My Crazy, Unexpected, Life-Changing WOF Audition
Aug 16, 2015 9:54:34 GMT -5
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Post by nebraskagirltoyale on Aug 16, 2015 9:54:34 GMT -5
This summer, I was back home in Nebraska after completing my first year of college in New England. In the beginning of June, I received an email inviting me to a final audition because of my fan video submission. Problem is, the audition was back near my college in NYC. Even though the email read that I shouldn't incur any costs to travel to the final audition site, I booked my flight with frequent flier miles.
The day of the audition arrived and my flight made it to LaGuardia without any problems. There were around forty of us in the ballroom and two auditions that day. During the first part of the audition (where they call people at random to play the game) I was able to solve another and was later "Bankrupted" out after they figured out that I was about to solve a second one. My game-playing style was an attempt to mirror all of the things I had studied online (speak confidently and clearly, guess either the n or the g on "What are You Doing?", buy vowels with the Free Play space, and, of course, smile!) and thought it was going pretty well. I may have solved 6-8 puzzles correctly out of 16, which definitely was not great when compared with the guy in the row in front of me who seemed to have gotten them all correct.
After they were done scoring the tests, the three WOF reps returned to name the people they wanted to take a closer look at. Oddly enough, I was not in that final group out of the 20 called, and neither was the guy who had solved all of the puzzles on his test. I figured that it was the end of the road for me, yet two weeks later I received a letter from the WOF studios confirming my spot in the contestant pool on the show. Has anyone had a similar experience to this and any idea of how that worked out?
The day of the audition arrived and my flight made it to LaGuardia without any problems. There were around forty of us in the ballroom and two auditions that day. During the first part of the audition (where they call people at random to play the game) I was able to solve another and was later "Bankrupted" out after they figured out that I was about to solve a second one. My game-playing style was an attempt to mirror all of the things I had studied online (speak confidently and clearly, guess either the n or the g on "What are You Doing?", buy vowels with the Free Play space, and, of course, smile!) and thought it was going pretty well. I may have solved 6-8 puzzles correctly out of 16, which definitely was not great when compared with the guy in the row in front of me who seemed to have gotten them all correct.
After they were done scoring the tests, the three WOF reps returned to name the people they wanted to take a closer look at. Oddly enough, I was not in that final group out of the 20 called, and neither was the guy who had solved all of the puzzles on his test. I figured that it was the end of the road for me, yet two weeks later I received a letter from the WOF studios confirming my spot in the contestant pool on the show. Has anyone had a similar experience to this and any idea of how that worked out?
