Love Desert All-Stars 1

The All-Stars cast from left to right: Brenden, Chad, Kamara, Jamie, Mariah, Bella, Seink, Papa, Kleo and Dahlia.

### Episodes

6

**Love Desert All-Stars** (AKA **All-Stars 1** since being established as a series) was the first ever season in the Love Desert franchise to be recorded. This season had a stacked lineup, featuring some of the strongest contestants from Season 1 to Season 3. All-Stars premiered on the **10th December 2020**, and the finale was released on the **12th January 2021**.

The winners of this season are Season 3's Bella Vu and Season 1's Mariah Wang, with Dahlia Xppensef winning the judge-favourite award between the 4 eliminated contestants this season.

This season originally had the intention to be the swan-song of the Love Desert series, bringing all the judges' favourite creations together for one last hurrah. Thanks to the entertainment this season provided through a second lockdown, however, there became a resurgence in Love Desert's significance, revitalising the franchise with the incorporation of recording and posting to IGTV, with audience interaction and a new generation of sims. Thanks to this season, Season 4 was created.

Between Season 4's episodes, a couple of bonus videos from this season were released, on the **24th** and **26th of March 2021**. A video recapping the best moments of All-Stars 1 was released on the **14th September 2021,** between episodes of All-Stars 2.

## Format

On this season, every episode went as follows:

* The contestants choose who they want to couple up with at the recoupling.
* The recorded episode ends. The episode is released and the couples are sent to the judges for voting. The judges vote them from best to worst.
* After this, the judge votes are announced as a post on the IG page. There is then a story poll to let the audience decide who is eliminated.
* At the start of the next episode, the contestant with the least votes to stay is eliminated!
	+ In the event of a tie in votes (which occurred on episode 3 following episode 2's bottom vote), the 2 tied contestants will compete in a karaoke battle, and the judges will come to a consensus as to who deserves elimination.

This format was quite a struggle to do, considering the episode had to be fully recorded and edited before the judges get to make any decisions, and not all judges watched the episodes to gain an educated opinion on who did well. The bottom 3-4 being posted to the story for the audience's opinions was effective in making suspenseful decisions, however.

## Contestants

\*During their original season(s) before All-Stars. In Mariah's case, the judge-vote win at the finale is not counted, as she lost the audience vote, and in turn, the final vote overall. Kleo and Dahlia's vote win on Season 2 is counted.

\*\*During their original season, however many times they landed in the bottom, including if they were eliminated during the bottom placement. Bella's elimination on Season 2 is counted.

### From Season 1

Brenden RyderChad Bent-ZengJamie SpencerKamara HusseinMariah WangPapa Mario
Of the six Season 1 contestants to return, four were finalists. At the Season 1 finale, Jamie came in 2nd place, Mariah in 3rd, while Papa + Kamara came in 4th as a couple. Chad was eliminated at the semi-final in 11th-12th place, and later received the judge-favourite award over the other eliminated contestants. Brenden was eliminated on episode 1, in 21st place.

Interestingly, every Season 1 contestant had effectively the same performance on All-Stars as they did on their first season:

* Brenden was eliminated on episode 1.
* Chad was eliminated at the semi-final.
* Kamara and Papa came in last place at the finale.
* Jamie came in 2nd place.
* Mariah won the judge vote at the finale (this time winning the audience vote too).

### From Season 3

Bella VuDahlia XppensefKleo KonjaSeink HoeleThe four Season 3 contestants are exclusively finalists. On Season 3, Dahlia came in 2nd place, Bella + Kleo in 3rd, and Seink in 4th.

Three of them, all but Seink, competed on Season 2's only episode, where Bella was eliminated on episode 1, while Dahlia + Kleo won the judge vote.

## Placements

\*Town/city of residence at time of casting

### Stats

 BOTTOM ASSASSIN
(Most bottom placements survived)
 MOST MINI CHALLENGE WINS

### Recoupling Results

The contestants coupled up at each recoupling as follows:

## Episodes

### Episode 1 (Premiere)

Episode 1 was released to IGTV on the 10th December 2020.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 1
 MINI-WIN
 JUDGE VOTE WIN
 ELIMINATED

### Episode 2

Episode 2 was released to IGTV on the 13th December 2020.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 2
 MINI-WIN
 JUDGE VOTE WIN
 ELIMINATED

### Episode 3

Episode 3 was released to IGTV on the 16th December 2020.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 3
 MINI-WIN
 JUDGE VOTE WIN
 ELIMINATED

### Episode 4

Episode 4 was released to IGTV on the 3rd January 2021.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 4
 MINI-WIN
 JUDGE VOTE WIN
 ELIMINATED

### Episode 5

Episode 5 was released to IGTV on the 6th January 2021.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 5
 MINI-WIN
 ELIMINATED

### Episode 6 (Finale)

The 6th and final episode of All-Stars was released to IGTV on the 12th January 2021.

ALL-STARS EPISODE 6 - THE FINALE
 3RD PLACE
 2ND PLACE
 1ST PLACE, THE WINNERS OF ALL-STARS

## The Cultural Impact of Love Desert All-Stars

In the Love Desert world, there came a population boom after All-Stars, as the casting for Season 4 of Love Desert was decidedly initiated following the success of All-Stars.

As many contestants this season underwent minor or major cosmetic enhancements, it has since become a trend for past contestants to undergo a dramatic makeover, with sims such as Princess Peach, Noelle Curtis and Juliet Blakely each undergoing a notable cosmetic overhaul.

It is assumed that a second season of All-Stars could happen soon after Season 5.

This was the first season to be recorded, meaning all the included footage on IGTV is immortalised as a relic for the future. This decision was made originally so that judges who weren't present could watch and vote, but eventually allowed an exclusive audience in to watch at their own free will, and vote on the story polls.

Sims from this season of All-Stars have connections with many newer legends in the Love Desert world, with Season 4 winner Anelle being drag daughter to Seink. Season 4 finalist Jessica is very close with Dahlia too.

## Trivia

* This was the first (and so far, only) season to not incorporate bombshells, contestants entering after episode 1.
	+ Season 2 is an exception, but had bombshells planned for episode 2.
* This season had the first ever winning couple with 2 contestants originally from different seasons.
* This season is the second ever time a tiebreaker has ever had to be performed to decide who is eliminated, when Kleo Konja and Dahlia Xppensef karaoke-d for their lives on episode 3.
	+ The first time was Season 1's first episode, where Jamie and Brenden had a physical fight to decide who stays (both coincidentally contestants on this season).
* Season 3's Zack Garza and Season 1's Xander Barton have been openly confirmed to be the next 2 choices to be cast on this All-Stars season, but were eventually cut.
	+ It was between the each of them and Brenden as to who would get the final spot in the cast. The cast was originally supposed to be 12 rather than 10, hence the 2 having prepared runways prior to getting cut.
* Only four of the 12 finalists from Seasons 1 and 3 (excluding winners) weren't cast on this season: Noelle, Lewis, Lorelei and Max.
	+ Lorelei was later brought back for a second chance to coimpete on Season 4.