omg wait wait u went to iyws too? what year? i was session 2 this past summer but they did a virtual two weeks bc of covid i don’t think i knew of anyone from ne ohio in my session but we might still know each other just from being from the same area haha
from youngarts Twitter, We are on par with previous years in terms of the number of Finalists we have this year. While I cannot give you an exact number, there are typically anywhere from 150 to 170 Finalists across disciplines.
Honestly I think that they are done calling for the most part. I didn’t expect anything - I literally submitted the day of the deadline when I was really tired. As someone who has taught speech classes even I would not like my own performance lol (not to say that if I had done it before I would not have done better because I’m pretty confident performing but between phone banking, speaking at events every other week and senior year - it’s not the best combination per my energy). Whenever competitions come out I get nervous for absolutely no reason but I’m really happy for everyone who got to finals!!! Y’all are awesome and worked so hard for it. You really deserve this - ICONS ??
In the past it was very active around this time. For some reason it’s very different this year. Wish it would be a bit more transparent. People are getting used to the quietness. Not a bad thing to stay calm and focus on other equally important matters
yeah they were really active on tuesday, somewhat on wednesday, but quiet since, but it feels like there are lots of people that they haven’t notified yet…
Most recent Twitter post: “We have different staffers going through different discipline lists at the same time. Just because someone was notified for one discipline, doesn’t mean all of those Finalists have been contacted.”