Winning over the crowd is of principal importance for most competitions, as results can be heavily influenced by audience input, while in some cases formal judges are absent entirely and the winner may be decided by popular vote. Though many pageants are playing down the bikini contest part, [2] participants in some beauty contests like the Miss Earth or the Miss Teen USA pageants, are required to wear bikinis as part of the competition. Early women's bodybuilding was about bikini contests. While no great fan of pageants there's something about this that rubs the wrong way.