Miss Grand Slam 2017 Round 1: Voting Open for Group 5

The search for our Miss Grand Slam 2017 is on as we open the voting for Groups 5 for the first round. The winner of the online fan vote of each group will automatically advance to the top 64 and second round of the competition. Each fan will be granted one free vote. Additional voting packages are also available.* Voting will be open for a week for Group 5 and the poll will be closed on 27 April.

Three more contestants from each group will be chosen by the judges. They will advance to the second round of the competition. The judges for Groups 1 and 2 of Round 1 are:

Global Beauties' Co-Owner Andre Sleigh from South Africa

Miss Grand Slam 2012, Atong Demach from South Sudan

Pageant trainer, stylist and judge, Heiarii Robson from Tahiti

Buhle Mbonambi is the Lifestyle Editor of the Sunday Tribune in South Africa

Ed Dominguez from Panama co-founded Global Beauties in 1998 and is the former co-owner and honorary member of GB

Dipak Shahi from India is the co-owner of The Great Pageant Community

and our fan judge is Julian Figueroa from Colombia is the graphic designer, publicist and director of Miss Colombia Virtual, an online scouting pageant dedicated to discover new beauties in Colombia. Girls found by Miss Colombia Virtual have built up huge followings and some of them are now in the running to become the next Miss Universe Colombia.