Who Was Eliminated in 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 16 Episode 2?
Drag Race Episode 2
The queens have finally all arrived. After waiting patiently last week during part one of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16's split premiere, the second half of the cast arrived this week. Seven new queens arrived in the Werk Room ready to show Mama Ru their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent. This week was a variation on last week's premiere with a quick photo shoot (at the SheMV rather than on Ru's front porch), the talent show and another reveal-themed runway.
Post-talent show, Ru introduced the Rate-A-Queen twist, which forced the Geneva Karr, Hershii LiqCour-Jete, Megami, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane and Plasma to rank the others' performances.
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Here's everything that went down on the Season 16 Episode 2:
Who was eliminated in the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 Episode 2?
For the second week in a row, the answer is no one. Since Season 12, Drag Race has began each season with some kind of split premiere shenanigans with no one really going home for several episodes. All seven of the new queens were safe this week, but next week with all 14 queens together, presumably we'll discover our first casualty.
Who won Episode 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16?
Plane Jane
With her "Burger Finger" number and Russian princess-to-Boston hooker reveal, Plane Jane wowed the judges with her campy stupidity. She also strategically voted during the Rate-A-Queen game to give herself a leg up. She handily beat Geneva Karr in the lip sync and secured immunity for some week in the future.
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What is the Rate-A-Queen twist?
In a twist just for Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 16, RuPaul isn't deciding which queens are the tops and the bottoms of the week. Rather, each queen ranks the other six from best to worst and those scores are calculated. While we didn't learn who the bottoms were, the queens voted for Plane Jane and Geneva Karr as the two best in Episode 2, sending them into a lip sync for the win. Judging will return to normal in Episode 3.
Which queens are left on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16?
We're two episodes in, but with no eliminations so far all 14 contestants remain in the hunt for the Season 16 crown. They are:
Amanda Tori Meating
Dawn
Geneva Karr
Hershii LiqCour-Jete
Megami
Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige
Mirage
Morphine Love Dion
Nymphia Wind
Plane Jane
PlasmaQ
Sapphira Cristal
Xunami Muse
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