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On Sun­day, I did a most-radical scav­enger hunt in cel­e­bra­tion of a friend’s birth­day. We ran-a-muck through the Mis­sion in search of items to meet our list of clues. It was also dur­ing this party that I offered to help Team Cham­mee with their sea­son finale entry for The Stud’s “Project Run­tover” com­pe­ti­tion, which was to take place the fol­low­ing evening…I went in know­ing very lit­tle, but that was part of the fun!

Up until last night, I had never been to The Stud (Har­ri­son x 9th), nor had I ever entered a com­pe­ti­tion of this type. But I fig­ured, what a great way to do some­thing cre­ative (and new) on a Mon­day night…afterall, what else would I be doing? Sleep­ing? Cha’h! “Project Run­tover” is an elab­o­rate Project Run­way–themed gath­er­ing in which con­tes­tants cre­ate teams and spend the hours of 10 to mid­night con­struct­ing a look. The finale was wed­ding themed and the past win­ners all went head-to-head in a no hold barred bat­tle of style. I know what you’re think­ing, and hell yeah, shit got fierce. Check it out:

Here’s Team Cham­mee ready to cut a bitch:

What we’re work­ing with:

Matt aka Dirty Hair­less (for the night):

Half way through the com­pe­ti­tion, the rules changed: teams work­ing on men’s gar­ments had to switch it to female and vice versa. We had about 40% fin­ished of some sort of tuxedo by then, which we flipped into a gown. Sashé!

Chanté!

The other queens got ready too…

Almost there!

Show­time! Did I men­tion that we had a per­for­mance? Matt lip-synched for his life to Etta James’ “Stop the Wed­ding”.

Makin’ the crowd go wow:

I don’t remem­ber what team this was, but it was fairly wild…

That’s Shady Bear:

And of course, Raya Light. I think this was my favorite pic­ture of the evening:

What a blast. Unfor­tu­nately, we only got hon­or­able men­tion, but the experience…fuck yes!