Hady Mirza, the first Asian Idol winner

Congrats to Hady Mirza, the winner of the first Asian Idol competition. To be honest, I’m not really surprised with the result. The main reason behind this is the voting system in Asian Idol. Last night, Mike, Jaclyn, and Mau gave their best performances. But their best performances won’t make most people outside their home country to vote for them. Since we have to vote for two idols, people will tend to vote their home idol and idol with weaker performance.

For example, most people in Indonesia won’t vote for Mike and Jaclyn or Mike and Mau since Jaclyn and Mau are the closest competitor for Mike. But people in Indonesia tend to vote Mike and idol with weak performance such as Hady Mirza, Abhijeet Sawant, or Phuong Vy. And I think this is also happen in other countries where people vote their home idol and idol with the weak performance. So, no wonder that Hady Mirza could become the first Asian Idol. But it doesn’t matter who is the winner of the first Asian Idol. All of them are the winner to me. BTW, it’s just my analysis.