This Sunday (8 January 2011), the under-draguates™ from Drag Academy will begin battling out in The Academy Cup. The idea is that they demonstrate the various skills they have developed over the past months, mainly the skill of taking out all your rage on another drag queen. The competition off-stage is going to be fierce. Here’s hoping there’s not too much bloodshed. To stop it getting too vicious, the under-draguates™ have been split into two Houses, which will compete against each other for points. It’s kinda like the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story but with mascara and wigs instead of flick-knives and the Jerome Robbins choreography. (What do you mean you’ve never seen West Side Story?!)

To make it easier to compare (and to help them get creative), each week of the cup will have a separate theme. Those themes are LOVE, HATE, SEX, MAGIC. The Houses will be awarded points based on creativity, originality, presentation and performance. Come see how it works out for them!