Staying true to form, the second elimination show in the e 2010 Tastee Talent Trail, h as truly set the stage for next week’s third and final elimination showdown.

With the night’s causality, singer Crisna Brown who was eliminated based on his below par performance at last week’s first Elimination show out of the runnings, the remaining contestants, especially in their second round of appearances, served warning that from here on it’s going to be a keenly contested affair.

The show which was held at the Tastee Open Air Theater Cross Roads on Wednesday, saw judge Audrey Reid (who was absent at the first elimination) rejoining Oral Tracey and Amelia ‘Milk’ Sewell.

Opening act the dance group, Supreme Blazers was solid with their Back to Basic routine, setting the bar for those to follow.

Sixteen year olds Shelly-Dean Bartley and her counterpart Romario English will have to do some serious work for next Wednesday’s elimination if they intend to be around for the finals. With poor deliveries, they both are struggling to remain in the contest.

DJ Andre Lee, in the first segment, failed to capture last week’s glory, but more than made up for it in the second stanza during which he redeemed himself big time, by touching everybody, judges as well as the audience, with When You Touch Mi.

Whither or not he wins the big prize, one thing is certain, and that a songwriter of no mean order has been discovered. In the two eliminations so far, this innovative deejay has produced original songs with potential to be future hits.

Dub Poets COLAS again staked their claim for a place in the December 16 finals and a shot at the $1 Million cash prize with two solid efforts on Tivoli but moreso on Straight Like Line Inna Road.

Singer Lorna Gordon bounced back from a weak, by her standard, first half effort to score highly with an excellent rendition of Mariah Carey’s All I Ever Wanted.

Though not as clean and sharp as on the first elimination Show singer Jermaine Bryan proved that he is still in contention with a convincing perrformance of Omarion’s Speedin and the song he rode to last year’s finals, Romain Virgo’s Rain Is Falling.