The first Mr. Philippines just unveiled their 6 kings, with Pasig's Angelo Dripin topping the list winning the GRAND INTERNATIONAL PHILIPPINES 2026 crown. My personal bet Samuel Bryant landed 2nd Runner Up while heavy fan favorite Zandro Sales of Mandaluyong City got 1st Runner Up. Crowns for the I AM MODEL SEARCH PHILIPPINES 2026 went to Patrick Sy of Caloocan City, Nate Reyes of San Juan got the GRAND TEEN PHILIPPINES 2026 crown, while Carl Santiago of Laguna will represent us in the GLOBAL RUNWAY Competition and Raedel Zein of the Filipino Community in UAE will represent us for MAN OF THE YEAR.
The pageant started around dinner time and lasted until around 1am. It was a tough competition but overall, they weathered through it. It was a mix of veterans and newbies, some find the Q and A the most difficult part of it. Some of them don't even talk when getting interviewed, but performed well in the finals night.
Were the titles well deserved? Absolutely. The judges were actually around 37 if I'm not mistaken, at one point there were more judges than contestants. But I guess they really did it good because it was their performance that made them place on crowns. The heavy favorites didn't quite get placed more or less because they didn't answer the final question best. So overall, I think it was a fair contest.
Congratulations and here's to getting the crowns for the country!
