Miss Black Rock City

For Immediate Release: "Announcing The First Annual Miss Black Rock City Beauty Pageant 2004
NYC, NY - May 19, 2004 - Calling Miss Texas and Miss New York! Calling Miss Disorient, Miss Thunderdome, Miss TOA, and Miss HOTD!
It's time to take beauty out of the hands of corporate America and back into the eyes of the beholder. At the 2004 Burning Man, Asylum will hold the First Annual Miss Black Rock City Beauty Pageant. Participation is open to all men and women, all sexual preferences or identities, all theme camps, villages, tribes and tents.
Come help celebrate your tribe's uniqueness and beauty. Unlike TV's The Swan, the Miss Black Rock competition knows that perfection does not equal beauty. Beauty is much more unique. Your are encouraged to be yourself, wear what you want, and help put a face to your camp and to represent the best of Burning Man.

'The Miss Black Rock City 2004 competition is a great way to give all tribes a face, a persona, to show the citizens of Black Rock how each tribe, with its own unique flare, makes up the whole that is Burning Man!' said StacycatS, organizer and the original Miss Black Rock City - The Self-Proclaimed Beauty Queen.
To make this event a success, Asylum would like to see contestants from all the theme camps. It is important that each theme camp / village / region be represented at the pageant, so that the full spectrum of identities that comprise our city can be appreciated at one event, at one time on the playa.
The competition will begin on Thursday, September 2 with a preliminary event, which will include contestants running an obstacle course carrying trays of beverages. The Prelims are open to all, with 10 finalists (and five alternates) moving on to the main competition on Friday, September 3.
The Pageant will feature the Dustwear (instead of swimwear) competi"