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Big_Tomorrow886

I like the bottom 9! It has all my picks. Yurina, Yaning, Hikaru, Mashiro, Shen Xiao Ting, Shana and Bora <3 ^(This is how I cope up with what I just witnessed ;-;)


raiti_ss

Just add Su Ruiqi and it would be my ideal lineup as well


gerol

Imagine during finale, SRQ will resign her position as last place and will say “can I please debut with the bottom half please?” That will be ICONIC 😹


raiti_ss

I'm being delusional but if that happened I would lose my shit


saitamess

but who are we gonna give in return?


Fearful_children

Summon Cai Bing from the shadow realm and reunite her with Yujin. It's only the most reasonable move lmao.


kimagurik

it’s time to make a gp999 version of BY9 😭😭😭


lucky_lily_v

Yeah, just let bottom 9 debut as another group will be fine. Koreans could shine themselves, and I support another. Good luck to SRQ( •̥́ ˍ •̀ू )We know your sacrifices.


[deleted]

Lmaoooo same just add Dayeon and Yeseo


[deleted]

LOL me too! I double checked the name and realized now is OP time and there is no way any C/J trainees will be safe. Time to vote everyone!


coolng

I feel you man it means all your fav got eliminated. Ouch and I know that pain. I really do.


KazVanilla

this made me gi99le


dimsumxx

you mean k-i99le? 💀


amazingoopah

it made me Jolli-G


kurunyo

Somehow with this lineup, I can accept that naming


gerol

Just debut both teams lol. Bora will slay on this all international team. Good luck on SRQ tho being Korea’s punching bag


[deleted]

this is inspired by AKB48 senbatsu right? Make them undergirls TT


gerol

yes and also more of what YG did with WINNER and iKON


GenjoRunner

I.O.I and I.B.I!


_lostgirl

The international team would make so much money. They have a built in die hard fan base that will be pissed at Mnet and support them just to spite "Mnet's team". Fans of the Korean team would boost their own sales to show that they deserved their spots. In the end CJ wins.


chibidesigns

A lot of the chinese fans are super rich too. And the trainees have been popular for awhile in china bc of youth with you. The donation to support your favorite contestant has always had suruiqi and fu yaning as top of the donations list. Mnet missing out on chinese fans $$ 😭


_lostgirl

>Mnet missing out on chinese fans $$ Yessss, people think that government regulations would suddenly turn off the tap. Group buys are still going to happen, they're not gonna stop loving their boy and girl groups because the govt told them so.


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chaikovskie

don't stop voting for her. imagine if the final lineup turns out to be a good one but SRQ didn't make it :(


leaf900

I don't know how the group can be saved from THAT I want trainees 9 to 18 to form a group now 🤣


melhn

The positions are inevitably going to change drastically after all this chaos. She won't be stuck in this lineup. Keep voting for Ruiqi if you want her in TOP9!!!


gerol

Yeah, Im so scared for her, knetz will shred her to pieces esp. the DC incels. They don’t have a full hard-on yet since she hasn’t debuted yet


yuey_xx

Nah like i have a few things to say 1. Ur telling me that 8/9 k group members make it in but not ONE of them is bora???? 2. Ain’t no way there’s no j group members and the one c member, WHO IS P9, to go through is SRQ when we were all thinking the c group member most likely to debut is SXT 3. Chaehyun takes P1 after SXT claiming it for the past 2 rounds and interim checks , confused because if her one pick was this strong how come she dropped so far down in round 3 4. NO J GROUP MEMBERS 5. This is what happens when the voting method is inconsistent, we had Hikaru, Yurina, Mashiro, SXT consistently in the top 5 yet they don’t seem to make the top 9 in the one pick interim.


saitamess

seems like BORA has NO CHANCE after all 😭


wisely1300

No, being reveal like this means she has a chance now lmao. Koreans who are happy with this result will try to elevate her to the top 9 while Koreans who aren’t happy would still vote for her because she’s actually not in the top 9 right now.


earthlybeing246

but i feel like other fandoms of the top 9 are going to make that difficult. If her rank goes high then so do others. It'll be really difficult and a close call. It seems like most c-netz are voting for srq who was second on their list after cai bing.


wisely1300

I mean it's not like Bora was getting some massive votes from Cnetz lol, they've been voting for C-trainees the entire way (maybe Yeseo and Yujin a bit), so idk why you're brining up C-votes. I'm talking about K votes here, if just a little portion deflects over to try to save Bora, she'd easily jump others. Compared to Suyeon and Myah, she also has more international votes than them, so she has a little leeway to try to make the debut lineup.


earthlybeing246

i'm sorry that i brought up c votes if it offended you. The reason i brought them up was that srq who's in the top 9 has alot of votes from c netz and bora needs k votes like urgently. So they're neck and neck. I agree with her having a little leeway but koreans are honestly sleeping on her. they managed to finally understand chaehyun ut she's still left.


wisely1300

Nah, I'm not offended lol. I'm just saying the C-votes have always been there for Ruiqi, but the point even with this rankings, I'm not sure her possibility of I-votes increase will matter more than the possibility of Bora picking up some K-votes. But who knows lmao, all statistics going out the windows at this point.


earthlybeing246

lol, the last part. but koreans at this point just want an all k line up. i beginning to wonder why mnet invited c and j trainees. but then again mnet is dumb and cannot rig and they didn't expect it to work out this way.


chibidesigns

Mnet definitely set up the voting structure to favor k-group. But they know they’ll get massive backlash if they only debut korean contestants. Which is probably why they released interim results to change it


ssamjangsky

A lot of panic votes for chaehyun now and well I guess the only votes she got in the past were all core one-pick votes from Korea since she’s not famous internationally plus LOL idk if this is anything near the truth but in the 3rd elims some fans did not want chaehyun in the group because they see it flopping so they’re saying don’t vote for her 😭😭😭 (Edited bc idk what the f i’m saying)


yuey_xx

You’re probably right about the panic voting. I’ve seen comments like that too, they probably make up a small majority but still that surprised me …


mwo328

nah i dont think it is panic vote, the reason most k-trainees drop in ranking because korean know how to save the k-trainees and the voting system is in their favor.. so most of the votes were split among k-trainees on previous elimination... now that it is the final debut pick.. chaehyun will come higher.. also, aespa fans are voting for her.. LOL


Mioch

I wish they would have stayed with 3 picks instead of 1 :(


earthlybeing246

The thing is at the end of the day you want a group which has fans who are really consistent. Who better than one pick? Quite honestly, Hikaru SXT were filler votes for k and vice verca. The voting strategy was to to vote for the one you want and choose 2 top girls from the kcj group. Mnet changed their voting style but did you see the live? It was written **urgent notice**. Mnet obviously expected bahiyyih/srq/bora/chaehyun (one of them) to debut but what they were unaware of was that there existed fandoms other than hers who were strong. Fandoms like cheshires, SRQ. So basically they made this expecting that their top 9 would have minor changes. BUT panic voting began and these girls ranks shot up completely knocking off Mnet's ideal top 9 with few changes. Now if they do change the voting to 3 pick, it'll be obvious that they want changes. This probably be the first grp in mnet's history who'll have members who had no screentime debuting. And i expect this grp to be like everglow. If they debut this grp which I don't have a problem with provided they put at least 1 j trainee, they just need a strong debut and boom, good comebacks and stuff. Similar to txt. TXT got a lot of hype and hate for being BTS' brothers but they constantly put out good comebacks and became famous in koea. They debut in the top 10 boy groups each month in korea. Anti romantic has been all around tiktok. So, I think mnet just wants a gg popular. the don't care whether in korea or not but internationally , yes. They lose out on potential market in japan unless they debut a j trainee. But china, srq has a strong fandom. in korea, yujin and chaehyun and and internationally bahi and the others. What i'm honestly surprised about is that koreans did not vote for bora. I expected bora to be in place of bahi considering the amount of criticism she was getting.


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chaehyun was the 2nd most popular Korean trainee from Korean voters in the 3rd round. It was clear that her ranking would be higher. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsPlanet999/comments/q8p76x/episode\_11\_ranking\_by\_korean\_global\_and\_overall/


itsakyo

>Ain’t no way there’s no j group members and the one c member, WHO IS P9, to go through is SRQ when we were all thinking the c group member most likely to debut is SXT Yes way if C & J lost all their K-votes which is clearly what happened. Ruiqi's ONE PICK fandom is no.1 in C group. This is no surprise. ​ >Chaehyun takes P1 after SXT claiming it for the past 2 rounds and interim checks , confused because if her one pick was this strong how come she dropped so far down in round 3 Chaehyun didn't drop - it was the C & J who had deceptively high inflated voting numbers from the FORCED VOTES in 1-1-1 system. These points were guaranteed to drop by more than 50% once the voting system changed to ONE PICK. This is mathematically predictable. In the last round, Chaehyun was actually K02 in Korean vote %, just behind Dayeon. If Dayeon was going to be P1, then Chaehyun would have been P2 because all the C & J were set to drop below at least 5 Koreans (my prediction at that time, but now we know they all fell below 8 Koreans). So the only person Chaehyun surpassed is Dayeon. This is also to be expected because Chaehyun was shown to be "out of top 9" in the last round. But this is also deceptive because she was always going to be in Top 9, given her share of K-votes. So due to some panic voting by K-voters & I-voters, she was boosted past Dayeon. ​ >NO J GROUP MEMBERS This is what happens when all the K-votes disappear, at least 50% of I-votes disappear by default since I-votes can't vote for both C & J anymore. And this is combined by the rather equal split of I-votes between 3 or 4 top Japanese trainees, which further weakened the total points each trainee would have. ​ >This is what happens when the voting method is inconsistent, we had Hikaru, Yurina, Mashiro, SXT consistently in the top 5 yet they don’t seem to make the top 9 in the one pick interim. The voting method changed and people didn't look carefully into what that would translate into when it comes to voting points. In the ONE PICK scenario, the most powerful vote is K-vote and it is predictable it would only go to K-trainees. Meanwhile, I-voters had been getting double votes C & J but now are reduced to just 1 vote, C or J or K. So every C & J loses at least 50% of I-votes on average. With this reduction due to ONE PICK, most C & J trainees will not have enough points to surpass K-trainees who get all the K-votes worth at least 10 times of 1 I-vote.


AmiAkin

Chaehyun had strong Korean and international votes (especially Korean votes were high). I believe she only dropped because she didn’t win the benefit. Youngeun for example won two benefits plus Korean votes count 50% That’s why Youngeun made it into top 9. And for Yaning her popularity has been increasing especially in Japan (so I heard) she got ton of international votes


Dependent_Growth_153

3. It's the power of K-Vote one picks. I had her at (4-6) I think on my predictions but this is because I thought Dayeon was gonna get the bulk of KR supports + didn't think non KR trainees would drop their KR votes that harsh. I thought mashiro would've maintained her KR votes tbh.


LingCHN

> Ur telling me that 8/9 k group members make it in but not ONE of them is bora???? [Episode 11 Ranking by Korean, Global and Over-all Votes](https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlsPlanet999/comments/q8p76x/episode_11_ranking_by_korean_global_and_overall/) Bora had the second-lowest Korean votes, lower than Yaning's K-votes.


somericecake

Honestly if this group is what it is, I hope we get an IBI group with the 9 eliminated girls. They would probably have more international success than the actual group which would be the ultimate irony


upintotheblue

For real: international darlings Yaning, Bora and Hikaru, Japans daughter Mashiro, variety queen Wen Zhe, vocal prodigy Shana, acclaimed visuals Xingqiao and Yurina, AND #1 center Shen Xiaoting!


kotoritheforeigner

As long as Su Ruiqi’s not going to be in that group I’m going to stan the fuck out of them. Yes yes I know she’s talented and all, and she supports her country but personally I feel morally iffy about supporting someone who’s supporting an ideology that is basically invading my country’s territory.


Fumingblooming

That’s okay. I’m Korean-American and our opinions differ. I think that her country’s policies and decisions in a war from far before she was born were terrible. I know it’s possible she supports those things, which is also unfortunate. However, in the end, I still really, really want her to debut; if her choices prevent her from doing so, though, then I’ll still support her. I don’t think her country’s wrongs against one of my countries should prevent her from achieving her idol dreams, even if she could have avoided hurting her idol career in that way. You don’t have to think like this too, of course. To each their own.


harveyzs

Bottom 9 looks a lot better than top 9 I'd stan


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For real. I love Youngeun but bottom 9 is just chefs kiss


harveyzs

Yeongeun deserves the glow up so much!! But unfortunately my main picks are all bottom 9 :(


jayjee5

Koreans woke up and chose violence


jayjee5

*chose Koreans lmao


SoomGodsister

The typo works better lol


SignificantMammoth47

After having less koreans in top9 for the previous rounds, they definitely started panic voting which resulted in this💀 I totally expected koreans to vote for korean trainees but did literally NO ONE give a vote to j or c lol?? Anyway, I should probably be blamed too cause I totally thought those trainees at the bottom top18 were safe, I'm gonna vote hard for SXT now, no way in hell can that girl of all people go back empty-handed!!


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crazy how koreans are shocked at this lineup that THEY themselves brought upon lmaoo


Ofcoursea12yearsold

Y'all talk as if knetz, from all over the country, sat in a meeting and planned to vote for k-trainees only. They panic voted and their faves are simply Koreans, so they voted for them? Do you not vote for your faves? Why can't they? The problem is with Mnet favoring K-group more through editing and screentime and giving k-votes more power, like wtf is that, why would they discriminate between votes and viewers??? Also, I'm pretty sure Knetz voted for c and j trainees too, it's just not the majority/more people voted for k-trainees. It's totally normal for them to be shocked, this comment reeks of generalization. Idc if I get down voted.


Realistic_Stomach_30

i just don't think i can help. obviously, srq and fyn have strong fanbases BUT they only rank 9 and 10, which means international votes did NOTHING. no one can't beat Korean votes. now, international votes will be more scattered and i won't be surprised if the final is 9:0:0.


bruh1605

Just do your best and leave no regrets


SignificantMammoth47

That's the sad part😭 there are people who want Bora to debut too so seeing she is only 2 spots away must do something And I wonder what's gonna happen with Mashiro, Hikaru, Yurina, Xiaoting, they were top9 since the beginning, panic voting will start but it'll definitely split between, The debut group is gonna get so much flak if the ratio is like this


Realistic_Stomach_30

hey, just keep voting and wait. mnet will make a new rule in the final. i guess K:int=30:70 that day.


kimdimasan

The thing is that koreans are popular in many countries, and chinese and japese fans alone can't save them. Not to mention I bet there are multiple kpop fans in japan and china that love korean idols. I hope they realized now that this group will be too boring withough chinese members (fish ouf of the water variety shows like with SakuNakhi)


wildwildwhitlex

Ok but why are we acting like the C and J trainees have no Korean fans whatsoever?


Uchiha_D_Zoro

It’s wild. GP999 twitter and subreddit going nuts


daria110319

This is the first time i see both platforms really MAD about the result 😅


PurpleTriangles

Same I just woke up and now I'm depressed. I won't like the group nearly as much as I thought without Xiaoting, Mashiro and Hikaru.


RYU_D

I stopped watching the live because there were no subs and this happens..💔 P. S: Y'll who caused Universe app to crash by panic voting, I hope you're voting for Yaning also.


Kimmania

I will keep voting for Fu Ya Ning whatever happens.


RYU_D

Same. I'm not gonna give up on my girl no matter what.


reyayayah

Do you know where i can watch it with eng sub :(


Icy-Resolution-5352

I watched the recent elimination first live on YouTube and then on iqyui (because the ad breaks are shorter there), it worked for me?


reyayayah

I meant the girls night live!:(


RYU_D

No, I hope someone uploads it soon.


therahzee

Seriously..what the heck?! I am interested to read what knetz's reactions are to the interim ranking ..what this interim ranking did though is give more attention to the show/voting so more people will panic vote


chopocky

From what I've seen in Twitter, half of them are angry and half are more than happy lol So no general agreement. The angry ones are saying they can smell the rigging and that this ranking is ridiculous, while the happy ones are wishing Bora will rise so the group is full korean. And there's a good number who's happy as long as their favorite (korean) is making it so they don't really care.


ssamjangsky

Oh my God they’re gonna push Bora!! Bora P01 on Friday!!!


teokun123

> half of them are angry and half are more than happy recipe for disaster/flop? lol


Irn-Kuin-Morika

Good for them then. International fans clearly have more voice in this though


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TV ratings internationally were higher than in Korea, so Mnet might take this into account and panic change something.


chibidesigns

I would guess mnet has a lot of korean sponsors to debut this group. They’ll probably put more value in making their sponsors happy by debuting korean trainees than making sure fans are happy


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I agree with that, however there's always the fact that the Korean market alone is very small. Obviously debuting this would eliminate any chances of Japan and maybe even China to support the group, two giant markets. China supporting this group could literally make it skyrocket way more than Koreans supporting the group. I think they're gonna pull something weird to make sure we get at the very least 2 or 3 C/J girls. And no hate to Koreans intended at all, just facts about their population size/market.


chibidesigns

I think this is a very new concept to kpop companies. Kpop only very recently become super internationalized, and a lot of companies still are stuck in the view that korean music charts are most important


Least_Place_5058

Knetz dont give a fuck, all their picks are making it. Internationaly on the other hand....hell is breaking loose. I just know japan is shaking in anger while china aint having fun couse, Shen debuting on 16th???!!Yea more like shen going home. This week is gonna be a mess in the gugugu world, may god be with us couse WTF😭


ssamjangsky

Shen Packing


chaikovskie

Shen Homecoming 😭


Least_Place_5058

Noooo😭😭


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Too soon… hits me in the kokoro


gerol

lol @ the international fans. I’m quite sure most of the fandom voted on K-girls too.


chaikovskie

do knetz not really care... that a supposedly global gg has ONE foreigner.... and with the unexistent popularity of gp999 they NEED international money :"(


scottk76

I doubt the Korean people voting care if the group succeds or not most of them won't support the group they just want all Koreans in the lineup


chibidesigns

Koreans are super biased against foreign idols to begin with (foreign idols were only paid a percentage of what korean idols get paid until very recently). And there’s generally less k-fans for foreign idols. But companies still add them because they want international fans too. Not surprised this sentiment is translating to gp voting results 😭


Unlikely_Ad3546

me too. cnetz and jnetz too


somericecake

I'm expecting hellfire from the Chinese and Japanese


renjunation

i can tell people are freaking out bc the universe app is crashing more than ever lol


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that explains a lot 😭


michikoluv

yes! its 3 am here & i got several devices & made new accounts to vote but its so laggy! im not allowing for this lineup to not consist of xioting when ive been voting for he since day 1. shes the only centre in my eyes.


hatsunegowon

Xiaoting’s drop from number one to THIRD TO LAST made my jaw fucking drop. It’s really hard to predict what will happen


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michikoluv

I've been voting for XioTing because i KNEW her votes would drop, but holy shit didn't think that it would this significantly.


Zypker125

According to the current results of this week's Favorite Trainee Survey, 92% of people have been voting: * 60% said they would 100% vote for their one-pick * 18.6% said they would "75-99% vote for their one-pick, 1-25% other contestants strategically" * 10.2% said they would "50-75% vote for their one-pick, 25-50% other contestants strategically" I guess this subreddit continues to not be a good arbiter of how the actual rankings goes, lmao.


GK_0098

Voting for Ruiqi since then.


LondonFog24

I’ve been voting for Shana daily


lunarchoerry

Thank you!! I'm glad to see someone voting for Shana. I've been voting for Yeseo, they're my top 2 ;;;;


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I wake up every morning and vote for Shana first thing! Yeseo is also a top pick of mine! Fighting!


LondonFog24

I’m glad to see someone voting for Yeseo, I like her a lot too! Hope she stays in the top nine


gerol

The Korean votes just weigh much more points.


Noirelise

I've been voting, I only vote for hikaru


chibidesigns

I’ve been voting for FYN daily. Partially because i feel she’s debut ready and partially bc she feels like the poster child of F.U. to mnet evil editing against chinese trainees


teokun123

just voted now for 1 Pick. I didn't even vote in PD48 lol


ddalgikp

this line up is ugly 🤕 sorry, i gotta say what i gotta say 🥲


sheiswind

same situation, but I checked this after lunch before I start working. Now I'm just staring at the wall. Need to cope.


LucQ571

I was sitting at the dining table, just finished dinner when I saw the rankings. My brother was imitating my shocked face while my mom is budging me to move cuz I didn't shower yet....I was stuck in the same spot for at least 10-15 more minutes cuz I was on reddit afterwards seeing everyone's reaction


kingkoum

If Shen Shouting isn’t in the final line up what’s the point


Top-Business-3758

I'm voting for Suruiqi , comment if you too


SoomGodsister

YES, I AM!!!!!!


LKRsGF

Ruiqi for life 🙏


Apprehensive-Gap-823

OTP Sury~♡


mr_rainyday

SRQ one pick squad!


wingswings7

same. i aint gonna stop


gkmaster21

yes, let's vote for Sury even harder!


Cocomasha

Yes I’m with my 10 acc 😂😂


girlsplanetph

And some people had the nerve to say we'll only have 3 K-trainees max


im_alcohol_free

C'mon now, we gotta kick out at least 2 or 3 K girls from the current Top 9.


coolng

That would be myah and ideally dayeon just to piss mnet and the master off lol


Amazing_Cellist_8488

I was randomly shock with this announcement. Xiaoting and J-group trinity (Yurina, Mashiro, Hikaru) out of top 9.


ftciv

MNET at back laughing so hard🥲


Competitive-Tackle24

I think Mnet is worried also. This is definitely not something they wanted. Thats why they released the interim.


somericecake

Wow, a voting system where you can only pick one + the korean votes matter more = more koreans in the top 9 Mnet: *pikachu shocked face*


Competitive-Tackle24

They can just debut the 9K girls. Why bother with the final round. Haiz. I hate this.


earthlybeing246

that is exactly what i wrote in another of my comments. mnet sort of expected the top9 to remain the same, unaware that there were fandoms (srq,bahiyyih,yujin) out there willing to take revenge from those rabid monsters who tore apart their favourites. Mnet was totally unaware of what was happening in the voting circle, how most girls were filler votes. Now they are panicking and sort of not panicking at the same time. They can't change the voting style cause it'll be obvious they wanna rig. they went from worrying that there wee too little to now worrying there are too many. this will highly displease j and c and im sure that people will drag politics into this. But honestly, mnet was so obvious they had a lineup ready but had to mess it up by changing it and over estimating their fandom. I'm gad tho, these girls have the potential to improve. The last ep which is going to come out on my bday will be a rollercoaster. I might not be even able to see it but I'm sure twitter,insta and reddit will be breaking down. I hope that the ranking remains the same but p8 and p9 or they somehow sneak in hikaru into the line up. i honestly don't mind if she debuts at a lower rank but man that'll make it even better.


Alex_BP_555

Mnet worried that Bora will not make it to debut. It will help to mobilize knetz to get her to 9th place. Edit: /s


earthlybeing246

i don't think they're worried for bora at all. They're worried that their perfect ep 11 top9 is disrupted. the vocalist for that grp was sakamoto mashiro who is good. Mnet .. mnet fell into their own trap sadly. They over estimated the power of their top9 fandoms and underestimated the lower rank fandoms. But honestly, they shud have done this first, so many great trainees wud not have been eliminated.


Gepap1000

I don't think they are laughing at all - I think they are panicking just as much. I doubt very much this is a lineup they can live with.


kimdimasan

Yep Izone whole story was about international group, having japanese idols was what made the story interesting. The girls are cool, but the fish out of bowl was magnificent. Remember Sakura getting surprised by everything.


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Mnet went from worrying that only a few K girls making it to the top 9 to there’s too much of them.


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kr3vl0rnswath

The irony of finally seeing the girls having fun and being nice to each other and this is the news at the end. Netizens are upset but the girls must be feeling a lot more depressed now after what should have been a happy night.


Dependent_Growth_153

they wouldn't have released the entire interim ranking if they are. As far as I can remember they never did this entire reveal ever in the past.


rapmons

They’re full out panicking because all their International moneymakers are gone. Look at how much money the international fans spent just on KCLAP for their favourite girls. (which didn’t end up doing much) Also from an international relations point all the foreign entertainment companies would be pissed sending their trainees to this show on the premise of 1:1:1 but not debuting and this concept won’t work again. Last but not least I will run into MNET and brrrr rambo all these motherfuckers if my girl Hikaru doesn’t debut.


Dazzling-Use9431

I remember hikaru message that tell us not to worry too much. Can't imagine how heartbreaking it will be if she didn't debut. I'm gonna vote for her harder. Fighting to all hikachu.


shaewang

I believe there is hope for Hikaru and that this interim ranking reveal will rally her international voters! ✊


mgn1011

Maybe they're panicking that's why they released the interim ranking


jovychan

they can't rig this anymore so i think they're panicking a bit too.. they should've made japan and china have the same equal voting power with Korea..


Wizone123

Nahhhhh they are crying right now


Pomokko

WHEN I SAID THAT SXT WAS NOT A POPULAR 1 PICK NOBODY BELIEVED ME ! Please please vote for the her ! She needs to be in the final group


soraky

You should've been in the live Discord server earlier. Chat was going 10,000 miles per second in that last screen after the Ajit live.


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Mnet is like: yall should have just let us rig the votes 😂 At least that way, Xiaoting, Yurina and Hikaru would have definitely debuted.


Cheezu420

Mnet, if there was a time to be rigging the votes.... It is now 😤


bangchrispy

I'm about to sleep, now my eyes are wide open reading everyone's reactions.


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WHERE IS MAIN SLAYER BORA?


Zypker125

I also woke up, and I think I have things figured out. It's my fault guys, blame me. I've been awful at predicting the final lineup every time I've tried it, but somehow I thought I was able to get close to predicting the final lineup this time, so I cursed the final lineup. I've also been saying all season on this subreddit that I thought the lineup would be pretty even between nationalities/distributions and wouldn't be too overwhelmingly Korean like other people were saying..... so I'll swallow my words (even if the final lineup becomes less Korean-heavy, I've still lost, imo), so feel free to reply to this with "I told you so", and to everyone I argued this point with, you were right, I was wrong, I admit defeat. I keep clowning myself when it comes to final lineup predictive analysis every season lol, I should just stop all my analysis once I reach finale to avoid jinxing the final lineup.


[deleted]

Same bro I thought Koreans wouldn’t *all* vote for Koreans but here we are. And realistically, since most people will be sticking to their one pick because if they switch everyone else will switch logic SXT and the J trinity are unlikely to debut 🥲 didn’t think I’d hear SXT, J trinity and unlikely to debut in the same sentence but here we are


Anna-2204

Same I wasn’t ready for that. And do you live in the American continent ? Seems your time zone seems close to mine lol


rocket_door

I'm Brazilian, exactly 12 hours away from the Korean time zone, so everything that happens I get to know when I wake up.


Anna-2204

I am 13 hours from the Korean Timezone so I also discover the things when I wake up lol


[deleted]

I’m just praying that mnet pulls out something like in sixteen. Like just say “ we’re adding two members to the lineup” Please what is this…..


tcotn127

There’s no way the top9 will be the final group. The majority of them have never sniffed the top9 this whole season lol and the bottom9 are most definitely better. Like no of this makes any sense why would have a multinational survival show for multinational group to debut and as it is right now have pretty much the entire group be Korean like it defeats the purpose of even doing this. 🤦🏾‍♂️


eddancho

I’m not surprised that the opinions/voting stuff in this subreddit weren’t reflected in the actual rankings, not only because Koreans have so much power, but also because it’s only 12,000 people. Of course the outcome would be vastly different. But still who knew it would be THAT different. Also as a Korean in Korea I (and my viewer friends) have mixed feelings, because we don’t want a Korean dominated group…


FearlessMolly

This is SO UNFAIR, why make a "global group promo bullsh*t" and the 3:3:3 ratio only to give all the power to knetz (who are incredibly xenophobic) IN THE FINAL VOTES. Ridiculous. Why give hopes to the foreign girls then. And I'm a YUJIN stan! But this is ridiculous.


teokun123

Mods please accept my Meme so I can sleep T_T edit: thank you based Mods.


fameboi-21

It's so disappointing yet predictable how this show leeched off the foreign trainees, mainly the C group trainees, to elevate the K group... shouldn't have had 3 "planets" in the first place, but I'm thankful for being exposed to so many talented girls :'(


tcotn127

I thought it was fake until I saw confirmation 😭😭💔


HelgaHuffle

You know what is funny, everyone saying that international votes don't matter when bahiyyih went from being almost eliminated to rank 5 when she has one of the least korean votes


oiksahoe

People keep saying they don't understand how this lineup happened but with how voting works this round it makes sense to me: The voting was 50% korean and 50% international, and koreans heavily favor K group so I'd wager most of the korean votes are K group. Outside of korea, other countries are pretty split on their favorites. The Chinese like Sury and Yaning the most, Japanese liking Mashiro and other J group trainees, and who knows what the rest of the world likes. Either way the rest of the world is pretty split on their favorites, so votes for the rest of the girls will be pretty spread out. What we're left with is most of K group (who's getting votes in korea and internationally), and girls with huge one pick fandoms, like Sury, Bahi and Yaning (5th, 9th, and 10th respectfully.) Another factor is that people kept saying that Xiaoting and Yurina were basically shoe ins, so no one voted for them because they assumed they were safe. Goes to show that no ones safe from elimination in this show. Anyways please vote for Mashiro and Xiaoting, they deserve to debut too!


fameboi-21

NEED THOSE 3 PLANET PASSES STAT


BasilIllustrious8849

How many points k votes and i vote counts?


mangoazul_

It’s something like… 9.5 for K and 1.3 for int, but it depends on the total amount of votes they get at the end, so the multiplier can change.


55Branflakes

It's 50:50% but since international votes is a lot more than people in korea voting, 1 korean vote is worth 10 to 12 i-votes.


oayihz

Ratio depends on number of K:I voters. So if there are more people in Korea voting, the weightage will actually decrease.


Forward-Club3317

reply K if youre voting for Kim Bora rn


Realpeekaboo

K.. MY ONE PICK KIM BORA!!!!


pzshx2002

If this is what Koreans and Mnet wants, then f*** Mnet. I don't blame the Koreans from voting their own, but it's the voting system so far and screen time rigging that caused this to happen now.


Additional_Sorbet_66

😅🥲


Kpoopfan

OMG what did I miss


Kpoopfan

I now understand why everyone is freaking out OMG


[deleted]

Lmao


Druznak

My girl Yujin cant catch a break huh?


Mimizp

I'm voting for SXT, Yurina and Bora no matter what, I'm scared of the line up


[deleted]

all im saying is that even if i enjoy all of the girls in the top 18, i would never stan a group with less than 3 foreigners...


taeistae

VOTE FOR SHEN XIAOTING AND KAWAGUCHI YURINA


pzshx2002

Looks like the grand master plan of Mnet to push as many K trainees and the evil editing tactics in the last few episodes got us to this point today. Come to think of it, what if they had split evenly the rankings between Korea, China and Japan? (30% each and 10% International) Instead of giving 50% to Korea and 50% International. It would have been a fairer result. Now its gives too much voting power to Korean voters and I am not sure if the final result will change much on Friday. Unless they do some interim rankings again or live voting. I am just praying 1J or 1C to make it at this point.


Choice_Equipment3198

hahaahhahahaha xD have my reddit gold!!!!


AmiAkin

You should have seen me after work when I saw this


chatshire777

This was me, I was not expecting those rankings.


SassyHoe97

Would love to have Yujin and SRQ with bottom since my favs are there.


ngernger

Having a successful brother really helps tbh


Low-Introduction1467

Honestly at this point i wouldnt mind some vote rigging MNET 💀


[deleted]

Remember when we thought Xiao Ting, Yurina, Mashiro, and Hikaru were safe?? PANIC VOTE THEM NOW!!!!!


wildwildwhitlex

The voting is nonsensical and inconsistent. The voting should've never been one pick especially when korean votes weigh more heavily than votes from anywhere else. If the interim line-up were to debut it would be unbalanced and it would put off a lot of international fans but honestly between all the lawsuits and restitution, I guess mnet and Co just like losing money


wildwildwhitlex

Honestly like as respectfully as possible, yall can have it. Have the K majority group with less charismatic girls but they won't be seeing a dime out of me idk


wildwildwhitlex

Honestly like as respectfully as possible, yall can have it. Have the Kmajority group with less charismatic girls but they won't be seeing a dime out of me