Okayy firstly I would just like to thank everyone who auditioned for this new series of the x factor. I managed to get a record breaking 26 auditions.

However the good news of getting 26 auditions led to the bad news of me having to choose just 12 of the 26 which I'm affraid I found impossible, and therefore this series each of the 4 judges will mentor 4 acts each instead of 3 meaning that this series there will be 16 contestants!

Now before the final 16 are announced i'm going to explain slightly further how the game will work..
Each of the 4 judges: Iceskater, Smi, Bluestar & Phenomanimal will each mentor 4 contestants each. This means that they will keep in contact with eachother via mail to decide together on a song for each week depending on a theme set by myself. Then after each act has posted their youtube video in that weeks thread the judges must watch each performance, give a comment and then rank each performance from 1-16 depending each week on how many contestants are left...

Yes this series the rest of tengaged wont vote the judges will. I've changed the format as I feel that people spam making it an unfair vote. So anyway each judge will rank each performance from 1-16 etc and mail me the rankings. I will then calculate each ranking for each contestant however each judges rankings for their own acts wont be added on. Only for the other contestants. Then the two acts with the lowest rankings will be placed in the bottom 2 where they must post another video for the judges to then vote the name of the act they are sending home...