 During the finale show, Judge Zack Werner said that Avila was the show's most obvious candidate for international stardom, but he thought Craig Sharpe would win the competition.However, on 16 September 2006, Eva Avila was crowned as the fourth "Canadian Idol" winner, defeating Craig Sharpe by a margin of only 131,000 votes or 3%.To date, she is one of only five singers from Quebec or Francophone Canada to crack the top ten and the first to win the event