Questions

Here are the first three horses from the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup

1: Americain 

2: Maluckyday

3: So Yo Think

What did everyone think of the challenges in the first episode? I actually think that they was a little bit unfair.  Well, maybe unfair is not the correct term to use.  But I am not good with words so I will leave it like that and try to explain.

Challenge 1 : Geeks design a swimsuits.  The Geeks were given a box of materials that reflected their personality and they had do design a swimsuit for their Beauty.  Now there appeared to be only 1 item that could be used as the bra cup (think of the Spiderman masks or the large shells).  As that is the main component of the swimwear, it really does not give the Geek a chance to be creative.  The Geek could be more creative with the smaller items, but I don’t think that would really affect the final judging.  Also if the swimwear fell apart, then that would be the fault of the Geek too, but that would be unlikely.  So, in my opinion, how well the Geek could be creative and the Geeks ability to design and construct a swimsuit was extremely limited, and some of them had no chance what so ever (think of the graduation hats on Ellynie-may).  This was a similar challenge to the dress and fascinator challenge from last year, but back then we could all choose any dress and any materials to use on the fascinator.  So I feel the challenge worked last year, but missed the mark this year.

Challenge 2 : Beauties make a bird man rally flying contraption.  The Beauties randomly chose a contraption to build.  Yes, it was random. All Beauties appeared to build their contraption no problem.  So where is the skill involved in the challenge? Is it in the ability of the Geek to jump far off the peer? And some of those contraption (well most of them) were doomed to sink straight down.  So again, I don’t think that the challenge really showed which Beauty was the strongest in aeronautical engineering design and construction.

So both challenges, I guess, were just for a bit of a laugh and potentially make both Beauties and Geeks look stupid.  But I have to say, it makes totally awesome TV!  But in terms of a serious competition with $100,000 on the line, I hope the future challenges are based more on skill and also the ability of the Beauties and Geeks to learn off each others.

Who made it through to the live shows on The X Factor Australia?

Boys – Kyle Sandilands
Andrew Lawson
Chris Doe
Mitchell Smith 

Girls – Natalie Imbruglia
Hayley Teal
India-Rose Madderom
Sally Chatfield

Over 25′s – Ronan Keating
Altiyan Childs
Amanda Grafanakis
James McNally

Groups – Guy Sebastian
Mahogany
Kharizma
Luke & Joel

The winner of Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 6 will walk away with the following:

An 8 page photoshoot for Harper’s Bazaar as well as the cover
A $25,000 contract as the Australian face of the next Levi’s campaign
A Ford Fiesta Zetec
$25,000 in cash

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As the Australia’s Next Top Model twitter account tells us:

Sixteen new finalists are thrown into the deep end of the runway at Australian Fashion Week but it’s not the new mansion or photo sessions that have everyone shocked, it’s the surprise twist.

Any guesses for what the twist will be?

I’m picking a triple elimination out of the gate.