1999 Contestant Rules

Requirements

Entering Miss TGF is easy. Here is what we require:

1. You must be a TGF subscriber
2. You must be able to supply one CLEAR photo for each of our categories. TWO Photos Total.
3. You must have fun and not take this seriously.

Purpose

This is a great excuse for you to show off some nice new pictures and maybe win some cool prizes. That's it. Solving the problems in the Balkans would be nice too, but we don't require that...

Contest Details

1. Miss TGF consists of two parts: Preliminaries and Finals. TGF subscribers vote on who makes it to the Finals and also vote on the winners.

2. You can beg, cajole, plead, attempt to bride us, whatever: WE DO NOT EVER DISCLOSE VOTE TOTALS. This is a fun event and we never make vote counts available. Don't ask, we don't tell.

3. We must have at least ONE photo from you that can be cropped to a nice headshot, similiar to those we use for Photo Op and Personal Ad thumbnails.

4. You must select the photos you will use. Do NOT ask Cindy or JoAnn or Jamie to choose for you.

5. All Contestants will be aske to provide personal information about themselves, what they enjoy doing and some information about their views on the TG community. Finalists will be asked to answer a question that will be intended to draw out their views on an issue of importance to the community.

In the preliminaries you must provide Photos for two categories:

What Are "Flights?"

Because of the number of entries in the last few years we divide the preliminary entrants into TWO groups, or Flights. Each Flight gets two weeks worth of voting time.

Entering the Miss TGF 1998 Contest: Required Materials

If You Make It To Finals

The number of finalists depends on the number of entries. We expect 10-12 finalists.

Finalists will be asked to send in a third picture and will be asked to answer a question that will be intended to draw out their views on an issue of importance to the community.

Deadlines and Voting

Deadline for ALL photos is March 17. Finalists will get a chance to submit a third photo later.

Voting on the candidates in the First Flight begins on March 29.

Voting on second flight begins April 5
First flight repeats April 12
Second flight repeats April 19

Finalists announced on May 3.
Voting on Finalists begins May 10
Winners announced May 24.

Winners & Prizes

There will be three winners selected from the competition, Miss TGF, 1st Runner up and 2nd Runner up.

Prizes are To Be Announced. They'll be good ones though.

Photo Tips!!

So what kind of photos go over best with your peers, i.e., the TGF members who vote for Miss TGF?

1. All of the finalists and winners in the first two contests had in common high quality, nice photos. Forget the trashy stuff. Never works. If it's blurry, cluttered, etc, you'll lose some voters

2. A CLOSEUP photo is strongly advised. Make one of your two pictures a close up.

3. Your caption can be light and fanciful, but if it's too far out there you'll lose people. Just be true to yourself.

Still have questions? Contact Cindy Martin for more help