Why is the winner suing?

I saw this on yahoo. Ummmm I am confused. The winner (who won the right to be the runner-up? why didn't they just give that to the person who was second place in the original contest?) was wrongly crowned, yet SHE is the one suing not the one that should have won? Read this....

Christina Silva, the beauty queen who was first crowned Miss California USA 2008 before being informed there had been a miscount, has sued the Miss Universe Organization over the ordeal, which her legal camp refers to as a "sorry tale of greed, deceit, incompetence and disloyalty and their inevitable consequences."

The former Miss Los Angeles was named the winner of the run-up to the Miss USA pageant on Nov. 25; three days later Miss California officials informed her of the "human error" that led to the screw-up and asked her to please call the real winner, Miss Barstow Raquel Beezley, to pass on the news.

Silva was told she could keep the actual crown and the $4,500 Miss California USA necklace she had been given—as well as recoup her $1,500 entry fee and compete again for free—but that apparently didn't cut it for the scorned Silva, who turned out to scorned second runner-up.

Alleging fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation, negligence, false advertising, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract and several other torts, she is seeking at least $500,000 in damages to compensate for the "public humiliation, mental anguish and distress, lost opportunities, lost prizes and lost monies paid to and expended on her behalf."

In her account of the experience, Silva also alleges that another defendant, pageant executive director Keith Lewis, "demonstrated preferential treatment toward some of the more 'anglo-looking' contestants."

Silva is of Ecuadorian and Mexican descent, while Beezley is reportedly part Filipino.

The "winner" is still allowed to keep everything. What is the problem? That you AREN'T number 2 anymore? Is that like if Memphis, after losing to Kansas in the Championship game, played UNC and lost, then UNC would be allowed to be number two? I don't get this.

I also don't get how a chick that is part Ecuadorian, part Mexican can say that the pageant is favoring a Filipino because she looks more "anglo-looking." Really? That is like saying Florida fan suing me because I am more closely resembling a Russian Cosmonaut.