This makes me think that crowns are for sale more than we think unfortunately.
Someone the other day said that perhaps national pageants are confused by IMG so they're crowning the wrong women. I think there's something to that but on a much smaller scale. I think the bigger issue is countries who have no chance at Miss Universe are finally just saying "f**k it, let's make some money at least".
I don't want to accuse any specific country but looking around at some the winners lately, I'm starting to wonder.