For those of you who don't know me, I'm Sliv-Pie, one of the SMOCT judges. Up until now, I've been more of a behind-the-scenes judge, but with Leo and Ruby both very busy with college I am stepping up, and am going to try to shed some light on the judging process in the hope that it will help our members with their future entries.
I want to start by apologizing to those who did not make the Top 16. We really didn't want to have to limit the number of entries to 16, hopefully we'll never have to do it again. When we began judging the auditions we weren't sure how many contestants or rounds we were going to have, or how the match-ups would be