Hell's Kitchen Roleplay: Season 1

## Hell's Kitchen Roleplay

Hell's Kitchen Season 21, dubbed Hell's Kitchen Roleplay: Season 1, is a competition where various Discord users take on a role of a character and compete in Hell's Kitchen. Line Cook Shane was the winner of the season and was awarded the Head Chef position at Hell's Kitchen in Los Angeles, with a $250,000 salary. This fanon page was created on April 19, 2022.

## Contestants

16 contestants competed during this season. The teams were divided by preference of team. The contestants were (in alphabetical order):

## Contestant Progress

At the end of each episode, one chef is eliminated from the losing team by Ramsay. For the first time ever, the season featured an episode where 3 chefs exited the competition in total, with one being hospitalized, one being ejected, and the other being eliminated traditionally. This season also featured a chef being nominated despite being on the winning team, which had only happened once before.

**Keywords**

* WIN = Won the dinner service
* LOSE = Lost the dinner service
* BoB = Best of the Best, usually exempt from nomination
* BoW = Best of the Worst, sometimes exempt from nomination
* IN = not nominated for elimination
* NOM = nominated for elimination
* OUT = eliminated normally
* LEFT = withdrew from competition
* HOSP = eliminated due to hospitalization
* EJEC = eliminated during service

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chef was nominated by Ramsay
2. ↑ Chef was nominated by Ramsay despite being on the winning team
3. ↑ Chef was nominated by Ramsay and then eliminated
4. ↑ Chef was ejected from the competition during dinner service by Ramsay
5. ↑ Chef was hospitalized and forced to leave the competition

**Final Service Brigades**
 Jake
 Corny
 Lifedollars

## Challenge Progress

Below is a summary of each contestant's challenge performance. Red and green indicate whether or not their *team* won a challenge, and does not reflect their individual performance.

1. ↑ Mae was ill the morning the challenge took place, so Elise took her place
2. ↑ The judges only tasted the dishes that were voted top 4 from each team
3. ↑ Despite not being voted top 3, Corny's dish was still tasted by Ramsay
4. ↑ Chef Ramsay only tasted the dishes that were voted top 3 from each team
5. ↑ The score was tied, so Shane's dish, the best dish of the day, broke the tie
6. ↑ Despite not being voted top 3, Corny's dish was still tasted by Ramsay
7. ↑ Mae sat out to even the numbers

## Trivia

* This season was the first season since Season 18 to have 16 contestants.
* This season is the third season where the teams were not divided by gender at the beginning. This season is also the first of two seasons to feature only one female on a team at the beginning.
* This season is tied with Season 18 for holding the record for having the most contestants scoring a perfect 5 on the new format of the Signature Dish Challenge, with four.
* This season is the first season to feature a triple elimination. It is also the first season to feature three different methods of elimination within an episode (hospitalization, ejection, traditional elimination).
* This season is the first season since Season 14 to feature six Black Jackets.
* This season features the most chefs who kept their jacket after their elimination, with six, and is later tied with Season 22.
* This season marks the second instance in which both finalists took charge of the kitchen opposite to their starting team in the finale.
* Future Reappearances:
	+ Shane and Angie would return in Season 22 as guest judges, with the former later returning as a Sous Chef and the latter later returning to help Hal during a challenge. The Black Jackets of the season would also return as guests during the alumni service. The two would later return for the Season 23 finale as guest judges.
	+ Angie, Dee, Elise, Bobby and Mae would later return to compete on the All Stars season.

## Titles

* **Best Overall Chef:** Shane
* **Best Consistency:** Shane (0.55 mistakes per service)
* **Best Standouts:** Shane
* **Best Standout:** Shane's Episode 11 Service
* **Best Challenges:** Bobby
* **Best Challenge Performance:** Shane’s Waygu Steak Dish in Episode 6
* **Best Overall Leadership:** Shane
* **Best Pass Performance:** Shane
* **Biggest Comeback:** Elise Joyson
* **Worst Overall Chef:** Mike Aresta
* **Worst Consistency:** Mike Aresta (14 mistakes per service)
* **Worst Challenges:** Mike Aresta
* **Worst Challenge Performance:** Mike Aresta's Signature Dish
* **Favourite Contestant (based on vote):** Shane (with 7 votes)
* **The Contestant That People Want to Return the Most (based on vote):** Angie and Dee (tied with 5 votes)