 24 male and 41 female finalists. The male finalists finished their performance before the girls. This time round, finalists would sing in-sync with music, different from the previous 2 rounds of audition. There was a short break after that and girls subsequently performed their piece.Judges on that day were Jimmy Ye cite web| title = Campus Superstar 2 Website - Judges - Jimmy Ye | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/css2/jimmyye.htm | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-06-10 ] , Jim Lim Qi Yu cite web | title = Campus Superstar Website - Judges - Jim Lim | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/css2/jimlim.htm | publisher = Mediacorp TV | accessdate = 2007-06-10 ] and Wu Jiaming. They gave comments for each contestant.3rd Audition successfully ended when it was about 6.30pm. An one-hour break followed. Meanwhile, some finalists were requested to perform some songs, and dance. The names of the final 10 students of each gender were finally announced, to compete on national TV.

Campus Superstars (Season 2)

20 Campus SuperStars

Below were the 20 Campus SuperStars selected from the 3rd round of audition.

Hosts

Returning host Dasmond Koh 许振荣 hosted with former DJ Pornsak Prajakwit for all the episodes.

Publicity & Events (Season 2)

Episode 4 - Quarter Final 2A (18 June 2007)

No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 16
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 8 (4 female, 4 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 2 (1 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants who moved on to Quarter Final 3 in total: 14

Fu Kuan made a great improvement from his last performance, and scored 23.5, on par with Elaine's 2nd highest score of this Season.

Episode 7 - Quarter Final 3B (09 July 2007)

Episode 8 - Revival Round (16 July 2007)

No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 8
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 12 previously eliminated contestants (6 female, 6 male)
No. of contestants" 'revived' "in this episode: 2 (1 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants who moved on to Semi Final 1 in total: 10

Pure luck, huge fanbase and vocal techniques were important in this stage.
1 girl and 1 boy were 'revived' to join the other 8 in the Semi Final.
Judges did not give any comment throughout the 1 hour show, but each of the 3 judges gave 4 comments for 2 male and 2 female contestants during the result show.
cite web | title = Campus SuperStar: Song List for Revival | publisher = Mediacorp TV | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=582&SubCategoryID=19 | accessdate = 2007-07-12 ]

The highest and lowest score of Season 2 surfaced in this episode. Shawn won a favourable 25 marks from the judges with his powerful rendition of 木乃伊, while Xu Bin scored the lowest score ever in Season 2. Each of the judges awarded him a score below 5, which is often considered to be the "passing grade". Xu Bin obtained only 12.0 with his monotonous, and badly-articulated rendition of 简单爱. Overall, there were also numerous people scoring lower than the previously lowest score of 16.0 - contestants seemed to be underperforming.
Eventually, F5 Seah Hui Xian 谢慧娴, and M6 Shawn Tok 卓轩正, were revived. cite web | title = Hot fave Shawn sails through; Huixian beats frontrunner Elaine! | publisher = Mediacorp TV | url = http://u.mediacorptv.com/storydetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=585&SubCategoryID=19 | accessdate = 2007-07-17 ]

Episode 11 - Semi Final 3 (06 August 2007)

No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 8
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 8 (4 female, 4 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 2 (1 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants who moved on to Semi Final 4 in total: 6

Contestants were supposed to sing fast songs accompanied by dancers. Last episode's lowest scorer, Zheng Ning, scored the highest among the female category in this episode. Judges commented that her great stage presence covered up for her lower-quality singing. Zijie scored the lowest in the male category, and it was said that his voice does not suit fast tracks. Zijie was eliminated when results were out. Marcus's birthday fell on this day, and he put up a great performance of 呛司呛司, achieving a very high score of 23.5. Judges were also impressed by the cap-throwing, and glitter-sprinkling Shawn, and dubbed him a 24.

Episode 14 - Grand Final (25 August 2007)

The Grand Final is the night of determination of the "Campus SuperStar". Of the 4 finalists, 1 male and 1 female contestant will be eliminated half-way in the competition, giving rise to a Male and Female Champion. The respective Male and Female Champions would then compete to win the title of "Campus SuperStar".

PSS2 finalists Medley

Project SuperStar 2 finalists were also invited to perform a medley of xinyaos.

Shawn Tok 卓轩正 became the 2nd Campus SuperStar when he triumphed over Keely Wee 阮诗凯 with a higher overall score. Shawn won Keely with a ratio of 58% to 42%.
Shawn closed the night by singing 世界唯一的你 by Gary Cao Ge.

Productions

iWeekly - 纪念特刊

A special publication part of iWeekly magazine was released on August 17. In this publication contains colourful photos of the Top 10 finalists, as well as their profiles. Attached in the magazine was a poster of these finalists. An [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Campus_SuperStar_Season_2_%282007%29&action=submit#CSS_Booklet_Autograph_Session_by_Top_10 autograph session] was held on August 19, in which the finalists could sign on the cover page of the magazine and/or on the poster.

Best of Campus SuperStar 2007

Released on August 21, this album contains songs sung by the Top 10 finalists. In addition, a high-resolution MV of By Now, the theme song of Campus SuperStar, was included.

References

ee also

* Campus SuperStar Season 1 (2006)
* MediaCorp
* MediaCorp TV Channel U
* Project SuperStar
* Let It Shine (Singapore Drama)

External links

* [http://u.mediacorptv.com.sg/css2 Campus SuperStar Season 2 - Official Website]
* [http://forum.mediacorp.com.sg/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=264 Campus SuperStar Season 2 - Mediacorp English Forum]
* [http://community.mediacorp.com.sg/TV/Chinese/forums/250/ShowForum.aspx Campus SuperStar Season 2 - Mediacorp Chinese Forum]