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:
2. Social Occasion/Business. Again, your choice. Main thing is to look presentable.
"Lois Lane is 35, lives in Metropolis and enjoys Men of Steel, shopping, writing poetry, picking daisies and investigating corrupt industrialists....or whatever." I don't particularly care how you describe yourself, but you MUST include you location and interests.
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.
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.
Prizes are To Be Announced. They'll be good ones though.
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