The Pearl of Hathian – Sponsored by Clam Convenience
“Hathian’s Business/Municipal Beauty Queen”

Starting March 28th, we'll be running a 3-week IC beauty pageant contest! All businesses, as well as municipal networks, will get one spot in the Pearl of Hathian Pageant. The Pageant will include 2 weekend public events. 1st weekend will feature the Interview and Talent portion. The 2nd weekend will be accompanied by a street festival with all businesses welcome to participate in booths, while the main ‘stage’ will be kept for the finals to the Pageant. Preliminary voting will happen during the 2 weeks at the Clam. Contestants are welcome to ‘market’ themselves as they see fit these two weeks. Final voting at the festival on the finalists will be by 3 impartial judges to announce the winner and “Pearl of Hathian”. Winner will receive 1 year of free groceries at the Clam (IC only). And the business the winner is representing will win three months, rent paid in full (IC only).

THE DETAILS

Timeline:

1. March 28th - April 1st: send in nominations. There will be an application form available on the 27th to fill out to make sure the person qualifies to be a contestant.

2. Beginning April 2nd, you can start campaigning for your Pageant Contestant.

3. Sunday April 9th, Show #1 will be held front of the public that illustrates talent and interview section.

4. Voting will open to the public after this first show, ballot box located at Clam.

5. Voting stays open one week, campaigning/awareness continues.

6. Sunday, April 16th, there will be a street festival with businesses running game/carnival type booths. Final Pageant Show takes place during the street festival.

7. During this, Judges vote, and one winner is crowned the Pearl of Hathian Beauty Queen.

Pageant Show Details:

Show #1 (April 9th) – This will be the initial show to introduce all contestants. They will need to answer interview questions and show off a talent.

Show #2 (April 16th) – This will be the big show, contestants will not know who the top 5 finalists are (picked by the public during the week before). All contestants will have to prance around in swimsuit. And then the formal gown. During formal gown, the 5 finalists (from the public vote) will be announced. They each have to answer a final question. Then the judges will pick the winner and announce.

Nominations
Contestants can be from any Hathian business or municipal network. (PD, FD, HGH).
Contestants must be:
-Female
-18yrs+
-Must work for the business they are running with (employee, intern, boss, manager, owner, etc)

Campaigning/Awareness
This is for the business as well as the contestants. The contestant is a representative of the business or municipality and will be named as such (aka: Miss Police Department… Miss Grind… Miss Berthier Bakery… etc etc). It will be the contestants and businesses job to market themselves. They can throw parties, buy rounds of drinks. Bribe the judges (who will be known). We suggest dressing up, playing nice, making signs, doing street appearances, anything they can think of to promote themselves as the Beauty Queen of Hathian and gain votes.

Voting
-Occurs all week after Show #1. The ballot box will be held at the Clam and you must actually go to the store in order to cast your vote. The only limit on voting will be once a day. This initial vote will be polled before Show #2 to get the top 5 finalist.
-Voting during Show #2 will be done by the judges to get the winner and crown the Pearl Beauty Queen.

Street Festival
Carnival style, hosted by the Clam, but inclusive of all businesses having a booth they want to run. Ideas like: kissing booth, face painting, ring the bottles—pretty much anything carnival creative they want to roll with.

Questions? Interested in helping out? Contact Alexia Rousseau (lydhia.shinn) inworld, on the forum here, or on Twitter @A_Roo_So!