All the Adjustments Made in TPF 6

There has been a lot of commentary on what Tusker Project Fame has done and where it may have fallen short.

First it was about the two hosts, Sheila Mwanyigha and Dr. Egwang, who the audience complained a lot about pushing the organizers to act.

Secondly, on the voting process; During the last season, a contestant put up a wonderful show, some say even better than the eventual winners, but came in at second-runners up.

The argument from some quarters as to why he didn’t take home the Sh5 million cash prize, is that TPF is based in Kenya, aired mostly by a local station, thereby denying audience and hence, the much needed votes from his home country.

One of the suggestions put forward was that the judges and faculty should choose the eventual winner of the final three participants. The next option would have been to adopt the Big Brother Africa kind of voting where each country participating gets one vote hence, an equal playing field for the participants who hail from countries with smaller population and discourage domination.

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There has been no official communication as to whether the voting format has changed to take care of this problem. It was never discussed during the press unveiling at Panafric Hotel early this week on Tuesday, and we couldn’t reach the relevant people for comment by the time we went to press.

However, according to an extensive research done by the Tusker brand on the 4 million dollar plus music contest, people love the Tusker Project Fame, it makes its contestants into stars after all.

Speaking during the unveiling of this year’s TPF, the brand managers introduced new changes into the competition. For the first time, there will be groups allowed to participate.

In order to address the thorny issue of past participants complaining of neglect. There have been two notable incidents where Alpha went into a rage about being left out, despite having won a cool Sh5 million and a bag of goodies. To drive the point home, this year’s competition will involve a couple of interviews with past winners to share their experiences on how TPF changed their lives.

This comes on the backdrop of past competitors like TP4’s first runners up, Msechu, who spoke out and alleged TPF is just a corporate marketing gimmick for the sponsoringr brand to Pulse. According to the Tanzanian singer, he was left with nothing soon as he left the competition, he had to call his brothers to send him fare to enable him travel back home.

Reacting to this, Dan Angima — senior marketing manager at EABL, the competition’s main focus is on the number one, that’s what competitions are. Instead he shares that competitors should use the platform and fame they get from participating in the TPF to step up in entertain ment industry and, as it would be much easier now.

He gave the examples of Wendy Kimani, Ameelina and Nga’nga’lito, who are now household names though they never won the competition.

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