Who can go to Nationals?
Because we want to make the Nationals experience open to as many as possible, the following contestants qualify to compete at nationals: • All Queens • Run for National Queen titles • All runners-up to queen titles • Run for National Queen titles • Note that runners-up to queens titles do not originally have a title, banner or crown. So they may better compete at nationals, once National competition fees are paid, Nationals office assigns them a city or locality named title, such as “Miss Albuquerque,” “Miss Farmington,” “Miss Silver City,” etc. These girls also become part of the State Royalty and are invited to participate in New Mexico Royalty events during the year. • All optional competition winners • Run for optionals and Miss Victory • All Hostesses, Cover Girls, and National Hostesses • Note that if you sell 10 pages of ads for the State Pageant, you are first crowned Cover Girl for the State and retain that crown and banner. At Nationals you will be crowned National Hostess an
