The news of the transfer of the Miss Universe Philippines franchise may have come as a shock to regular Filipinos outside of pageantry. But for pageant fans, this was no longer a surprise…

But what does it mean to have the franchise moved to the Miss Universe Philippines organization under the FrontRow/ LCS/ MUPh group? These are some of our thoughts and speculations…
TRANSFER OF FRANCHISE NOT A SURPRISE
Even as early as December of 2018, the talks that the Miss Universe Philippines franchise has been moved to a different organization became the talk of the town. Those rumors were put to a stop when Catriona Gray won Miss Universe, as it is stipulated in the franchise agreement that whosoever produces a MU win retains the franchise for another year. So it is safe to say that Gazini Ganados is the last Miss Universe Philippines/ Binibining Pilipinas Universe winner from the Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc.
GAZINI AGANDOS’ TURNOVER OF HER TITLE
Does that mean though that Gazini won’t be having her final walk in Binibini? We suspect that she will be given that opportunity to have her final walk under BBP. After all she is still a product of the BBP pageant. However we won’t be sure if she will be given the chance to crown her Miss Universe Philippines successor in the new pageant. It would be nice if she does so but until there is actual word on it, we can only speculate.
SEPARATE PAGEANT WITH DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS
Every pageant organization is unique in its own. No two organizations are exactly alike. So expect that the MUP will be run a little differently as we are used to. With a young organization, expect that the first year will be a trials and testing of sorts. There will be growing pains and that is expected.
But there are also good things to expect from this development. We are expecting that with a new franchise owner, they would be able to find a “Miss Universe” potential winner. Fans would expect that after a 10 year placement, the next Filipina rep would be able to bear the brunt of the expectations from fans.
The MUOrg is looking for a different kind of winner nowadays so we expect that the next MUP will be able to tick off every box of being absolutely stunning and commercial, well informed and well read in the social issues of the times, articulate, warm and genuine, and is an advocate for a certain cause personal to her.
CONFLICTING PAGEANT DATES WITH BB. PILIPINAS & MISS PHILIPPINES EARTH
This is a given specially with dates of screenings have been named. Deadline for application for MUPh is on January 18 and final screenings on January 25th. Application for Miss Philippines Earth is also open although the deadline hasn’t been officially named. As of this writing, no mention on the dates for Binibining Pilipinas has yet been announced.
With that being said, candidates will have the lion’s share of which pageant they would want to join in. So pageant organizations would have to step up their games to be able to compete at a level playing field to get these girls to join in their respective competitions.
2020 is going to be an exciting year for pageantry. And we hope that the new decade will open up with major crowns for the country…
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