Often for new pageant competitors, there is BIG learning curve to the difference between the two major pageant systems in the United States: Miss America Organization (MAO) Miss USA / Miss Universe (MUO) Q: What do you need to know, to help your pageant flow? Consider this to be a play-by-play of two areas of competition they share.
Now, you should sum this up as my informed interpretation having coach for both systems and judged for one system and coached clients for both. INTERVIEW (MAO) This is a structured 10-minute session that gets steeped and deep into what you think beyond a surface level. Expect for judges to comb through your bio and mine for a contestant that built a platform BEFORE (months before, not last Thursday) signing up for the Miss America pageant. Winners for Interview, and mostly all prelim winners, are going to have a credible platform that they work beyond competition season. (MUO) On surface-level, it would seem to be just an easier affair: about 3 minutes to interview with judges. But aaaaahh.... many people prepare wrong for this system, especially those who have competed in only Miss America. You cannot approach a Universe-style interview with a mindset of how much information can I get out from my head to their ears in three minutes. verbal vomiting= wasted Interview=lost points=semifinals are in peril SWIMSUIT (MAO) & (MUO) This is a 2 piece swimsuit competition. If you have a 1 piece physique... This is a 2 piece swimsuit competition. Showing up in a body friendly, stomach-shaping one piece because you didn't take the proper time to physique fix is really the equivalent of making a $995 donation (That's the MUO entry price). You really would have done financially better donating the money and getting the tax write off. Finally: If your pageant coach has not made stage and posing flexibility a focal point for your preparation, you're being short-changed. Bring on all the ab muscles you want. Get those quads into showroom shape. But if you walk like an ironing board in makeup; You can forget it. Takeaway: There are other similiarities and differences between both systems. Prepare for your specific road so that your total pageant package applies to the right system and you'll shave off unnecessary wasted time effort and $$$$.
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