contestants
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‘The Swan’ was a spectacle called cruel and sadistic, but former contestants don’t really see it that way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The show followed contestants in the Okie Hand Fishing Invitational, a 10-week tournament founded by Beesley when he was filming his cult-classic documentary Okie Noodling in 2000.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Osman asked him if the gloves would be off should the judges get overly critical of the new crop of contestants, and the dancer joked he was "waiting for that judges' debrief".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Applicants had to take the same online quiz that potential contestants do, plus compose more than a full show’s worth of categories and clues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
All the top contestants were given a sheet of paper with the following paragraph printed on it:
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
