bluto, you're melting man.
go pour yourself a drink, takea breath, and come back with ideas for improving the shows. If you don't like the judges, and cannot change that, then help to develop a judging system which makes them more accountable, and makes things fair.
We could easily blur out all contestant faces in the pics. Sure, some will know who is who- but judges will not have that info until after voting. Judges could get blurred face pics, and make their judgments. Then, we release the pics, adn the results cannot be changed. Theey'll be sealed. Oliver can collect them and hold the results for a few hours while getbig votes/gives their 2 cents, maybe?
Then we could slowly release the top 10, 5, 3, then #2 and #1 throughout an evening! That might be fun.