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| Subject: You may not be a fan of opens, but for some contestants, they are the only way they can compete. Some contestants don't qualify for any structured locals. (more inside) | |
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] Date Posted: 16:19:01 03/11/14 Tue In reply to: fan 's message, "Congratulations" on 18:11:09 03/09/14 Sun And in CA, there is a limit of two structured titles for any given contestant, i.e., she can only hold 2 structured titles for the entire length of her eligibility in the system, which can be 7 years for some girls. Open titleholders aren't expected to be representatives of the area of their title; they should certainly know something about the area if someone asks them, but they aren't "home town queens." For the most part, they are young women who are serious about competing and want to serve the entire state of CA, represent CA at Miss America, and possibly bring the crown back to CA. If an open ED does want an open titleholder to make appearances in the local area, or if the titleholder herself wants to do so, that certainly can happen. The one year I awarded the Miss Studio City title, the winner happened to live in Studio City and made several appearances. At the other end of the spectrum, there has never been a Miss Hollywood from Hollywood, mostly because in the pageant's 18-year history there has been exactly one contestant who lived in Hollywood. She came back to compete a 2nd time, and even she had moved out of Hollywood. For the record, Miss San Francisco was a structured pageant the year Lee Meriwether won. She had to be from San Francisco in order to compete there. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: In my estimation cities the size of San Francisco should have enough competitors from a city of over 600,000. No need to make that city an open pageant. Now I can see Hollywood being an open pageant. Not many people live in Hollywood. | |
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Author: Todd [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:15:06 03/11/14 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Re: In my estimation cities the size of San Francisco should have enough competitors from a city of over 600,000. No need to make that city an open pageant. Now I can see Hollywood being an open pageant. Not many people live in Hollywood. | |
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Author: Lauren (uneasy) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:33:15 03/11/14 Tue My son's good friend was a contestant, and apparently Steve, the San Francisco ED, declared from the title closed until the day before without notifying the contestants. It seems that they were all required to show some proof of residency when they signed up, and all were convinced that they were vying for a closed title. They were not informed that the titles would be open until the last day, which I think is very strange and unfair to all the girls. Program directors need to be transparent, and when I think of Miss San Francisco, I want to think of someone who is at least familiar with the city. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: I agree, some people actually want to use the title to make a difference in the city than live in - rather than get beat out by a traveling pageant queen with years of experience competing and getting to know the judges. In my opinion, a pageant featuring a former MCOT is not worth competing in unless there are additional titles (which is probably why they reintroduced Miss Golden Gate when Crystal competed and Miss County of SF when Jordan did). | |
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Author: Some things are transparent [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:42:54 03/12/14 Wed .... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Lauren the population of San Francisco is actually over 700K. The population of LA is over 3 million. So my question to you is why do you hold a different standard for San Fran then you do LA? | |
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Author: #60daysoflove [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:28:36 03/12/14 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: My understanding is that County of San Francisco was the structured title. | |
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Author: stop whining [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:46:20 03/12/14 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |