INTERNATIONAL PAGEANTRY is an international competition and international Crowning that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. The phrase almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls; similar events for men or boys are called by other n
ames and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests. Children's beauty pageants mainly focus on beauty, gowns, sportswear modelling, talent, and personal interviews. Adult and teen pageants focus on makeup, hair and gowns, swimsuit modelling, and personal interviews. Possible awards include titles, tiaras or crowns, sashes, savings bonds, and cash prizes. The procedure for both the BIG 4 and Grand Prix rankings is the same. Consider the following for each pageant’s edition:
- The BIG 4 Ranking comprises participant countries in Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Earth and Miss International only;
- The Grand Prix Ranking comprises participant countries in Miss Supranational, Miss Tourism Queen International, Miss Grand International, and Miss Tourism International.
- The winning country in each pageant earns 40 + 80 bonus points, totaling 120 points;
- The country placing 2nd earns 39 + 50 bonus points, totaling 89 points;
- The country placing 3rd earns 38 + 30 bonus points, totaling 68 points;
- The country placing 4th earns 37 points, 5th earns 36 points, 6th earns 35 points, and so on, up to an eventual 40th place, earning 1 point. The bonuses are distributed as following:
a) finalists = + 20 bonus points;
b) semi-finalists = +10 bonus points;
c) quarter-finalists = no bonus points earned.
- When exact rankings are not released or made public, a point-average will prevail to score the involved countries;
- Special awards are worth 1 point each (Miss World fast-track events are not included in this category) ;
- Points earned by each country / territory in a given pageant are multiplied 1. # # # (number of participant countries in that pageant). For example, if 89 countries participated in Miss Universe 2011, then the number of points earned by scoring nations shall be multiplied by 1.089;
- Points of BIG 4 and Grand Prix pageants are put together only to determine the “Country of the Year”. When it is the case, points earned by countries in Miss World and Miss Universe are multiplied by 2.
