Miss Marone 2014

**Miss Marone 2014** was the 82nd edition of the Miss Marone pageant. The competition was held on 14 December 2013 at Le Centre d'Houiseau in Houiseau, Moutarde. Jean-Pierre Fredriksen and Élisabeth Desjardins presented the show.

Bella Mignard of Moutarde crowned Romane Vansteenkiste of Nord as her successor at the end of the event. Vansteenkiste represented Marone at Miss Parth 2014, where she placed as the first runner-up.

## Background

In June 2013, the Miss Marone Committee confirmed that the competition would be held on 14 December 2013 at Le Centre d'Houiseau in Houiseau, to honor the home region of incumbent titleholder Bella Mignard of Moutarde. They additionally confirmed that this year's overseas trip would be to Fanzeria.

Regional pageants were held to select the 30 contestants between June and October 2013. The 30 contestants traveled to Delmas to begin pre-pageant activities on 22 November 2013 before embarking on their overseas trip to Fanzeria on 25 November. While in Fanzeria, the delegates participated in a variety of photoshoots and events, while they additionally sat for the general knowledge exam, a 40-question exam that tests the delegates on various topics such as current events, politics, history, pop culture, and Maronan language and literature. They arrived in Houiseau on 3 December in order to begin rehearsals for the final.

## Results

 **Top 12** |  **Île-de-Marone** – Nassira Diancoumba *(5th Runner-Up)* **Hautes-Robinelles** – Agnès Ithurri *(6th Runner-Up)* **Côte Turquoise** – Jenifer Saïd **Languedoie** – Solenn Aragones **Moutarde** – Lara Scarpino **Pays-du-Verne** – Lucile Vaillancourt **Picarie** – Léa Dewaele

### Special awards

 **Miss Photogenic** |  **Pays-Libre** – Éloïse Machado

### Scoring

#### Preliminaries

A jury composed of partners (internal and external) of the Miss Marone Committee selected twelve delegates during an interview that took place on 11 December to advance to the semifinals.

#### Top 12

In the Top 12, a 50/50 split vote between the official jury and voting public selected five delegates to advance to the Top 5. Each delegate was awarded an overall score of 1 to 12 from the jury and public, and the five delegates with the highest combined scores advanced to the top five.

The delegates with the sixth and seventh highest combined scores were afterwards designated as the fifth and sixth runners-up, respectively, despite not advancing in the competition. In the case of a tie, the jury vote prevailed.

#### Top 5

In the Top 5, public voting determined which contestant was declared Miss Marone.

 Wahiti | 8.26%

### Call-out order

2. Côte Turquoise
3. Nord
4. Picarie
5. Île-de-Marone
6. Tahare
7. Pitaine
8. Languedoie
9. Moutarde
10. Wahiti
11. Pays-du-Verne
12. Hautes-Robinelles
2. Wahiti
3. Namou-Rentes
4. Tahare
5. Nord

## Pageant

### Format

In September 2013, it was announced by the Miss Marone Committee that the theme for this edition would be "The Misses Show You All of Their Emotions" (Maronan: *Les Miss vous montrent tous leurs émotions*), with each competition round being introduced by a former Miss Marone and themed after her favorite emotion.

The competition began with all 30 contestants opening the show in their regional costumes. The 30 contestants were then separated into three groups of ten contestants each, with each group taking part in an initial presentation round. The three presentation rounds were themed after joy (Morwenna Garandel), fear (Lise Camille), and excitement (Leïla Gribelin), respectively. Afterwards, the 30 contestants participated in the one-piece swimsuit competition, themed after surprise (Axelle Brasseur).

After the conclusion of the one-piece swimsuit competition, the Top 12 was announced, and each gave their introductory speeches while wearing their ball gowns. This was followed by the two-piece swimsuit round, inspired by mischief (Dominique Richard). After the conclusion of the swimsuit round, the Top 5 was announced. Afterwards, the Top 5 presented their evening gowns, in a round inspired by comfort (Piharii Lémery), followed by the question and answer round. The Top 5 later participated in a final presentation round themed after love (Angéline Nuvo), before the final results were announced.