cindy_kato wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
WELL, TEXAS WAS ONCE CALLED THE NEW PHILIPPINES.
cindy_kato wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
WELL, TEXAS WAS ONCE CALLED THE NEW PHILIPPINES.
ajsy0203 wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
That was a first in Texan pageant history?
firerprince wrote:cindy_kato wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
WELL, TEXAS WAS ONCE CALLED THE NEW PHILIPPINES.Imagine calling Texas that now, that'll be such an insult.
Queen of the Clouds wrote:This was Maelia's last chance before she aged out I can't believe she clapped.
firerprince wrote:cindy_kato wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
WELL, TEXAS WAS ONCE CALLED THE NEW PHILIPPINES.Imagine calling Texas that now, that'll be such an insult.
chorr wrote:firerprince wrote:cindy_kato wrote:kurtij wrote:OH.
BOTH NEW MISS TEXAS (to Miss America) AND MISS TEXAS USA ARE OF FILIPINA DESCENT.
WELL, TEXAS WAS ONCE CALLED THE NEW PHILIPPINES.Imagine calling Texas that now, that'll be such an insult.
Well with the way the people think in both places, maybe they wont know the difference.
Anyway congrats to Miss Texas. I want to see all the girls lumped together before I thoroughly follow this pageant. Do we have a date of the finals night?
Queen of the Clouds wrote:This was Maelia's last chance before she aged out I can't believe she clapped.
itsrowdy801 wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:This was Maelia's last chance before she aged out I can't believe she clapped.
I'm still so upset about this. Like, I'm thrilled with the winner, but Maelia absolutely deserved to place. Like yeah, maybe she failed to impress at prelims, but some of those actual finalists were pretty weak performers.
itsrowdy801 wrote:Interestingly, the Miss USA bimonthly newsletters for directors have been accessible for quite some time. The July 1 newsletter has a big section on judging criteria, and although some of it is kind of obvious, I think it does provide some insight as to what the Crystle era is looking for, and what the selection committee will be instructed to look for.
https://missusa.com/directors-portal/ju ... ewsletter/
Queen of the Clouds wrote:itsrowdy801 wrote:Interestingly, the Miss USA bimonthly newsletters for directors have been accessible for quite some time. The July 1 newsletter has a big section on judging criteria, and although some of it is kind of obvious, I think it does provide some insight as to what the Crystle era is looking for, and what the selection committee will be instructed to look for.
https://missusa.com/directors-portal/ju ... ewsletter/
The newsletter says it'll be on FYI again
itsrowdy801 wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:itsrowdy801 wrote:Interestingly, the Miss USA bimonthly newsletters for directors have been accessible for quite some time. The July 1 newsletter has a big section on judging criteria, and although some of it is kind of obvious, I think it does provide some insight as to what the Crystle era is looking for, and what the selection committee will be instructed to look for.
https://missusa.com/directors-portal/ju ... ewsletter/
The newsletter says it'll be on FYI again
We did kinda already know that due to Reno's refusal to provide the requested funds because of that fact, but it still sucks to hear. I'll at least enjoy getting to watch it live on the west coast but I really want to see Miss USA on a major network again.
In terms of the judging criteria....this is interesting to me. Not as much as an emphasis on career & technical abilities as I would like in the judging parameters, but honestly Miss USA hit it so far out of the park with choosing Elle that I have a lot of faith in Crystle's methods.
Queen of the Clouds wrote:itsrowdy801 wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:itsrowdy801 wrote:Interestingly, the Miss USA bimonthly newsletters for directors have been accessible for quite some time. The July 1 newsletter has a big section on judging criteria, and although some of it is kind of obvious, I think it does provide some insight as to what the Crystle era is looking for, and what the selection committee will be instructed to look for.
https://missusa.com/directors-portal/ju ... ewsletter/
The newsletter says it'll be on FYI again
We did kinda already know that due to Reno's refusal to provide the requested funds because of that fact, but it still sucks to hear. I'll at least enjoy getting to watch it live on the west coast but I really want to see Miss USA on a major network again.
In terms of the judging criteria....this is interesting to me. Not as much as an emphasis on career & technical abilities as I would like in the judging parameters, but honestly Miss USA hit it so far out of the park with choosing Elle that I have a lot of faith in Crystle's methods.
This may be a ~controversial opinion~, but I think IMG crowned some of the worst Miss USAs in history so I am glad to see us *officially* moving away from what they were looking for. Now don't get me wrong, I like Deshauna, Sarah Rose, and Cheslie (Kara and Asya, not so much), but when each of them competed at Miss Universe it felt almost embarrassing because it was so clear that what IMG was looking for in a Miss USA was not what most of the other countries were looking for in their titleholders. It'd be one thing if Miss USA or a girl similar to her was winning Miss Universe every year, but that wasn't what was happening, and almost every year Miss USA looked out of place next to the frontrunners in her year. All these girls IMG was crowning (well... most) were good Miss USAs, but they were never going to be Miss Universe when they were up against Filipinas, Latinas, Frenchwomen, Thai women, etc.
I think it's clear that IMG was never looking for an American Miss Universe while choosing their Miss USA, but Crystle really is, and so I'm glad to see less of a focus on education and career and more of a focus on actual beauty and traditional technical abilities since this is still above all a beauty pageant and despite the changes to Miss USA under IMG, it is beauty, charisma, and technical skills that have continuously been winning Miss Universe crowns in the IMG era, not schooling or careers. Could we even name the schooling/careers of each of our recent Miss Universe winners like we can Miss USA winners?
I still think that a Miss USA should of course be well-spoken, intelligent, worldly, and all of that, but I'm glad to move away from elite university-educated lawyers and entrepreneurs and soldiers and "scientists" and whatnot stealing spots (and crowns!) from beautiful, intelligent, and confident women who may have just decided to pursue a career as a model or not go to college for whatever reason – let's also remember how university education in the US is unfortunately a privilege that not everyone can afford, ESPECIALLY elite university education. As somebody who is "well-educated" with an "impressive career," what that has taught me is that my résumé makes me no better nor more capable than someone else who chose a different path, and I know people who went to law school with me or have worked in legal settings with me that lack so much common sense and self-awareness, and would be an awful representative no matter how intelligent or well-spoken they may be.
So yeah, reading the judging criteria laid out in that newsletter was actually a pleasant discovery for me since it seems like we may finally be going back towards where we send frontrunners to Miss Universe year after year, which we have not done since IMG took over Miss USA in 2016.
Queen of the Clouds wrote:Whatever choice for Colorado, but I wasn't expecting much. Alexis was the most blah of the top five imo, which is pretty disappointing. I thought she gave a pretty blah answer and she didn't stand out physically either, but of course being both the returning 1RU and a former Teen titleholder should have made it clear she was the frontrunner. I don't think she'll do much damage at Miss USA.
But Colorado Teen is a STUNNER. Gorgeous girl who is a great speaker and has quite the story too. She touched on it in her final answer but she mentioned being raised by drug addicted parents and working her way into becoming an international model. I would LOVE for her to cross over into Miss in a few years.
Queen of the Clouds wrote:I'm trying to go through and prep the contestant profiles so that once we get the headshots I can post all of them, but I'm stuck on Nevada because I cannot find anything about her. No school, no job, normally I can just default to "professional model" but it doesn't seem like she's that either. I have no idea what this girl does.
itsrowdy801 wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:I'm trying to go through and prep the contestant profiles so that once we get the headshots I can post all of them, but I'm stuck on Nevada because I cannot find anything about her. No school, no job, normally I can just default to "professional model" but it doesn't seem like she's that either. I have no idea what this girl does.
That's really my biggest problem with her. I know absolutely nothing about her other than her former Miss WA Teen USA experience and the fact that she's Stormy's sister. She's still on my list because I love love love her, but she really needs to step it up, work on her branding, and allow the fans to get to know her.
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