Miss Grand Brazil

History

Since the establishment of Miss Grand International in 2013, Brazil has always send the representatives to participate in such. Its first representative, Tamara de Costa Bicca Top 16 finalists Miss Brazil World 2013, was appointed by the licensee Concurso Nacional de Beleza Miss Brasil to join the international contest in Thailand where she was placed among the Top 10 finalist.^[19][6] In the following year, the inaugural contest of the Miss Grand Brazil was held after a São Paulo-based event organizer Gerson Antonelli had purchased the license.^[1][5][2] The contest was held as the sub-event of the annual festival Festival Nacional do Folclore at the Anfiteatro da Casa de Cultura of Olímpia city in São Paulo on 25 July, featuring 13 contestants, in which Yameme Ibrahim of Paraná won the main title.^[1][5][2] Ibrahim then participated at Miss Grand International 2014 in Thailand on 25 October and was placed among the Top 20 finalists.^[2] However, the license had been brought back to the hand of the CNB Miss Brazil in the following year then the country representatives at Miss Grand International were appointed to the position instead of organizing the Miss Grand national for four years consecutively;^[5] the elected queens includes Paula Gomes (2015),^[20] Renata Sena (2016),^[21] Caroline Venturini (2017),^[22] and Gabrielle Vilela [pt] (2018).^[5] Besides Miss Grand Brazil, CNB Miss Brazil also holds the country licenses for Miss World, Mister World as well as Miss and Mister Supranational.^[23]

The pageant was planned to be resurrected in 2017 at Hotel do Bosque Eco Resort in Angra dos Reis (RJ) on 5 May but the program, unfortunately, was rescheduled to 2019 for undisclosed reasons.^[24] Two years later, the suspended program was finally held on 28 February at Dall'Onder Grande Hotel in Bento Gonçalves of Rio Grande do Sul state, with 22 candidates representing each federative unit of Brazil participating,^[5][25] and the event has been held annually since then.^[26][12]

After its first postponement in 2017, the pageant, originally planned to be held on 12 October, has been canceled once again in 2021, resulting from the widespread COVID-19 infection in Brazil,^[12] which exceeds more than twenty thousand new positive cases per day in the second half of the year.^[27] Therefore, the director decided to assign the second runner-up of the 2019 contest – Lorena Rodrigues – to participate in the international edition,^[18] in which she finished as the second runner-up.^[15][16]

Selection of contestants

The Miss Grand Brazil pageant has been licensing the participant rights to the local agency since 2019.^[9] The regional licensees then select their representatives through either the local contest, internal casting, or by a hand-picking.^[9] In the 2022 edition, at least 13 federative units of Brazil (i.e., Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais) held the state pageant or casting event to determine the finalists for Miss Grand Brazil 2022.^[10][11][28] Moreover, the national organizer also receives the application directly to choose the supplementary national finalists.^[9]

Several states have organized their state-level pageant to select representatives for Miss Grand Brazil, as detailed below.

• Miss Grand Minas Gerais (est. 2021)^[29]
• Miss Grand Pará (est. 2023)^[30]
• Miss Grand Paraná (est. 2021)^[31]
• Miss Grand Rio de Janeiro (est. 2021)^[32]
• Miss Grand Piauí (est. 2023)^[33][34]

Location and date

Competition result

Participating state representatives

The following list is the national finalists of the Miss Grand Brazil pageant, as well as the competition results.

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Representatives	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
States
Acre			Y		Y	Y	Y
Alagoas		12					Y
Amapá			Y			Y	Y
Amazonas		Y	15		20	Y	Y
Bahia	8	Y	9	9	Y	Y
Ceará		9		Y	11	10	15
Distrito Federal	8	Y	12	16	Y	16	9
Espírito Santo	Y			Y		Y	Y
Goiás	8	Y	9	9	20	Y	9
Maranhão			12	12	11	16	Y
Mato Grosso	8	Y	Y		20	16	15
Mato Grosso do Sul	Y	15	15	16			Y
Minas Gerais			12	16		10	15
Pará	Y	12	Y	12	11	Y
Paraíba		15		Y	Y	Y
Paraná		12				16	9
Pernambuco		9	Y	Y		10	15
Piauí				Y	Y		Y
Rio de Janeiro			15	Y	11	10
Rio Grande do Norte			9	16	Y	Y	Y
Rio Grande do Sul	Y	9	Y		20		15
Rondônia		Y	Y	Y		10	15
Roraima						16	Y
Santa Catarina	Y	9	Y	9	20	Y
São Paulo			9	9	11	16	9
Sergipe		15				Y	Y
Tocantins	Y	Y	Y	Y			Y
Non States
Alto Cafezal
Cânions Paulistas				Y
Cataratas do Iguaçu					11
Circuito das Frutas				Y	20
Guanabara					20
Ilhabela				Y	20
Ilha Comprida				Y
Ilha de São Luís					Y
Ipiranga					Y
Norte Mato-Grossense
Olímpia	Y
Plano Piloto				Y	20
Sul Mineiro				Y
Vale do Aço				12
Zona da Mata Mineira				Y
Total	14	22	22	31	28	27	27
Color keys    : Declared as the winner    : Ended as a 1st runner-up    : Ended as a 2nd runner-up    : Ended as a 3rd runner-up    : Ended as a 4th runner-up  A  : Ended as a finalist, semifinalist and unplaced  ×  : Ended as withdrew during the competition  ×  : Ended as no representative

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