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www.MyPE.co.za: For those that missed the 112 Miss World contestants that graced Port Elizabeth from Monday to Wednesday this week we have only one question; "Where were you?"

Miss Japan, Eruzka Sasaki, 21 from Okinawa, Southern Japan

The Miss World Contestants visited the Eastern Cape in order to hold the Miss World Sport leg of the competition at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Wednesday 19 November. The winner of this leg of the competition, Miss Japan, Eruzka Sasaki, 21 from Okinawa, Southern Japan was 'Fast Tracked' into the Semi Finals of the Miss World competiton by virtue of her win. Eruzka is a High Jump Athlete as well as Miss Japan.

On the day of the Miss World Sport competion myself and Nick Klichowicz made our weary way down to the stadium at around 10:00 a.m. The Red Cherry Adventures team were kind enough to set up a table right on the field for us, which made our Live Blog so much easier - thanks guys appreciate the assistance.

Previous Live Blogs have been pretty hectic and we were not too sure what to expect from this one so were a little nervous. Boy, did we have a right to be so! From the time that we started the live blog we were swamped with readers and comments, at one stage I thought that my 3G Card was going to self ignite from all the info flowing back and forth.

Half way through the blog we created a poll asking readers which team they thought would win - within literally 30 seconds we had in excess of 100 people vote for their favourite team and the requests kept on coming in for confirmation of which countries were in which team. Watching the poll tickers literally change in front of my eyes was mind blowing.

At that stage we had just under 900 people online clamouring for attention and posting comments. All the comments are manually moderated - we are a family site after all.

At the end of the blog we tallied up the reader statistics as follows:

Most readers online - 1 180,
Reader comments sent - 721,
Reader comments published - 405,
Twitter comments published - 44,
Images uploaded - 59,
Videos uploaded - 1 and
As of today the Replay button on the live blog has been pushed 608 times.

Then this morning I looked at the MyPE web site statistics for yesterday:

Unique visitors - 5 784,
Site bandwith consumed - 5.15 gigabytes.

Un-freaking-believable!

We had readers from a plethora of countries across the globe - have a look at the requests in the Miss World Live Blog for an indication of the number of countries represented by readers spanning the globe from East to West.

Most of the comments were ones of gratitude for showcasing the event and at all times we referred people to the 2010 World Cup and to business in the MyPE Directory - after all we are here to promote Port Elizabeth and, by extension, business in Port Elizabeth through the MyPE business directory which is extremely well represented in the Search Engines - in the browser's face when they are looking to connect with PE business.

Not to worry, Firefly, we also promoted your labour of 'Port Elizabeth Love' - A Reason a Day to Visit Port Elizabeth. MyPE will turn five next year - an aeon in internet terms and testament to our relevance and longevity. See publically availably MyPE Visitor Stats here (use the handy "Compare To" blocks to rate MyPE against other web sites).

Lok out for the next two scheduled Live Blogs - South Africa vs England Cricket and the Southern Shamaal Port Elizabeth to East London Surfski Race brough to you by Zports.

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