Juan Sebastian wrote:moon gin wrote:I think the problem here is that a lot of people simplifying the importance of BWAP spirit of Miss World into winning or placing at BWAP Fast Track. While it is actually much larger than that.
If we look back at BWAP winners at Miss World, we normally have girls with large-scale projects and supported heavily by their national organization and/or humanitarian/government organization as the winners. The reason is perhaps because these BWAP projects requires great effort of work and most of them have long-term effect that the BWAP judges value them more. But there are also girls with a lot simpler projects, and while their projects are not as elaborate as the BWAP winners, it does not mean these girls are less qualified to be a BWAP ambassador than the BWAP winner.
Take case of Miss Nepal in 2018. She works together with a humanitarian organization there to help a village deep in the rural area of Nepal. They try to provide everything from blankets, to clothes, to electricity, to household necessities. The project is in large-scale and even the intended target is hard to reach in the deep of Nepal. So when the judges award these efforts with BWAP award, it's well understood.
On the other hand Miss Thailand in 2018 is focusing more towards children with autism. The project may not be in such a grand scale as Miss Nepal, but Miss Thailand has started to be involved in humanitarian work since she was 5 years old, meaning she has been working at some scale for charitable cause for 15 years now. She even received an award from former US President Obama for her long-time dedication for social work. Now, her BWAP project at Miss World might not make the Top 25, but when we know about her story and how she has been involved in social work since very young age, can we say that she is less deserving to be a BWAP ambassador than Miss Nepal for example?
The BWAP award is presented for the girl with the best social project presented to MWO each year, but BWAP itself is beyond that. Just because a girl does not win BWAP award, does not mean she is not a good advocate for BWAP project. In fact Miss Thailand won her 2nd head to Head Challenge duel, where the girls were required to speak and advocate their BWAP cause, showing that she is pretty much capable of being a BWAp ambassador and placing high at Miss World.I know you are also a blind Miss World stan but its not just about BWAP, the judges seemed to be more impressed with Miss Nepal in general
Do not let me stop you from being delusional though, you are entitled to believe whatever you want no matter how ridiculous it is LMAO
Let me do the complete breakdown of the 2 girls achievement then
BWAP - Nepal placing higher than Thailand
Multimedia - Nepal placing higher than Thailand
Sports - Both are unplaced
Talent - Thailand placing higher than Nepal
Top Model - Both placed among Top 32
Head to Head Challenge - Thailand placing higher than Nepal
And if we include World Designer Dress Award as well - Thailand placing higher than Nepal. And that's not included the interview round whose result is never disclosed and there's chance Thailand might score higher than Nepal too in that round or vice versa.
Both Nepal and Thailand were strong contenders for Asia in 2018. Nepal's achievement is easily more visible though as she won 2 awards, but if we look at bigger picture, Nepal placed higher than Thailand in 2 contests, and Thailand placed higher than Nepal also in 2 contests. Plus Thailand made placement in a non-Fast Track category as well and there's chance her Top Model and interview rank is higher than Nepal, which is why in the end she outranked Nepal overall. So we can never really say that Nepal is robbed by Thailand.