Miss Marone 2024

**Miss Marone 2024** was the 92nd edition of the Miss Marone pageant. The competition was held on 16 December 2023 at Le Centre d'Avirac in Avirac, Carandie. Jean-Pierre Fredriksen and Élisabeth Desjardin presented the show.

Gwendoline Bunc of Carandie crowned Aurianne Pavan of Vetica as her successor at the end of the event. Pavan will go on to represent Marone at Miss Parth 2025.

## Background

In May 2023, the Miss Marone Committee confirmed that the competition would be held on 16 December 2022 at Le Centre d'Avirac in Avirac, to honor the home region of incumbent titleholder Gwendoline Bunc of Carandie. They additionally confirmed that this year's overseas trip would be to Malawen.

Regional pageants were held to select the 30 contestants between June and October 2023. The 30 contestants traveled to Delmas to begin pre-pageant activities on 24 November 2023, before embarking on their overseas trip to Malawen on 27 November. While in Malawen, 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 Avirac on 6 December in order to begin rehearsals for the final.

In November 2023, following the beginning of pre-pageant preparations, the Miss Marone Committee revealed that the 2024 edition of the pageant would be the first to introduce a Top 15, instead of the traditional Top 12.

## Results

 **Top 15** |  **Ditrone** – Gwennegan Le Broudic *(5th Runner-Up)* **Terre Chasque** – Agata Bangè *(6th Runner-Up)* **Carandie** – Lénaïg Falc’hun **Côte Turquoise** – Genny Vira **Fuadeloupe** – Luna Saint-Étienne **Île-de-Marone** – Charisma Ly **Lousain** – Barbara Radulovic **Pays-du-Verne** – Gwen Calvez **Tahare** – Camille Montvaudon **Wahiti** – Juliette Auau Haamanemane

### Special awards

 **Miss Photogenic** |  **Val-du-Verne** – Alexandra Niel

### Scoring

#### Preliminaries

A jury composed of partners (internal and external) of the Miss Marone Committee selected fifteen delegates during an interview that took place on 13 December to advance to the semifinals. For the first time ever, a Top 15 was used rather than a Top 12.

#### Top 15

In the Top 15, 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 15 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.

 Nord | 10.11%

### Call-out order

2. Ambas
3. Côte Turquoise
4. Pays-du-Verne
5. Nord
6. Fuadeloupe
7. Grône-Fares
8. Namou-Rentes
9. Tahare
10. Vetica
11. Île-de-Marone
12. Ditrone
13. Terre Chasque
14. Carandie
15. Lousain
2. Grône-Fares
3. Namou-Rentes
4. Vetica
5. Nord

## Pageant

### Format

On 23 November 2023, it was announced by the Miss Marone Committee that the theme for this edition of the competition would be "The Misses Play Dress-Up" (Maronan: *Les Miss jouent à se déguiser*), with competition rounds themed after various trends and eras in fashion history.

The competition opened with an introduction, with the 30 contestants in traditional 1950s haute-couture gowns, featuring a guest appearance from Gwendoline Bunc. 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 1980s fashion, space age fashion, and punk fashion, respectively. Afterwards, the 30 contestants participated in the regional costume round, themed after renaissance fashion, and featuring guest appearances from Georgina Kiss and Giva Nour. This was followed by the all 30 contestants participating in the one-piece swimsuit round, inspired by 1920s flapper fashion.

After the conclusion of the one-piece swimsuit round, the Top 15 was announced, and each gave their introductory speeches while wearing their ball gowns. This was followed by the two-piece swimsuit round, inspired by bohemian fashion, featuring a second guest appearance from Bunc. After the conclusion of the two-piece swimsuit round, the Top 5 was announced. Afterwards, the Top 5 presented their evening gowns, in a round inspired by haute-couture fashion, followed by the question and answer round. The Top 5 later participated in a final presentation round themed after futuristic fashion, before the final results were announced.

#### Order of the *tableaux*

 1980s fashion
 One-piece swimsuit – 1920s flappers
 Two-piece swimsuit – bohemian fashion
 Haute-couture fashion
 Futuristic fashion

### Judges

The judges were revealed on 7 December 2023.

* Betty Frauser (President of the Jury) – actress and director
* Abdellah – singer and songwriter
* Geneviève Chantay – model and actress
* Benoît Desmukes – tennis player
* Thomas Fantuzzi – actor
* Virginie Lou – singer and actress
* Noémie Pollo – comedian and actress
* Romane Vansteenkiste – Miss Marone 2014 from Nord

## Contestants

### Notes

* The average age is 21.3 years, while the average height is 1.739 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in).
* Laïs Rau, Miss Ambas, is of Marono-Azilian origin through her mother.
* Charisma Ly, Miss Île-de-Marone, is of Esmanese origin.
* Marie Bogdanoff, Miss Languedoie, is of Kashan and Zatranian origin through her father and Taharian origin through her mother.
* Chantal Hammerschmidt, Miss Lauterne, is of Lungarian origin through her father.
* Barbara Radulovic, Miss Lousain, is of Horvatian origin.
* Agathe Randriamaholison, Miss Jalotte, is of Papaguscan origin through her father, and was born in Rakotoarisoa.
* Svetlana Denova, Miss Moutarde, is of Mulgarian origin, and was born in Dofiya.
* Amandine Tepauarii, Miss New Malonia, is of Wahitian origin through her father.
* Laëtitia Meunier, Miss Nord, is of Zatranian origin through her mother.
* Marion Fernandes Gomes, Miss Pitaine, is of Escarian origin.
* Agata Bangè, Miss Terre Chasque, is of Talmoonian origin through her father, and is the younger sister of Ega Bangè, Miss Terre Chasque 2022.
* Aurianne Pavan, Miss Vetica, is of Zatranian origin through her mother.
* Juliette Auau Haamanemane, Miss Wahiti, is of Noorean origin through her father and Maronan and Lungarian origin through her mother.