Miss Grand International 2013 | |
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Date | 19 November 2013 |
Presenters | |
Entertainment | Thaitanium |
Venue | IMPACT Arena, Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi, Thailand |
Broadcaster | |
Entrants | 71 |
Placements | 20 |
Debuts |
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Winner | Janelee Chaparro (Puerto Rico) |
Best National Costume | Jie Pan (China) |
Miss Grand International 2013 was the first edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, [1] [2] [3] held on 19 November 2013 at the IMPACT Arena in Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi, Thailand. [2] [4] Contestants from seventy-one countries and territories competed for the title, [5] of whom the representative of Puerto Rico, Janelee Chaparro, was announced the winner and received a reward of 30,000 USD in cash. [6] [7] [8] Meanwhile, the representatives of Australia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and Slovakia were named the runners-up. [5] [6] [9]
The pageant grand final featured a live performance by a Thai hip-hop band, Thaitanium, [10] and was broadcast nationwide via Channel 7, [4] [11] with two Thai television personalities, Utt Panichkul and Sonia Couling, as the event's MCs. [10]
Initially, eighty-eight candidates confirmed to participate, [2] [12] but some of them did not enter the tournament or withdrew during the pageant boot camp, such as the representatives of Denmark, Sweden, Ukraine, and Singapore. [13] [14]
After Nawat Itsaragrisil ended his role as a producer of the beauty pageant Miss Thailand World for BEC-Tero of Channel 3 in 2012, he established his own pageant, launching Miss Grand Thailand in 2013 in partnership with Channel 3's rival, Channel 7, [15] as well as the international platform Miss Grand International, whose first edition's press release was arranged on 22 October 2013, at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok. [2] [12] In such an event, the pageant schedule was revealed; the pageant activities was set to happen from 3–19 November in three different cities, including Chiang Mai, [16] Pattaya, [17] and Bangkok. [2] [12]
The pageant consisted of four main sub-events, including the national costume contest held at the Promenada Resort Mall , Chiang Mai, on 8 November; [18] [19] the swimsuit competition held on October 13 at the Zign Hotel, Pattaya; [4] and the preliminary and final rounds held in Bangkok on 17 and 19 October at the IMPACT Arena, Nonthaburi. [2] [12]
Since it was the first edition of the pageant, most of its contestants were appointed to compete; some of them were runners-up of other national pageants. Only three countries organized the national pageants individually to select their representatives for Miss Grand, including Malaysia, [20] [21] Thailand, [22] and Zimbabwe. [23] [24] However, the Zimbabwe winner was later replaced by an appointed representative due to the national team's internal conflicts. [25] [26]
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Placement | Contestant [27] [28] |
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Miss Grand International 2013 | |
1st runner-up |
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2nd runner-up |
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3rd runner-up |
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4th runner-up |
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Top 10 |
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Top 20 |
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Award | Contestant [5] [6] |
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Best National Costume |
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Best Evening Gown |
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Best in Swimsuit |
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Miss Popular Vote |
In the pageant grand final round held on 19 November, after an introduction section, twenty contestants, who were selected through the preliminary round held on 17 October as well as all pre-pageant scorings, qualified for the top 20, in which each of the qualified candidates competed in the swimsuit. [9] [10] The score from this round, together with all previous accumulation scores, determined the top 10 finalists who then competed against each other in the evening gown and speech session. [9] Based on accumulation scores, the final five were selected to continue in the question and answer portion, where the winner and runners-up were determined. [6] [8] [9] [10]
71 contestants competed for the title.
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