by filipinoako28 » Tue May 22, 2018 11:10 am
[size=150]My Suggestion:
Like MEP, just announce Top 10 per preliminary but make the announcement in quick successions. Just say the country, center stage, then on to the next. This will create element of surprise becuase there will actually be 18 semi- finalists. Also, this can mean more exposure for countries who are superior per round but lack over all competitiveness.
First cut - Top 18, 10 coming from highest average scorers after three rounds of preliminaries
8 coming from continental placers - Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, then combined Oceania-Pacific-Carribean (5 semi finalists) then 1 slot more for any 3 groups with highest number of entrants per continental grouping (3 semi finalists) Most likely Europe, Asia, & Americas. For the 8 continental placers, it’s ok with me if they incorporate Org/chaperone scores.
I want them to maintain the finals format of competition mode immediately after the first cut.
Then, they could opt to proceed to swimsuit round for all the 18 girls. Then combine EG & SS scores to determine the Top 8 for hashtag round.
It will be difficult if they do a cut, most likey to 10 which would mean the need for more interpreters. We know how that has been MEO’s remaining, dare I say, weak spot.
The Top 4 finalists will then be chosen based on cumulative scores from EG, SS, & Hashtag. I dunno, the drama of having the girl immediately answer a question after she is announced a finalist appeals to me. It looked so cool that all the girls who made the second cut are on stage with headsets. It’s a test of nerves because first, there is uncertainty if you make it through the competition then once you do - BAM, final Q&A.
Top 18 - EG & SS
Top 8 - hashtag round
Top 4 - final Q&A.
Or, just a super wild, out of the box suggestion
Top 18 - EG
Top 10 - Hashtag then Swimsuit
Top 6 - Final Q&A. Then wouldn’t it be cool if they award 2nd Runner Up and 1st Runner Up? This will establish how elemental crowns are also important that should they fail to fulfill their duties, runners up are in waiting?
This erases the confusion of some pageant ranking sites that treats elementals as runners up
LASTLY, I love that they maintained the order of announcement Fire-Water-Air then Earth. I think MEO realized how the real second placers were slighted just because their envelopes were picked earlier. Yeah, they are of equal bearing but it is a different recognition if the true second placer was part of the last two standing. Kim Domingo and Miss Australia were kind of robbed of that moment. It was hard to correct pageant sites and news sites saying that Colombia was 1st runner up/Virreina when obviously, the last two standing (the remaining elemental queen and Miss Earth winner) was more or less luck of the draw.
It would have been fair if the girls were called according to rank, then they get to pick which elemental crown to inherit.
Or, what they did with MEP 2018 announcement was suffice with the host stating that should the Miss Earth winner fail to fulfill her duties, the org gets to select the successor from ANYONE of the elemental queens
Man, this was a long, boring post but I hope I made sense.
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