by Smile » Mon Oct 09, 2017 4:02 am
It's a shame but countries like Italy, Greece, Serbia, Switzerland, etc do not prioritize pageantry anymore. They are what we call the symptom of years and years of Trump and MUO politicizing and monetizing Miss Universe, in the process ostracizing many countries and their fans who saw no purpose in investing in pageants.
Countries need to know that the process is fair and fans in these countries need to have some hope that their rep will have a fair shot. When you take away that hope for nearly half to 75% of the countries that compete at Miss Universe, what you have is many countries just not caring anymore.
Conversely, if you're a fan from Venezuela, USA, Philippines, Colombia, etc, part of you must desire a more competitive pageant where more countries get a piece of the pie. And that makes things more interesting.