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So the Miss Earth 2019 pageant took place last October 26 in Manila Philippines and Nellys Pimentel
Puerto Rico won the coveted title. If you want to know what I think of the show, don't go away, I'll be right back!
The pageant opened with 85 candidates dressed in outlets representing their countries national flowers
Flowers were the main theme of this year's pageant
Honestly, I thought that the opening number and intro was disappointing.
It felt rushed as host James Deakin announced the name of a country
every three seconds which didn't give the televiewers ample time to see the face of every contestant
I wondered to if the judges or the spectators had a good look of all the contestants
Since I didn't see any giant TV monitors anywhere inside the venue
I also think that the big LED monitors that flash the names of the countries and
animated floral patterns clashed with a contestant sashing down the runway
Actually all those bright patterns kind of hurt my eyes.
Oh, and I didn't know that the island nation of Fiji has changed the spelling of the country to Fuji.
Anyway six of the contestants whom I assume were the best dancers in the group took center stage and performed individual dance moves
including Miss Australia who did some tumbling
Since this year's theme is flowers this explains why the contestants came out in outfits
bedecked with all sorts of flowers and why the focal point of the stage is a massive prop that resembled a flower.
The pageant took place at Cove Manila, a massive entertainment space with indoor beach club and nightclub located
Inside the new resorts hotel, Okada Manila. The stage is what I would call a thrust stage
which is extended wall-to-wall with audience on just one side - on the front.
For the first time in the history of the pageant the show started in the afternoon at four o'clock to be exact.
This is the same stage that was used for the Miss Philippines Earth 2019 pageant last July
which also took place in the afternoon. From a distance the stage did not look big enough to accommodate all 85 contestants?
but when the camera pans closer to the contestants
you'll notice that there was more than enough space for the girls to move around to avoid colliding with each other.
I think the venue of this year is a welcome change, a major upgrade from previous venues.
There was a good reason to start the show at 4:00 in the afternoon -
to use natural light which meant saving energy and to allow the audience to be awed by the column-free
30 meter high UV protected glass dome covering an area of
9000 square meters. The nightclub also boasts of the company's first six-swing kinetic chandelier
which can produce 10,000 kinetic and visual effects and a sunset approached
the audience was treated to visual feast when the sun finally set and the lighting of a floral background
turned from solid white to incandescent green.
In my vlog entitled "Five things I hate about Miss Earth"
I mentioned that the judging panel seldom consists of former Miss Earth title holders or any former beauty queens for that matter
Last year,
they had zero beauty queens unless you count a former Mister Bisexual World Philippines, and this year, they did not invite any former beauty queen
Seven people sat at this year's judging panel and five of them are Filipinos - Carousel Productions executive vice president
Lorraine Shuck, Leo Valdez a renowned Filipino theater actor
Ernie Lopez an environmentalist slash travel blogger
Lorife Magadan-Otaza, an environmental activist and a city mayor and
Cecile Guidote Alvarez the founder of PETA which stands for Philippine Educational Theater Association not to be confused with another PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, although I wished they would invite a representative from the world's most influential animal rights group
The girls wore swimsuits of different colors and cuts there were some in bikinis and some in one piece.
There were some girls in top shape, some in mediocre shape, and some bad shape.
Host James Deacon stated that the top 20 was selected "based under prejudging scores in this course from the Miss Earth
Organization." We know that the girls were pre-judged in three competitions each of which constituted 30% of the total score
Face and Poise, Figure and Form, and Intelligence and Environmental Awareness. The the remaining 10% is Attitude.
Now I have a question. Did the winners of the best eco video, Miss England, and best eco media, Miss Thailand,
necessarily received high scores in the three preliminary competitions. What do you think? Please comment below?
Anyway, the top twenty included the contestants from these countries
In my vlog "My top 20 favorites for Miss Earth 2019"
I had these countries on my list
Seven on the list did not make the official top 22 in the finals Venezuela Mongolia Germany Vietnam
Ukraine Nepal and India to me
The biggest shocker of all was the exclusion of India's Tejaswini Manogna whom I thought was a standout winner in the group
I'm still trying to figure out the reason she failed a cut
Could it be that she didn't do well in all three preliminary competitions?
Maybe she did but there were other girls who fared better than her?
Did she have any attitudee problem that might have pissed off the organizers?
I really don't know. Unless you're one of the chaperons who have spent four weeks with the girls
you really can't make any absolute judgment on their individual behavior and performance
I feel bad that India did not make the cut but there's no doubt that she represented her country
very well and that she was loved and admired by many Filipinos.
Now about Ghana Abena Evelyn Tapia. She was number two on my list
Is it just me or did anyone notice that she didn't seem as energetic on the finals as she was doing the preliminaries?
Even though her gown was sparkling. You can't say the same with her stage projection.
Maybe this was the reason she didn't make the top four?
After the top 20 were called they had to return backstage to change into their evening wear while guestt performer Shontelle
entertained the audience
Now about Shontelle, to be honest
I've never heard of her so I had to google her and I found out that she's originally from
Barbados like Rihanna and that she and Rihanna were in Cadet Corps together and Shontelle was actually
Rihanna's drill sergeant
interesting
Shontelle performed and judged for the first time in
2017. I would have preferred to see a different performing this year or even a dance
performance by a local dance group and that would have been so much more interesting. In the long gown competition
My favorites were Chile, Portugal, Ghana, Czech Republic, Colombia, Thailand and New Zealand
But I think the best for me was Czech Republic. Notice that Filipinos call it long gown instead of evening gown. Why is that?
Filipino fans, please comment below
There were some gowns that wore the girls instead of the other way around like England whose stunning gown just sort of like draped her.
USA who kept holding up the lower part of her gown and Netherlands whose high and low romp dress made her look like a hoochie mama.
When it came for the top 20 to be reduced to top 10
Each of the top 10 finalists called had to pick a hashtag from a bowl. Of these 10 finalists only Russia use an interpreter
Since I don't understand a Russian, I'm not sure if the interpreter did a good job or not
But based on the English translation Russia's answer was not that strong
Regarding her hashtag earth, she said , "Our earth is the biggest part of the universe. Our earth is where we live
So we have to save our earth. We have to work hard with our soul to save our earth."
Dasvidaniya Russia, but earth is not the biggest part of the universe
Do you want to know what the biggest thing in the universe is? It's a super cluster known as the Hercules Corona Borealis
Great Wall, it's so big that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the structure
My favorites in this hashtag segment were Puerto Rico
USA
Netherlands Chile and Nigeria
But the best was USA because of her great delivery and good job in transitioning the word influence to her advocacy
Influence is extremely important to me
my advocacy is working with an organization called Enactus and I actually
Implemented a recycling program at an elementary school and with that I've been able to influence them to get excited about
taking care of our environment and they have influenced me to
Give back to my community even more and that is why I'm here working for them and showing them that if you want anything
You can do it.
On a sidenote Czech Republic Klara Vavruskova resembles a young Melania Trump
No wonder I like her
The hash tag portion was followed by a second performance by Shontelle which I thought was ok, though
I think she should have changed her outfit like her backup dancers had done
Host James Deakin announced the top four finalists in this order
Belarus Czech Republic USA and Puerto Rico who was generally surprised
Each of them had to respond to the final question and the question was
"How would you convince those who don't believe in climate change that it is a serious problem?"
Puerto Rico gave the best answer based on her good delivery, good content, and the sincere and convincing tone of her voice.
I would have to say that addressing this issue of people not believing in climate change is more of
a matter of lack of education and not only a lack of education but also
the ignorance and not wanting to inform themselves of
The fact that we are living in a planet that is our biggest home and we have taken advantage of it
Instead of putting back what it is giving to us
making
notable leaders and a lot of influencers engaged with themselves
and become better people is the most important thing to do
The outgoing queen Phuong Khanh from Vietnam did her final work as Miss Earth
2018 looking divine in a beautiful white ball gown
She was joined moments later by two of her elemental queens, Miss Earth Air 2018 Melody Mader of Austria and Miss Earth Water 2018
Valeria Ayos of Colombia
However, inquiring minds want to know why Miss Earth Fire 2018 Melissa Flores of Mexico did not show up.
Was she not invited? Did her national director go broke and therefore was not able to pay for her airfare?
Or she did not really want to go? If you know anything, please comment below
Belarus was crowned Miss Earth Fire, Czech Republic was crowned Miss Earth Water, Miss
USA was crowned Miss Earth Air and the rest is history
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Earth 2019 goes to
In my vlog , "My top 20 favorites for Miss Earth 2019,"
I mentioned that Nelliys could win Puerto Rico's first ever Miss Earth crown and that's exactly what happened
Nellys' victory has made Puerto Rico as the first country to have won all the big international pageants.
The country now has five Miss Universes, two Miss Worlds, two miss
Internationals, one Miss Supranational
two Miss
Intercontinentals, and one Miss Earth. Tthe Philippines proved once again to be an outstanding host country;
there were no allegations of sexual harassment this time and no stories of food poisoning either and
the schedule of activities is twice as long and hectic as that of another major pageant
which will take place in Atlanta starting November 28.
but the best part of competing in Miss earth when it is held in the Philippines is that there will never be a shortage of
sponsors who are willing to donate their goods and services to the contestants and that's a good thing!
Oh and host James Deakin didn't yell the names of the contestants this time. Good job, James!
We hope to see you host again next year .
And there you have it my review of the 2019 Miss Earth pageant. Do you agree or disagree?
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