Campus SuperStar Season 3 (2009)

Campus SuperStar (Chinese: 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 mark this season first, the winner of the first season of Taiwanese singing competition One Million Star, Yoga Lin, will be the show's ambassador, after the success of the second season of SuperBand to feature an ambassador.

To date, there have been 3 seasons of Campus SuperStar. This article is on Season 3.

Registration Details (Season 3)

1st Audition

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 3 started on November 8, 2008 and November 9, 2008. The venue was at the MediaCorp Reception.

Based on record, 2046 students joined and only 141 managed to get into Round 2.^[1]

Statistics:

• Females: 1308 (81 successfully get into Round 2)
• Males: 738 (60 successfully get into Round 2)
• Youngest contender: 12 years old
• Eldest contender: 21 years old (currently studying in ITE)
• Hottest Song:
  • 遗失的美好 (Original Singer 张韶涵) which has been the hottest song for auditions for Campus Superstar.
  • 我爱的人 (Original Singer 陈小春)
  • 当你 (Original Singer 王心凌)

2nd Audition

The remaining 141 hopefuls competed again in the 2nd audition which was held on November 15, 2008 at the MediaCorp Reception.

Based on reports, 34 managed to get into Round 3:^[2]

• Females: 22
• Males: 12
• Total: 34

The final 34 contestants competed again on November 24, 2008 once again at the MediaCorp Reception. Only 12 will make it and appear in the TV show.

3rd Audition

The remaining 34 contestants competed once again in the 3rd audition which was held on November 24, 2008 at the MediaCorp Reception.

Based on reports, the 3rd round was initially held on 22 November 2008. The reason for postponement was not disclosed.

The top 12 was announced mid-December.

Campus Superstars (Season 3)

12 Campus Superstars

• Females: 8
• Males: 4

Ridhwan Azman is the only contestant to date whose race is different from the other contestants.

Below are the 12 contestants who will be competing for the title of Campus Superstar.

Judges

Note that the judges below are listed according to their seating during the show. As such, the addition of scores shown under the Episodic Details section is also based on the same order.

Public Voting

^[3] Voting lines will be open from 8pm to 9.30pm on each Monday. Each SMS/Telepoll call costs S$0.60, excluding GST and local traffic charges. According to the Terms & Conditions, voters under 18 years of age must seek parental consent, while pre-paid card holders and overseas phone lines will not be able to vote. Similar to Season 1 and 2, there were 2 methods of voting, SMS or Telepoll call. For instance, to vote for Contestant No. 3, call 1900-112-5003, or SMS C3 to 71199.

Hosts

Pornsak Prajakwit, who hosted the second season, returned to host with actress Felicia Chin in the competition rounds. This is also Felicia's first attempt in hosting a 'live' programme. Pornsak will then host with SuperHost runner-up Lee Teng in the results show in this season. Lee Teng and U Are The One champion Yuan Shuai took up the role as a 'revolving' host covering backstage events that will be broadcast live every Monday from 7.50pm to 9.15pm in the official website.

Publicity & Events (Season 3)

Episodic details (Season 3)

Episode 1 - pre-show concert (4 Jan 2009)

Performance by Top 12

Performance by Campus Superstar (Seasons 1 and 2) Top 20 & Hosts

Special Guest Performance

Episode 2 - Stage 1A (12 Jan 2009)

Theme: 代表自己的歌
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 12
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 6 (4 females, 2 males)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 2: 5 out of the competing 6
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Rachel Chua, Joselin Ng, Jarod Lee, Rachel Lim, Shelly Tsai
Elimination song: 光良 - 童话

Adrian, the first contestant, appeared very nervous, and made a fatal mistake by forgetting part of his lyrics. This made most of the fellow contestants cry on stage, one of which was Jarod. Adrian only managed to scrape a score of 20.5 out of a possible 40.0.

Jarod, on the another hand managed to clinch a score of 31.5, making him the highest scorer to date. After the scores were announced, he cried because Adrian forgot his lyrics earlier. One of the judges, Xiao Han, gave him a respectable score of 9.5.

Episode 3 - Stage 1B (19 Jan 2009)

Theme: 代表自己的歌
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 11
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 6 (4 female, 2 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 2: 5 out of the competing 6
Total no. of contestants from Stage 1 who moved on to Stage 2: 10
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Yap Jia Min, Benita Cheng, Jeremy Teng, Rachael Zhang, Ridhwan Azman
Elimination song: 张韶涵 - 遗失的美好

Ridhwan followed in Adrian's footsteps; he forgot part of his lyrics. As a result, he received a score of only 5.0 from Roy Loi. Xiao Han gave an encouraging score of 7.0, seeing that he's a non-Chinese and hence may have difficulty in remembering the lyrics, and also that Ridhwan was the only contestant in this episode who danced along with singing.

Episode 4 - Stage 2A (2 Feb 2009)

Theme: 我最爱的科目
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 10
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 5 (3 female, 2 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 3: 4 out of the competing 5
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Ridhwan Azman, Jeremy Teng, Joselin Ng, Rachel Lim
Elimination Song: 孙燕姿 - 天黑黑

Guest Performance: 月光 & 缺席 by One Million Star 《超级星光大道》 Season 3's Top 10 contestant, Jing Wong 黄靖伦

Shelly began her round by almost forgetting her lyrics and lack of performance, therefore gaining 19.0 from the judges, which is the lowest score to date on this season. Both Joselin and Ridhwan sang well and garnered 27.0 from the judges, causing a tie.

Episode 5 - Stage 2B (9 Feb 2009)

Theme: 我最爱的科目
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 9
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 5 (4 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 3: 4 out of the competing 5
Total no. of contestants from Stage 2 who moved on to Stage 3: 8
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Rachel Zhang, Yap Jia Min, Benita Cheng, Jarod Lee
Elimination Song: 许美静 - 城里的月光

Guest Performance: 本小姐不爱 & 限时的遗忘 by Project Superstar Season 1 Female Champion, Kelly Poon 潘嘉丽

Jia Min edged out others in her scores due to her consistent performance. Jarod, the contestant with the highest score to date, unexpectedly scored lowest in this episode. Benita had an asthma attack at the Far East Plaza event last Saturday and that might have affected her performance. Generally, contestants chose the same genre of songs and judges commented that it was time to see contestants picking up other genres to challenge themselves.Jarod also escape from eliminated as he has the lowest mark for the night

Episode 6 - Stage 3A (16 Feb 2009)

Theme: 献给师长的歌
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 8
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 4 (3 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 4: 3 out of the competing 4
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Benita Cheng, Ridhwan Azman, Rachel Lim
Elimination Song: 周杰伦 - 安静

Guest Performance: 分享 (with 校园 Superstar 8强), 爱情是圆的 & 病态 by Yoga Lin 林宥嘉

Rachel Lim achieved an amazing score of 30.0 after a wonderful performance. She is the third person, after Jarod and Jia Min, to have ever obtained a score of at least 30. Format of this episode was also different, with the teachers whom the songs were dedicated to, invited on stage for an interview after each contestant's performance. Benita's teacher was the only one who were not able to attend due to overseas commitments, but the teacher pre-recorded a video.

Episode 7 - Stage 3B (23 Feb 2009)

Theme: 献给师长的歌
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated: 7
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 4 (2 female, 2 male)
No. of contestants eliminated in this episode: 1
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 4: 3 out of the competing 4
Total no. of contestants from Stage 3 who moved on to Stage 4: 6
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Yap Jia Min, Jarod Lee, Joselin Ng
Elimination Song: 张惠妹 - 记得

Guest Performance: 无能为力 & 你没想像中爱我 by Project Superstar Season 1 Female Runner-up, Chew Sin Huey 石欣卉
没有如果 by Taiwanese Singer Fish Leong 梁静茹

Joselin started off by lifting the spirits high as she scored a respectable 28.0 from the judges, she is also the only contestant who invited her secondary school's vice-principal to the show to be the guest. Later, Jarod and Jia Min stomped the stage and clinched 29.5 and 34.5 respectively, Jia Min improved tremendously as she broke her personal record (previously 30.0 and 31.0). However, Jeremy sang off key in his song and was eventually eliminated.

Episode 8 - Revival Round 1 (02 Mar 2009)

Theme: 我要挑战何维健
No. of contestants eliminated so far: 6
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 6 (4 female, 2 male)
No. of contestants revived in this episode: 2
Total no. of contestants from Stage 3 and Revival Round who moved on to Stage 4: 8
Order of announcement of contestants who did not enter next round: Adrian Jorge, Jeremy Teng, Shelly Tsai, Rachael Zhang
Elimination Song: 杨臣刚 - 老鼠爱大米

Guest Performance: 咬字 & 很想你 by Project Superstar Season 1 Top 6, Derrick Hoh 何维健

For this Revival Round, guest judge Dawn Yip joined the judging team, bringing the maximum score each contestant can get to 50. Derrick Hoh's performance in the Revival Round during Project Superstar Season 1 got him a score of 39; as such, if the top scorer achieves a score of 39 or above, he/she is successfully revived without counting in the public voting component. Rachel Chua received a score of 40.5, which fulfills the requirements, and hence returned to the competition. As for the remaining 5 contestants, after considering both the judges' scores and public voting component, the top scorer Mavis Li Li was also revived.

Episode 9 - Stage 4 (9 Mar 2009)

Theme: 感动我的电影电视歌曲
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated so far: 8
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 8 (6 female, 2 male)
No. of contestants to be eliminated in this episode: 2
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 5: 6
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Yap Jia Min, Joselin Ng, Rachel Chua, Rachel Lim, Jarod Lee, Mavis Li Li
Elimination Song: 遇见 - 孙燕姿

In this episode, those who scored below 26.0 will enter the "Fail Zone", while the lowest scorer, Benita, who scored 24.0, was eliminated right at the live show. The other 2 lowest scorers, Mavis and Ridhwan entered the result show and Ridhwan was eliminated. Ridhwan also included a few phrases of Malay in his singing which was from the Malay version of his song. Jia Min emerged as the top again and hence lived up to her name in "30 and above club", the other 2 being Jarod and Rachel in previous episodes. However all that she sang were emotional songs, so judges commented that it was time for her to choose fast-paced songs.

Episode 10 - Stage 5 (16 Mar 2009)

Theme: 献给最好的朋友的歌
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated so far: 6
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 6 (5 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants to be eliminated in this episode: 2
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 6: 4
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Mavis Li Li, Rachel Chua, Jarod Lee, Yap Jia Min
Elimination Song: 当你孤单你会想起谁 - 张栋梁

In this episode the passing mark is 28.0, several contestants changed their usual style of singing and adopt a new genre to impress the judges, however most of them received bad comments, stating that the songs are suitable for them to sing, however after their performance, the judges feel that it is not suitable. Results were very close for Ai Jia, Jarod and Mavis, whom scored 30.5, 30.0 and 29.5 respectively, just 0.5 marks away from each other, however, Joselin performed the worst on that night, who was given 24.5 and was eliminated. Her song was intended to a friend of hers who had passed away some time back. At the results show, Rachel who was the next lowest scorer wasn't spared and was also eliminated.

Episode 11 - Stage 6 (23 Mar 2009)

Theme: 把爱唱出去
No. of contestants yet to be eliminated so far: 4
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 4 (3 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants to be eliminated in this episode: 2
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Stage 7: 2
Order of announcement of contestants who entered next round: Jarod Lee, Yap Jia Min
Elimination Song: 勇气 - 梁静茹

Guest Performance: 放了爱 by Jocie Guo 郭美美 & 永远在身边 by Da Mouth 大嘴巴

In this episode, the passing mark is 30.0. All 4 contestants tried to perform the best in the semi-finals, as the next round will be the Grand Finals, Jarod once again came on top clinching 33.5, the highest scorer in this episode. However Mavis whom scored only 28.5, were booted out. In the results show, Rachel and Jia Min exchanged blows, and Jia Min who had the highest popularity votes were announced she will be going to Grand Finals with Jarod, thus, leaving Rachel Chua eliminated.

Episode 12 - Revival Round 2 (30 Mar 2009)

Theme: 评判指定曲
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 4 (4 female)
No. of contestants to be eliminated in this episode: 2
No. of contestants in this episode who moved on to Grand Finals: 2
No. of contestants in total that will moved on to Grand Finals: 4
Order of announcement of contestants who did not enter next round: Benita Cheng, Rachel Lim
Elimination Song:张惠妹 - 我无所谓

Guest Performance: 越来越爱 & 寂寞暴走 by Fahrenheit 飞轮海, 许愿树 by Jocie Guo 郭美美

In this episode, instead on being taught by their usual teaching coach Peter Tan, the selected contestants will undergo a 1 week practice with the judges of the show. Deng Miao Hua is this week's special guest judge, while Rachel Chua's coach Jim Lim had to travel to Taiwan to help the Taiwanese singer Zhang Hui Mei in releasing her albums, thus, Cavin Soh, Jim's former boyband member represented Jim in this episode. Cavin is also a familiar person in this show, as he was selected to be the judge in the first season.

According to all the 5 judges, all of the contestants improved a lot. During the pre-results show, Rachel Chua who had the highest score of 42.5 was eventually revived. In the actual results show, Joselin who had the score of 39.0 was also revived. This is because of the huge gap between the 70% of the judging score, Joselin had 54.6% out of the possible 70.0%, Rachel Lim had 48.3%, whilst Benita Cheng collected the least 46.2%.

Contestants whom made it to the Grand Finals: Jarod Lee, Yap Jia Min, Rachel Chua & Joselin Ng

Episode 13 - Prelude (06 Apr 2009)

Performance by Campus Superstar Top 8

Special Guest Performance

Special Awards

This is a bonding session between all contestants of the competition, whether they are the finalists or not. Though so, the main focus was on the Top 4 finalists. Rumours and gossips which were unknown from the Top 12's will be shown and awards which will be given in this episode. Not only so, 3 songs were graced by the special guests.

Episode 14 - Stage 7 (12 Apr 2009)

No. of contestants yet to be eliminated so far: 4
No. of contestants competing in this episode: 4 (3 female, 1 male)
No. of contestants to be eliminated in this episode: 3
No. of contestants in this episode that will be crown the Official Winner: 1
Order of announcement of contestants who did not enter next round: Joselin Ng, Yap Jia Min, Rachel Chua
Elimination Song: SuperStar - S.H.E

Guest Performance/Special Performances

Round 1: The Test of the Classics

Round 2: The Battle between Comrades / Determining The Final 2

Round 3: The Final Battle/Determining the Campus SuperStar!

Elimination Chart

Trivia

• The production team made an error during Stage 1; Shelly Tsai's school was displayed as Methodist Girls School instead of the supposed Hwa Chong International School. The error occurred during Shelly's first performance.
• The first contestant of the very first round, Adrian Jorge, forgot part of his lyrics, resulting in his early departure.
• Ridhwan Azman followed in Adrian Jorge's footsteps as he also forgot part of his lyrics during his very first round. But unlike Adrian, Ridhwan managed to stay on in the competition.
• In the first six rounds of competition, Adrian, Mavis, Shelly and Rachael who were eliminated had the call number of C1. Whilst on Episode 4 and 6, Ai Jia and Jeremy had the call number of C2 and C4 respectively. In Episode 4, Host Yuan Shuai commented that this 'curse' was finally broken when Benita was not eliminated.
• Rachel Chua became the first contestant to date to be eliminated and revived twice in this competition.

See also

• Campus SuperStar Season 1 (2006)
• Campus SuperStar Season 2 (2007)
• MediaCorp
• MediaCorp Channel U
• Project SuperStar

External links

• Campus SuperStar Season 3 - Official Website

References