Miss Grand International 2018

Date and venue

Two months after Miss Grand International 2017, the pageant organization announced that the next edition of the contest would be held in Yangoon, Myanmar on October 25, 2018.^[1][2][3][4]

Selection of participants

Contestants from 75 countries and territories were selected to compete in the competition.^[5] Thirty-one of these delegates were determined through the national pageant. Fourteen were appointed to their positions after being runner-ups in their national pageant or being selected through a casting process. Thirty delegates were appointed to the title without participating in any respective national pageants in this particular year.^[6][7][8]

The original representatives of Albania,^[9] Canada,^[10] Colombia,^[11] Kosovo,^[12] and Spain,^[13] who were elected through the national pageant, resigned from the titles, and caused the national directors to promote the runner-up to the title or appoint another delegate as replacement.^[11][13][14] The representatives of Bahamas, Namibia, and Singapore, were also elected through the national pageants, did not enter the pageant, and no replacements were assigned.^[15]

The representatives of Guatemala and Honduras were also appointed to participate but did not compete for undisclosed reasons. Miss Grand Lithuania, Jūratė Stasiūnaitė, withdrew during the pageant for personal reasons.^[16]

Placements

§ – Voted into the Top 10 by viewers and awarded as Miss Popular Vote

Special awards

Format

In the grand final round on October 25, after an introduction section, twenty-one contestants, who were selected through the preliminary round held on October 23 as well as all pre-pageant scorings, qualified for the quarterfinal round,^[22] in which each of the qualified candidates competed in the swimsuit.^[2] The score from the quarterfinals, as well as all previous accumulation scores, determined the nine semifinal finalists, together with the winner of the Miss Popular vote, which was elected through public voting, completed the top ten.^[2][5]

The ten finalists competed against each other in the evening gown and speech session, then the final five were selected to continue in the question and answer portion, in which the winner and all four runners-up were determined.^[2][5]

The panel of judges in the preliminary round, including:^[22]

• Nawat Itsaragrisil – President of Miss Grand International
• Teresa Chaivisut – Vice president of Miss Grand International
• Janelee Chaparro – Miss Grand International 2013 from Puerto Rico
• Lees García – Miss Grand International 2014 from Cuba
• Claire Elizabeth Parker – Miss Grand International 2015 from Australia
• Ariska Putri Pertiwi – Miss Grand International 2016 from Indonesia
• Ivan Gunawan – Indonesian television personality and fashion designer