The
17th edition of Miss Earth concluded last night in glittering rites at the Mall of Asia Arena with
representative of the host country The Philippines winning the title for the 4th
time. 26 year old Physicist Karen Ibasco
bested out 87 delegates. Her victory is met by angry protests from pageant fans online stating that the
contest is allegedly rigged favoring the homegrown delegate, however many agree also that Miss Philippines delivered her answer well enough and got the judges’ nods (more than half of the judges were foreigners). But if you read comments in forums and facebook pages, all we read are harsh comments against the results of the pageant.
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| Miss Earth 2016 Katherin Espin of Ecuador crowns her successor Karen Ibasco of the Philippines |
The 3 Elemental Queens are : Miss Air 2017 - Australia (Nina Robertson), Miss Water 2017 - Colombia (Juliana Franco) and Miss Fire 2017 - Russia (Lada Akimova)
Other Finalists :
Top 8 : Czech Republic (Iva
Uchytilová),Thailand (Paweensuda Drouin), Netherlands (Faith Landman),Venezuela
(Ninoska Vasquez)
Top 16: Angola (Ermelinda De
Matos), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Lela Karagić), Cameroon (Angele Kossinda), Guatemala
(Maria José Castañeda), Switzerland (Saraha Laura Peyrel), Tonga (Diamond Langi),
USA (Andreia Gibau) andVietnam (Le Thi Ha Thu).
Crowd Favorites
During the parade of nations, Misses Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Indonesia, USA, Venezuela and Netherlands received the loudest cheers from the crowd. The delegates dazzled the audience as they introduced themselves in the parade of nations in their spectacular earth warrior costumes. I love the opening number, it was unique and very modern; Carousel Productions hit it right this year.
James Deakin of CNN Philippines hosted the pageant. I hope they will hire him again next year as he did a great job (except that he tends to exaggerate a bit when he announces the name of countries), but all in all he did a good job. International R&B Shontelle (from Barbados) and Indonesian Violinist Iskander Widjaja were guest performers.
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| Semi-finalists shows their best form wearing Ricky Abad swimwear. |
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