Boston Drag Gauntlet All Stars Cycle 1

Boston Drag Gauntlet All Stars took place in Feb/Mar 2020. While originally intended as a 8 week competition with 15 competitors, only 2 challenges were completed before the COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020.

All Stars brought back 5 competitors from each cycle to date. Georgia Flu, Civilization, Veronica Powers, Ramona Mirage and Harley Queen represented C1. Atlas, Marianne Laputaine, Plane Jane, Binx and Poise N'Envy returned from C2. Crystal Crawford, MT Hart, Robyn Millyonz, Travis Tí and Redux represented C3, which had ended only months before.

### Challenge 1

Contestants created a group number written and recorded with their cycle contestants, and had a runway look inspired by the winner of their cycle.

As a twist of the season, while the winner would be chosen by judges the eliminated performer would be voted on by the other competitors. However, the structure of the venue meant that contestants could not watch their fellow performers' numbers, meaning they could only base it on what they heard of critiques and their own feelings towards performers. The winner would then have the option to save the eliminated person.

The C1 team's group number won, and of the 5, Civilization was named the winner.

Contestants were split between eliminating Crystal Crawford and Atlas; Atlas had recorded an offensive joke in her track where she mocked Travis Tí for not having his own show despite this being due to systemic discrimination. Atlas offered Civilization a free styled wig in exchange for being saved, and Civil agreed. Both assumed that Crystal would be eliminated and that would be it.

However, Production wanted to do a double elimination and needed another person if Atlas was saved. They quietly convinced Robyn Millyonz to change her vote so they had 3 people to choose from. Robyn didn't know many queens as she was Worcester based, and picked Georgia Flu at random.

Civil saved Atlas, and Crystal Crawford and Georgia Flu were eliminated. The crowd immediately reacted with outrage, as Georgia had done incredibly well that week and had gotten favorable critiques, and her performance was seen as a remarkable comeback compared to her first cycle. There was huge amounts of backlash against Atlas, Civilization, Robyn Millyonz, and most of all the production team. The backlash was so severe that shortly after the production team issued a public apology, retooled the rules, and invited both Georgia and Crystal Crawford to return. Georgia agreed and Crystal declined.

### Challenge 2

The second challenge was to create a runway look and number inspired by a Tarot card from the Major Arcana. The cards were assigned at random.

Top 2 was Georgia Flu and Poise N'Envy. They lip synced and Poise won the challenge.

Robyn Millyonz, Harley Queen and Ramona Mirage were bottom 3. Ramona and Robyn were eliminated.

On March 15th, 2020 the city of Boston shut down venues for pandemic control. Initially this was believed to be a temporary pause, but it soon became clear the cycle would not be able to be restarted. Veronica Powers, Ramona Mirage, and Redux all moved out of the greater Boston area; Georgia Flu had major health problems; and several performers stopped doing drag. When lockdowns were lifted Cycle 4 was announced instead.

### Production

#### Hosts:

* Robin from HR
* Kandi Dishe

#### Judges

* Violencia!
* Kris Knieval
* Niki Luparelli
* Teasha Boo

#### Pit Crew

* Mark
* Blake
* Semi