MGI All Stars to employ 'fully open' scoring system

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MANILA, Philippines — Over 50 beauty queens are in Thailand for preliminary proceedings of the inaugural All Stars edition of Miss Grand International.

The new competition allowed countries to field multiple women and transwomen ages 20 to 40, regardless of marital status, who have competed in or won a previous pageant.

For this pageant, organizers will be operating under a "fully open scoring system" which will be disclosed in real time.

MGI noted that beauty competitions often rely on private third-party tabulation services to certify results which the public accepts "on the basis of institutional trust alone."

"We believe that real integrity does not depend on institutional reputation. It depends on evidence," organizers said. "When every number is visible to everyone — judges, contestants, fans, and media  — verification is not a matter of faith. Anyone can check the arithmetic themselves."

Organizers claimed that no other international pageant employs this level of openness as a foundational design principle given it isn't standard practice.

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The scoring system

Beginning in the preliminary segments up to coronation night on May 30, each round will use the same scoring composition.

The average score of the jury panel will make up 70% of the total score while the remainder will be from audience votes.

Making up the jury panel are former Miss Grand International winners Abena Akuaba and Isabella Menin, former Miss Universe winners Lupita Jones and Natalie Glebova, Filipino shoe designer Jojo Bragais, French-Lebanese musician Omar Harfouch, legendary pageant entrepreneur Osmel Sousa, and environmental activist Psi Samut Scott.

Independent scores of each judge are on a scale from 0.00 to 10.00. The panel average will be the simple mean of all their scores, which will be displayed publicly alongside each score.

During the final competition, all scores are reset after every elimination round, meaning no scores, rankings, or advantages are carried over.

The audience vote will make use of the K-System, which MGI described as "an absolute benchmark formula that is independent, fair, and transparent" in its method.

The formula sets a fixed, pre-determined benchmark for each round compared to a relative system that compares contestants against each other.

This means a contestant's vote score will depend only on her vote total, regardless of what other contestants get. This will eliminate the risk of an artificially inflated score caused by delegates performing unusually poorly.

A specific K-Value will be applied in each round but will not be publicly disclosed as knowledge of such will allow people to calculate the precise number of votes required to reach the maximum score, therefore halting the need to vote once obtained.

Judges will know what the K-Values are to retain complete audit capability over the scoring system. The formula, method, and logic of the K-System will remain fully public.

Voting windows

There will be six voting events across the preliminary and final competitions:

• Preliminary vote (two rounds), running until May 30 at 6 p.m. local time
• Top 18 cut to Top 10
• Top 10 cut to Top 5
• Top 5 cut to Top 3
• Top 3 to winner reveal

The first, which is a combination of two rounds, will run until May 30, 6 p.m. local time, while the latter four are all during the live broadcast of coronation night.

The final voting event is for the World's Choice Award based on raw votes counted until May 30, 7:30 p.m. local time.

Winning the World's Choice Award guarantees a place in the Top 18 but is separate from the 30% audiene vote component used in scoring.

The Philippines will be represented in the competition by Fuschia Anne Ravena, Alexia Núñez, Keylyn Trajano, Gazini Ganados and Imelda Schweighart.

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