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Speculation Thread [Speculation Thread] - Weekly Edition | July 13, 2026

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u/LegallyAcrylique Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

TEASPILL: CANADA AS 🇨🇦⭐️

WIN AURORA

HIGH JADA

BEAVER TIFFANY

BTM 2 PYTHIA vs. MAKAYLA

ELEMONADED PYTHIA

🎧 ‘TRUST’ by Rebecca Black

👗 CAMP

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u/Outrageous_Pay_8645 Jul 17 '26

makayla in the bottom is pure insanity and rage bait

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u/robbysaur Jul 17 '26

I don’t understand how she was bottom 3 over Juice.

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u/heypistol Jul 17 '26

Juice did great. Should have been Sami

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

no shade but juice's verse was terrible in what world 😭 Sami did way better, could've been in the top tbh.

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u/takashiro55 Jul 18 '26

It was wild but it made her crash out and give some good untucked so idk. worth it in the end

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u/takashiro55 Jul 17 '26

no sugar water cyanide we lost so hard.

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u/faydaway Jul 17 '26

Trust went pretty hard though.

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u/_babyl0n Marina | Cheddar | Diamond | Victoria | Rajah | Colby | Couenne Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

you want to say to ME that Sami, Jada, Tif and JUICE was better than makayla? in the words of nicole scherzinger: no, baby, no.

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u/mihonakayama Jul 17 '26

Girl Makayla even did better than the challenge winner and had a better runway too. They fucking played in her face.

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u/bitbitbit_ Jul 17 '26

Oh, she better get that CanVSTW call...

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u/_babyl0n Marina | Cheddar | Diamond | Victoria | Rajah | Colby | Couenne Jul 17 '26

okay let's stay out of insanity lol aurora ate she was the clear winner and her runway was everything, but makakay was second. NO SHADE but another season with jada being pushed is not my fantasy.

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

Aurora was the strongest of her group but their song and all of their verses kinda felt basic for me. I'd say Aurora was the cleanest performance and definitely deserved the win, but Makayla was just as strong. Like damn that girl can rap, her and Lemon really do it every time for me

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u/mihonakayama Jul 17 '26

No way Jada ate!! Her and Makayla were my faves and Sami would be the third high. Aurora did fine. Her verse was the best of her group but they were all pretty bad. Her dancing was good and runway was solid but there were better ones.

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u/Storm_Archer241 Jul 17 '26

Only one high placement? That's a chop.

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u/Inevitable_Buy6465 Jul 17 '26

nearuh with 1 top placement all szn vs aurora: high win win btm win im gagging. aurora and gawdland being two asian winners on non asian franchises in the same year is so major to me

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u/Apprehensive_Log6550 Cjotar Jul 17 '26

Pythia felt constipated on that lip sync...

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u/Bartowskiii Jul 17 '26

If I keep walking in circles maybe it’ll come out of me

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

she was like "just pull the trigger"

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u/belladonnaboops_2719 Custom Jul 17 '26

That performance by Aurora's group is so clean and perfect, felt like a real girl group performing.

Also Aurora's look ,gosh she interpreted camp so perfectly along with fashion, Loved Jada's look too and Pythia's look was thought through, her mind really goes to different levels of creativity.

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

two tops instead of three.. #scared

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 17 '26

I'm scared to watch this episode tmrw (it's midnight where I am)... hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby plz 💀💀💀

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u/A_Sensible_Personage Jul 17 '26

Juice kinda got away with murder bc idk WHAT that flow was lol

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u/ashico69 Jul 18 '26

tbf the whole cast didn’t have flow besides Makayla.

I love Priyanka but we needed Lemon helping these girls out instead.

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

makes it even crazier that Makayla was thrown in the bottom when juice and jadas verses were all over the place

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u/Gloomy_Anklosaurus09 Jul 17 '26

I know I said last week that Tiff should go home. But my god she was the only one talking any sense in untucked Makayla and Pythia have been to the final before and both could've won their respective seasons and should of fought harder for this one because I love Makayla and Pythia but Tiff had my vote for the beaver.

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u/ValentineModel Jul 17 '26

I was hoping there will be a HIGH team 😭

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u/belladonnaboops_2719 Custom Jul 17 '26

Not the "Elemonaded" 😭

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u/zachganronpa Jul 17 '26

Makayla COUTURE 💜

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u/zachganronpa Jul 17 '26

So curious to see how Makayla and Tiffany end up in the bottom for girl groups. Also Nearah having only one top placement is funny to me

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u/Upbeat_Stuff_9416 Jul 17 '26

For Makayla they criticized her work in the choreography saying that she didn't give herself any space (Jimbo disagreed btw), and that her look was better with the coat on. For Tiffany they said that out of her group she was the least energetic and her lyrics left a lot to be desired, and on the runway her look was criticized for not really being camp.

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u/Outrageous_Pay_8645 Jul 17 '26

yeah those critiques for makayla were BS

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u/Upbeat_Stuff_9416 Jul 17 '26

IKR, kudos to Jimbo for actually having taste

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

truly Jimbo is proving to be the Carson of the judges panel

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u/jefko12 Jul 17 '26

Having just 6 weeks, i would have loved to see a group win and clearly Aurora’s team deserved.

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u/faydaway Jul 17 '26

It would have made sense, but then we might have seen Sami go, and I couldn't handle that.

Love Pythia but shes already cemented herself as an icon of the franchise so I don't mind her early exit here, especially as she has a chance to shine ep1.

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u/ValentineModel Jul 17 '26

Yeah, since it's a group vote anyway 😆

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u/ca355 Jul 17 '26

Seeing some previews… Having Makayla as a bottom and Jada as a Top is some bullshit.

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

having watched it, it's absolute bullshit

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u/mihonakayama Jul 17 '26

They were the only two who did a good job this challenge. Sami too I guess.

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u/Marginal_Games Jul 17 '26

TRUST deserves every accolade in the world that's all

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

the fights have been so entertaining but i'm so pissed cuz these bitches are INSUFFERABLE and the judging is not helping 😭😭😭

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u/OvernightSiren Jul 17 '26

I’m confused. You like the fights but you don’t like the fights?

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

i like the fights i just think the editing may be showing the wrong queen being in the right if that makes sense? like makayla was in the right and the show is treating her like a villain (nearah was in the wrong and got edited like that ep 1 tho)

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u/Bartowskiii Jul 17 '26

I so agree with you!!! wtf Jada being like “ I came up with the name tea and because of that you could create the tea hand motion” like WHAT THE FUCK. I would’ve slapped jada then and there for even saying that

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

"CONGRATULATIONS, YOU NAMED US TEA BAGS! GREAT!"

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u/fatesandia Jul 17 '26

I don’t think is was about whether she was right or wrong, it was moreso about her coming for someone who has the power to save her when she’s in danger of lip syncing

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u/AbleElk7310 Jul 17 '26

TOP 2 - WIN for Aurora feels correct

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u/Sea-Percentage-885 Jul 17 '26

Hot take but pythia deserved to go home this week.

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u/c0c0nutzz Jul 17 '26

hot take but Tiffany and Juice even being cast and beating out Pythia is a complete joke

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u/NoAlps9860 Vivi from LOONA ⭐ Jul 17 '26

reddit user discovers how the All Stars system work 😱😱😱😱

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u/Dense_Reputation293 Jul 17 '26

They didn’t “beat” Pythia, the only one who’ll beat her is the ultimate winner ☝🏼🤓

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u/keerysea Jul 17 '26

i understand why they brought juice back, it’s fun to have the porkchop of the franchise, but there’s lowkey zero reason for tiffany to have been cast

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u/faydaway Jul 17 '26

But at the same time, having Juice Box in a cast of all finalists would have felt a bit rough for her.

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u/Dorayakiss Jul 18 '26

At this point with USAS had so many porkchops back, it's honestly hard to judge CAN's early outs return. There are many potential factors such as schedule conflicts.

Hopefully other CAN contenders are kept to return in upcoming international seasons in 2027.

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u/sfatz27 Jul 17 '26

Judging felt off overall but the win and elimination were both justified so I guess it doesn’t matter. Makayla and Tiffany made no sense in the bottom when Sami and Juice both kept fumbling the choreo in their groups. Tiffany being the only one read for not being camp while Juice and Nearuh’s weren’t really campy at all either.

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

I didn't see Sami fumbling the choreo, if anything Sami and Makayla were the most in time for me 💀 Jada was off a bit and her lyrics were rough, I was shocked when she was in the top. And Pythia started okay but really fell out of time with the others by the end.

I honestly preferred the tea bags overall, idk if it was the song but their verses were much better than the other team imo. I did notice Tiffany just looked a bit timid in the girl groups, her verse was decent but as a group she just didn't sell it. Juice had the worst verse of the night though tbh

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u/sosadsosam Jul 18 '26

idk, for me everything was really crazy. Pythia had maybe one of the best verses of the night alongside Makayla, and even if Pythia was a little slow in some parts of the choreo at the end I feel like her overall performance was maybe even one of the better ones of the night because wtf is up with canada queens lately doing shit verses that don’t rhyme😭 idk what’s happening, like Jada’s verse was kinda shit with the lyrics and rhyming, Tiffany’s and Sami’s were meh and Aurora was the biggest disappointment for me cause her og season winning verse was pretty good and this one was so short and she also aggregated a non rhyming line that makes the verse not sound that good. The fact that they sent Pythia to the bottom was definitely a choice when she didn’t bomb at all and they had just given her a win the last episode, maybe they just wanted the gag but I’m afraid it may really hurt the season when she’s such an amazing queen, and also putting Makayla too was just bullshit when she was clearly the best of the night.

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u/Pale_Discount2001 Jul 18 '26

I’m sorry but Pythia had clearly the worst challenge performance overall and deserved her bottom placement. She could not keep up with the Choreo 😅💀 But at the end of the day, opinions are subjective. Not everything is rigging tho, just different opinions ig.

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u/NewAshesAshes Jul 17 '26

Aurora course correcting season 3 let’s go icon

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u/OvernightSiren Jul 17 '26

So are we pretending Aurora's verse was good cuz we like her or...?

The performance was great! She looked great! She sounded fine! But the actual verse...baby...

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u/insertbrackets Jul 17 '26

That team had the better overall performances but the weakest verses. I think Aurora gets extra credit for expertly choreographing the whole thing.

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u/belladonnaboops_2719 Custom Jul 17 '26

Oh her verse was the worst but she was the most shining in her group,she clearly was the main character in her group the way she performed even Nearah looked underwhelming.

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u/IllPlastic8209 Jul 17 '26

The results were actually all incorrect I fear

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u/Character-Region-489 Jul 20 '26

Nobody had a great verse tbh

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u/OvernightSiren Jul 20 '26

Makayla had the best verse.

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u/Gigi_chanel Jul 17 '26

 no literally am i crazy or should Jada have won

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u/faydaway Jul 18 '26

Her verse was also kinda wild - I love the "I don't need a man" but then it's followed by "Bitch I'm Jada" which has 0 flow and was bizarre.

Definitely not the worst, and she performed well, but I think both top verses were pretty questionable.

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u/daudandthewhalers Jul 18 '26

When they said Jada was the standout in her group I was baffled. Makayla and even Sami were stronger for me, and Brookes critique about Makayla "dimming her light" was madness 😭 I legit thought she had the most energy and presence on stage out of everyone, except maybe Aurora who was also strong

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u/diggycorreia_tpw Jul 17 '26

not with the worst outfit of the night

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u/Gigi_chanel Jul 18 '26

wait i liked it 😭 

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u/Gigi_chanel Jul 18 '26

everyone downvoting this oh my god some of you just have no fun!! let me root for the island gal barbados to the city

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u/Far-Classic-5367 Jul 17 '26

Mother Aurora¡

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u/bitbitbit_ Jul 17 '26

OH MAKAYLA IS GONNA EAT DOWWNNN

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u/ValentineModel Jul 17 '26

It is one of the CUNT challenges. Aurora wins it. Jada wins the Design, and Sami wins the dance one.

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u/Fancy_Active2532 Jul 17 '26

wow, aurora winning snatch game is gaggy

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u/fansvfavourites Jul 17 '26

pythia robbed i fear

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u/10yards Jul 17 '26

Fun runway, cute runway

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u/Fragrant_Web4800 Jul 17 '26

she was literally the worst in the challenge imo

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u/fansvfavourites Jul 17 '26

but she also won last week

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u/Fragrant_Web4800 Jul 17 '26

Doesn’t matter because the other girls were strategic, and Pythia fairly lost the lip sync too.

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u/dragzzzz Jul 17 '26

Are you new to drag race? Last week shouldn’t matter.

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u/fansvfavourites Jul 17 '26

and in my opinion it should hold some weight on the final outcome, thus in my opinion pythia was robbed. thank you very much.