Glee catch up: Season 3 (first 8 episodes)

In the season the opener, we find that Sam Evans had to move and so the New Directions is, again, one person short. They perform a number in the cafeteria and when they finish no one does anything at first, but then a food fight commences. Though it seemed catastrophic, one person did seem to like it. Sugar Motta, a very rich and spoiled girl walks into glee club saying she was inspired by their performance. Then she goes on to say that they were dreadful and she was way better than all of them and sings an awful rendition of "Big Spender". Rachel tells Mr. Shu he can't let her in because she was so bad. He feels bad but eventually agrees and tells Sugar that she didn't make it. Sugar takes to this angrily and has her father give money to McKinley to start a new choir group starring her and has Shelby Corcoran; a legend in show choir winning 4 consecutive national championships for vocal adrenaline before retiring, hired as the director of it. As the glee club is trying to decide a number for sectionals, they also hold auditions for the musical: West Side Story. Rachel and Mercedes, both extremely strong singers and performers try out for the lead, Maria. When the directors can't come to a decision, they hold call backs and finally decide to have them share the role. While Rachel is happy about this, Mercedes is outraged she didn't get the role to herself, and that everyone gives Rachel whatever she wants and she was finished taking it. She promptly quit the musical and New Directions to join Shelby Corcoran's group. The next week Mercedes tries to get Santana to join. She is very tempted, but doesn't want to leave Brittany, her girlfriend. Meanwhile, Irish exchange student Rory Flanagan is staying at Brittany's house who he has a huge crush on. Brittany, not being very bright thinks he is a leprechaun because he's from Ireland, can hardly ever understand what he says, and makes wishes on him. Santana is extremely displeased when she learns about Rory and scares him into getting  Brittany to join Shelby's show choir with her. Rory is happy when he meets Finn and recognizes him from youtube when he "lost nationals after tongue kissing your girlfriend for ten minutes". Finn asks Rory how he's fitting in and he says he hasn't really made friends besides Brittany. He asks Finn to be his friend and Finn seems uninterested at first but then decides to be his friend. As the competition heats up for sectionals, Shelby Corcoran's group gets a name: The Trouble Tones, because as Mercedes said, "we're trouble for the other glee club" In the preview for next week's episode, Sam Evans is shown- is he possibly coming back to the New Directions to help them against the Trouble Tones? Only time will tell, but the competition looks fierce!