After Karolina Bielawska's victory at the postponed 70th Miss World pageant, it was decided that they allow Karolina to reign for the full 2022 and make plans for the 2023 edition. It was initially announced that the United Arab Emirates will be the host of the pageant, but it seems talks fell through in the end, and India stepped in as host. Initially, they scheduled the pageant for November 2023, but supposedly some political considerations (ongoing elections, supposedly) had to be made that caused the pageant to be postponed further to March of this year.
There wree supposedly 117 contestants that were expected to arrive, but we only got hold of info for 116 of them. And of those 116, four ended up not making it to India.
ALBANIA - Endi Demneri. Reportedly, she almost made it to India to compete after settling her visa issues, but she had one big obstacle preventing her from going to India--she carries a Kosovo passport, and India doesn't recognize that country. Reportedly she'll compete in the next edition of Miss World instead.
LAOS - Phonevilai Luanglath She was the first confirme candidate to send her regrets that she would not make it to the competition, as reportedly there was a death in her family.
LATVIA - Anastasija Ivanova. She seems to be an attractive woman who doesn't seem to have enough support or resources that she didn't quite update her site and her social media, and she emerged as a no-show.
ZAMBIA - Natasha Mapulanga. This lady was the second to confirm she won't make it, mainly because of lack of resources to fly to India and compete on top of visa issues.
There were some fresh tweaks to the fast-track format this year that most especially affected the Head-to-Head challenge. Instead of a video series where we see a roundtable of contestants being interviewed and then we see their intro videos, the Head-to-Head challenge is now determined by the contestants submitting videos about their commitments for te UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)--a concept that seems to be borrowed from Miss International as the latter has been hyping this for the past two editions. There is also seems to be a focus of promoting the Miss World website itself, as most of the material cn be found there. We don't see that many Miss World videos on YouTube anymore, and neither do we see a brrage of updates on Facebook and Instagram as in previous editions, though there would still be some material shown on those platforms.
The final roster of 112 contestants were organized by continents throughout their stay in India--but this time, the Caribbean region is integrated into the Americas so they formed one group. Asia & Oceania are also combined into one group, especially since Oceania is only represented by two countries, and Africa and Europe are obviously separate contingents. It makes for a very logical grouping, if you ask me, and I wouldn't mind this format to be maintained in subsequent editions. So how are the contestants like and how well they performed in the challenges? Well, read on...
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