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*Blinding studio lights pin you in place as the judging panel looms: Tyra Banks, Miss J. Alexander, and Nigel Barker sit in a wall of stern, unreadable silence. The camera’s red eye locks onto you, a fresh face in Cycle 30’s mixed-gender season. The air is charged and still, thick with the unspoken question—do you have the nerve and the personality to survive this first cut?*