RULES & GUIDELINES
Contestants entering this pageant must be born female and be born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Marital Status, children and size are not an issue in this competition.
Contestants agree to submit all required materials and fees for their chosen competition/s by the official deadline and understand that failure to do so will result in disqualification for all contests for which materials are incomplete. Fees are payable by Paypal, or US Postal Money Order. MOs made out improperly will be returned and a replacement is expected within 14 days.
Contestants, by entering this pageant, grant permission to the pageant, it’s director, agents, licensees, representatives and/or sponsors to use her name, photographic, likeness, image, signature, voice, biography and the like for purposes of pageant competition and promotion.
Contestants understand and agree that the decisions of the official panel of judges is final.
Contestants understand and agree that the Fifty States Pageant cannot and will not be held liable for any mail (this includes email and ground mail) that is lost, misdirected, mishandled or delayed for any reason.
Contestants understand and agree that asking information about other competitors, their materials, and the like is unfair and will not be tolerated by the pageant. Contestants understand that the pageant will divulge no information to contestants about their competitors.
Contestants understand that the pageant reserves the right to substitute those prizes listed on this website with those of equal quality or value and may do so at any time without any prior warning to those involved in competing in the pageant.
Contestants understand that the pageant reserves the right to alter its timeline, deadlines, periods or judging, or dates for announcement of winners as it deems appropriate or necessary. Contestants understand that their time to prepare or submit items to the pageant will not be undercut by the moving deadline forward (ie: December deadline moved to October), rather any changes in timeline will reflect a delay, or given additional time for contestants to submit materials and make deadlines (ie: December deadline moves to February).
Contestants failing to submit part or all of their entry materials/fees prior to the official deadline will not be entitled to compete for a National Title. They may be scored a zero in each area of competition in which items are missing or withdrawn for the competition completely. Failure to submit materials in a timely manner is not the fault or responsibility of the pageant or it’s Director and does not entitle contestants to a refund or credit of their entry fee.
Contestants understand and agree that their names will not be posted on this site as an official contestant for any title until such time as all entry fees have been paid in full.
PAGEANT POLICY
It is the policy of this pageant is use its discretion when reviewing and accepting contestants into the 2004 competition. Persons known to have displayed unsportsmanlike conduct in the past to this, or any other pageant may be deemed ineligible to compete in this pageant. Unsportsmanlike conduct includes speaking, writing, verbalizing or otherwise convey negative, malicious, slanderous, and/or untruths about any pageant and/or it’s director/s, representatives, agents, sponsors, Queens, royalty, competitors and the like.
It is the policy of this pageant to post contestant’s headshot photos as soon as they are available. Other photographic competition items and written items (such as contestants Personal Interviews, or Pageant Essays) will not be posted until such time as all entry and materials submission deadlines has passed.
It is the policy of this pageant to ship any and all items to contestants through ground carriers that supply insurance and item-tracking. This is to protect the contestants’ items which have been shipped, as well as to protect the pageant from false claims of non-delivery from unscrupulous individuals.
It is the policy of this pageant to allow the reigning National Division Queens to judge her division in the pageant in year of her reign as long as she is not friends with, overly acquainted with, or overly familiar with any of the contestants competing in that year’s competition.
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