{"id":279138,"date":"2025-12-29T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=279138"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:35:25","slug":"canadas-drag-race-season-6-episode-6-power-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/canadas-drag-race-season-6-episode-6-power-ranking-279138","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Canada\u2019s Drag Race\u2019 Season 6, Episode 6 power ranking: From eight to six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A double elimination shifts this season into its highest gear yet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to <\/em>Canada\u2019s Drag Race Power Rankings!<\/em><\/a> Every week, we\u2019ll debrief the week\u2019s new episode of <\/em>Canada\u2019s Drag Race Season 6 to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care. Two queens go home, leaving us with our final six\u2014and so soon! Which two leave us, and who\u2019s our new frontrunner?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Mya Foxx (last week: 4)\u2014ELIMINATED<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Not only did Mya go home this week, but I think she was the most certain to go home once we knew all the Round 1 lip sync outcomes. There was no universe in which Eboni La\u2019Belle used the Golden Beaver on her, and I thought her loss in her first lip sync was the result not of Saltina Shaker blowing her away, but of her missing the mark in her lip sync. (PM was actually worse in their Round 1 battle, but we\u2019ve seen what PM can do at their best.) By the time she landed in the bottom three, her elimination was effectively inevitable. Mya should feel very proud of her performance this season\u2014she won Snatch Game, for god\u2019s sake!\u2014but I can\u2019t deny that this feels like a natural end point for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Velma Jones (last week: 6)\u2014ELIMINATED<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Well, this sucks. Velma got screwed over in a couple different ways, both being picked last and having to deal with PM\u2019s nonsensical decision to pick a song they were wholly unsuited for versus a dance-y track they would\u2019ve nailed. Velma had, in my opinion, the<\/em> hardest task in the first round: Karamilk was born to perform, and got a track right in her wheelhouse. And Velma kept up pretty well! She was easily the strongest of the losers, both matching the Tate McRae song\u2019s energy and bringing in enough of her own personality to make her performance her own. Alas, Karamilk was simply better, and once Eboni beat Saltina in the final lip sync to earn the Golden Beaver, there was no real question as to who was going to be saved. Velma\u2019s last chance was PM continuing to be in their head, but unfortunately for her, they pulled out one of the most compelling performances of the whole episode. No doubt in my mind that if it weren\u2019t for the double-elimination, Velma would still be in the competition\u2014but that\u2019s how the cookie crumbles sometimes. Nicky Doll, don\u2019t be shy, cast Velma on a future Drag Race France<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. PM (last week: 3)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t expect PM to lose their first round in a lip sync tournament, but I chalk that failure up to a poor strategic decision more than anything else. Going up against Sami Landri to \u201cI\u2019m Alive\u201d was never going to end well, but they seemed to fear such an early battle against Karamilk to a dance-heavy song. This backfired in a big way, and PM went into Mini-Untucked<\/em> quite shaken up. Smartly, they were able to channel their feelings into their \u201cSweet Surrender\u201d lip sync, staying quite still and emoting like mad for most of the performance before finally exploding into a surge of dance. It was a layered performance that fit their narrative perfectly, and it wasn\u2019t a surprise when Brooke Lynn Hytes ultimately declared them the final survivor of the Slay-Offs. Still, it\u2019s starting to feel like PM is living on borrowed time, no? Now that we know they can<\/em> be beaten in a lip sync, I think it\u2019s only a matter of time before they are\u2014and a design challenge on the horizon doesn\u2019t bode well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Van Goth (last week: 5)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While I was wildly entertained by Van\u2019s antics this week, I also think she may have sunken her chances at the crown. As I mentioned in last week\u2019s power rankings<\/a>, Canada\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> hasn\u2019t really named villains as winners, and has actually avoided<\/em> crowning queens with even somewhat mixed edits in the past. (See: Jimbo being cut before the finale in Season 1, Miss Fiercalicious being cut before the final lip sync in Season 3, Nearah Nuff getting a similar treatment in Season 4 and Makayla Couture losing out to The Virgo Queen in Season 5.) Van\u2019s edit is, by far, the most negative we\u2019ve seen for a frontrunner since Fierce\u2019s, and this week\u2019s rant only makes it worse. The other queens, including fan favourites like Sami, are openly critical of Van now. And while she at least still has Eboni on her side, which got her the Beaver this week, the preview for next week\u2019s episode shows stormy seas ahead for the Scissor Sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Karamilk (last week: 8)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A lip sync tournament challenge was always destined to be Karamilk\u2019s strongest moment, but I think she underperformed expectations a bit here in terms of final results. (Though certainly not in the lip syncs themselves: Karamilk was truly excellent in both \u201cIt\u2019s ok I\u2019m ok\u201d and \u201cWork.\u201d) Granted, she got basically the worst possible draw in a Round 2 opponent, having to go up against Eboni while she would\u2019ve easily beaten either of the other two left in the semifinals. But again, a challenge like this often relies on luck of the draw, especially beyond the Round 1 song selections. I think if there\u2019s anything to be nervous about with Karamilk, it\u2019s that, so far, she\u2019s still only demonstrated that she can lip sync. Sometimes, that\u2019s enough: Nearah got to the final four basically exclusively on the strength of her performances. But this is a stronger cast than Season 4\u2019s, and we can assume Karamilk avoided the design challenge in Episode 3 for a reason. I wouldn\u2019t be shocked if next week sees her and PM finally battling it out in the bottom two\u2014and if the judges decide they\u2019ve seen Karamilk lip sync too much, she may be in a tough spot. I\u2019m rooting for her, but I\u2019m nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Sami Landri (last week: 1)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Good on Sami for knowing her win condition for Round 1 and not hesitating in grabbing it. She knew she would devour \u201cI\u2019m Alive,\u201d particularly a comedy-slanted live version, and devour she did. Sami is admittedly a bit limited in her range as a performer\u2014I thought her take on \u201cDon\u2019t Cha\u201d was one of the weaker lip syncs in the episode\u2014but what she does well, she does really<\/em> well. Right now, Sami\u2019s on a terrific trajectory, and I would consider her all but locked for the top four. Can she win? Perhaps, but I think we need a stronger victory moment from her than last week\u2019s chat show challenge. Both of Eboni\u2019s wins have felt like triumphs, and Van\u2019s design challenge win was an absolute knockout. (Barring something strange, I think she\u2019s winning next week\u2019s, too.) Sami\u2019s victory so far has been doing well at Drag Race<\/em> while remaining her quirky self. Unless she has a bigger breakout moment on the horizon, getting to the finale may be her ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Saltina Shaker (last week: 7)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A nice recovery from Saltina, and uncoincidentally in a week where we heard not one peep about her \u201cconfidence\u201d journey. (She did breathlessly say she was proud of herself in Mini-Untucked<\/em>, but I think we can give her a pass.) Saltina\u2019s a strong dancer, which helped her edge out Mya despite neither of them connecting strongly to the Fefe Dobson song, but she really shone on \u201cDon\u2019t Cha.\u201d By the time we got to \u201cU + Ur Hand,\u201d though, we\u2019d seen the full repertoire of Saltina\u2019s skills, while Eboni continued to surprise. Whether Saltina makes the endgame or not seems very<\/em> dependent on what happens next week, considering Van is our likely maxi-challenge winner and made a pledge in her confessionals not to save Saltina with the Beaver next week. Because she did Snatch Game instead of the design challenge, we actually don\u2019t know Saltina\u2019s design capabilities. If she can skate through in the top three, I\u2019d pencil her in for the finale. If she has trouble, and Van decides to leave her in the bottom two with someone like Karamilk? It could be bad for Miss Shaker. We\u2019ll see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Eboni La\u2019Belle (last week: 2)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Meet our new frontrunner, everybody. Eboni has been a terrific confessionalist all season long, has performed solidly-to-well in most of the challenges, and now has revealed herself to be a dynamic, surprising lip syncer. What can\u2019t she do? (Well, a design challenge maybe, but she\u2019s certainly going to try and leverage her alliance with Van next week to help her out with that.) What I\u2019m most impressed by is how Eboni can do a lot of what Van does\u2014the fake alliances, the shady moments\u2014but not get in the same hot water in the edit or with her fellow queens. Like, it\u2019s hard to make the argument that Van deserves the crown for making great TV when Eboni is doing the very same without getting caught. I just see nothing but upside for Eboni, and it couldn\u2019t be happening to a better queen. It\u2019s not over yet\u2014we\u2019ve got three weeks left until the finale\u2014but as of now, everything\u2019s coming up La\u2019Belle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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