Sunday, 13 July 2008

Miss Universe closing in on the final

Well I have just scored the preliminaries and there have been some major changes to the rankings. In the end the scores were so close to make it into the Top 15 that I thought anyone from rank 28 could have got into the Top 15. Well here are my Top 15 after all judging...

Belgium
Dominican Republic
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Canada
Japan
Australia
Venezuela
Angola
Panama
Vietnam
Costa Rica
Aruba
India
Peru

So I guess people who have read my blog know that the newly inducted are Vietnam and Peru. Both of them made the Top 10 of my preliminaries judging and thus have made it into my Top 15. I do have to say though I think my preliminaries scores are the closest out of the three sections so it really could have gone either way for these. I found that if I changed a contestants score in one segment by 0.1 they could drop at least 10 ranks! Anyway others who placed in the Top 10 in the prelims were Ireland, Montenegro, Mexico and Russia. Ireland was very close to making the Top 15 and was only 0.007 away from making it! Montenegro managed to make it into the Top 15 also. whilst now I have a liking towards Mexico but it's not enough at this late stage as she only made 23rd but she only needed 0.039 to make it into the Top 15. Russia on the other hand was too low to make an impact with her Top 10 placement. Georgia made it very close to the Top 15 with only 0.002 points away. The USA had dropped one rank and placed 17th in the end. Norway also dropped out of the Top 15 along with Antigua and Barbuda. Colombia made 26th in the end whilst the UK placed 35th. Estonia on the other hand continued to place at 80th! Anyway I do think better of Mexico now but it wasn't enough for her to make it. However I do think that my Top 15 doesn't represent who I like the most but more of who I think did the best! For example Canada and Aruba places a bit too highly on my rankings I think. Anyway I think My Top 15 doesn't really need to fit the actual Top 15 because I think anyone in my Top 30 would be fine for me to make the Top 15!
Well the biggest jumpers after the prelims were Vietnam, Ireland and Montenegro. The biggest droppers were China, Bahamas, Curacao and Germany.
I just wonder now who will win! I think if the favourites Mexico or Venezuela win I'll be fine but if Peurto Rico or Colombia wins I will be slightly annoyed!

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