Miss Brazil 2015 Predictions

27 contestants will compete for Miss Universe Brazil 2015 on Thursday, November 19, from the Citibank Hall in the city of São Paulo. Melissa Gurgel will crown her successor at the end of the event.

The young woman crowned Miss Brazil 2015 will go on to represent her country in the 2015 Miss Universe competition. The three-hour annual event will air live from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The winner will succeed Miss Universe 2014 Paulina Vega of Colombia. This will be the first edition of the Miss Universe pageant under the new owners, WME/IMG, and will be the first aired by Fox.

Brazil has won Miss Universe in 1963 (Ieda Maria Vargas) and 1968 (Martha Vasconcellos). The partnership between Rede Bandeirantes and the Miss Universe Organization will be expanded. The Enter from event company Grupo Bandeirantes has signed a contract with Donald Trump and NBC Universal to give a new impulse to beauty contests in Brazil.

The modern Miss Brasil pageant was created in 1954 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The first edition of Miss Brasil, won by Bahia's representative Martha Rocha, was sponsored by the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.

Check out the 2015 Miss Universe Brazil 2015 Contestants here