MBV Idol search is on, P200,000 prize awaits winner

Posted on | December 11, 2009 | 3 Comments

The search is on for the Movement for Better Values (MBV) Idol through a videoke singing contest nationwide with P200,000 grand prize at stake for the winner.

The MBV, a national movement of small entrepreneurs, students, workers, young professionals and urban poor, said the MBV Idol will be launched in barangays nationwide where local MBV chapters are present and with the support and approval of barangay officials.

Exequiel Villacorta Jr., MBV Chairman, said the activity will also serve as the venue for the entrepreneurship forum at the barangay level in a bid to address the nagging issue of poverty and social injustice.

The activity likewise is aimed to create awareness and enlighten residents particularly the youth to elect officials with integrity to lead the people out of poverty; provide protection to overseas Filipino workers and entrepreneurial opportunity to urban and rural poor, in the upcoming May 2010 elections.

The Movement recently issued its parameters in choosing candidates in the 2010 national and local elections citing those criteria. It added the country’s new leaders must not be elected on the basis of their lineage, color or the euphoria surrounding their circumstances.

It wants leaders who are committed to give equal opportunity for all in the pursuit of quality and affordable education, economic advancement and social justice. The MBV believes Nacionalista standard bearer Senator Manny Villar possesses the values of fortitude (sipag at tiyaga), bayanihan spirit, and committed and transparent governance.

The group said the MBV Idol is open to all bona-fide constituents of the barangay to join the videoke singing contest. Applicants to the contest are required to fill up the form before deadline.

Contestant is required to bring at least 15 barangay mates to the contest venue. The contestant with the highest score wins. Score is based on the videoke unit scoring, according to the MBV Idol organizers.

MBV Idol organizers explained that contestants who tie for the winning spot must be made to sing again a song that will be picked randomly by the contest organizer. “Isang kanta lang ang kakantahin ng nag-tie na contestants. Para mas madaling ibreyk ang tie,” the organizer said.

MBV Idol winner in the barangay level will receive P5000.

Winner will upload his contest video on YOU TUBE as his entry to the national search for MBV Idol. Contestant takes care of his own video equipment.

MBV Idol organizers said the search for national winner will be based on the highest number of text votes. The MBV will provide the technology for text voting.

Venue of the contest is held in barangay covered court, barangay hall or any open space within the barangay.

For the months of November and December, the MBV Idol search have been launched already in several barangays in the National Capital Region and Luzon. In Metro Manila, these were in Manila (Moriones, Tondo), Pasay (Maricaban), Pasig (Manggahan), San Juan (Corazon De Jesus), Marikina (Tumana), Navotas (NBBS), Mandaluyong (Addition Hills), Commonwealth, Tatalon and Holy Spirit in Quezon City, Valenzuela (Gen. T. de Leon), Caloocan (Dagat-Dagatan), Las Pinas (Talon), and Malabon (Longos).

Outside NCR, the video singing contest was held in Bulacan (Malolos), Cagayan (Tuguegarao) and Quezon (Lucena).

More Barangay Idol searches are forthcoming in Laguna (Calamba), Pampanga, Batangas, Davao, Gen. Santos City, Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro.

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