Style Showdown is Dress to Impress at its most competitive: Lana hosts, players style against a theme, votes eliminate the weakest looks, and challenges are the twist deck the mode shuffles in to keep rounds from playing the same twice. A challenge can halve your dressing time, lock your items, scramble the theme, or force a witch hat onto everyone at once.
Status
Current Challenges
The active rotation a round can draw from.
Vote Reveal
Every player's votes are read out on stage in randomized order, turning the anonymous vote into public theater.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Speed Round
Cuts dressing time from three minutes to ninety seconds. Decisive stylists thrive; second-guessers get caught half-dressed.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Double Elimination
After the normal elimination, a second low-voted player goes home too. The bottom of the leaderboard gets very uncomfortable.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Random Item
Everyone is handed a random item that cannot be removed for the round, and the outfit has to be built around it.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Item Lock
Anything you equip stays on until the round ends. Try-ons become commitments.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Pose Sync
At the end of a late round, two low-voted players face off by matching poses to survive.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- March 1, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Mystery Theme
The round theme appears with its letters scrambled, unscrambling as time passes. Early guessers get a head start on the look.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- July 19, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Out for Lunch - Back Soon
Lana steps out mid-round, leaving the show briefly unhosted as the round plays out.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- July 19, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Red Light Green Light
Freeze when the screen turns red or face the consequences, layered on top of dressing up.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- July 19, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Lights Off
The map goes dark for the round, and you style by whatever light is left.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- October 18, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
Lock In
A button appears on screen; press it and your outfit is final, banking confidence for whatever the reveal brings.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- January 10, 2026
- Removed from rotation
- -
Witches
Everyone must wear the Witch Hat and Broomstick, so the fight is over what you build around them.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- January 10, 2026
- Removed from rotation
- -
Mermaids
Forces the Mermaid Queen Tail and Arms on every player for a fully aquatic round.
- Status
- Current
- Added to rotation
- July 4, 2026
- Removed from rotation
- -
Status
Retired Challenges
Twists pulled from rotation. They have returned before, so knowing them is not wasted.
Item Limit
Capped outfits at six to eight items for the round, rewarding restraint over maximalism.
- Status
- Retired
- Added to rotation
- -
- Removed from rotation
- January 10, 2026
Desaturate
Drained the color from the map, palettes, and saved colors, forcing outfits to work in near-grayscale.
- Status
- Retired
- Added to rotation
- July 19, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- January 10, 2026
Frostbite
Iced the dressing room floor so players slid around while trying to dress. Removed from rotation.
- Status
- Retired
- Added to rotation
- January 10, 2026
- Removed from rotation
- July 4, 2026
Status
Limited Collab Challenges
Event exclusives that ran only during their collabs, like the Lady Gaga event's Zombieboy.
Zombieboy
The Lady Gaga collab exclusive: the map went dark and grave-themed for the event's run.
- Status
- Limited Collab
- Added to rotation
- August 16, 2025
- Removed from rotation
- -
How challenges enter a round
Challenges rotate: each round can draw one from the active pool, announced by Lana before dressing starts. The pool itself changes over time, with new challenges added in waves and older ones retired, so the mode's rulebook is a living thing.
Playing each kind of twist
- Time-pressure twists (Speed Round) reward a default go-to outfit formula you can execute fast.
- Commitment twists (Item Lock, Lock In) punish browsing; decide the silhouette first, then fill in.
- Information twists (Mystery Theme, Vote Reveal) are about reading early: the sooner you decode the scrambled theme, the longer you style with certainty.
- Forced-item twists (Random Item, Witches, Mermaids) are equalizers; the winners are whoever restyles around the imposed piece most convincingly.
The retired and collab challenges are kept here as history, and because rotation changes have brought old twists back before.
FAQ
What are Style Showdown challenges?
Rule twists that a Style Showdown round can add on top of its theme: shortened timers, locked items, scrambled themes, forced items, and vote reveals. Lana announces the challenge before dressing begins.
Do challenges appear every round?
Not every round. They draw from the active rotation as the mode decides, which keeps standard rounds and twisted rounds mixed across a session.
Can retired challenges come back?
The rotation has changed repeatedly, with challenges added, removed, and swapped, so a retired twist returning is well within precedent.
