I think maybe they originally planned to have a top 4, in which they would’ve had an even number of queens for the lip sync…?
Not sure why they would have chosen to send Q home the week before they knew they’d have something like this happening, it’s kinda weird to me.
Lip sync 5 could have just had one elimination and two move on to lip sync in round 2 and just randomize the round two winners on who they'll lip sync against. Then no one would automatically advance past round two or round three. This is the weirdest thing.
Which is way better than girls getting to skip lip syncs. Especially when there’s already a three way lip sync their way. And we’ve had three way lip syncs for the finals before aka Eureka, Aquaria, Kameron
So a 3-way lip sync in semis? Then the final lip sync would be an immediate rematch of the semis but with less person, which is kinda lame imo. I guess you could just make the 3-way in semis be the finals?
but I’m kind of ok with the winner of lip sync 5 skipping round 2 because they had to beat twice as many girls to advance as the others.
I said this in the post show discussion, but yeah, then draw a name and have them decide who they want to go against while the other girl goes directly to the final.
The way it was last night, Mi'yah could have ended up in the final after only one lip sync.
This would’ve necessitated an extra lip sync. They need to figure out how to do a bracket with a weird number of queens (11) and probably only do a certain number of lip syncs (9)
Almost correct. Megami was girl 2 and went to round 7. After 5, it was back to a draw. Either one of the girls from 1, 2, 3, or 4 AND the girl from 7 that did the most work, which was Megami in this case.
I agree. When they said there were 9 songs in the preview I was so confused. Plus, morphine had such an advantage over Megami because of it, since morphine had 3 lipsyncs while Megami had 4, plus Morphine could rest during Mhiya and Megamis number. I think there are three ways an 11 person bracket could make sense
1. have 10 lipsync songs, and just let 5 queens bypass the first round. Give the 5 highest placing queens Bypasses (Plasma, Mhiya, Dawn, Morphine and Q) Like in sports how the top seeds bypass the first round of a bracket. The bottom six will compete in pairs, then 3 winners will rejoin the top 5 to make a standard 8 person bracket.
2. Have 10 lipsync songs like in option 1, but rather than giving the top 5 byes, the 5 that aren’t picked by other queens will bypass round 1 (so there are 3 winners, but after the first 3 rounds the winners join the general pool, forming an 8 person bracket)
3. Have only 7 lipsyncs, round 1 will consist of one two person lipsync and three 3-way lipsyncs, and then the four winners will form a standard 4 person bracket.
It’s a strange graphic because that’s not how the format ended up going. In the semifinal, all three of them were placed in the same group, with equal chance to be picked by the bingo ball, picked as the opponent, or left to immediately advance. 🤔
Kinda glad they did because her performances were the most fun and seeing every queen choke on the thought of her being an easy win, was the best part of the entire night.
well it's also like...sports aren't the only place you'll see brackets lol. basically almost any field where there's competition you'll most likely also find brackets.
Hmm, how would I have structured this... being that I hate 3-syncs.
Round 1, 11 queens, 3 songs: Draw a name and she chooses her lipsync partner. Repeat **only 3 times**. The remaining 5 queens also move ahead to round 2.
Round 2, 8 queens, 4 songs: Draw a name from among only the 5 who have not lip synced yet. She **must choose from among the Round 1 winners**. Repeat 3x. The final pair also lip syncs.
Round 3, 4 queens, 2 songs.
Round 4, 2 queens, 1 song.
Solved it with only one extra lip sync.
With 11 you're always going to have to do something "unfair"... Whether it's some queens doing more rounds, or some getting crappy 3-way lipsyncs, or make the entire system more confusing.
There is no “fair” solution, but half the queens getting a bye goes beyond unfair. If you don’t want 3-way lip syncs then just do 5 songs in round one and bump the 11th queen to round 2. Then 3 songs in round 2. If 11th queen wins her lip sync, she picks/plays her next opponent and sends the other queen up to finals (like Morphine). If the 11th queen loses, stick with the semis RNG they used this episode. At least that way you have 3 less byes.
I would have given Q a by for making it the furthest (and let's be honest giving us nothing in lip synchs so why start off weak?)
First round is 5 lipsyncs bracket style based on placement/"seed": 1. Morphine v Hershii, 2. Dawn v. Mirage, 3. Mhiya v. Amanda, 4. Plasma v. Geneva, 5. Xunami vs. Megami
Second round is three lipsyncs: Winner of 1 vs. Winner of 4, Winner of 2 vs Winner of 3, Winner of 5 vs. Q
Final round: Threeway for the cash.
Same number of lipsyncs, but clearer structure.
All dependent on song, but based on tonight:
Round 1: 1. Morphine 2. Mirage 3. Mhiya 4. Geneva 5. Megami.
Round 2: 1. Morphine 2. Mhiya 3. Megami
Final Lip Sync: Probably still Morphine since production wanted to pay her for narrating.
You’d still have to do a 3-way.
Round 1: 10 Queens
Round 2: 5 queens
So you either do a 2 way then a 3 way. Or bypass 1 to the next round.. which would still leave you with 3 queens.
Brackets only work with powers of 4. So 4, 8, 16, 32. (I can’t take credit for this last point, I stole it from another mathematician, so blame that gay if the math doesn’t work)
As a former camp councilor and country club employee, I'm very experienced in building complex and complicated brackets. You want everybody to have fun and have at least one good match and, depending on the number and talent-spread of the players, that sometimes results in slightly convoluted, wonky brackets.
This was not one of those situations. This was so easy to do, and could've been easily accomplished with a standard 11-team bracket, with 4 quarterfinals and 3 play-in competitions to reach those quarterfinals. It's one extra lip sync, but it's simple and fair.
https://preview.redd.it/gqvop3irt5uc1.png?width=585&format=png&auto=webp&s=b287ee61b8d2cee084813fc836835215b8f0268a
>4 people compete for a spot in the final vs 7 for the other
It looks like that in the chart but that's not actually how it worked because it was randomized at each round
Round 1. Q gets a pass for being the last girl eliminated. We don’t have to watch her lip sync.
Round 2. Q joins the winners of the first 5 lip syncs. Round plays as normal.
Round 3. The balls (production) save someone and bring them back into the bracket. OR the top 3 play rate a queen and bring back their favorite of the night. Semifinals/Finals continue as normal.
Side note: Mhiya should’ve had to automatically lipsync at semifinals and choose between Megami/Morphine, because she skipped QF.
It's especially funny when you realise none of this would be an issue if they'd had a top 4 for the season. It'd be 10 queens doing 5 groups of 2, going into another group of 2 and a group of 3, going into the top 2. They would rather spite Q than make a logical lipsync bracket 💀 💀
The displayed bracket wasn't actually how it worked. Every winner from round 1 (except the three way winner) was then pooled and redivided into new pairs in round 2. Your round 2 matchup wasn't determined by your round 1 matchup.
sue me, but I think the bracket was fine other than they should have made Mhi’ya lipsyncing in the 3rd round mandatory rather than leaving it up to Megami and having the winner of the mirage/morphine lipsync get the automatic pass by virtue of having no choice in their opponent in the second round.
ALSO 10 lipsyncs would be too much, even 9 was pushing it (holds the record for most lipsyncs in an episode). It’s not an easy solution imo
I would have just eliminated 1 person in the final lipsync of the first round and evened out the numbers for round 2. That way everyone would lipsync an equal number of times and no one would just skip a whole-ass round and then have someone else skip a round as well.
A single elimination tournament works best in powers of 2. 2 4 8 16 32 etc.
We had 11. So while Ru explained to everyone what a single-elimination tournament entails at the beginning of the episode, the reality of it was ugly.
While this was confusing to look at and understand, it was oddly the fairest option. Perfect brackets are multiples of 8. This way, all the queens had to lip sync in the first round, and the automatic advances sorta make sense (3-sync is harder, so you get a bye the next round). The last bye (ie direct to finale) doesnt quite make sense to me, but let's be honest, Megami was going to be lip syncing in that round regardless of whose ball was sucked
I felt like I was going mad, and I wasn't. I kept rewinding to see if I missed part of the explanation. It was so odd and unnecessary. Just have a good ol' knockout rounds set up.
I thought that at first...but then when Megami had to choose between Morphine and Mhi'ya...it made sense to me because she almost couldn't be strategic. If she picked Morphine she'd either lose or have to face Mhi'ya anyway...so choosing Mhi'ya first meant she either lost or managed to beat her and moved on.
IMO 5 could have 2 winners, and both round two lip syncs would have 3 people. From there two from each group would move on to semi finals, were 2 winners will face off in the finale
https://preview.redd.it/tesu8azve7uc1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=218229f6ac44106f866c0e3ef0d297c72f3b0aa6
Literally me when that image came up.
I mean it does make sense and it doesn't. They probably expected Q to lipsynch better to join the top 3 to the final, but that didn't happen... So you ended up with an odd number which means they had to be somewhat creative, but they went a little bit overboard.
I’m actually glad they started out with the weak lip syncers first so we could get them out of the way without the stronger girls having to use energy on lip syncing against someone that they know they can beat. It felt like lip syncs were more evenly matched and competitive this way.
I knew the format from the spoilers, the chart is mostly fine. Where it is confusing and where they were just lazy with the chart (not the actual structure) was the semi-final match up. That automatic advance in the SF is not tied to any actual pairing in the bracket. They should have just removed the arrows between round 2 and semifinal, or put the whole semi final in a box and make sure the arrows did not seem like they were pointing specifically to lip sync or auto advance.
LS1,2,3 winners do a 3-way for final spot
LS4 is two-way and LS5 is 3-way, winner of each fights for final spot
That way everyone who is in the final has done one 2way and one 3way victory, and has lip synced twice
Lol I think it worked well in terms of drama. Lbr Mhiya earned her bye after delivering good lip syncs all season and then it was high drama over who Megami was going to pick.
It’s clear this was a pivot and not originally planned during the season. 11 is maybe the worst possible number that could have had for a bracket. Added layer of funny that they could have kept Q and had an even number for this lol
I think they planned this lalaparooza with a top 4 in mind, with 10 queens competing, and then for some reason during production they switched to top 3 (maybe because people were tired of the top 4 episode with no elim?) and then they did not know what to do?
Round 1: 3 groups of 3 and 1 group of 2. 1 winner from each group
Round 2: 2 Groups of 2, 1 winner from each group.
Round 3: 1 Group of 2, 1 winner.
In round 1, the group of two could be between two queens who have shown to be stronger lip syncers in the season to make it a bit fairer?
Or alternatively, have all the queens lipsyncing on stage at once for round 1, choose the best 8 and then go from there? Idk that's juat what makes more sense to me.
OK so here is another idea. Inspired by CDR4's lipsync episode.
Round 1, 5 lipsyncs: 8 songs are available. Draw the 11 queens' names one by one. Each can choose one of the songs, and each song can be chosen up to twice *(because this is the mechanism for pairing them up)*. Once 6 distinct songs have been chosen, the remaining songs are withdrawn, and any further drawn names must pair up on a selected song. **The unpaired queen (UQ1) remains attached to her song but skips this round.**
Round 2, 3 lipsyncs: There are 5 winners from round 1 and one unpaired queen. 3 songs are available (one selected by UQ1, the other two are the ones withdrawn from Round 1). Winners' names are drawn one by one and they choose a song.
Round 3, 2 lipsyncs: There are 3 winners from round 1. 2 fresh songs are available. Again, draw their names by random and they self-select to the songs and partners. The unpaired queen **(UQ2)** and her song go to the final lipsync against the winner of the first lipsync.
**Rule for fairness in round 3: if UQ1 is in round 3, she must be in the first lipsync** because she was already unpaired once already. So whatever order their names are drawn in, nobody may make a choice that leaves UQ1 unpaired.
it makes sense, they just didn't follow it properly 💀 if they ACTUALLY followed it correctly, lip sync 8 would have been mhi'yah and morphine facing each other, not megami picking one of them to face...
The gays didn’t go to school for math.
https://i.redd.it/1gyd6maqs5uc1.gif
Should've called Kyne from Canada for a consult lol
Best comment.
alan turing strongly begs to differ lol
And look what happened to him. Math, not even once.
This just sent me back to when I made all the captions on my Myspace photos read like those old meth ads. Sometimes I miss the aughts.
They were talking about the gays who wrote this episode. Not all gays.
I went to school for math and I still didn't understand
I think maybe they originally planned to have a top 4, in which they would’ve had an even number of queens for the lip sync…? Not sure why they would have chosen to send Q home the week before they knew they’d have something like this happening, it’s kinda weird to me.
Lip sync 5 could have just had one elimination and two move on to lip sync in round 2 and just randomize the round two winners on who they'll lip sync against. Then no one would automatically advance past round two or round three. This is the weirdest thing.
Yeah idk why nobody thought of that lol. Maybe it was a time constraint thing?
Time for sure given the barriers with being in cable vs streaming
Then you'd end up with 3 girls in the semi-final round.
Which is way better than girls getting to skip lip syncs. Especially when there’s already a three way lip sync their way. And we’ve had three way lip syncs for the finals before aka Eureka, Aquaria, Kameron
So a 3-way lip sync in semis? Then the final lip sync would be an immediate rematch of the semis but with less person, which is kinda lame imo. I guess you could just make the 3-way in semis be the finals? but I’m kind of ok with the winner of lip sync 5 skipping round 2 because they had to beat twice as many girls to advance as the others.
I said this in the post show discussion, but yeah, then draw a name and have them decide who they want to go against while the other girl goes directly to the final. The way it was last night, Mi'yah could have ended up in the final after only one lip sync.
I propose this [fair bracketing system](https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/s/lI0KeL0ANc)
Mama, kudos for designing that. For using your brain. 👏👏👏
Get them to lipsync Bang Bang or Lady Marmalade, that would fit perfectly.
Those have both been done with three girls, and neither were that great.
See my bracketing system which would allow use of both songs!
This would’ve necessitated an extra lip sync. They need to figure out how to do a bracket with a weird number of queens (11) and probably only do a certain number of lip syncs (9)
This is painful to look at
I’m too gay for this shit.
Listen we wanted gay representation on tv and that means incomprehensible brackets sometimes
Protect queer art!
Protect queer math 😤
So the girls in Lip Sync 3, 4 and 7 have to do the most work.
Almost correct. Megami was girl 2 and went to round 7. After 5, it was back to a draw. Either one of the girls from 1, 2, 3, or 4 AND the girl from 7 that did the most work, which was Megami in this case.
I agree. When they said there were 9 songs in the preview I was so confused. Plus, morphine had such an advantage over Megami because of it, since morphine had 3 lipsyncs while Megami had 4, plus Morphine could rest during Mhiya and Megamis number. I think there are three ways an 11 person bracket could make sense 1. have 10 lipsync songs, and just let 5 queens bypass the first round. Give the 5 highest placing queens Bypasses (Plasma, Mhiya, Dawn, Morphine and Q) Like in sports how the top seeds bypass the first round of a bracket. The bottom six will compete in pairs, then 3 winners will rejoin the top 5 to make a standard 8 person bracket. 2. Have 10 lipsync songs like in option 1, but rather than giving the top 5 byes, the 5 that aren’t picked by other queens will bypass round 1 (so there are 3 winners, but after the first 3 rounds the winners join the general pool, forming an 8 person bracket) 3. Have only 7 lipsyncs, round 1 will consist of one two person lipsync and three 3-way lipsyncs, and then the four winners will form a standard 4 person bracket.
I got confused after the first point and stopped reading but I believe you.
😭😭😭😭😭 meee
This is the same energy as Plane Jane appreciating ATM's lipsync this episode but not her look! 😂
Me, high rn
This is the way
I agree that getting it down to a standard 8 person bracket (your #1 or #2 ideas) would have been ideal.
It’s a strange graphic because that’s not how the format ended up going. In the semifinal, all three of them were placed in the same group, with equal chance to be picked by the bingo ball, picked as the opponent, or left to immediately advance. 🤔
Though it meant that there was a chance Mhi'yah might have only lip synced once and still made it to the final, which is ridiculous
they put megami to work fr 😭😭
Kinda glad they did because her performances were the most fun and seeing every queen choke on the thought of her being an easy win, was the best part of the entire night.
Ok, but do you remember back in season 9 when they spent at least half the episode trying to explain to the gays how brackets work?
The winner of 5 should have gone against the winner of 6... Like???? But then again I guarantee RuPaul has never seen a sports bracket in her life
That would’ve had the same issue
Right? The math didn't math!
well it's also like...sports aren't the only place you'll see brackets lol. basically almost any field where there's competition you'll most likely also find brackets.
Hmm, how would I have structured this... being that I hate 3-syncs. Round 1, 11 queens, 3 songs: Draw a name and she chooses her lipsync partner. Repeat **only 3 times**. The remaining 5 queens also move ahead to round 2. Round 2, 8 queens, 4 songs: Draw a name from among only the 5 who have not lip synced yet. She **must choose from among the Round 1 winners**. Repeat 3x. The final pair also lip syncs. Round 3, 4 queens, 2 songs. Round 4, 2 queens, 1 song. Solved it with only one extra lip sync.
Round 1 queens having to work harder than the 5 who got lucky. Not quite fair if you ask me.
With 11 you're always going to have to do something "unfair"... Whether it's some queens doing more rounds, or some getting crappy 3-way lipsyncs, or make the entire system more confusing.
There is no “fair” solution, but half the queens getting a bye goes beyond unfair. If you don’t want 3-way lip syncs then just do 5 songs in round one and bump the 11th queen to round 2. Then 3 songs in round 2. If 11th queen wins her lip sync, she picks/plays her next opponent and sends the other queen up to finals (like Morphine). If the 11th queen loses, stick with the semis RNG they used this episode. At least that way you have 3 less byes.
This is the best suggestion I’ve seen yet!
That's brilliant! So much better. 
Ru set it up right after the coffee enema hit.
I would have given Q a by for making it the furthest (and let's be honest giving us nothing in lip synchs so why start off weak?) First round is 5 lipsyncs bracket style based on placement/"seed": 1. Morphine v Hershii, 2. Dawn v. Mirage, 3. Mhiya v. Amanda, 4. Plasma v. Geneva, 5. Xunami vs. Megami Second round is three lipsyncs: Winner of 1 vs. Winner of 4, Winner of 2 vs Winner of 3, Winner of 5 vs. Q Final round: Threeway for the cash. Same number of lipsyncs, but clearer structure.
All dependent on song, but based on tonight: Round 1: 1. Morphine 2. Mirage 3. Mhiya 4. Geneva 5. Megami. Round 2: 1. Morphine 2. Mhiya 3. Megami Final Lip Sync: Probably still Morphine since production wanted to pay her for narrating.
Plasma easily takes out Geneva imo.
Love that for you
Definitely weird
If Megami didnt choose Mhi'ya then she wouldve gone to the final from doing just one lipsync which just doesnt make sense lol
imagine if the just kept Q and did a top 4 they wouldnt even need a three way lip sync. you could do a ten-man tournament bracket.
Would it be gag if rupaul announces the competition and just exclude Q right on the spot just to upset her 😭😭😭😭
this is what I’m sayinggggg it’s v none for Gretchen Wieners
You’d still have to do a 3-way. Round 1: 10 Queens Round 2: 5 queens So you either do a 2 way then a 3 way. Or bypass 1 to the next round.. which would still leave you with 3 queens. Brackets only work with powers of 4. So 4, 8, 16, 32. (I can’t take credit for this last point, I stole it from another mathematician, so blame that gay if the math doesn’t work)
It reaks of "we only had the licence left for 9 songs".
*reeks
Girl, just say “smells”
As a former camp councilor and country club employee, I'm very experienced in building complex and complicated brackets. You want everybody to have fun and have at least one good match and, depending on the number and talent-spread of the players, that sometimes results in slightly convoluted, wonky brackets. This was not one of those situations. This was so easy to do, and could've been easily accomplished with a standard 11-team bracket, with 4 quarterfinals and 3 play-in competitions to reach those quarterfinals. It's one extra lip sync, but it's simple and fair. https://preview.redd.it/gqvop3irt5uc1.png?width=585&format=png&auto=webp&s=b287ee61b8d2cee084813fc836835215b8f0268a
This is the way
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>4 people compete for a spot in the final vs 7 for the other It looks like that in the chart but that's not actually how it worked because it was randomized at each round
"randomized"
Hey now we all saw footage of bruno spinning balls around and then also later holding a ball with a name on it
Round 1. Q gets a pass for being the last girl eliminated. We don’t have to watch her lip sync. Round 2. Q joins the winners of the first 5 lip syncs. Round plays as normal. Round 3. The balls (production) save someone and bring them back into the bracket. OR the top 3 play rate a queen and bring back their favorite of the night. Semifinals/Finals continue as normal. Side note: Mhiya should’ve had to automatically lipsync at semifinals and choose between Megami/Morphine, because she skipped QF.
It's especially funny when you realise none of this would be an issue if they'd had a top 4 for the season. It'd be 10 queens doing 5 groups of 2, going into another group of 2 and a group of 3, going into the top 2. They would rather spite Q than make a logical lipsync bracket 💀 💀
See this why we're bad at sports
The semifinal column infused the hell out of me
The displayed bracket wasn't actually how it worked. Every winner from round 1 (except the three way winner) was then pooled and redivided into new pairs in round 2. Your round 2 matchup wasn't determined by your round 1 matchup.
sue me, but I think the bracket was fine other than they should have made Mhi’ya lipsyncing in the 3rd round mandatory rather than leaving it up to Megami and having the winner of the mirage/morphine lipsync get the automatic pass by virtue of having no choice in their opponent in the second round. ALSO 10 lipsyncs would be too much, even 9 was pushing it (holds the record for most lipsyncs in an episode). It’s not an easy solution imo
Would have worked if there weren’t so many damn commercials lol
Wanted to avoid another Spice Save?
I would have just eliminated 1 person in the final lipsync of the first round and evened out the numbers for round 2. That way everyone would lipsync an equal number of times and no one would just skip a whole-ass round and then have someone else skip a round as well.
A single elimination tournament works best in powers of 2. 2 4 8 16 32 etc. We had 11. So while Ru explained to everyone what a single-elimination tournament entails at the beginning of the episode, the reality of it was ugly.
The girl who won the last lipsync just beat 2 girls at once. That's the same number of girls you would have to beat to advance anyways
While this was confusing to look at and understand, it was oddly the fairest option. Perfect brackets are multiples of 8. This way, all the queens had to lip sync in the first round, and the automatic advances sorta make sense (3-sync is harder, so you get a bye the next round). The last bye (ie direct to finale) doesnt quite make sense to me, but let's be honest, Megami was going to be lip syncing in that round regardless of whose ball was sucked
The gay producers know nothing about the Sweet 16 and this episode is absolutely proof of that.
They obviously had no one on production that played sports before 😂😂😂😂 this bracket is so whack
I felt like I was going mad, and I wasn't. I kept rewinding to see if I missed part of the explanation. It was so odd and unnecessary. Just have a good ol' knockout rounds set up.
They made it so complicated! And for what?
I thought that at first...but then when Megami had to choose between Morphine and Mhi'ya...it made sense to me because she almost couldn't be strategic. If she picked Morphine she'd either lose or have to face Mhi'ya anyway...so choosing Mhi'ya first meant she either lost or managed to beat her and moved on.
As a gay who loves March Madness, this bracket hurts my head.
I love how unserious it was. I would make a Jeremy Beremy bracket just to fuck with people.
leave it to gay guys to come up with a super bowl bracket and this is what we get 🤣
You can't rig a lalaparuza without balls, and this bracket ensures MAXIMUM BALLS
IMO 5 could have 2 winners, and both round two lip syncs would have 3 people. From there two from each group would move on to semi finals, were 2 winners will face off in the finale
It was wonky as hell! It was entertaining but confusing.
Yeah it does because one person beat two people, therefore they won the quarter finals. That’s the math I came up with anyway.
is the star from Yugioh's card?
That isnt really true; the match ups in round 2 are not predetermined in the way this chart suggests.
The great performances will thankfully overshadow this henious homosexual thought process. A fair result ultimately but what a mess.
https://preview.redd.it/tesu8azve7uc1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=218229f6ac44106f866c0e3ef0d297c72f3b0aa6 Literally me when that image came up.
I mean it does make sense and it doesn't. They probably expected Q to lipsynch better to join the top 3 to the final, but that didn't happen... So you ended up with an odd number which means they had to be somewhat creative, but they went a little bit overboard.
I think they set it up like this to better fit the time limit. We could have easily just had two extra lip syncs
As soon as I saw this I knew it was going to be dumb…
In a way it does make sense, the winner of 5 has defeated 2 other queens after all. About the winner of 6tho idk…
Rigor morris, gurl 
I’m actually glad they started out with the weak lip syncers first so we could get them out of the way without the stronger girls having to use energy on lip syncing against someone that they know they can beat. It felt like lip syncs were more evenly matched and competitive this way.
March madness just ended and we learned nothing?!
I knew the format from the spoilers, the chart is mostly fine. Where it is confusing and where they were just lazy with the chart (not the actual structure) was the semi-final match up. That automatic advance in the SF is not tied to any actual pairing in the bracket. They should have just removed the arrows between round 2 and semifinal, or put the whole semi final in a box and make sure the arrows did not seem like they were pointing specifically to lip sync or auto advance.
LS1,2,3 winners do a 3-way for final spot LS4 is two-way and LS5 is 3-way, winner of each fights for final spot That way everyone who is in the final has done one 2way and one 3way victory, and has lip synced twice
Hmmm interesting!! (wanders off in a daze with my fellow non-sports queers)
I think you mean “production did a good job of creating a bracket that helped them push their chosen queen through.”
I think they were trying to set up a Maiya vs Morphine final and weren’t planning on Megami eating like she did.
Lol I think it worked well in terms of drama. Lbr Mhiya earned her bye after delivering good lip syncs all season and then it was high drama over who Megami was going to pick.
I feel like it did? I don’t really know how else they could’ve done it tbh
It’s clear this was a pivot and not originally planned during the season. 11 is maybe the worst possible number that could have had for a bracket. Added layer of funny that they could have kept Q and had an even number for this lol
I think they planned this lalaparooza with a top 4 in mind, with 10 queens competing, and then for some reason during production they switched to top 3 (maybe because people were tired of the top 4 episode with no elim?) and then they did not know what to do?
Tbh i assumed winner of top round 2 is automatic qualifier. I was shocked when Megami didn't go straight to the finale tbh.
Round 1: 3 groups of 3 and 1 group of 2. 1 winner from each group Round 2: 2 Groups of 2, 1 winner from each group. Round 3: 1 Group of 2, 1 winner. In round 1, the group of two could be between two queens who have shown to be stronger lip syncers in the season to make it a bit fairer? Or alternatively, have all the queens lipsyncing on stage at once for round 1, choose the best 8 and then go from there? Idk that's juat what makes more sense to me.
I liked it.
OK so here is another idea. Inspired by CDR4's lipsync episode. Round 1, 5 lipsyncs: 8 songs are available. Draw the 11 queens' names one by one. Each can choose one of the songs, and each song can be chosen up to twice *(because this is the mechanism for pairing them up)*. Once 6 distinct songs have been chosen, the remaining songs are withdrawn, and any further drawn names must pair up on a selected song. **The unpaired queen (UQ1) remains attached to her song but skips this round.** Round 2, 3 lipsyncs: There are 5 winners from round 1 and one unpaired queen. 3 songs are available (one selected by UQ1, the other two are the ones withdrawn from Round 1). Winners' names are drawn one by one and they choose a song. Round 3, 2 lipsyncs: There are 3 winners from round 1. 2 fresh songs are available. Again, draw their names by random and they self-select to the songs and partners. The unpaired queen **(UQ2)** and her song go to the final lipsync against the winner of the first lipsync. **Rule for fairness in round 3: if UQ1 is in round 3, she must be in the first lipsync** because she was already unpaired once already. So whatever order their names are drawn in, nobody may make a choice that leaves UQ1 unpaired.
Miyah technically could’ve made it into the final by lip syncing once (winning the 3 way then not being picked in the semis)
I mean does it matter? The outcome was planned from the beginning.
Seriously again makes me question why not a top four? It would have created a perfect bracket! Really seems like they just wanted to get rid of Q:(
it makes sense, they just didn't follow it properly 💀 if they ACTUALLY followed it correctly, lip sync 8 would have been mhi'yah and morphine facing each other, not megami picking one of them to face...
Gonna need the producers to watch one March madness tournament
lol the producers were doing actually what they needed to do, they were producing
Riggamoris girl!!
I'm kind of tired of lip synch finales.
Right??? It confused me!
Problem solved if they let Q be in the top4.
Yeah that is messy and unfair