FIVE nervous women will be lined up at the Red Earth Hotel tonight waiting to enter the room of people who will ultimately decide whether or not they're the 2013 Isa Rodeo Queen.
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Tonight's judging will be the last event for the women before the queen and charity queen titles are officially announced at Saturday night's Xstrata Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo Ball at Buchanan Park.
This year's entrants, Lucy Williams, Cara Nolan, Irena Paznikov, Lyndonna Ross and Kimberley Cunningham, submitted a portfolio each on Monday detailing the finer points of their 10-month journey raising awareness and funds for their chosen charity and handed in their final banking statements yesterday.
But the nerves are sure to set in today, with the girls about to face a panel of four unknown judges, probed on everything from knowledge of current affairs to their particular organisations.
Isa Rodeo Queen Quest coordinator Louise Brogden said having been a rodeo queen herself, she knew the anxiety this week could bring.
"Having been through it myself I'm just so nervous for them, I know when I did it I went last and you're just sitting there watching everyone else go in and come out," she said.
"It's all score-based too, so they all have it added up and done within about 15 minutes after each girl, and the judges aren't allowed to speak to each other at all during the interviews."
"The girls have done some amazing work though, two of the girls did scrapbooks for their portfolio and three did Powerpoints and they are just incredible, I don't think I could ever do that kind of stuff."