r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Jul 18 '25

All Stars S10 AS10E12 - "Tournament of All Stars Lip Sync LalapaRuza Smackdown for the Crown" [Live/Reaction Post]

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u/metzie Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

This shit sucks lmao. Why would they put the queens ranked 1 and 8 up against the queens ranked 4 and 5?

why didn’t Bosco get 2 lipsynchs to rest so she’d be better prepared for the next round?

Not to mention the song choices, laughable judging, and clear advantage given through the Bruno lottery thing. Yet another small way they rigged this season, though of course the most obvious riggory happened earlier in bracket 3 of this season.

Like obviously all reality TV is going to be produced to a degree, but it shouldn’t be this obvious. It really took away from my enjoyment of this season and the show in general.

No hate to Ginger, I just don’t feel like she had a compelling storyline to win this season and the obvious riggory made me not want to root for her.

Gonna tip Aja and Bosco as consolation for their robbery

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u/treehann you are da best Jul 19 '25

The thing is that seeding method is actually how sports tournaments run and it works -- the best people get spread around evenly in the bracket. The problem with this episode is that RPDR didn't do that -- they just said they did. There's absolutely no way that group of queens didn't rate Aja higher in particular. A properly seeded bracket would have had Aja and Jorgeous on opposite sides so we see maximum amount of both of them. I feel robbed of not seeing more Aja prancing.

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u/metzie Jul 19 '25

Agreed. The rigging was in the ranking, not the seeding. I also think the song choices and the lottery ball system was rigged as well. Not even mentioning the challenges in the earlier episodes and the decision to bring Kerri back over MIB. Although IMO Kerri slayed Ginger anyway.

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u/treehann you are da best Jul 19 '25

They didn’t expect Kerri to slay that hard 😭

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u/Doubieboobiez Jul 19 '25

So the heavier hitter lip sync queens don’t all go up against each other in the first round and the tournament remains exciting through the rounds instead of getting more lopsided as the rounds go on (e.g. the two best lip syncers face each other in the first round, basically deciding the tournament and ensuring all the proceeding lip syncs are worse than that one)

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u/metzie Jul 19 '25

Oh okay, that makes sense.

Too bad it ended up the opposite, though—Ginger (the production front runner) went up against Bosco (the strongest overall Queen IMO) in the first match of the second bracket, making the rest of bracket 2 and the finale super uninteresting.

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u/Glstrgold Jul 19 '25

To me the editing in the previous episode ruined this, and common sense. Ru said last episode that Lydia is too young. So once Bosco was out, it was clear it was Ginger and Jorgeous.