The only country I can see having a chance is Spain in my opinion France and India are on waiting lists but knowing India will choose someone almost confirm the chance not getting the crown this time and it might happen to France too
I will have to say this edition will be quite interesting because most of the frontrunners this time like Thailand, Brazil, Puerto Rico are all pageant vaterans which means they have participated and placed in the top 5 or top 10 and I used to think that Miss Universe will not want to crown the Miss Universe who lost in many pageants before if you know what I mean by that. I know Catriona is an exception to this case placing in the top 5 of Miss World but she only joined one pageant and went pretty far, not to mention her prelim performance that goes viral even to the people not following pageants know and have seen her video to sum up she was unbeatable last year.
For example
Thailand placed top 8 in ME and in Miss Chinese Cosmos Southeast Asia
Brazil placed top 5 in Reinado Internacional del Café and Miss Tourism International
Puerto Rico placed top 5 in Top Model of the World and Miss Gwand International
And most of the time the pageant veterans ended up being the first runner up see Ada in 2009, Yendi in 2010, Pat in 2013, Raquel 2016
As the biggest pageant in the universe do you think IMG will look pass this and give the crown to these beautiful frontrunners because based on my PERSONAL thoughts I think these 3 actually have the IT factor of Miss Universe more than others?