3 weeks in and still no eliminations. Related: RuPaul's Drag Race: Rihanna DMs Symone On IG, Calls Her 'Everything' There is a total of four queens in the RuPaul's Drag Race universe that have more than 2 million followers on Instagram: Bianca Del Rio (2.4 million), Trixie Mattel (2.3 million), Katya (2.2 million), and Adore Delano (2.1 million). What Rosé needs is a finale that befits her talents. Overall, the "Turn It And Burn It" queen experienced a 378% growth in Instagram followers. She wiggled as far as sixth place, and that ain’t half bad. Rosé’s biggest obstacle at this point is not making a case for the win—as Gottmik noted in a confessional this week, Rosé’s a real threat to take home the crown. Our newsletters may contain promotional messages, please see our Privacy Policy. She’s 0-and-2 in Drag Race lip syncs, so she faces the biggest uphill climb in the finale assuming no format change. (I enjoyed Utica’s surreal sense of humour in her commercial as well, but there’s a difference between something being iconic and something being a winning Drag Race performance.) His favourite pastime is watching a perfect lip sync. Winning the season feels like a harder get, though. ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 16 power ranking:... xtramagazine.com - Kevin O’Keeffe • 7h. It’s fair to say Olivia has not thrived in the back half of this competition. ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 12 power ranking: Roasted queens Smart strategy triumphs over cheap shots as the top six queens become a final five By Kevin O’Keeffe • March 27, 2021 8:10 am EDT And that finale—a terrific one—still kept a variant of the Lip Sync for the Crown with those three. But looking back at her wins, it feels like what Ru was really rewarding was potential. She did it! Not a bad week, especially going into the final four! Peppermint was also going up against queens with two, three and four wins—Sasha Velour, Trinity the Tuck (née Taylor) and Shea Coulée, respectively—but beat two of them to make it to the runner-up spot thanks to her lip-syncing skills. These are all the hallmarks of Symone, and what have made her such a threat all season long. Momentum isn’t everything—Crystal Methyd had the momentum and the fan support, and she still lost to Jaida Essence Hall. It's time to rank the runaway categories from "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 13. Credit: Courtesy of VH1; Brian Wong/Xtra. Last week, Ross Mathews told her to use her smile to her advantage, keeping it hidden for most of her commercial and making the moment she does smile a big turning point. We’ve heard in Untucked this season that Utica can be mean-spirited, but I didn’t expect anything like this. RuPaul’s Drag Race hits highest ever ratings with season 13 premiere. While the other queens are all peaking (or at least holding steady) at the right time, Kandy’s trajectory has been inconsistent. We've ranked all of the "RuPaul's Drag Race" winners from BeBe Zahara Benet to Jaida Essence Hall. The reality competition's season 13 debut was watched by over 1.3 million viewers in the US. Statistically, she is absolutely the weakest, having lost both of her lip syncs. Like. Prior to the RuPaul's Drag Race season 13 cast announcement, Tina Burner was already a well-respected drag performer from New York City with 23,000 followers on Instagram.As of this writing, Tina has now grown to 110,000 followers. Every Saturday, we’ll debrief the week’s new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care.The last acting challenge of the season gives us our final four, with a … It's time to rank the runaway categories from "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 13. She was just brutal. I stand by what I wrote last week about Symone’s edit favouring her for the win. From a high to a low: Kandy couldn’t pull a second win this week, and thus is entering the final four with a similar track record to her fellow New York queen, Peppermint. Of non-All Stars seasons, only two Drag Race winners have had to lip sync for their lives more than once: Angele Anang from Drag Race Thailand Season 2 and Priyanka from the first season of Canada’s Drag Race. Kandy Muse (last week: 4) It was a shocking beginning like the show has never had before as the entire cast had to lip sync by episode’s end. She was the last remaining of the top six not to do so, and secured her spot in the final five by acing the roast. Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! To the absolute joy of herself and her competitors, Kandy finally won a maxi-challenge. Copied to clipboard. And if that happens in a traditional Lip Sync for the Crown tournament format, Rosé may have no one she can beat among the finalists. But I don’t sense it with Gottmik. I feel confident predicting she will make the final four over Olivia now, but here’s a question for you all: Will she make the top three? Icon version of the Flipboard logo. And with this strong final five week, Rosé has shown she’s just as in it to win it as anyone. Here’s how the season 13 girls are doing so far after the 1st explosive episode. The Season started off odd. She’s been practically flawless so far and I don’t see that stopping anytime soon. What was once a humble start on a tiny but amazing network that was given the Barbara Walters glossy lens treatment throughout became an Emmy-award winning phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.. 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4' Pre-Season Power Ranking: ... but the diva impersonated the pint-size drag queen on season 10 of Drag Race, ... 12/13/2018. It's time to rank the runaway categories from "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 13. At one point, Olivia was a frontrunner. Every Saturday, we’ll debrief the week’s new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care. The casting for Season 13 was opened and then ended on May 7, 2020. India Ferrah won the ducking lottery when she was casted in All Stars 5, as it's VERY rare for an early out that almost nobody remembers to have a second chance at Drag Race. If they decide to modify the finale to be more like Season 12’s, I wouldn’t be shocked to see her just miss. This method can be used to prove if a contestant performed better than another regardless of their placing in the competition. She’s so good at riffing back and forth with Ru and the judges—and that’s no small feat. Her challenge is going to be whatever Lip Sync for the Crown she has to perform at the end. Records are meant to be set and broken, of course. If so, I think Kandy is the most likely to be booted. The ball challenge came out early in Season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and it ended up being one of the strongest challenges of the season so far.Unfortunately, Dusty Ray Bottoms ended up in the bottom this week and it led to her downfall. Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! I didn’t realize it was Thursday. The only time she landed in the bottom three this season was for the branding challenge, and her runway saved her there. You can unsubscribe at any time. Strategically, Kandy’s choice to go first (and persuading Rosé to go last) allowed her to own all the most obvious material. Overall, the "Turn It And Burn It" queen experienced a 378% growth in Instagram followers. But assuming she makes it to the finale (a wise bet at this point), she’ll need to make sure she doesn’t overthink things in her final performances. She’s one of the better lip-syncers of this crop. Trying to draw a line between Symone’s various tumbles this season is difficult, because she’s such a well-rounded queen. xtramagazine.com - Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Join the livestream Kiki with Kevin on Fridays at 4 p.m. EDT to talk about RuPaul’s Drag Race. Promos were released on June 28, 2021. She was in the bottom two for the Rusical, but won the RuMix challenge in the Winners’ Circle premiere. We were introduced to 13 new contestants, plus returning queen Eureka O’Hara, on Thursday night’s premiere, which recreated the Drag on a Dime challenge from the first episode of Season 1. Chicago stunner Kahmora Hall became the first queen to get the heave ho (read the full recap here) due to her lackluster performance in an over the top acting challenge. She clearly has high standards for herself, and didn’t want to falter at the final hurdle. Gottmik only lip-synced in the premiere, though, and won against weak competition in Utica. The"Dusted or Busted" Scoring Method,also known as the"DOB" Scoring Methodis an unofficial fan made scoring system used to measure the performance or success of contestants onRuPaul's Drag Race. That she ignored both pieces of advice strikes me as foolish, and reveals her weaknesses in this competition. She bombed the roast, but was excellent in both the improv challenge and Snatch Game. Icon version of the Flipboard logo. She best prepare some gags! READ MORE: I mean, what else is there left to say at this point? She’s won three challenges, done well in a bunch of others and the only time she was in contention to lip sync was on the paired makeover challenge. All season long, she’s felt like a solid competitor, but decidedly behind the L.A. girls in terms of win equity. Season four was a great, dynamic season, and it’s definitely a good one to start with if you’ve never … Her competition, meanwhile, has risen from a B or a B+ all the way to an A alongside her. 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 13, Episode 3 Power Rankings Symone Talks Love From Janet, Being Emotional, & "Saying What Needs to Be Said" 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 13, Episode 4 Power Rankings Until Season 9, RuPaul’s Drag Race always had a top three in the finale (at least on the main show; All Stars is a different beast). Gottmik could similarly surprise us. Every Saturday, we’ll debrief the week’s new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race to determine which queens are … ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 9 power ranking: Impersonation sensation | Xtra Magazine - Flipboard Stay caught up on the latest LGBTQ2S+ stories with Xtra Weekly, every Friday. ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 13 power ranking: The final four is set ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 13 power ranking: The final four is set. Utica has come back from setbacks a few times in this competition, and has proven herself to be a surprise Lip Sync Assassin. Credit: Courtesy of VH1; Brian Wong/Xtra. Kevin O’Keeffe is a writer, host, instructor, and RuPaul’s Drag Race herstorian living in Los Angeles, California. This week, she continued to show the judges how much more relaxed and personable she’s become, she killed it in the acting challenge to make up for her loss in the first one and delivered one of her strongest looks of the season that addressed all of Michelle Visage’s past criticisms of her fashion. ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 14 power ranking: She’s so ‘Lucky,’ she’s a star 1. We saw the entire group merge as one for the first time after being split up over the past three episodes. It was 10s, 10s, 10s across the board this week for the monumental premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 and our new crop of queens did not disappoint. living. Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 13 power ranking: The final four is set ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 13, Episode 13 power ranking: The final four is set. Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every RuPaul's Drag Race season 13 runway look, ... RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars power ranking: BenDeLaCreme soars, Milk sours. Ranking RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Season 13 Contestants. I would be absolutely floored if Rosé didn’t make the finale. Kevin O’Keeffe is a writer, host, instructor, and RuPaul’s Drag Race herstorian living in Los Angeles, California. But while Ru still seems impressed by Symone, he appears more and more impressed with her closest competition in recent weeks. Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers from Episode 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10.Proceed with caution. She just needs a bit more time to grow before she can compete for the crown. The queens were paired off, and one group was a trio, they all had to lip sync against … … The RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 train finally left the station this week. Since Snatch Game, she has scored low or been in the bottom two of every challenge. The last acting challenge of the season gives us our final four, with a former frontrunner heading home. After coming in a bit quieter and more hesitant than I expected based on her preseason material, Mik has fully flourished. But I also stand by my worrying that her bottom two appearances could be a detriment to her chances. So, without further ado, here is my ranking of all the Drag Race seasons ranked worst to best including All Stars, henny. This win was exactly what Rosé needed to be competitive in the finale. xtramagazine.com - Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every Friday, we’ll debrief this week’s new episode of Canada’s Drag Race to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care.Drag Race goes Project Runway for an unconventional materials design challenge done in teams. One thing about Gottmik that has really impressed me is her runway banter. Drag Race Season One winner Bebe Zahara Benet and a guest at RuPaul and Marc Jacobs’ “Fashion Does Drag” Ball. The"Dusted or Busted" Scoring Method,also known as the"DOB" Scoring Methodis an unofficial fan made scoring system used to measure the performance or success of contestants onRuPaul's Drag Race. She’s excelled at most of the major facets of this competition, and like Symone, she would be the first regular season winner from Los Angeles since Raja. for it. She was a lot of fun in the improv challenge, but was her mime bit really a clear winner over Denali and Rosé’s high-energy sketch? She’s done nothing but perform poorly since Snatch Game, and has been saved a few times purely by virtue of others bombing harder than her. 1: Symone (Last ranking: #1). Check out who I think is thriving and failing the most in the newest Drag Race season 13 power rankings below. Enter your email to subscribe. I preferred Rosé’s set, but in the judges’ eyes, Kandy had two major advantages: One through circumstance, the other through strategy. Gottmik (last week: 2) 2. 16: All Stars 1. So is it possible that we’ll see a final three this season, instead of a final four? As we head into the ball, we’re bracing ourselves to see one more queen go home. xtramagazine.com - Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! If I had to take a guess right now who is going to win purely based on gut instinct, having been watching and writing about this show for years, I would bet it’s Gottmik—and she’d be a very deserving winner. 4. Which of the remaining queens has the best chance of taking home the crown? Every RuPaul's Drag Race season 13 runway look, ranked. xtramagazine.com - Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! 11 months ago 11 months ago. She’s a beautiful queen, with truly one of the best smiles we’ve ever seen, but I’d be shocked if she can smile her way to the final four. Welcome to Drag Race UK Power Rankings!Every Saturday, we’ll debrief this week’s new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care. May she rest in power. Runner Up: Raven. Put it this way: Symone has been an A+ for most of the season, and she’s ending with a strong-but-slightly-lower A. Those that shined were stars, but those who didn’t truly stunk. She can’t sew, but she’s a fashion queen known for her stellar looks. While I’m glad Ru could have fun with Utica’s bomb, flipping her off twice, there was clearly no other way out. Xtra is an online magazine and community platform covering LGBTQ2S+ culture, politics and health. Gottmik jokes with the panel like they’re all pals, and it’s clearly really endearing her to Ru. We aim to break boundaries, think outside of binaries and build bridges within our communities and beyond. But the perception that she wasn’t as good on the night as she was in preparation led to her getting the bridesmaid spot this week. Since its premiere on Logo in 2009, RuPaul’s Drag Race, now airing on VH1, has become a pop culture phenomenon with a huge online following and big … 36 th. Symone (last week: 3) 3. But as it stands, even if there’s no elimination next week, I’m not sure a win at the end is in the cards for Miss Muse. The playing field should feel even, but because the others have growth arcs, the momentum is with them. RuPaul and Drag Race alumnae pay tribute to the incomparable All Star and beloved Queen Chi Chi DeVayne. On April 13, 2020, VH1 renewed the series for a thirteenth season, and began airing on July 28, 2021. Moreover, I don’t think she has the edit to support a win. If it’s the Season 9 to 11 LSFTC format, she’s in! This method can be used to prove if a contestant performed better than another regardless of their placing in the competition. His favourite pastime is watching a perfect lip sync. Regardless, she’s become the licorice of Drag Race: you either want to beeline for it or avoid it at all costs in the supermarket. But still, it’s worth noting that she’d have to make herstory to win at this point. Stay caught up on the latest LGBTQ2S+ stories with Xtra Weekly, every Friday. Here are our favorite looks so far. Gottmik was a clear third of the top three to me, but she was still head-and-shoulders above the queens who landed in the bottom three. Smart strategy triumphs over cheap shots as the top six queens become a final five, Kandy got strategic, while Symone got in her head. ... 13 Sherry Pie (Disqualified) What's Your Reaction? There have been some complaints among fans that Gottmik has been carried this season: That she’s not had to lip sync when she should have, or has been overpraised. She’s shown a wide range of skills, plus some of the best runway looks of the season, and has kept Ru entertained with sharp, witty banter on the main stage. But it’s something, and it’s something Symone doesn’t really have. And putting Symone in the bottom with her was a guarantee that Utica would not be able to lip sync out of trouble again. Power Rankings For Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 12 Week 11. by Rebekah Paige 11 months ago 11 months ago. After 12 regular seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race and 4 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, we have ranked every Snatch Game from the series. They introduced the cast two by two as each made their way into the werk room for the very first time. Related: RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10, Episode 10 Power Rankings: The Trade of It All All the Pictures From Marc Jacobs and RuPaul’s Drag Ball at New York Fashion Week Had she managed to win again this week, I’d say she’d be in great shape for the finale. 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