The Daytona Wind

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"The Daytona Wind"
RuPaul's Drag Race episode
Episode no.Season 14
Episode 7
Guest appearance
Ts Madison
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"The Daytona Wind" is the seventh episode of the fourteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . [1] [2] [3] It originally aired on February 18, 2022. Ts Madison is a guest judge.

Contents

Lady Camden wins the episode's main challenge, which has contestants act in a 1980s-inspired soap opera. The parody is revisited in "The Daytona Wind 2" (season 15).

Episode

Ts Madison (pictured in 2017) is a guest judge. Ts Madison at RuPaul's Dragcon 2017 by dvsross.jpg
Ts Madison (pictured in 2017) is a guest judge.

For the episode's main challenge, the contestants act in a 1980s-inspired soap opera parody called "The Daytona Wind". Following are the contestants and their roles:

Lady Camden is the winner of the episode's main challenge. DragCon 2023 @ DVSROSS Photgraphy -104 (cropped).jpg
Lady Camden is the winner of the episode's main challenge.

Ts Madison is a guest judge. The runway category is "Chaps on the Runway". Bosco, Daya Betty, Jasmine Kennedie, Jorgeous, Lady Camden, and Willow Pill receive positive critiques. Daya Betty and Lady Camden are declared the top two contestants of the week and face off in a lip-sync to "One Way or Another" by Blondie for the win. After the lip-sync, Lady Camden is announced as the winner of the challenge. RuPaul then announces that no one is being eliminated from the competition this time.

Reception

Trae DeLellis of The A.V. Club gave the episode a rating a 'A'. [4]

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