Miss Sim Universe 2015

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**Miss Sim Universe 2015**, the 8th Miss Sim Universe pageant was held in January, 2016 in Las Vegas, USA. 78 delegates around the world competed in an event distributed globally via Internet, on Miss Sim Universe Channel on Youtube. It is the longest edition to date, lasting six months: from January 13rd, 2016 to July 18th, 2016, when the crowning moment took place. This long delay affected the share of the edition. It was the last edition owned by Dat Torres, from Colombia.

American hostess Thomas Roberts and Natalie Morales hosted the show, meanwhile Leona Delevingne of Israel crowned Aferdita Prishtina of Kosovo at the end of the event.

## Host city

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA hosted this edition and visually considerated one of the best ever.

    The **City of Las Vegas** and often known simply as **Vegas**, is the 28th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. The Las Vegas Valley as a whole serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada.

## 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. One of the delegates was Saved by the public for the top 11.

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 11 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, "Commander" by Kelly Rolland and "Focus" by Ariana Grande
* **Swimsuit Competition:** "TSomething tIn the Way you Move" and "Love i'm given" by Ellie Goulding
* **Evening Gown Competition:** "Stop and stare" and "Wherever I go" by OneRepublic

## Results

 **Top 5** | * Panama - Agatha Diego
 **Top 11** | * Argentina - Adela Varesse
* Botswana - Leiza Dibotti
* Brazil - Izabel Alves
* China - Jianyao Wang
* Malaysia - Germaine Henderson
 **Top 16** | * Austria - Christina Tucson
* Cyprus - Georgia Georgiou
* Korea - Park Boom
* USA - Elena Marie Ann
* India - Nafisa Sukavalli

**§** Saved by the public for the top 11.

## Special Awards

 **Best National Costume** | * **Italy** - **Jasmin Ardelan**

# Notes

## Debuts

* **Azerbaijan**
* **Gabon**
* **Georgia**
* **Malta**
* **Northern Ireland**
* **Polynesia**
* **Suriname**

## Returns

* **Barbados (2013)**
* **Cyprus (2012)**
* **Great Britain (2012)**
* **Haiti (2012)**
* **Ireland (2013)**
* **Jamaica (2013)**
* **Lebanon (2013)**
* **Nigeria (2013)**
* **Peru (2013)**
* **Portugal (2013)**
* **Switzerland (2013)**

## Withdraws

* **Andorra**
* **Aruba**
* **Belgium**
* **Belize**
* **Croatia**
* **Czech Republic**
* **Denmark**
* **England**
* **Eritrea**
* **Estonia**
* **Ethiopia**
* **Finland**
* **Indonesia**
* **Kenya**
* **Kyrgyzstan**
* **Moldova**
* **Mongolia**
* **Namibia**
* **Netherlands**
* **New Zealand**
* **Paraguay**
* **Saint Martin**
* **Serbia**
* **Slovak Republic**
* **Taiwan**
* **Tanzania**
* **Tonga**
* **Uruguay**
* **US Virgin Islands**
* **Zimbabwe**

## Statistics

* Colombia is the only country that placed in all 7 editions
* Kosovo and Malaysia placed last time in 2012
* Brazil and India placed last time in 2011
* Panama and Jamaica placed last time in 2008
* Argentina, Austria, Bostwana, Cyprus and Korea placed for the first time
* Colombia, China, Mexico, Philippines and USA placed also last year