PAGEANT CAFE'S SWEET SIXTEEN OF MISS WORLD 2007
*Not the same as The Royal Flush

by Patrick Tripoldi

THE PAGEANT CAFÉ is a private VIP chat room consisting of pageant fans & fanatics, directors, website masters, critics, coaches, trainers, former beauty queens and others from the pageant world. There's a maximum of 50 members and represent every continent and region on the globe.

28 members of the Pageant Café, representing 17 countries (Belgium, USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, South Africa, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore & Australia) tried their best to maneuver around the seeming black hole of information, the almost lack of viable video footage, the scarcity of decent photographs and the missing sashes that has been hallmark of the 2007 Miss World Pageant in China to come up with this working list of the best of over 100 women competing for this title.

Despite having 2 Café members on the ground in Sanya, this task has been more difficult than choosing the results of a Miss International Pageant and, as pageant aficionados, we are simply perplexed and frustrated this year as never before. Why the media blackout? What is the MWO up to?

The simple fact that less than 60% of our membership (selectively capped at 50) attempted to vote, with many declining due to lack of knowledge or information of the competitors, or worse, disinterest because of same, is…well, sad. As pageants like Miss Earth and Miss Tourism Queen rise in status, one must pause to ask, is the “grande dame” of pageants finally losing her grip?

Regardless, crippled in our job as we are, we present to you our selections -- a contest that we feel boils down to a neck and neck race between Dominican Republic and Chine PR, although almost any of our Top 20 would make a great Miss World. But from the tidbits of information we have been able to obtain, this Miss World has a somewhat “Universe-al” look to it!

MISS WORLD 2007 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ADA DE LA CRUZ

2. China PR 3. Jamaica 4. USA 5. Lithuania 6. Malaysia 7. Mexico 8. Angola 9 Austria 10. Philippines 11. Puerto Rico 12. Venezuela 13. Trin. & Tobago 14. Russia 15. Grenada 16 Ghana THE SWEET 16

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