Amateur night
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My ATF got suspended for a month for totally fucking up her schedule repeatedly. She and I went to an NA meeting today and she's really going to try the sober life again. Meanwhile she's got to make a living so she's going to try an amateur night at a club which is about 60 miles from her old one. Does anyone know if these are usually fixed? The club advertises a prize of $800. Also she's really not an amateur in that she's been at another club off and on for 5 years. Should she just keep her mouth shut about that? If she does well she wants to work there. Any experience or advice with this situation?
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of it being rigged. Other club contests can be rigged. I was the beneficiary of a rigged contest one night at a club. There's a weekly, Monday night "Lucky Lady Lotto" at a club I go to. Customers are given a ticket for each dance they buy. Then at midnight is a drawing. The dancer I was with one night, said that she could arrange for me to win the contest. Sure enough she did. I "won" a $50. gift certificate redeemable for anything at the club. So, I bought two lap dances from her with my "winnings" (had to throw in $10. of my own to cover the total cost of $30./dance). If that can be fixed, so can an amateur contest.
A club manager may already know he wants to hire a particular dancer, but he may want her to appear in the amateur contest, anyway, for strategic reasons. It may be difficult to research whether or not the amateur contests at the club you're speaking of, have been fixed.
I say go for it and go LARGE!
All that said, pretty much all the amateurs I've seen were dancers from other clubs and at the one club I visit regularly with an amateur contest, you must participate in the amateur contest in order to get hired. Sometimes, they will even make some girls who previously danced there go through the amateur contest in order to get rehired, generally girls who've been away for a year or more. At that club, according to one dancer there, before the contest, they fill out their paperwork to make sure they can legally participate in the contest and afterward, they get a token from management they can use anytime before the next amateur contest (they do 2 in a month) if they wish to dance for real there and they don't have to worry about putting in midweek shifts that week. Usually, they do the amateur contest Wednesday, then dance for real Friday or Saturday night.
Contests where audience applause is the "measure of success" may be more legitmate than those rated by judges. Except that as others have stated above, the deck can be stacked by a dancer bringing in her own friends and customers to cheer for her.
That said, unless the club rules specifically exclude every contestant who has been paid to dance before they will probably accept your friend as a competitor. Good luck.
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