| Subject: Thank you to the poster below my response and to Chris for explaining about the top 10 this year. That's probably for the best, anyway. I like to see more contestants but after what they did last year, it really wasn't even worth the time it took to announce them. I think it is more dignified to announce the top 10 and just let them compete than what they did and made them wait to be called out behind stage. |
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Date Posted: 15:22:36 12/14/21 Tue
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's message, "AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE PRELIMINARIES ARE OVER" on 23:57:49 12/13/21 Mon
>Top of the evening!
>
>Another night of competition, and we have got
>ourselves a competition here. Some that
>underperformed tonight stepped it up tonight, and vice
>versa. There have been some consistent ones and I am
>looking forward to sorting it all out. Overall, the
>talent tonight was weaker. There were one or two real
>doozies. I will post more about that tomorrow for the
>big talent thread. Some I have eliminated because of
>talent, sadly.
>
>I have a few solids in my top 15 and a lot of ones
>that could go either way for me, and the fun task is
>coming up with a top 15. Some I eliminated after last
>night already, 14 to be exact. I want to caution
>everyone that this is only the second year of scoring
>like this and that it may be impossible to tell who is
>going to make the top 15. If your favorite does not
>do well, do not be upset. And I also want to caution
>that it is near impossible to tell who is really
>setting themselves apart from the competition. Even
>if you do win important awards, you may not crack the
>top 15. That happened with the two interview
>winners-Michigan and Oregon in 2019. Neither made the
>top 15. The SII winners were Victoria Hill (GA) and
>Jade Glebs (NJ.) Victoria was a double preliminary
>winner and 1st runner up, Jade Glebs made the top 15
>but not top 7. Camille Schrier, the talent winner,
>won the pageant. Before this, especially in the
>Atlantic City return years, featured a lot of
>non-preliminary winners capture the crown. It started
>with Mallory in Vegas, repeating with Nina and Kira,
>Cara, and Nia. I really do not think we will see a
>repeat of last year with IL and NY as the final two
>standing. It is just impossible to tell what will
>happen.
>
>I was totally on board with IL's talent win, though I
>thought it would be SC. This particular judging panel
>scored later contestants as the winners; I have seen
>some panels score early contestants some years. I am
>going to be honest, out of all of the speakers
>tonight, I would have never had TX as the winner.
>It's funny-I was just thinking during the competition
>that TX was an off year for me. I didn't really even
>have her in my top 15 before this win. Except that
>she is Texas and it takes a near act of God for them
>to not crack the top 15. She will at least be top 15
>with her preliminary win, perhaps higher. I just
>wasn't overwhelmed with her talent performance, though
>I think it will be enough to get her into the top 15.
>There were a LOT of good speakers tonight; in fact,
>better than last night.
>
>I think it does beg the question-especially with the
>SII competition, how can someone do poorly at that?
>You do have several months to rehearse and memorize a
>pitch. I guess the answer is if you ramble a lot and
>try and get a lot in, as I saw. The better answers,
>to me, were the ones that weren't so rushed and
>connected more with me as a person.
>
>I will post talent tomorrow and then a rundown of all
>the speaking and as much as one can possibly post on
>red carpet, a non-existent competition this year.
>
>Just of note: we have no idea who the final night
>judges are, if this panel is carrying over and NO HOST
>HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED with less than 72 hours to go.
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