Queen Pageant involves crazy clothes and make up

As homecoming draws ever closer the queen candidates of the royal court gathered for their annual Queens pageant. Unlike the stereotypical definition of pageantry, this event usually consists of various challenges that tend to test the candidates abilities, talents and often stomachs. In the past these trials have included anything from public karaoke to consuming cups of a mystery concoction. Most often participants walk away a little messy and with some very interesting stories.

This year the pageant took place at ground zero in front of the whole student body, Oct. 23. Queen candidates Hannah Avila, Annaleah Madison ,Mikayla Messer, Annalise Rosik and Emily Shakeshaft all took to the stage in an effort to secure student votes.

The pageant started off with a comical video that included an introduction of each candidate in which they explained what they thought about other candidates and themselves. They then held a brief fashion show in which they described the wacky outfits they had designed for the king candidates. After this the queens took part in several messy competitions that involved the help of their king Candidates.

Rosik enjoyed the way the video turned out and loved getting a little dirty. She also believes that the queen candidates created a good show for the student body.

“I liked how the video turned out,” Rosik said. “I think the students enjoyed it too. Getting messy is always funny and I’m glad that we got to work with the king candidates.”

Messer’s favorite part of the pageant was the makeup competition. She thought the most awkward part was when she had to hold the ruler with the two tic tack boxes on either end in her mouth and try to bounce all the tic tacs out, as part of her individual challenge.

“My favorite part was when the kings gave us a makeover,” Messer said. “It was all really fun overall. The most awkward part was when I had to hold the ruler with two tic tack boxes on either end in my mouth and try to bounce the tic tacks out.”

The queen’s several chaotic competitions left them in need of a change of clothes. One competition involved the queens to catch cheetos thrown by the king candidates in shaving cream which was placed on top of their heads. Another event called for the kings to be blindfolded and attempt to put makeup on the queen?s faces. Finally queen candidates attempted to eat chocolate pudding, cinnamon apple sauce, whipped cream and a chocolate cupcake using only the hands of the kings who were been blind folded once again.

Avilla enjoyed the food eating competition where the kings acted as the queens hands. Avila got a good laugh out of being fed by another person.
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“My favorite part of the pageant was when Kyle [Hudecek] was feeding me,” Avilla said. “I just thought it was really funny and awkward having him be my hands. It was hilarious having food stuffed into my mouth with someone else?s hands.”

After the royal court concluded their performance students were encouraged to vote for their favorite homecoming queen nominee. The audience members each walked away having witnessed the queen pageant of 2013 and harboring different ideas and opinions about the event.

Senior Lucas Lopez believes it was one of the best pageants. He thought the events succeeded in getting all of the candidates involved and highlighted

“I thought it was hilarious and I loved it,” Lopez said. “The events were really ridiculous and the girls were so into it. It definitely got them involved. The kings were really funny too, they didn’t steal the show but they were definitely involved.”

Mikayla Miller, ’15, thought the event was not only comical but creative and extremely interesting to watch.

“It was really funny,” Miller said. “I liked what they did this year, it was original and enjoyable. I like how they did the special one minute thing for everyone so that they each had their own moment.”

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