Miss Intercontinental 2008

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Miss Intercontinental 2008, the 58th Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant. Date and Host Country to be announced soon

About 80 contestants are expected.

[edit] 2001 to Date

Although Miss Intercontinental is sometimes claimed to be one of the top Grand Slam pageants in the world of beauty, it remains a low level pageant that struggles to find delegates and host countries to make it a world class pageant as the name suggest, it also suffers from claims over who actually owns the trademark Miss Intercontinental, WBO claims to own in in Europe but another company claims to own it in China.

Year	Date	City	Country	Entries
2001	June 21	Coburg	Germany	33
2002	June 8	Fürth	Germany	33
2003	July 2	Berlin	Germany	34
2004	July 24	Huhhot	China	54
2005	July 30	Huangshan	China	61
2006	October 15	Nassau	Bahamas	45
2007	October 13	Mahe	Seychelles	41
2008	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

It's highest number of delegate count was in 2005 in China where they had 61 delegates, since then however they have struggled and had as few as 41 delegates in 2007. The contest has been reduced to going to small islands like the Seychelles and the Bahamas due to a lack of the organisations ability to sell the pageant to major countries, part of the reason seem to be the huge franchise / hosting fee demanded estimated to be in excess of US$500,000.

The pageant also suffers from allegations of predetermined Outcomes and political influence when picking its winners. The winner of Miss Intercontinental does not have any significant or visible role in the world of pageants and is far from an A list celebrity along the lines of Miss Earth [1]Miss Universe[[2] or Miss World[3] the top 3 pageants in the World.

[edit] Expected contestants

As of May 28, 2008, 2 delegates had been selected.

Nation	Contestant
Angola
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Bahamas
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
China
Colombia
Curacao	Anaïse Mogen
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
England
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Martinique	Julie Cadot
Thailand	Chavallakorn Wattanavisitkul^[1]