Patent ID: 8649889

Claim:
A method of hosting and managing a talent competition through online, onstage, studio, and live performances comprises the steps of: providing a plurality of fans, a plurality of contestants, a plurality of judges, and a website software; providing a plurality of time constraints, wherein said plurality of time constraints includes a month long session and a six month period; prompting each of said plurality of contestants and each of said plurality of judges to create an online account on said website software; providing an Internet Protocol address (IP address) for each of said plurality of fans, wherein said Internet Protocol address allows each of said plurality of fans to access said website software; starting off said plurality of judges as novice judges; retrieving an introduction profile from each of said novice judges through said website software; executing a initial selection process for said novice judges through said website software; reiterating said initial selection process for said six month period; executing an intermediate selection process for veteran judges through said website software; prompting each of said plurality of contestants to choose either a music-and-song category or an entertainment category; grouping said plurality of contestants in said music-and-song category together in order to compete against each other; grouping said plurality of contestants in said entertainment category together in order to compete against each other; starting off said plurality of contestants as level-one qualifiers; retrieving an home performance video from each of said level-one qualifiers through said website software; executing level-one for said level-one qualifiers through said website software; reiterating said level-one for said six month period; retrieving an onstage performance video with an entry date from each of level-two qualifiers through said website software; executing level-two for said level-two qualifiers through said website software; reiterating said level-two after each reiteration of said level-one; executing level-three for level-three qualifiers through a local recording studio or a website designer; executing level-four for said level-four qualifiers through said website software; executing a grand finale for final level qualifiers and for said judge finalists; and streaming said grand finale through said website software to said plurality of fans.