Wazzup Pilipinas!
The Grand Theater of University of Makati was so jampack during the grand coronation night of the 2014 Misters of the Philippines competition. Out of the 26 candidates, 4 winners were chosen to represent our country to 3 different international pageants: Mister International, Mister Global and Mister Tourism. A runner-up was also chosen to take over in case any of the top three winners is not able to fulfill the duty being the title holder of any of these.
The last year's representatives did pretty good job in the entire history of the Misters of the Philippines pageant: Mister Tourism 2013 placed 9th, Mister Global placed 4th and Mister International placed 4th and bagged the People's Choice Award. I hope this serves as a challenge to the most recent winners to prove that they can do better in the coming competitions.
The event started with the hunk contestants parading in a warrior's attire, then on a swimwear and a formal wear. The rest of the minor awards were already presented in the previous weeks so they just announced who won that night. The Misters of the Philippines 2014 pageant aims to find the 4 winners that are on top when it comes to physical fitness, final look, personality and international appeal. Last but not the least is the Q&A portion to determine who are the men of handsomeness and attitude that they are looking for.
From 26, they were shortlisted to 15 then 9 until the final 4 is chosen. Now let's move to the awards:
Best in Festival Costume – Edviro Fuentes Jr of Samar
Mister Photogenic – Neil Perez of Tondo
Mister Friendship – Elvin Tiel of Aklan
Best in Swimwear – Neil Perez of Tondo
Sponsor Awards:
Mister Informatics – Neil Perez of Tondo
Misters Profil Holidays – Timothy Justin Ancheta of Quezon City & Bernard Sumera of Paombong Bulacan
Mister MD Globalink Travel – Neil Perez of Tondo
Mister Unisilver Time – Neil Perez of Tondo
Final Four Winners of the Misters of the Philippines 2014
1st runner up: Nicko Dela Cruz of Sta Cruz, Manila
Mister Tourism : Judah Cohen of Fil-USA
Mister Model : Adam Davis of Fil-UK
Mister Global : Joseph Doruelo of Caloocan City
Mister International: Neil Perez of Tondo, Manila
Judah Cohen will represent the country at the 2015 Mister Tourism in Panama; Adam Davies in 2014 Mister model International in Dominican Republic this November; Joseph Doruelo in 2015 Mister Global in Thailand and Neil Perez in 2014 Mister International in Korea this October.
Congratulations to the winners!
Contributed by Maria Rona Beltran