RESULTS REACTION & CAPSULE REVIEW: MISTER WORLD 2024

 

MISTER WORLD 2024: AT THE HOMESTRETCH --CONCLUSION

The final tally of contestants in this edition of Mister World is 60.  It may be a sharp decline from 72 in the previous edition and the record of 74 back in 2010, but this is a sum all other major international male pageants would envy, as none of them has ever reached this level.  So how do these 60 gentlemen stack up?  Here's ow my leaderboard looks like:

TOP CONTENDERS:  AUSTRALIA, KENYA, SPAIN, UNITED STATES, VIETNAM

SHOO-INS:  CANADA, CHINA, CZECH REPUBLIC, ENGLAND, INDIA,, ITALY, MEXICO, NETHERLANDS, NORTHERN IRELAND, PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH AFRICA, VENEZUELA

LIKELIEST:  ANGOLA,  ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, GUADELOUPE, IRELAND, JAMAICA, LEBANON, , MALTA, NICARAGUA, PERU, POLAND, SINGAPORE, SIERRA LEONE, SOUTH SUDAN, SRI LANKA, THAILAND, TURKIYE, 

BWAP FACTOR:  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, MYANMAR, 

PERSONALITY FACTOR:  INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, 

EXCELLENT:  BANGLADESH, BELGIUM, , BULGARIA, CAMBODIA, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, FRANCE, GUINEA, MONTENEGRO, NEPAL, 

VERY STRONG:  ALBANIA,  ETHIOPIA, JAPAN, LAOS, PAKISTAN, 

STRONG:  FINLAND, SERBIA, 

And here is my "Fearful" Forecast:

FINAL FOUR:  KENYA, SPAIN, UNITED STATESS, VIETNAM

TOP 10:  AUSTRALIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, ITALY, PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH AFRICA

TOP 20:  CHINA, ENGLAND, INDIA, MEXICO, NETHERLANDS, NORTHERN IRELAND, SIERRA LEONE, SRI LANKA, TURKIYE, VENEZUELA

BUBBLING UNDER:   ANGOLA,  ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, GUADELOUPE, IRELAND, JAMAICA, LEBANON, , MALTA, NICARAGUA, PERU, POLAND, SINGAPORE,SOUTH SUDAN, THAILAND

STRIKING DISTANCE:   BANGLADESH, BELGIUM, , BULGARIA, CAMBODIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, FRANCE, GUINEA, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, MONTENEGRO, MYANMAR, NEPAL, 

MISTER WORLD 2024: AT THE HOMESTRETCH -- GREEN TEAM (ASIA & OCEANIA)

 

The Green Team, or Team Asia & Oceania, is the biggest team in this year's batch.  It initially had 20 members, but one guy somehow decided to drop out after arriving in Vietnman and participating in Talent and Top Model:

NEW ZEALAND - Tim Kiriwi.

Still, the remaining 19 members of the Green Team still look like a formidable bunch.

AUSTRALIA - Lochlan Carey.

BANGLADESH - B Proshad Das.

CAMBODIA - Sokhurangsey Thul.

CHINA, P.R. - Wei Zihong.

INDIA - Gokul Ganesan.

INDONESIA - Nathanael Yoga.

JAPAN - Tomohiro Mitani.

LAOS - Sithpaseuth Syinthavong.

LEBANON - Mario El Hajj.

MALAYSIA - Joshua Benedict.

MYANMAR - Sai Toung Law.

NEPAL - Santosh Lokshum Limbu.

PAKISTAN - Usman Janjua.

PHILIPPINES - Kirk Bondad.

SINGAPORE - John Sathguru.

SRI LANKA - Megha Sooriyaarachchi.

THAILAND - Jeerawat Vatchasakol.

TURKEY / TURKIYE - Eğe Karabenli.

VIETNAM - Phạm Tuấn Ngọc.

COMING UP:  THE "FEARFUL" FORECAST 

MISTER WORLD 2024: AT THE HOMESTRETCH -- RED TEAM (AMERICAS)

 

The Red Team or the Americas Team

There are three guys who sent initial feelers but backed out when final confirmation was due:

CHILE - Jorge Aldoney.

COSTA RICA - Roberto Mena.

PANAMA - Aaron Guerra.

Like the Blue Team, there are 16 members of this team.

ARGENTINA - Tomas Ghigo.

BOLIVIA - Mario Chavez.

BRAZIL - Eduardo Menezes.

CANADA - Travis Edward.

COLOMBIA - Juan Esteban Rodriguez.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Julio Peña.

ECUADOR - Antonio Borja.

EL SALVADOR - Josue Molina.

GUADELOUPE - Melvin Bartan.

JAMAICA - Tarique Bennett.

MEXICO - Alan Salazar.

NICARAGUA - Erlin Ayerdis.

PERU - Mickael Peña.Olivieri.

PUERTO RICO - Danny Mejia.

UNITED STATES - Daryn Alexander Friedman.

VENEZUELA - Juan Alberto Garcia.

COMING UP:  THE GREEN TEAM (ASIA & OCEANIA)

MISTER WORLD 2024: AT THE HOMESTRETCH -- BLUE TEAM (EUROPE)

 

The Blue Team or Team Europe,

There was one guy who initially sent an initial confirmation, but then backed out before final confirmation:

ESTONIA - Janno Talumaa.

The remaining members of this team number 16.

ALBANIA - Algert Beraj.

BELGIUM - Nathan de Schepper.

BULGARIA - Mihail Sitev.

CZECH REPUBLIC - Tomas Haring.

ENGLAND - Manuel Alcantara Turner.

FINLAND - Juuso Savolainen.

FRANCE - Maxime Klinger.

IRELAND - Glenn Williamson.

ITALY - Bruno Barbieri.

MALTA - Slaven Micallef.

MONTENEGRO - Vladimir Vukcevic.

NETHERLANDS - Ahmed Haydar.

NORTHERN IRELAND - James Moody.

POLAND - Hubert Gromadzki.

SERBIA - Filip Bakic.

SPAIN - Toni Company Toeps.

COMING UP:  RED TEAM (AMERICAS)

MISTER WORLD 2024: AT THE HOMESTRETCH -- YELLOW TEAM (AFRICA)

 After five long years, the grandest male pageant around, Mister World is being staged again.  This time it's held in Vietnam.  Despite some postponements, like from September to October, once they finally fixed on a date in November, the full itinerary was then revealed and it is filled with a host of varied activities that makes for a well-rounded experience.

Like in previous editions, this year's contestants are split into four teams--but unlike the strict alphabetical split in 2019, this time it's split by continental regions.  Typically the continental regions are presented as follows:  Europe, Americas, Africa, and Asia & Oceania.  But I'll put the African team first because they are actually the smallest roster with also the most no-shows from the so-called last confirmation.  One African made iseems to have an initial confirmation but then backed out:

GHANA - Richard Ouro-Tagba Kofi.

Six, in fact, were no-shows:

CAMEROON - Hendrix Allan Moth.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Abraham Mauvé.

GUINEA-BISSAU - Gabriel Monteiro.

LIBERIA - Bruce Erwin Schuler.

NIGERIA - Michael Mazi-Michael.

UGANDA - Shaun Micheal Alinda.

There wre nine mebers of this team that actually showed up, making the smallest team in this bunch.  Let's take a look at them starting with:

ANGOLA - Felipe Salvador Maria.

BOTSWANA - Vincent Gobuamang.  He is notable for winning the marathon leg of the Sports challenge, amassing enough points to be 5th place overall.

ETHIOPIA - Natnael Yazbec.

GUINEA - Djibril Cissé.

KENYA - Teddy Rossiter.

MAURITIUS - Govind Nagi.

SIERRA LEONE - Alhaji Hassan Mansaray.

SOUTH AFRICA - Samuel Chauke.

SOUTH SUDAN - Amac Mathiang Ater Apugi.

COMING UP:  THE BLUE TEAM (EUROPE)

MISS UNIVERSE 2024: "FEARFUL" FORECAST

 
 With the 50% capital infusion by Mexican business Raul Rocha into the Miss Universe Organization, it has led to bigger ambitions such as reasserting its position as the biggest international pageant around, a title it has been yielding to Miss World from 1987 onwards.  They aimed to beat the record drawn by its rival of 127 back in 2013, and by doing so they opened up franchises to new countires and those that had been dormant for quite some time.  With that program, they were able to confirm 129 delegates.

However, one delegate opted to no-show, and she is:

AZERBAIJAN

Three delegates were present in Mexico, but dropped out before the crucial Preliminary Competition:

PANAMA - Italy Mora.

SOUTH AFRICA - Mia LeRoux.

KOSOVO - Eldona 

So, the ifnal roster of 125 still did not beat Miss World's record, but it sstill is a number not to be sneezed at.  After evaluating their performance in the Preliminary Competition, here is how I think they all stand on my leaderboard:

TOP CONTENDERS:  CHILE, PERU, THAILAND, VENEZUELA

SHOO-INS:  BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, DENMARK, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, FINLAND, FRANCE, INDIA, INDONESIA, MEXICO,, NIGERIA, PARAGUAY, PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, RUSSIA, SOMALIA, U S A, VIETNAM, ZIMBABWE

LIKELIEST:  ANGOLA, ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, BOLIVIA, BOTSWANA, CAMEROON, CANADA, COTE D'IVOIRE, D R CONGO, ESTONIA, GREAT BRITAIN, GUATEMALA,  HONDURAS, HONG KONG, ISRAEL, JAMAICA, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, POLAND, SAINT LUCIA, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, SPAIN,  TANZANIA, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ZAMBIA

ADVOCACY FACTOR:  ARUBA, BAHRAIN: CAMBODIA, CAYMAN ISLANDS, GUINEA, 

DIVERSITY FACTOR:  EGYPT, MALTA, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

EXCELLENT:  ALBANIA, ARMENIA, BANGLADESH, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BULGARIA, CHINA, COSTA RICA, CUBA, CURACAO, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GREECE, GUYANA, HUNGARY, ICELAND, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KOREA, LATVIA, LEBANON, MARTINIQUE, MAURTITIUS, MOLDOVA, MONGOLIA, MYANMAR, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NICARAGUA, NORTH MACEDONIA, NORWAY, PAKISTAN, PERSIA,ROMANIA,  SENEGAL, SWITZERLAND, URUGUAY, UZBEKISTAN

VERY STRONG: BONAIRE, CROATIA, FIJI, GERMANY, GIBRALTAR, GUADELOUPE, KYRGYZSTAN, LAOS, MACAU, MALDIVES, PORTUGAL, ,SAMOA, SRI LANKA, SURINAME, TURKIYE, UKRAINE, 

STRONG:  BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, MONTENEGRO, SINGAPORE, U S VIRGIN ISLANDS

Now, my "Fearful" Forecast:

FINAL FIVE:  CHILE, DENMARK, PERU, THAILAND, VENEZUELA

TOP 12:  BRAZIL, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, FINLAND, MEXICO, PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO

TOP 30:  BAHAMAS, COLOMBIA, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS,  INDIA, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NIGERIA, PARAGUAY, RUSSIA, SOMALIA, U S A, VIETNAM, ZIMBABWE

BUBBLING UNDER: ANGOLA, ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BOLIVIA, BOTSWANA, CAMEROON, CANADA, COTE D'IVOIRE, D R CONGO, ESTONIA,HONG KONG, ISRAEL, JAMAICA, POLAND, SAINT LUCIA, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, SPAIN,  TANZANIA, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ZAMBIA

STRIKING DISTANCE:  ALBANIA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BULGARIA, CAMBODIA, CAYMAN ISLANDS, CHINA, COSTA RICA, CUBA, CURACAO, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GREECE, GUINEA, GUYANA, HUNGARY, ICELAND, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KOREA, LATVIA, LEBANON, MALTA, MARTINIQUE, MAURTITIUS, MOLDOVA, MONGOLIA, MYANMAR, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NICARAGUA, NORTH MACEDONIA, NORWAY, PAKISTAN, PERSIA,ROMANIA,  SENEGAL, SWITZERLAND, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, URUGUAY, UZBEKISTAN