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WWTBAM Season 17 Contestant Pool

#1 Post by Euaskaldun » Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:12 am

Has anyone been chosen yet?!

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#2 Post by Bob78164 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:41 am

Euaskaldun wrote:Has anyone been chosen yet?!
Welcome aBored! I haven't seen any reports this year of people invited to tape. --Bob
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#3 Post by Gman3141 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:44 am

Bob78164 wrote:
Euaskaldun wrote:Has anyone been chosen yet?!
Welcome aBored! I haven't seen any reports this year of people invited to tape. --Bob
Just finished creating an account to say the same (been lurking for awhile though). I haven't heard back despite what seemed to be a promising 2nd skype interview, and I haven't read of anyone else hearing back yet either.
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#4 Post by Bob78164 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:45 am

Gman3141 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:
Euaskaldun wrote:Has anyone been chosen yet?!
Welcome aBored! I haven't seen any reports this year of people invited to tape. --Bob
Just finished creating an account to say the same (been lurking for awhile though). I haven't heard back despite what seemed to be a promising 2nd skype interview, and I haven't read of anyone else hearing back yet either.
Welcome aBored! --Bob
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#5 Post by Gman3141 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:49 am

Bob78164 wrote:
Gman3141 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Welcome aBored! I haven't seen any reports this year of people invited to tape. --Bob
Just finished creating an account to say the same (been lurking for awhile though). I haven't heard back despite what seemed to be a promising 2nd skype interview, and I haven't read of anyone else hearing back yet either.
Welcome aBored! --Bob
Many thanks!
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#6 Post by MopItUp23 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:55 am

Add me to the list of the pool-swimming lurkers coming out of the woodwork.

I do know that some contestants have been contacted (not me, unfortunately).

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#7 Post by ulysses1950 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:17 am

I saw that someone posted on FB that they will be taping on July 11. No other information was posted.
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#8 Post by Bob78164 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:23 am

MopItUp23 wrote:Add me to the list of the pool-swimming lurkers coming out of the woodwork.

I do know that some contestants have been contacted (not me, unfortunately).
Welcome aBored! May all of us in the Pool soon have cause to grab a towel. --Bob
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#9 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:05 pm

No response....
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#10 Post by goongas » Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:26 pm

A NYC friend of mine got the call today, the person was in the pool from a previous year.

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#11 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:22 pm

Now I'm second guessing myself. In my interview, I talked a little about the bored. Was that a poison pill?
Your friendly neighborhood racist. On the waiting list to be a nazi. Designated an honorary 'snowflake'. Trolled by the very best, as well as by BJ. Always typical, unlike others.., Fulminator, Hopelessly in the tank for trump... inappropriate... Flocking himself... Probably a tucking sexist, too... All thought comes from the right wing noise machine(TM)... A clear and present threat to The Future Of Our Democracy.. Doesn't understand anything... Made the trump apologist and enabler playoffs... Heathen bastard... Knows nothing about history... Liar.... don't know much about statistics and polling... Nothing at all about biology... Ignorant Bigot... Potential Future Pariah... Big Nerd... Spiraling, Anti-Trans Bigot.. A Lunatic AND a Bigot.. Very Ignorant of the World in General... Sounds deranged... Fake Christian... Weird... has the mind of a child... has paranoid delusions... Simpleton

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#12 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:19 am

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Now I'm second guessing myself. In my interview, I talked a little about the bored. Was that a poison pill?
More than likely. It's the same thing that regularly gets audience members of The Price Is Right immediately removed from consideration to be contestants. TPTB at TPIR are still bitter that a member of Golden-Road.net in the audience offered an on-stage contestant a perfect bid on a showcase back in 2010.
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#13 Post by triviawayne » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:05 pm

Pastor Fireball wrote:
flockofseagulls104 wrote:Now I'm second guessing myself. In my interview, I talked a little about the bored. Was that a poison pill?
More than likely. It's the same thing that regularly gets audience members of The Price Is Right immediately removed from consideration to be contestants. TPTB at TPIR are still bitter that a member of Golden-Road.net in the audience offered an on-stage contestant a perfect bid on a showcase back in 2010.
I would guess they don't even know about the Bored

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#14 Post by MopItUp23 » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:29 am

I believe calls have only gone out for the first week of taping. They seem to be giving the standard two weeks notice, at least at the beginning of the season.

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#15 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:05 pm

I've now seen reports of calls for taping dates in mid-July. --Bob
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#16 Post by MopItUp23 » Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:52 pm

Bob78164 wrote:I've now seen reports of calls for taping dates in mid-July. --Bob
It is my understanding that calls for the second week of taping went out today, presumably due to the holiday next week.

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#17 Post by geoffil » Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:13 am

How does the audition work? Does someone from BAM call to skype for an interview? Do you take have to take a test or it all personality?

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#18 Post by Gman3141 » Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:19 pm

geoffil wrote:How does the audition work? Does someone from BAM call to skype for an interview? Do you take have to take a test or it all personality?
For the remote auditions, yes- I had two rounds of Skype calls. The first was a quiz, the second a personality/camera presence interview.
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#19 Post by geoffil » Sat Jun 30, 2018 5:09 pm

For the remote auditions, yes- I had two rounds of Skype calls. The first was a quiz, the second a personality/camera presence interview.
Thank you Gman for replying. How soon after you filled out the application did they call you?

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#20 Post by Gman3141 » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:49 pm

geoffil wrote:
For the remote auditions, yes- I had two rounds of Skype calls. The first was a quiz, the second a personality/camera presence interview.
Thank you Gman for replying. How soon after you filled out the application did they call you?

Good Luck!
IIRC, early the next week- I feel like I sent the app in late in the week (Thurs/Fri) and was replied to early the next week (Tues/Weds ish). This was awhile ago though, don't quote me on it.
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#21 Post by tlynn78 » Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:39 am

Best of luck getting into the pool, and then getting plucked from the pool! Never surrender.
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#22 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:43 am

Gman3141 wrote:
geoffil wrote:
For the remote auditions, yes- I had two rounds of Skype calls. The first was a quiz, the second a personality/camera presence interview.
Thank you Gman for replying. How soon after you filled out the application did they call you?

Good Luck!
IIRC, early the next week- I feel like I sent the app in late in the week (Thurs/Fri) and was replied to early the next week (Tues/Weds ish). This was awhile ago though, don't quote me on it.
Same here. Then you never hear from them
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Your friendly neighborhood racist. On the waiting list to be a nazi. Designated an honorary 'snowflake'. Trolled by the very best, as well as by BJ. Always typical, unlike others.., Fulminator, Hopelessly in the tank for trump... inappropriate... Flocking himself... Probably a tucking sexist, too... All thought comes from the right wing noise machine(TM)... A clear and present threat to The Future Of Our Democracy.. Doesn't understand anything... Made the trump apologist and enabler playoffs... Heathen bastard... Knows nothing about history... Liar.... don't know much about statistics and polling... Nothing at all about biology... Ignorant Bigot... Potential Future Pariah... Big Nerd... Spiraling, Anti-Trans Bigot.. A Lunatic AND a Bigot.. Very Ignorant of the World in General... Sounds deranged... Fake Christian... Weird... has the mind of a child... has paranoid delusions... Simpleton

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#23 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:14 am

flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Gman3141 wrote:
geoffil wrote: Thank you Gman for replying. How soon after you filled out the application did they call you?

Good Luck!
IIRC, early the next week- I feel like I sent the app in late in the week (Thurs/Fri) and was replied to early the next week (Tues/Weds ish). This was awhile ago though, don't quote me on it.
Same here. Then you never hear from them
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