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Subject: MISS TN VOLUNTEER LIVE REACTIONS
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Sat July 27, 2024 20:14:16 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]
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Top 16: Madison County, Lane College, Delta Blues, Nashville, Iris Festival, Paris, Austin Peay, Fall Fest, West TN, Germantown, Northwest TN, Shelby County, TN Valley, Davidson County, Hub City, Tristar. Sorry I could not understand many of their names, and there were no banners giving the names. (NT) -- No name, Sat July 27, 2024 20:27:32 I liked the non-finalist talent winner the best. (NT) -- No name, Sat July 27, 2024 21:40:56 Did the live stream stop?! (NT) -- No name, Sat July 27, 2024 22:32:36 What on earth? Where did the pageant go?? (NT) -- No name, Sat July 27, 2024 22:35:19 It's back! (NT) -- No name, Sat July 27, 2024 22:39:31

Subject: Scandal- What happened to the eligibility requirements? Anna Grace Loudenbeck- 0 ties to Maryland and was 3rd Runner Up at Miss Tennessee Volunteer.
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Sun March 10, 2024 10:23:00 At least 3 Teens at Miss Teen Volunteer America had 0 ties to the state they represented. What is the point in having a state pageant and be required to prove residency, school or work eligibility is the National board is going to appoint at-large state titles to girls from Tennessee to put a body on stage? Anna Grace Loudenbeck was Miss Germantown Teen Volunteer, placed 3rd runner up at Miss Tennessee Teen Volunteer, paid to be an at-large titleholder with 0 ties to Maryland, and is now Miss Teen Volunteer America in the same pageant cycle. Congratulations to the Miss Volunteer America Pageant board for figuring out a way to the rig the pageant, not have every contestant eligible by the the same rules, and you get your Tennessee girl in the end. Marti Sullivan was right going to a different pageant. She saw the writing on the wall. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]
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I don't think they look for residency requirements when trying to find contestants to represent states that don't have a state pageant yet. How many other pageant systems do this on the regular? I think all the top announcements were totally deserved. She performed well and won. (NT) -- No name, Sun March 10, 2024 11:41:58 Rules clearly state the contestant must be a bonafide state resident or full-time employee or student. -- No name, Sun March 10, 2024 12:02:00 Who is Marti Sullivan??? (NT) -- No name, Mon March 11, 2024 14:39:54 They actually have a home in Maryland… -- No name, Mon March 11, 2024 20:17:05 Residency is where you live. I own a vacation home in another state but do not live there. If Volunteer wants any chance of establishing pageants in the current at-large states, the need representatives that are physically there- live, work or attend school in that state- otherwise you'll never get programs established there. (NT) -- No name, Tue March 12, 2024 15:09:32 High School America did away with this nonsense. If you don't win a state title, you can pay to go at-large as a "Nickname" state. Why fake that you're representing an area you don't have a connection to? Before you know it, there will be a Miss Guam, Miss Virgin Islands or Miss Puerto Rico because someone owns a timeshare there. Allison needs to think about this bad precedent she has started. It leaves me with bad feelings about the Volunteer system. (NT) -- No name, Tue March 12, 2024 15:28:12 Does anyone have a picture of her (NT) -- No name, Fri March 15, 2024 03:55:22 National Teen Pageant -- No name, Thu March 14, 2024 12:03:47 uhh keep in mind the Tennessee pageant is run by the same people at nationals! Do you not get that?? (NT) -- No name, Thu March 14, 2024 14:12:10 Not anymore. The TN pageant got its own director last year. (NT) -- No name, Fri March 15, 2024 21:22:26 Miss Tennessee Volunteer PreTeen Pageant 2024 -- No name (Miss TN Volunteer PreTeen 2024), Fri July 26, 2024 01:20:25 Was there an interview or any bio paperwork submitted to the judges? (NT) -- No name, Fri July 26, 2024 14:45:47 The whole situation is sad. Why invest in a state or local franchise if Tennessee is going to send all of their local titleholders that don't win Miss Tennessee Volunteer at-large? It's false advertising to say you have all states and territories represented when you aren't using the established eligibility criteria only to claim you have 51 contestants? I have lost a lot of respect for Allison and the Volunteer system because of this. We all shouldn't be surprised though. Money talks more than being ethical. -- No name, Tue March 19, 2024 18:30:36 This was also the case last year for Miss (tons of Utah girls) so this old news and no one seemed to care then so (NT) -- No name, Mon March 25, 2024 14:13:05 you are correct, no one really cares. It just shows how irrelevant the system really is (NT) -- No name, Wed March 27, 2024 14:03:02 Or it shows how hard the organization is trying to grow. There are at large reps that are from all over the country, at least they aren't all from the same place/org. Personally don't like seeing recent MAO/USA state titleholders taking titles, but still better than all girls from TN. (NT) -- No name, Thu March 28, 2024 12:33:55 If you are trying to make it appear you have growth in states where there is no growth, that is just fraud. Doesn't show hard work at all on behalf of the organization (NT) -- No name, Fri March 29, 2024 14:14:04 I'm the state director for Miss Georgia Volunteer. -- No name, Wed June 05, 2024 07:51:32 Pretty sad that there are plenty of qualified women in Idaho and they went with someone who has no relation to the state tho. At least find someone who's family lives there or something (NT) -- No name, Thu June 06, 2024 18:38:52 The National Program continues to work within each state to secure a Director who will produce a state contest/identify a representative. As this work continues, they are leveraging at-large appointees to further market the program. There is nothing shady about this. The absence of a state in the national pageant would serve as a disincentive to in-state, would-be contestants. It's important that each state has visibility. Eventually, they will get there; but in the meantime, this is how they are marketing the program. It's not that serious. (NT) -- No name, Thu June 20, 2024 13:01:58 This, 100% (NT) -- Tiki-Java, Sat June 22, 2024 18:10:16 What is crappy about this is the girls appointment have no interest or intent on helping grow the organization in the state they represent. (NT) -- No name, Fri July 26, 2024 13:03:39

Subject: Complete results of Tennessee Teen and Tennessee Iris Pageant 2025
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Mon July 22, 2024 14:02:51 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Favorites for Alabama Volunteer next week?
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Sun July 21, 2024 17:39:01 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Connecticut Winner?
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Sun July 14, 2024 11:32:08 No social media updates! Was there a winner? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Miss Va Vol,
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Wed July 03, 2024 07:04:16 After Miss Virginia I wonder if any girls are going to switch over to volunteer [ Post a Reply to This Message ]
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There’s at least one that should. She would do really well. (NT) -- No name, Wed July 03, 2024 10:48:45 What girl are you referring to? (NT) -- No name, Wed July 03, 2024 17:03:20 Apparently Virginia Volunteer just wants to be known as America rejects. (NT) -- No name, Fri July 05, 2024 17:50:04 That's the volunteer system as a whole lol (NT) -- No name, Sat July 06, 2024 11:07:22 Some of the your so called rejects are better than some of the Miss contestants they have crowned. Everyone knows the current Miss Volunteer America should have won SC (NT) -- No name, Sun July 07, 2024 13:25:24 Says who? (NT) -- No name, Sun July 07, 2024 16:56:23 Big facts! Girls who are passed over year after year by MAO go to a new system like Volunteer and thrive. Pageants aren't supposed to be about recognition, but after 5 years of nothing from your state MAO, try something new! (NT) -- No name, Mon July 08, 2024 17:49:33 Agree, so what was said is correct, volunteer gets the MAO rejects. (NT) -- No name, Mon July 08, 2024 18:48:22 I guess being an MAO reject shouldn't be seen as a negative :) (NT) -- No name, Mon July 08, 2024 19:25:52 Far from the truth. Miss Mississippi Volunteer just crowned their third titleholder in a row who had never done MS MAO. Of the Top 5 finalists in MS, only one had ever competed in MAO as a Miss. (NT) -- No name, Mon July 08, 2024 22:51:24 Do your homework. Last year many former MAO went to Volunteer won their state and then went back to MAO and won . Experience is great. There are former Volunteer titleholders in MAO this year. In addition to Volunteer titleholders that have won their state in USA. Let these young women compete where they want and not try to degrade the value because you dont support the Volunteer Organization. (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 19:38:37 That’s the truth! They missed out on her! (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 16:22:01 Call them rejects if you like, but MAO has NOT been making very good decisions as an organization over the past decade. It's a mess. You say "rejects" I say "bullet dodgers". (NT) -- No name, Wed July 10, 2024 07:28:58 Contestants for the local are posted. 3/5 miss are from Miss VA this year and 1/3 teen (NT) -- No name, Thu July 11, 2024 18:03:41 They should save their money, obviously the girl who's the sister of their state titleholder is going to win the state title. (NT) -- No name, Sat July 13, 2024 07:53:19

Subject: As Miss Volunteer America, how much "volunteering" is actually done on a national level? What happens after the win? Does she have continuous appearances/duties? Doe she move to Tennessee? I'm new to the VOLUNTEER system, and trying to figure out what it entails.
Author: Congratulations to winners! [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Thu July 04, 2024 13:50:08 . [ Post a Reply to This Message ]
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Honestly don’t think there’s much volunteering involved at all. They mainly go around taking pictures in pretty dresses and giving shoutouts to sponsors. Even though they claim that each phase counts for 25% of scoring, it seems they also pic the girls based on appearance not how much they have accomplished. (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 12:00:01 That’s so not true! Big partnerships with ST Jude and Salvation Army. They are growing that partnership ! Lots of travel ! (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 16:01:54 Do they not post about it? Because, we never see any of that being done (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 16:24:11 I saw Hannah post on Instagram about st judes at least once a month. She also was in DC doing photoshoots and in-between posted about lobbying and meeting with leaders at the Capitol. It's almost like you can be glam AND volunteer at the same time. Do good work and then take a good photo! (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 17:22:28 Exactly she was constantly doing something with Salvation Army and at Jude. Go look at the winners Instagram it’s full of st Jude and Salvation Army. (NT) -- No name, Thu July 11, 2024 01:54:34

Subject: State entry fee
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Tue July 09, 2024 11:47:38 I’m confused. I was under the impression there was an established at-large/contestant entry fee, but somehow SC has gone from charging girls $500-600 last year to compete to only $90 this year? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]
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Some established states offer discounts for returning contestants or early bird specials. (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 15:23:11 Good for them!! (NT) -- No name, Tue July 09, 2024 16:03:22

Subject: Favorites for MS Vol?
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Fri July 05, 2024 17:55:15 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Who are the best pageant swim makers?
Author: Thank you in advance [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: Thu July 04, 2024 19:31:27 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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