See main article: Miss Grand International 2018. The 6th edition of the Miss Grand International pageant was held at the One Entertainment Park in Yangon, Myanmar on October 25, 2018,[1] [2] in which candidates from 75 countries and territories participated.[3] These candidates were elected as the country representatives through different methods, such as through the Miss Grand National which was held to select the country representative for Miss Grand International specifically,[4] [5] or appointed by another national pageant organizer, in which the main winner was sent to compete on other international stages. Some of them were assigned as representatives without competing at any national pageant in this particular year.[6] [7] [8]
As per data collected in the National preliminary contest section, 44 national pageant was held to elect the country representatives for Miss Grand International 2018. 19 of which was the Miss Grand National (A1), while 2 was other national contests that sent their main winners to Miss Grand International 2023 (A2), 14 national contest listed the Miss Grand title as one of the supplement awards (B1), while the remaining 13 contest later appointed its runner-up as Miss Grand National titleholder (B2). All the remaining candidates were either determined through the casting or appointed without participating in any respective national pageants (C1 and C2), such as the representative of Panama.[9]
This year, the Miss Grand National was also held in Azerbaijan, but the organizer, Elxan Pashayev, did not hold the license of Miss Grand International for Azerbaijan.
Three candidates, who were elected as the country representatives through the national pageant, did not enter the international tournament for different reasons, and no replacements were assigned, including the representatives of Bahamas, Namibia, and Singapore.[10]
The representatives of Guatemala and Honduras were also appointed but did not compete for undisclosed reasons, while the representative of Lithuania, Jurate Stasiunaite, withdrew during the international pageant camp for personal reasons.[11]
Five replacements have been observed, including:
In this edition, a total of 13 countries withdrew, 3 countries debuted, and 10 countries returned, making the total 75 countries that participated. The information is summarized below.
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The following is a list of Miss Grand International 2018's national preliminary contests, which were categorized by the country representative selection methods.
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| Pageant ! | class=unsortable | Type! | class=unsortable | Date and Venue! | class=unsortable | Entrants! | class=unsortable | Ref. |
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| Total: 45 pageants | colspan=2 | |||||||
| Miss Face | B2 | September 30, 2017, at the, Prague | 10 | [20] [21] | ||||
| Miss Universe Myanmar | B2 | September 30, 2017, at the Gandamar Grand Ballroom, Gandamar Wholesale | 30 | [22] [23] | ||||
| Miss Peru | B2 | October 29, 2017, at the Municipal Theatre, Lima | 23 | [24] [25] | ||||
| Miss Venezuela | B2 | November 9, 2017, at the Venevisión - Studio 5, Caracas | 24 | [26] [27] | ||||
| Miss Polonia | B2 | November 26, 2017, at the Hotel Narvil Conference & Spa, Serock | 20 | [28] [29] | ||||
| The Miss China | A2 | December 9, 2017, at the Royal Hotel, Guangzhou | 24 | [30] [31] | ||||
| Miss Grand Colombia | A1 | February 11, 2018, at the BH Tempo Hotel, Villeta, Cundinamarca | 5 | [32] [33] | ||||
| Miss Grand Namibia | A1 | March 3, 2018, at the Safari Hotel, Windhoek | [34] [35] | |||||
| Binibining Pilipinas | March 18, 2018, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Metro Manila | 40 | [36] [37] | |||||
| Miss Grand Laos | A1 | March 24, 2018, at the ITECC Shopping Mall, Xaysetha, Vientiane | 12 | [38] [39] | ||||
| Miss Mexico | May 4, 2018, at the Salón Imperial de Villa Toscana Eventos, Hermosillo, Sonora | 32 | [40] | |||||
| Miss World New Zealand | May 5, 2018, at the SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland | 11 | [41] [42] | |||||
| Miss Ecuador | B2 | May 8, 2018, at the Hotel Oro Verde de Machala, Machala, El Oro | 22 | [43] [44] | ||||
| Miss Grand Malaysia | A1 | May 12, 2018, at the Grand Pacific Ballroom, Evolve Concept Mall, Petaling Jaya, Selangor | 24 | [45] [46] | ||||
| Queen of Ukraine | A2 | May 23, 2018, at the Parkovy Exhibition and Convention Center, Kyiv | 12 | [47] [48] | ||||
| Miss Grand Albania and Kosovo | A1 | May 26, 2018, at the California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina | 14 | [49] [50] | ||||
| Miss Grand Paraguay | A1 | June 9, 2018, at the Theater of the Americas, Paraguayan-American Cultural Center (CCPA), Asunción | 15 | [51] | ||||
| Miss Grand Australia | A1 | June 16, 2018, at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, Sydney | 28 | [52] [53] | ||||
| Miss Grand Netherlands | A1 | June 17, 2018, at the Apollo Hotel, Vinkeveen | 10 | [54] [55] | ||||
| B2 | [56] [57] | |||||||
| Femina Miss India | B2 | June 19, 2018, at the DOME, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai | 30 | [58] [59] | ||||
| Miss Bolivia | June 23, 2018, at the Salón Sirionó dela FexPo, Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 24 | [60] [61] | |||||
| Miss International United Kingdom | June 24, 2018, at the Park Hall Hotel, Preston, Lancashire | 53 | [62] [63] | |||||
| Miss Grand Spain | A1 | June 30, 2018, at the Cerezo Theater, Carmona | 34 | [64] [65] | ||||
| Miss Grand Bahamas | A1 | July 1, 2018, at the Meliá Nassau Beach – All-Inclusive Resort, Nassau | 7 | [66] | ||||
| Miss and Mister Grand Azerbaijan | A1 | July 8, 2018, at the Elektra Events Hall, Baku | 10 | [67] | ||||
| Miss Grand Thailand | A1 | July 14, 2018, at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre, Bangkok | 77 | [68] | ||||
| Miss Grand Indonesia | A1 | July 21, 2018, at the Jakarta Convention Center, Central Jakarta | 30 | [69] | ||||
| Miss Grand Japan | A1 | July 31, 2018, at the WOMB Night Club, Shibuya, Tokyo | 17 | [70] | ||||
| Miss Grand Nepal | A1 | August 4, 2018, at the Hotel Gurkha Heritage | 10 | [71] | ||||
| Miss Grand South Africa | A1 | August 4, 2018, at the Atterbury Theatre, Pretoria | 14 | [72] | ||||
| Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands | B2 | August 11, 2018, at the Pistarckle Theater, St. Thomas | 5 | [73] | ||||
| Miss Universe Jamaica | August 24, 2018, at the Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston | 24 | [74] [75] | |||||
| Miss Grand Canada | A1 | August 26, 2018, at the Chinese Cultural Center, Calgary | 15 | [76] | ||||
| Miss Grand Korea | A1 | August 30, 2018, at the Dinoche Convention, Seongdong, Seoul | 22 | [77] [78] | ||||
| Miss Queen of Scandinavia | September 1, 2018, at the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden | 35 | [79] [80] | |||||
| Miss World Bulgaria | September 12, 2018, at the Rainbow Plaza, Sofia | 22 | [81] [82] | |||||
| Miss Denmark | B2 | September 12, 2018, at the Circus Building, Copenhagen | 30 | [83] [84] | ||||
| Ethiopian Beauty Queens | September 13, 2018, at the Intercontinental Addis Hotel, Addis Ababa | 40 | [85] [86] | |||||
| Miss Grand Cambodia | A1 | September 13, 2018, at the Nagaworld Hotel Grand Ballroom, Phnom Penh | 27 | [87] | ||||
| Miss Cook Islands | September 15, 2018, at the Avarua National Auditorium, Avarua | 7 | [88] [89] | |||||
| Miss Grand Sri Lanka | A1 | September 16, 2018, at the Waters Edge, Colombo | 14 | [90] [91] | ||||
| Miss Vietnam | B2 | September 16, 2018, at the Phu Tho Indoor Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City | 43 | [92] [93] | ||||
| Miss Finland | B2 | 10 | [94] [95] | |||||
| Miss World Mongolia | B2 | September 2018 | [96] | |||||
| Miss Singapore | September 2018 | [97] | ||||||
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