S13·E1 Welcome To Santa's Village

Episode recap

Task: Write a 280-380 word episode recap for Holiday Baking Championship S13E1 (Welcome To Santa's Village).
Constraint 1: Use ONLY verifiable facts from the provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES.
Constraint 2: No invented titles, names, dates, counts, awards, ratings, etc.
Constraint 3: Original, neutral, encyclopedic prose in plain text.
Constraint 4: No markdown, no asterisks, no headings, no bullet points.
Constraint 5: Word count target: 280-380 words.
Episode Title: Welcome To Santa's Village (S13E1).
Host: Jesse Palmer.
Competitors: 12 talented bakers.
Setting: Santa's Village.
Teams: The Reindeer Crew and The Elf Squad.
Preheat Challenge: Create an "employee profile" dessert illustrating what they love most during the holidays.
Main Challenge: Design stained glass for Santa's office expansion by making holiday stained-glass cakes.
Judges: Duff Goldman, Kardea Brown, and Molly Yeh.
Prize: $1,000 Ghirardelli prize package.
Elimination: One baker from the losing team is eliminated.
Series Title: Holiday Baking Championship.
Genre: Family and Reality.
Judges mentioned in Source [2]: Duff Goldman, Jesse Palmer (host), Lorraine Pascale, Nancy Fuller (Note: Source [2] mentions these names in the context of the series, but the synopsis specifically names the judges for this episode as Duff Goldman, Kardea Brown, and Molly Yeh).
Production: Triage Entertainment, aired on Food Network.
Drafting attempt 1 (Mental Outline):
In the season 13 premiere of Holiday Baking Championship, titled Welcome To Santa's Village, host Jesse Palmer welcomes 12 bakers to Santa's Village. The bakers are divided into two teams: The Reindeer Crew and The Elf Squad. The episode begins with a preheat challenge where bakers must create an employee profile dessert. This dessert is meant to show what they love most about the holidays. Following this, the bakers face a challenge to help Santa design stained glass for his office expansion. They must create holiday stained-glass cakes for this task. The judges for the episode are Duff Goldman, Kardea Brown, and Molly Yeh. They decide who wins a $1,000 Ghirardelli prize package. One baker from the losing team is eliminated from the competition.
Critique 1: The draft is very short (approx 130 words). I need to reach 280-380 words. However, the instructions say "If the synopsis is sparse, stay concise rather than guessing