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Season 1
	File:Luzvioleta.jpg
Hosted by	Karla Constant
Judges	Nicole Gaultier; Íngrid Cruz; Juan Pablo González; Sebastián Errázuriz;
No. of contestants	17
Winner	Luz Violeta
Runners-up	Luna di Mauri; Stephanie "La Botota" Fox;
Release
Original network	Mega
Original release	October 8, 2015 –; January 2016

The first season of The Switch Drag Race consisted of the seventeen participants, generally split into two groups, that were challenged with demonstrating their ability to perform makeovers, impersonate female characters, dance, lip-sync, and sing live on stage. Along with the demonstration of their skills, The Switch Drag Race shows each contestant's life story, giving details of their personal experiences to Chilean viewers.

The winner of The Switch Drag Race receives a grand prize of CLP$10,000,000 (approximately USD$15,700) and a one-year supply of products and accessories from AnyHair, a Spanish company by way of Chile that specializes in hair extensions, wigs, and hairpieces^[1].

The winner of the first season of The Switch Drag Race was Luz Violeta, with Luna di Mauri and Stephanie "La Botota" Fox being the runners-up.

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.
Quarter-finals: The final ten contestants are split up to compete in two episodes (19 and 20). One immunity is given the winner of the Imitation Challenge in each episode, allowing them to progress to the Semi-finals episode. The other four contestants performing in a Singing Challenge with the judges announcing which two contestants will continue on to the Finale via majority vote. The two remaining contestants perform in an Elimination Duel to fight for the fourth spot in the two-part Finale episode.
Semi-finals: The eight contestants are again split up into groups of two to compete in two episodes (21 and 22), with one contestant being eliminated each episode. The contestants must all compete in an Imitation challenge and a Singing Challenge, with the judges all assigning point scores for each contestant overall. The contestant with the highest score in each episode automatically advance to compete as finalists. The contestant with the lowest score in both episodes are eliminated from the competition, with the two remaining contestants being safe. In the third episode (23) of the Semi-finals, the four previously safe contestants perform the challenges once more, with the highest scored performer advancing to the finale; the lowest scored performer being eliminated; and the two remaining "safe" performers being nominated to duel against each other in the final episode. For dramatic effect, one judge is chosen for each episode in the Semi-finals to withhold their scores for the contestants until the end of the episode, where it is revealed who gets to progress to the finale and who gets eliminated based on the final tally.
Finale: The two previously nominated contestants from the third round of the Semi-finals go head-to-head in an Elimination Duel, with one contestant ultimately being eliminated from the competition and the other advancing as a finalist. Following this, the four finalists perform individually in a Singing Challenge one last time to determine the outcome of the competition. After eliminating the weakest performer by the judges' vote, the winner of The Switch is crowned the best "transformista", or drag entertainer, of Chile and the runners-up are named.

Contestants

(Ages and names stated are at time of contest.)

Contestant^[2]^[3]	Name	Age	Country of Origin	Outcome
Luz Violeta	Sebastián Aguirre	28	Chile	Winner
Luna di Mauri	Marcelo Ramírez	48	Chile	Runners-up
Stephanie "La Botota" Fox	Jose Miguel Navarrete	33	Chile	Runners-up
Sofía "Sabélo" Camará	Pablo Carayani	25	Argentina	4th Place
La Yoyi	Cristián Sanhueza	41	Chile	5th Place
Rubí Blonde	Fabián Alejandro	28	Uruguay	6th Place
Arianda Sodi	Ariel Cerda	28	Chile	7th Place
Laura Bell	Andrés Sáez	26	Chile	8th Place
Fernanda Brown	Roberto Cortés	24	Chile	9th Place
Jessica "Jess" Parker	Sergio Venegas	24	Chile	10th Place
Paulette Palmery	Vicente Dulcien	38	Chile	11th Place
Nery Lefferti	Cristopher Nirilef	24	Chile	12th Place
Yume Hime	Pablo Poulain	27	Chile	13th Place
Kristina "La Veneno" Kox	Camilo Aqueveque	22	Chile	14th Place
Francisca Thompson	Camilo Aballay	21	Chile	15th Place
Elizabeth San Martín	Sebastián Valenzuela	23	Chile	16th Place
Álvaro Lynch	Néstor López	50	Argentina	17th Place

Contestant progress

Contestant	Week
Contestant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Luz Violeta	SAFE	WIN	DUEL	WIN	WIN	SAFE	DUEL	SAFE	EX	EX	DUEL	SAFE	EX	WIN	EX	EX	Winner
Luna di Mauri	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	WIN	SAFE	EX	SAFE	EX	ILL	EX	ILL	EX	SAFE	NOM	Runner-up
Stephanie "La Botota" Fox	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	EX	WIN	EX	WIN	DUEL	EX	EX	WIN	EX	Runner-up
Sofía "Sabélo" Camará	ELIM				WIN	SAFE	WIN	DUEL	EX	EX	WIN	SAFE	EX	SAFE	EX	WIN	Fourth
La Yoyi	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	EX	SAFE	SAFE	EX	EX	DUEL	SAFE	EX	NOM	ELIM
Rubí Blonde					SAFE	SAFE	WIN	ELIM		EX	SAFE	EX	SAFE	EX	SAFE	ELIM	Guest
Arianda Sodi	DUEL	WIN	SAFE	ELIM						WIN	EX	WIN	EX	EX	ELIM		Guest
Laura Bell	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	DUEL	SAFE	EX	ELIM	SAFE	EX	EX	SAFE	ELIM			Guest
Fernanda Brown	WIN	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	WIN	WIN	SAFE	EX	WIN	EX	EX	ELIM				Guest
Jessica "Jess" Parker					DUEL	WIN	SAFE	WIN	EX	DUEL	EX	ELIM					Guest
Paulette Palmery	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	EX	DUEL	EX	ELIM						Guest
Nery Lefferti	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM							ELIM							Guest
Yume Hime^[A]	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	DUEL	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM						WIN				Guest
Kristina "La Veneno" Kox	SAFE	DUEL	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM				OUT							Guest
Francisca Thompson					ELIM					OUT							Guest
Elizabeth San Martín	SAFE	ELIM								OUT							Guest
Álvaro Lynch	ELIM									OUT							Guest

The contestant won The Switch Drag Race.

The contestant was the runner-up.

The contestant came in fourth place.

The contestant won entrance to the finale.

The contestant won immunity from elimination.

The contestant was exempt from participating this week.

The contestant was nominated to compete in the final elimination duel.

The contestant competed in the elimination duel and was declared safe as a result.

The contestant competed in the elimination duel and was eliminated.

The contestant came back for a chance to win re-entry into the competition and lost.

The contestant was called in for one episode to compete in place of another contestant and won immunity from elimination.

The contestant was ill and could not compete in this episode.

The contestant was eliminated by the judges' vote.

The contestant was a guest for the final episode.

^ Hime was called in for Episode 20 to compete for Laura di Maura while she was ill.

References

^ "Luz Receives Her Grand Prize!", Mega.cl (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English), January 18, 2016 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)
^ P. Reyes (August 20, 2015), "These are the Contestants of The Switch, the New Show on Mega Starring Drag Queens", La Tercera. (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English) {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)
^ "Participants of "The Switch" Show Their True Faces", Cooperativa.cl. (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English), September 7, 2015 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)

[4] Hime was called in for Episode 20 to compete for Laura di Maura while she was ill.

[1] "Luz Receives Her Grand Prize!", Mega.cl (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English), January 18, 2016 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)

[2] P. Reyes (August 20, 2015), "These are the Contestants of The Switch, the New Show on Mega Starring Drag Queens", La Tercera. (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English) {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)

[3] "Participants of "The Switch" Show Their True Faces", Cooperativa.cl. (Article in Spanish. Title Translated to English), September 7, 2015 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)

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