Commentaries: How About A Virtual Miss World 2021

 One well-meaning friend is suggesting if Miss World 2021 could be done virtually just to wind up this lingering and long-drawn-out drama that has already annoyed a lot of fans around the world.  This saga-epic has already been delayed and dragged for months now and it has tested our patience and from the looks of it some quarters have dried up their endurance and equanimity and with this lawsuit looming on the horizon ... it is just like a Damocles sword waiting to fall.

Did Miss World at least have Plan B just in case problems come to surprise them ... or when things did not happen as planned. Miss World crisis management should look for possible scenarios just like what happened in Nigeria when violent protestors disrupted the proceedings that turned out gory and bloody in the end that the candidates need to be enplaned and diverted in London to finally hold its finals.  They need to be one step ahead before the actual problem can paralyze the whole process.

The sad thought about this is, somebody concocted again another last-minute challenge to drumbeat the March 16 coronation, and candidates pour their hearts out to make good and this lawsuit news is another punch in the gut for them, making them wonder if there will be another postponement?  Take for instance Miss World Philippines

Tracy Maureen Perez made good in last December's challenges, and now she is duplicating the feat by being number 1 again in this February challenge. And the other candidates too like Vietnam or India? What chances would there be that they will forget all this added premium Tracy or the other candidates have amassed to advance their Miss World journey?

Miss World has to act now.  Its experience with Covid, and now the lawsuits making up a bitter icing on the cake is totally ruining its name as one of the major four pageants. If the candidates need to embark on the next plane to London like what they did in that Nigeria debacle, so be it.  I know it is easier than done, but if they have done it before, there is no reason why they can't do it now.

If they think it is expensive,  then virtual finals are the best option.  The candidates are agonizing and so are the pageant fans.  We can't afford another postponement, and the wait has been tedious and wearisome.