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After 155 days of staying in the Pinoy Big Brother house, the big night has finally come. After 155 days of being away from their loved ones, the big winner has been announced this evening. Garnering around 40% of the total votes, the big winner is Slater Young who is dubbed as the “Hot Engineer of Cebu.” He is the first male PBB big winner in a regular edition. I think he really deserves the big win, just liked what he wished when he entered the house, he wanted to be mature inside the house and after staying inside the big brother house, he was able to show the whole world his leadership qualities. The awarding of the big winner’s prizes marks the end of the PBB Unlimited Season 4, part of his prize is 2 million cash, if he has a girlfriend he could immediately buy her a unique engagement rings and give a very romantic proposal.

Second big placer is Pamu, Kiti kiti Kid ng Batangas, third big placer is Biggel, the Promdihirang Tisoy ng Marinduque, and the fourth big placer is Paco, the Hopeless Romantic ng Gensan. Each of them have their own big prizes as well.

Slater

I wasn’t able to watch the All Star Barangayan the Finals of Showtime or simply Showtime’s Season Four Grand Finals yesterday due to some personal activities. There are fourteen finalists namely:

Kanlumon Performing Ensemble

Neutron Acrobats

D’Shots

Kingz Gambit

FMD Extreme

Astig Pinoy

Spy

Pinoy HipHop

Racing Chat

Bailes De Luces

Buli Kidz Incredible

Teatro Ambahanon

Prime Machine

UDC

The contestants have different concepts, from contemporary dancing duo to contemporary dancing trio to modern folk dance group. Of course, hiphop groups or the typical dance groups are the concept of the most groups but they all have different twists in their performances. I was curious to know who the grand winner is so I immediately searched for a video of their performance. From the different blogs, I found out that Astig Pinoy won the competition with the final score of 9.933 percent. I have watched a personal video at youtube and I was really impressed with their performance. They are really “astig” with the hiphop dance that they performed and they are really “pinoy” with their tinikling performance. The tinikling routine was really impressive and they even did it blind folded with the jumping rope exhibition. I wish to share the video with you, but I’ll do it once I found a good quality video at youtube.
The wild card winner, UDC, received the Madlang People’s Choice Award, probably because of their “Komang Dance.” I’ve watched their performance on the wild card week and they are really cute, their Komang dance was like a “dance craze.”

Congrats Astig Pinoy! You deserve it! And congrats to UDC also for that unique Komang Dance!

Last week PGT announced that there would be wild card week. This was after the wild card competition which brought the 6 semi-finalists who didn’t make it to the grand finals together. As usual, performance night happened last Saturday and last night was the results night. Rico the Magician made it to the Grand finals of Pilipinas got Talent Season 2, after garnering total votes of 41.68%. Skeights also made it to the finals with 30.16% total votes. For those who wasn’t able to watch the show, here’s a video I found on youtube.

And here are the Grand Finalists of Pilipinas Got Talent Season 2:

1. Freestylers – dance crew
2. Madrigal Siblings – young singers
3. Baguio Boom Boom Boys – dance group
4. Angel Calalas – hula hoop tricker
5. Happy Feet – tap dancers
6. Jem Cubil – acoustic singer
7. John Michael Narag – singer
8. Filogram – dance crew
9. DJP Trio – singing trio
10. Buildex Pagales – singer
11. Leoniel Enopia and Elizabeth Dazo – ballroom dancing duo
12. Marcelito Po Moy – singer
13. Rico the Magician – magician
14. Skeights – band

First semi-finals of the Pilipinas got talent took place last Saturday. The six semi finalist will perform and after that voting will be opened for the viewers and supporters to text and vote their favorite talent. On Sunday, PGT will announce who will move to the grand finals. The highest number of votes will automatically move to the finals but second and third place would have to perform again for the judges and the judges will decide. Rico the magician is one of the favorites and he is one of my favorites too. But he didn’t get the votes of the two female judges that is why he wasn’t able to move to the finals. Here is a copy of his performance that I got from youtube. Enjoy!

After the performance, the judges have to choose and I can see from the expressions of the judges that they are really sad. Maybe they didn’t expect that Rico will not get the highest number of votes and they feel sorry that they have to choose between him and the Madrigal siblings who are also good in their own field, singing. The female judges have to apologize and cry because it was really difficult for them. This is just the first round, there are still five rounds for the semis and there will still a lot of jobs to do. A really hard job of choosing between two talents that can be both deserving.

Good luck to the rest of the semi-finalist.

Pilipinas Got Talent or simply PGT season 2 started last Saturday. I was able to watch the show on Sunday only and one or two acts caught my attention. One is Rico the Magician’s performance. It was really good and I think it’s time to move over, Alakim. Lol! Oopss that was just a joke! I like Alakim too and his Butterfly act. He is good at his craft and so is Rico. So here’s a video of Rico the magician’s performance last Sunday.

Showtime second grand finals happened last Saturday. There were 10 grand finalists who competed for the title of Showtime Second Grand Champion. Most of the contestants were group dancers who performed cramping, break dancing and hip hop dancing. There were also Black light hand mime performers, gymnastics group and interpretative dance group. I am sure all the contestants gave their best in preparing for the grand competition. For sure some members developed dark circles under eyes because of sleepless nights due to practices to master their routine. But all their efforts were not put to waste because all the performances were really great and entertaining.

20 hurados(judges) and Vice Ganda had the difficult task of judging the ten Grand finalist.  For sure it was really difficult giving scores to each of the contestants because they are all deserving to be part of the grand finals but of course like any other competition there will be only one winner and it was the Laoag City Gymnastics Group who performed a breath taking gymnastic exhibition. Congratulations to the group and I hope they will go to different countries to represent the Philippines in different Gymnastic competition.