After three months of being inside the academy, we now have a winner. After all the hardships, the bashing she received both from co-scholars and the mentors, the people's bet Laarni Losala emerged as the champion. Blessed with exceptional voice range, she captured the hearts of many Filipinos in and outside the country, voting for her early on right after the top 6 was announced, making "Scholar B" lead the vote ranking since day one.
Laarni got a total of 651,696 text votes taking up 35.21% of the total number of votes. Bugoy ranked second for getting 549,760 text votes (29.7%) while Miguel ranked third with 253,412 votes (13.69%) making a very small margin to Liezel's 247,346 votes (13.36%) placing her in the fourth rank. Van was surprisingly in the fifth slot with only 112,065 text votes (6.06%). He, along with Laarni and Bugoy, was always well-applauded from the gala nights to the mall shows up to the Grand Dream Night, that most predicted he would rank second or third. The scholar who ranked sixth was Cris with 36,487 text votes (1.97%).
Half of the Top 6 scholars haven't experienced being put on probation. Liezel and Bugoy were not once in the bottom group. Cris, on the other hand, had been in the bottom group but she was always saved by either the scholars or the mentors. Having not been on probation, the network wasn't able to test their vote-generating powers, so to speak.
Miguel had been on probation a number of times while Van and Laarni had experienced it once. Laarni became a probee with Miguel and Apple once and she proved her worth by getting 72% of the total votes.
Liezel, who was an early crowd and mentors' favorite, had been predicted by many to be the next Grand Star Dreamer. Though she had this unique voice quality, she didn't seem to progress much unlike her co-scholars. People eventually tagged her as predictable and even boring for failing to something new as the competition progressed.
The bitterness, though, was evident to most of the scholars' reaction and speeches during the finale. Only Cris and Miguel seemed contented with their ranking. Liezel was evidently surprised for being just at the fourth slot, as well as her mother who kept a sour face all throughout.
Laarni couldn't help but cry since she was declared as the winner. Known for her emotions, her tears flowed that she even had to stop singing at one point. The crowd roared for their bet as the stage filled with fireworks to celebrate Laarni's victory, which at the moment seemed not just hers but her supporters' as well. Just like her song goes, "ang tagumpay mo'y tagumpay nating lahat din."
To Laarni, job well done. Congratulations!
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