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The 100% Official X Factor NZ Post-Mortem
Matthew McAuley And just like that, it’s done. Jackie Thomas is the winner of the inaugural Ford Kuga McDonalds Family Meal Coke Choice Samsung New Zealand On Air X Factor, and based on the revelation...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #10
Oh come on. I spend eight weeks hedging bets, never wanting to make a concrete prediction lest I be proved wrong and foolish, and the week that I finally come out and say that Moorhouse are taking...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #9
Given last week’s efforts, for this edition the vast team behind the X Factor were in the cursed-yet-blessed position of desperately needing to step up their game, but also being situated in a funk so...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #8
This was just too bleak. Seven weeks into their debut run of live shows, you’d expect the local producers of the X Factor to be hitting some sort of rhythm, gaining momentum towards a climatic finale,...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #7
It took a full six weeks, but I think that we may have just seen our first surprise elimination. In a competition as predicated on whims as this one, it’s quite hard to be shocked by the dismissal of...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #6
Well, it was always going to happen. With the X Factor’s writers and judges acknowledging very early in the piece that the ‘Over 25s’ category was thin, verging on catastrophically so, it seemed only...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #5
We’re going deep with content in this installment, so I’ll keep the preamble relatively brief. As probably should have been expected, this week’s shocking double elimination was eventually anything...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #4
Maybe it’ll all make sense in a few weeks. Maybe the third live and elimination shows of the first season of New Zealand’s X Factor will, in time, come to represent the beginning of the precipitous...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #3
Two weeks into the X Factor, and already we’re seeing some controversy. Spurred by the elimination of the consistently poor Taye Williams, when most had assumed the equally underwhelming but much more...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #2
This past weekend meant the first New Zealand X Factor live shows, their arrival awaited for me with something between apprehension and deep, pure excitement. Thankfully, the latter quickly prevailed,...
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The X Factor NZ: Power Rankings #1
So it’s finally here. Or rather, it’s been here for a little while now, but it’s finally about to get REAL. The inaugural season of New Zealand’s X Factor is well underway, with live shows beginning...
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