[Ernesto75]

Originally Posted by polartrade

This kind of thing comes up enough that just maybe it's time to change the rules.
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At the very least they could change the rules so that, say, any prior professional modeling or "performing" is not allowable. That way the people who hold these contests could maintain that they want complete amateurs, and that it isn't any type of "moral stance".

The problem is that there are generally financial reasons to be hypocrit and pretend nothing changed since the rules were made.