RuPaul's Drag Race | |
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Season 11 | |
Hosted by | RuPaul |
Judges | |
No. of contestants | 15 |
Winner | Yvie Oddly |
Runner-up | Brooke Lynn Hytes |
Miss Congeniality | Nina West |
Companion show | RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! |
No. of episodes | 14 |
Release | |
Original network | VH1 |
Original release | February 28 May 30, 2019 | –
Season chronology | |
The eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race aired on VH1 from February 28, 2019, to May 30, 2019. The cast featured fourteen new queens and one returning queen, making it the largest cast of the series at the time; the contestants were announced in a live stream hosted by season 10 winner Aquaria and Adam Rippon on January 24, 2019.[1]
The winner of the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race was Yvie Oddly, with Brooke Lynn Hytes being the runner-up, and Nina West being Miss Congeniality. Season 10 contestant Vanessa Vanjie Mateo returned to the competition by popular demands, placing 5th. At the time of release Season 11 featured the largest cast in the franchise, with fifteen queens competing. This was later outcompeted by Season 15, with sixteen queens competing.