The Switch Drag Race
Season 1
Promotional poster for season one
Hosted by	Karla Constant
Judges	Íngrid Cruz Juan Pablo González Nicole Gaultier Sebastián Errázuriz
No. of contestants	17
Winner	Luz Violeta
Runners-up	Stephanie Fox Luna di Mauri
Mejor Compañera	Jessica Parker
Country of origin	Chile
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	MEGA (Chile) WOW Presents Plus (International)
Original release	8 October 2015 (2015-10-08) – 17 January 2016 (2016-01-17)
Season chronology

The first season of The Switch Drag Race began airing on 8 October 2015 on the MEGA and WOW Presents Plus's WOW Presents Plus streaming service. It ran for twenty-four episodes.

The winner of first series of The Switch Drag Race was Luz Violeta, with Stephanie Fox and Luna di Mauri as the runner-up, and Jessica Parker being crowned first Mejor Compañera.^[1]

Challenges

Each episode, with the guidance of the four celebrity coaches, the contestants compete in the following challenges;

• Artistic Challenge: In this first test, each contestant has to characterize a TV personality or pop culture icon either on themselves, another contestant, or a guest. This test is judged individually as well as in groups. Depending on the episode, one of two outcomes occur;
  • Immunity from elimination is offered to the highest performer (of the winning group, if applicable) or a nominee is chosen to head directly to the Elimination Duel
  • Or the winning contestants (or team) progresses to the Imitation Challenge to compete for immunity, with the competitors who don't win continuing on to the Singing Challenge.
• Imitation Challenge: In this second test, each contestant has to maintain the characterizations of their character/icon make-over from the previous challenge and add an element of acting, singing, dancing, or lip-sync performance. Immunity and nominations are chosen in the outcome of this challenge as well. In the first episode of Season 1, the weakest performer was eliminated from this challenge by majority vote from the judges.
• Singing Challenge: In this third test, each individual contestant has to sing a song of their own choosing live in front of the judges and a studio audience. At the end of each presentation, each member of the judges panel assigns a point score ranging from 1 to 7, based on the quality of each contestant's performance. After the first score is given, the first contestant must sit in the "Elimination chair" until another performer replaces them by having a lower score than them. If the next performer receives a higher score than the person in the chair, they are safe from elimination and proceed backstage to prepare for the next episode. Ultimately, the contestant with the lowest score is nominated to go up for elimination in the Elimination Duel.
• Elimination Duels: In this last test, the lowest scored performer in the episode's Singing Challenge is put up against the performer nominated from one of the other challenges. They both perform a live song of their choosing and the judges vote by majority who will be eliminated from The Switch. Typically, contestants that aren't competing that episode are shown watching the Elimination Duel backstage in the make-up room alongside singing coach Patricia Maldonado Aravena. In the event of a tie in the voting, Juan Pablo González acts as the president of the judges panel and casts a final vote for the elimination. The eliminated contestant is typically honored with a montage of their run on the show and is ultimately shown writing a farewell with a tube of lipstick on a mirror in the briefing room à la the American Drag Race.

Contestants

Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.

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Contestant progress

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Episodes

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