Watching last nights X Factor has left me of the opinion that lowering the age to 14 was a mistake. 14 year old kids are not menaly mature enough to take that kind of rejection.
Also, on the subject of rejection. Those people who are told 'no' and are not put through, what is with the throwing a tantrom and hurling abuse at the judges, telling them they have no right to turn them down, and they are making a mistake.
"But it's my dream.It's all i live for.pleeeeze put me through."
or
"you 
you have no right to refuse me."
Do these people not grasp the consept of 'Competition'? If they put everybody through it wouldnt be a bloody competition.
