Miss Venezula tops world beauties

In September of 2003 Global Beauties launched the “Grand Slam” ranking, a system which makes it possible to measure the performance of each participant country in the five most acclaimed beauty pageants in the world in the last ten years: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, Miss Earth, and now, Miss Tourism Queen International.

The following is an overview of the basis on which the ranking is calculated.

a) Considered for the ranking are all countries which have participated in a ‘big five’ taking into account the results of such competitions over a time span of the last ten years.

b) Once a new pageant is held, results from exactly ten years ago are erased, and the new ones are added. (eg. All points earned by countries during the 1993 Miss Universe pageants were discarded immediately after results of Miss Universe 2003 were added to the ranking).

c) The ranking list is calculated on by a computer programme which assigns a country points for its achievements in a major international contest, according to clearly defined criteria.

d) The factors taken into consideration are winning or placing among finalists and semi-finalists in a ‘big four’. (special prizes such as Miss Photogenic, Cyber Press, Elegance, etc, are no longer computed).

e) Points are awarded as following: pageant’s winner (20 points), second place (19 points), third place (18 points); fourth place (17 points), fifth place (16 points), sixth place (15 points), sevent place (14 points), eight place (13 points), ninth place (12 points), 10th place (11 points), 11th place (10 points), 12th place (nine points), 13th place (eight points), 14th place (seven points), 15th (six points), 16th (five points), 17th place (four points), 18th place (three points), 19th place (two points), 20th place (one point);

f) When exact results for all ranking positions are not made available, an average of those is calculated to determine points earned by such countries (eg- In Miss World 2002, where rankings from sixth to tenth and from 11th to 20th were not revealed, each of the semi-finalist countries in the top 20 earned 5,5 points (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10/10), while those who placed among the top ten earned 13,0 points each (11+12+13+14+15/5).

g) A weight is given to each of the ‘big 5’ before points are added to determine the Grand Slam Ranking. Based on tradition, years of existence, television telecast and audience, production quality, press interest and number of participant countries, it was agreed that Miss World results would be multiplied by 2.0, Miss Universe results would be multiplied by 2.0, Miss International results would be multiplied by 1.0, Miss Tourism Queen International would be multiplied by 1.0 and Miss Earth results would be multiplied by 1.0. h) At the end of each year, three awards are given. The “Country of the Year Award” goes to the country with the best performance in that particular year alone.