section_path: Pageant/Format
section_name: Format
paragraph_text: Format
  
  Miss World uses a continent-based format. Ten contestants from each of the four regions—Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia and Oceania, and Europe—advance to the Top 40, including Fast Track winners who qualify automatically. Judges then select a Top 5 from each region, forming a Top 20, which is further narrowed to a Top 2 per region. The four regional winners become the overall Top 4 finalists. One of them is crowned Miss World, while the others are named first, second, and third runners-up.
  
  Miss World uses a continent-based format. Ten contestants from each of the four regions—Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia and Oceania, and Europe—advance to the Top 40, including Fast Track winners who qualify automatically. Judges then select a Top 5 from each region, forming a Top 20, which is further narrowed to a Top 2 per region. The four regional winners become the overall Top 4 finalists. One of them is crowned Miss World, while the others are named first, second, and third runners-up.