May 28 2007
Teresa Licaros is still a winner
Win or lose, but how she played and experienced the game. Teresa Licaros, our very own candidate for the Ms. Universe pageant, is still a winner. Win or lose is not what she stressed in her blog but making the most of the pageant, and the enjoyment and experience she had in Mexico City.
I have the feeling though that she is in the top 20 when she didn’t make it in the top 15. All the contestants are winners actually, lahat magaganda at ang galing mag-project. I also guess that at the preliminaries, she is high in the interview but relatively low in stage projection, evening gown, swim wear and casual wear. And the top 15 must have consistently ranked high in all categories even if some of them are lower than Teresa in the interview, but "just below" and not too far from her interview score. So suma to-tal, mas mataas parin sila sa kanya.
A blog critique is right when he said that he isn’t 100% sure on her sucess since Tere may have the brains, but she is not going to a quizbee. Well, he is correct. Ms. Universe involves the complete persona of brains, beauty, poise and projection. The Top 15 have an edge on the latter two. Siguro, they are more experienced sa entablado kasi pagdating sa pagrarampa, lahat nang top 15 super bibo na maglakad, kembot palang.
But as I said earlier, she is still a winner. Joining Bb Pilipinas while in lawschool is suicide for all lawstudes, kaya ang masasabe lang namen ay, "Ang galing niya paren!" Sino kaya may kaya gumawa non sa amin?!? wala! and that makes her exceptional. A Bb. Pilipinas -Universe and having obtained the 2nd highest ranking to date in the honor-roll in UP College of Law in our batch… Tere, that itself already makes you a winner for us.
As to how Ms. Universe 2007 was conducted, I only have 2 comments. One is limiting it to top 20 than to top 15 (because I think that the last 5 in a top 20 still have opportunity to bubble up and surpass the higher ranked top 15 candidates by the preliminary Q&A — Like Teresa). Second, for the last final Q&A there should only be one and final question for each of the last 5 constestants which can best determine who among them has the best answer.
For different questions have different levels of difficulty and topic — so how can we compare?!?
If I were to choose based on q and a, projection, beauty and poise:
Ms. Universe - Ms Korea
Ms. Brazil or Ms. Japan - second
Ms. USA or Ms. Venezuela - third
