I hope we will not go through this experience again and waste money over this scam. Jeita already lost in the N7W and 10 million dollars were wasted. In case you forget about this competition, here’s why N7W was a bad idea and still is today and here’s a study to back this claim.
Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, announces the names of the 28 Official Finalists in the New7Wonders Cities campaign on 21 October 2013 in Zurich, Switzerland. They are, in alphabetical order:
Athens, Greece
Bangkok, Thailand
Barcelona, Spain
Beirut, Lebanon
Casablanca, Marocco
Chicago, USA
Doha, Qatar
Durban, South Africa
Havana, Cuba
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Istanbul, Turkey
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kyoto, Japan
La Paz, Bolivia
London, United Kingdom
Mendoza, Argentina
Mexico City, Mexico
Mumbai, India
Perth, Australia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Prague, Czech Republic
Quito, Ecuador
Reykjavik, Iceland
St. Petersburg, Russia
Seoul, South Korea
Shenzhen, China
Vancouver, Canada
Vigan, Philippines
Panel of experts? -_-”
What made Doha a finalist but not Dubai for example?
Also, this voting thing is ridiculous, when most votes are cast by people that have visited somewhere between 0 and 2 cities from the list (my rough estimate), how are those votes taken as a basis for a ‘winner’?
i was thinking the same thing ! Why Doha and not Dubai?!
anyway who cares about those competitions anyway!
i always prefer the original 7 wonders, those are real wonders
“i always prefer the original 7 wonders, those are real wonders”
like
nothing is left from the original 7 except 1: the pyramids.