in
Las Vegas, Nevada, the host venue of Miss USA 2016 competition.
Location On April 5, the Miss Universe Organization announced that the competition would be hosted at
T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and a seventh time hosting the state in nine years. Also on May 25,
Backstreet Boys and
Nashville Star alum
Chris Young were announced as the musical guests.
Selection of participants Delegates from 50 states and the
District of Columbia were chosen in state pageants held from July 2015 to January 2016. The first state pageant was
Florida, held on July 11, 2015 (the day before the
Miss USA 2015 final competition), and the final pageant was
Kentucky, held on January 31, 2016; fifteen of these delegates were former
Miss Teen USA state winners (made the highest number ever surpassed the previous number of 12 former teens in
Miss USA 2014), two of them were former
Miss America state winners and three of them were former
Miss America's Outstanding Teen state winners. Two state titleholders were appointed as replacements after the original titleholders were unable to compete. Stormy Keffeler, the original Miss Washington USA 2016, resigned in January 2016 after pleaded guilty from disclosure of DUI in April 2015. She was replaced by Kelsey Schmidt, who was the first runner-up of the Miss Washington USA 2016 pageant, and Allie Dunn, the original
Miss North Carolina USA 2016, resigned two weeks before the start of the Miss USA 2016 competition when she was falling ill and missed the start of pageant activities prevented from entering registration form. She was replaced by Devin Gant, who was the first runner-up of
Miss North Carolina USA 2016 pageant and made a last minute trip to Las Vegas as the pageant activities were already started. ==Results==