In the final of our three-part Star Awards winners’ prediction, we take a guess at who are the top 10 most popular male and female artistes of the year

Oh, how the game has changed.

This year, the Top 20 (10 from each gender) Most Popular Male and Female Artistes will be decided through a combination of telepoll and online voting, where the latter is introduced for the first time in the awards ceremony’s history.

Traditionally, public voting was wholly done via telepoll hotlines, but this year’s results will be a combination of 50% telepoll voting and 50% online voting.

A change in the voting mechanism this year may alter the fates of your favourite artistes. Artistes with a younger and more IT savvy fan base, may secure themselves an edge over others who used to rely on telepoll voting.

Should a tie occur on the night of the actual show, the final Top 10 will be determined via results from a previous survey.

Telepoll lines for the Top 10 Most Popular Male/Female Artistes awards is open from Mar 15 to Apr 29, 2012, 9pm; online voting commenced on Mar 16, and will end on Apr 29, 2012.

With only a couple more days to go, we say it’s high time you rally your family and friends and work those fingers, if you don’t want your favourite artiste to go home empty handed on Sunday night.

Who will clinch that coveted spot, and who will go home empty-handed?

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Our take on the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes:

Winning Pedestal: Rui En, Jeanette Aw, Vivian Lai

They have had a consistent track record of taking a spot on the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award, and it wouldn’t be any different this year; this trio seemed like the shoo-in winners for this category.

Rui En has had plenty of exposure on local television this year, with lead roles in A Tale of 2 Cities, Code of Honour and Unriddle 2. She even won the Favourite Female Character award for her role as Zhang Ya Le at last week’s Star Awards Show 1; since the award was determined wholly through online voting, we dare say it is once again a shoo-in for the actress this time.

十拿九稳： 瑞恩、欧萱、赖怡伶

本地两大人气女王瑞恩和欧萱，各有一批坚强的粉丝群，无论曝光率高或低，都不会有太多影响，”十大”是铁拿的。

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