If Channel 5 were to narrow the applicants down to about 20/30/40 and us viewers got to choose 16 HMs, would you support that idea?
Survivor did it for Season 31 but they did it with about 30 previous contestants and then the viewers chose 20.
I know most of us would be against it since the GBP often make terrible decisions, but it's something that's never been done before and would be interesting to see, especially since we'd only have their appearance/bios/short VTs to go off.
It would also allow them to "reveal the cast" before Launch but we wouldn't actually know who the 16 finalists were until launch night, so there'd still be a reason to watch.
Might as well take a risk since the show is dying on it's arse anyway