Miss Sim Universe 2016

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**Miss Sim Universe 2016**, the 9th Miss Sim Universe pageant was held in December 4, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. 80 delegates around the world competed in an event distributed globally via Internet, on Miss Sim Universe Channel on Youtube.

American actor and comedian Steve Harvey and and thai fashion model Sonia Couling hosted the show, meanwhile Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth, Selena Gomez and Idina Menzel performed live during swimsuit, evening gown and final look rounds. Aferdita Prishtina of Kosovo crowned Lucca Vandhi of Kenya at the end of the event, becoming the very first African queen to win the crown.

## Host city

Bangkok, Thailand hosted this edition.

    **Bangkok** is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. It is known in Thai as **Krung Thep Maha Nakhon** or simply **Krung Thep**. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10.539 million as of 2020, 15.3 percent of the country's population. Over fourteen million people (22.2 percent) lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy.

## Areas of competition

All delegates competed in a preliminary competition, they were judge by a panel of judges, their votes along member of the organization determined the top 16.

When the top 16 is selected, in the final night they start from ZERO with another panel of JUDGES (Different than the preliminary ones).

* Competition 1: SWIMSUIT.

Each delegate from the top 16, walk on stage with swim wears, the final night panel of judges give their scores, then the delegates with the highest 10 averages will advance to the top 10.

* Competition 2: EVENING GOWN

Each delegate from the top 10 will walk on stage with Evening Gowns, the final night panel of judges give their scores, then the delegates with the highest 5 averages will advance to the top 5.

* Competition 3: FINAL QUESTION/FINAL LOOK

Each delegate from the top 5 will answer made by the fans and the final judges, the final night panel of judges give their scores. The next cut will be selected and only 3 of them will advance, then each delegate will answer a question and walk on stage for last time in the FINAL LOOK, and again the judges will vote.

At the end the contestant with the highest average between the final question and final look will be the WINNER!

## Background Music

* **Opening Number:** "Miss Universe 2015 theme song" by Miss Universe, "Into You" by Ariana Grande, "Trumpets" by Sak Noel Salvi ft Sean Paul and "Don’t you know" by Kungs
* **Swimsuit Competition:** "Something big" and "Stitches" by Shawn Mendez
* **Evening Gown Competition:** "We don’t talk anymore" by Charlie Puth ft Selena Gomez
* **Final Look:** "Defying Gravity" by Idina Menzel

## Results

 **Top 5** | * Netherlands - Lieke Haak
 **Top 10** | * Brazil - Daniela Da'Costa
* Colombia - Daniella Saenz
* Cyprus - Neema Nicodemou
* Georgia - Madison Ford
 **Top 16** | * Austria - Letizia Brunso
* Ghana - Crystle Nsiah
* Panama - Gabriela Vicente
* Spain - Yuselmi Davila
* Tonga - Amelika Teaupa
* Turkey - Eylül Ezgi Koç

## Special Awards

 **Best National Costume** | * **Thailand** - **Siririta Nintara**

# Notes

## Debuts

* **Macedonia**
* **South Sudan**

## Returns

* **Belgium (2014)**
* **Denmark (2014)**
* **Finland (2014)**
* **Indonesia (2014)**
* **Kenya (2014)**
* **Moldova (2014)**
* **Namibia (2014)**
* **Netherlands(2014)**
* **Paraguay (2014)**
* **Serbia (2014)**
* **Sri Lanka (2013)**
* **Tonga (2014)**
* **US Virgin Islands (2014)**
* **Uruguay (2014)**
* **Vietnam (2013)**

## Withdraws

* **Barbados**
* **Guatemala**
* **Haiti**
* **Honduras**
* **Hungary**
* **Jamaica**
* **Latvia**
* **Lithuania**
* **Morocco**
* **Myanmar**
* **Namibia**
* **Netherlands**
* **Nigeria**
* **Polynesia**
* **Saint Vincent & the Grenadines**
* **Sweden**
* **Trinidad and Tobago**

## Statistics

* Kenya wins the first title for her country and giving Africa the first crown