Miss Grand Sarawak

Miss Grand ฺSarawak

Formation	May 20, 2017;7 years ago (2017-05-20)
Founder	Borneo Pageantry
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Kuching
Location	Sarawak, Malaysia
Membership	Miss Grand Malaysia
Official language	English Malay
Parent organization	Borneo Pageantry (2017) Bachelor of Malaysia/ Sarawak Paperbeads (2018–2021)

Miss Grand Sarawak is a Malaysian state-level beauty pageant which selects representatives from Sarawak for the Miss Grand Malaysia national competition, ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} founded in 2017 by a group of event organizer based in Kuching called Borneo Pageantry. ^[1]

Since the first competition in the Miss Grand Malaysia pageant, Sarawak's representatives have never won the competition three times but were named the second and fourth runners-up in 2017 and 2018, respectively. ^{[5] [6]}

History

After acquiring the license of Miss Grand Malaysia in 2017, Jude Benjamin Lisa began franchising the state competitions to individual organizers, who would name the state representatives to compete in the national pageant, the license for Sarawak was granted to an event organizer, Borneo Pageantry, ^[1] who then organized the first contest of Miss Grand Sarawak in Kuching, in which a 24-year-old Bidayuh from Kuching, Fiollaa Redup, was named the first Miss Grand Sarawak. ^[1] Fiollaa later competed nationally in the Miss Grand Malaysia 2017 pageant in Selangor, ^[7] where she was named the second runner-up. ^{[5] [8]}

In 2018, the competition license was transferred to Bachelor of Malaysia/Sarawak Paperbeads, who distributed the right to send candidates to compete at the Miss Grand Sarawak pageant to division-level organizers; twelve division pageants was held. ^{[3] [4] [9]}

The pageant was halted in 2022 after the national license of Miss Grand Malaysia was transferred to Sean Wong of HyperLive Entertainment Pte. Ltd., and the state franchise has not been distributed since then. ^[10]

Editions

The following table details Miss Grand Sarawak's annual editions since 2017.

Edition	Date	Final venue	Entrants	Winner	Ref.
1st	May 20, 2017	Penview Convention Centre, Kuching	16	Fiollaa Redup	[1] [2]
2nd	March 31, 2018	RH Hotel, Sibu	18	Theresa Lieyshar Seri	[3] [4] [9]
3rd	March 30, 2019	Kingwood Hotel, Sibu	15	Julie Minele Senele	[11]
4th	March 7, 2021	Virtual pageant	10	Elvieka Chrissy	[12]

National competition

The following is a list of candidates who competed at the Miss Grand Malaysia pageant under the state organization of Miss Grand Sarawak and independent contestants who qualified through the central wildcard system.

Color keys

For qualification procedure:		For national placement:
W State winner		Winner
R State runner-up		Runner-up
S State wildcard		Semi-finalists
C Central wildcard		Quarter-finalists

Year	Representative	Original state title	Placement at Miss Grand Malaysia	State director(s)	Ref.
2017	W Fiollaa Redup	Miss Grand Sarawak 2017	2nd runner-up	Borneo Pageantry	[5]
	R Bibiana Green	1st runner-up Miss Grand Sarawak 2017	Unplaced		[5]
	C Phrisillia Peter	—	Unplaced	Independent contestant	[7]
2018	W Theresa Lieyshar Seri	Miss Grand Sarawak 2018	Unplaced	Apohrozy Ezrie Eallie Teresa Suli Noel Adina Sana Sharon Frederick	[6]
	R Rachel Chin Jia Ning	1st runner-up Miss Grand Sarawak 2018	4th runner-up		[6]
	S Caithlin Supang	Miss Grand Sarawak 2018 Finalist	Top 12		[6]
	S Ellna Jiway	Miss Grand Sarawak 2018 Finalist	Top 12		[6]
	S Maydinia Mino	Miss Grand Sarawak 2018 Finalist	Unplaced		[3]
2019	W Julie Minele Senele	Miss Grand Sarawak 2019	Top 5	Apohrozy Ezrie Eallie Teresa Suli Noel Adina Sana Sharon Frederick	[13]
	R Lysandra Gabriel Storie	1st runner-up Miss Grand Sarawak 2019	Top 12		[13]
	S Adriana Liun David	Miss Grand Sarawak 2019 Finalist	Unplaced		[14]
	S Gloria Kelbin	Miss Grand Sarawak 2019 Finalist	Unplaced		[14]
	C Emily Elizabeth Beard	—	Top 12	Independent contestants	[13] [14]
	C Emily Chieng Dee Ling	—	Top 12		[13] [14]
2020	S Angela Kon	Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21 Finalist	Unplaced	Apohrozy Ezrie Eallie Teresa Suli Noel Adina Sana Sharon Frederick	[15] [16]
	S Kelly Raywyn Cahill	Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21 Finalist	Unplaced		[15] [16]
2021	W Elvieka Chrissy	Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21	Top 10		[17]
	R Hannah Musa	1st runner-up Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21	Unplaced		[18] [19]
	S Kelly Raywyn Cahill	Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21 Finalist	Top 5		[18] [19]
	S Angela Kon	Miss Grand Sarawak 2020/21 Finalist	Unplaced		[17]

References

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13. "Sabahan Beauty Dequeen Crowned Miss Grand Malaysia 2019". www.pamper.my. 2 May 2019. Archived from the original on 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
14. "24 finalists to vie for Miss Grand Malaysia 2019 title". The Borneo Post . 24 April 2019. Archived from the original on 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
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External links

• Media related to Miss Grand Malaysia at Wikimedia Commons