The group stage was like a shot in the arm, hitting all the trainees.
It makes everyone who finishes recording more enthusiastic, and this enthusiasm spreads and is reflected in all aspects.
When Lee Seung Gi walked from behind the scenes to the stage, everyone burst into cheers with the highest decibel level ever.
Lee Seung Gi is the representative national producer invited by the program team this season.
After the national producer representative finished his brief speech, he also announced that the recording of the group stage had officially come to an end.
Next, these trainees will return to familiar places for filming.
Time came to the next day, in the newly re-set studio.
Lee Seung Gi, who just showed up yesterday, and all the trainees are gathered here.
The rating evaluation and C-position competition conducted in the past few days can be collectively regarded as the first issue of this draft, and what is being prepared now is the second issue.
This time the set was set up in a small room with plenty of lighting, giving people a sense of security.
Opposite the trainees, Lee Seung Gi held a microphone and introduced the situation of the second topic to everyone.
"Starting today, everyone will be evaluated with a new task. The subject of this project, where survival and elimination coexist, is the evaluation of combination duels."
"Everyone will be divided into 16 groups for a combination showdown. There will be a total of 8 evaluation tracks, which is exactly half."
"That is to say, two groups who choose the same song will compete directly."
"And the winning team will get a thousand votes."
"From the beginning of this project, the national producers (live audience) will evaluate, and then based on the results, the top 1 to 58 people in this project will be promoted."
"The remaining trainees will be eliminated."
Lee Seung-gi announced one thing after another in a descriptive tone. The trainees who were listening attentively began to understand that all the previous activities could only be regarded as trivial matters. Only from now on can they be regarded as truly doing something. "Draft".
After all, they are going to be eliminated in this round.
The elimination rate of nearly half made the trainees look solemn. No matter whether their abilities were good or bad, everyone felt a pressure coming on them.
"Now, 8 tracks will be announced."
As soon as Li Shengji finished speaking, the white cloth on the wall beside the trainees suddenly fell off, and then the eight signs hanging on it were revealed.
Obviously, eight brands correspond to eight tunes.
All the trainees couldn't help but take a closer look and found that they were——
GFRIEND's "LOVE WHISPER", Red Velvet's "Peek-A-Boo", AOA's "Short Hair", KARA's "Mamma Mia (Japanese ver.)".
As well as AKB48's "High Tension", BLACKPINK's "Boombayah", TWICE's "Like OOH-AHH -Japanese ver.", IOI's "Very Very Very".
As you can see, these eight songs are all-inclusive, at least among girl group songs. There are not only representative groups from Japan and South Korea, but also local Japanese versions in South Korea. Even the group groups are also quite particular - the talent show. , handshake group, large company group, small production group, second generation old group and fourth generation new group.
The styles are also very diverse. At first glance, if ordinary trainees had to choose, they might not know which one to choose.
But Pei Yourong's eyes were firm.
Of course she had to choose "Peek-A-Boo."
However, before selecting the repertoire, all the current trainees in the room must be divided into groups. It must be said that this assessment method really whets everyone's appetite.
"The team members are randomly selected, so the first trainee in each group is selected, and the first trainee has the right to choose the team members."
"But what I want to say in particular is that there is a trainee here. She has the right to directly choose her own team members. Who is she?"
Having said this, Li Shengji looked at Pei Yourong in front of the crowd like a spoiler.
"Our Center!"
"Yes, it's our trainee Pei Yourong."
After Li Shengji responded to everyone's shouts, he motioned for Pei Yourong to come forward.
Pei Yourong walked forward with small steps and came to the large gashapon machine. She took the microphone from Li Shengji's hand. When she looked ahead again, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Why is everyone looking at me like this?" she thought to herself.
Although the filming only lasted for less than two weeks, in this short period of time, the participating trainees have already formed a reputation among themselves. To put it simply, even if they don’t have to talk about it, these sensitive girls have already identified which trainees are strong enough, which trainees are particularly popular, which trainees are particularly easy to talk to, which trainees have bad personalities, etc.
In the eyes of most trainees, Pei Yourong is the kind of trainee who is strong, popular and has a good temper, because she not only plays well with the popular trainees from Neon, but is also willing to memorize the choreography during practice. Let me teach you that even if you know that Pei Yourong will steal a lot of scenes when the show is aired, you won't care too much.
In short, now everyone wants to be named by Pei Yourong.
But no matter how eager everyone's eyes were, Pei Yourong couldn't choose everyone. What's more, choosing people was not a difficult task for her. She just thought about it for a moment -
All she had to do was choose roommates.
"First of all, trainee Miyawaki Sakura, trainee Kim Cai-won, and trainee Choi Ye-na."
"And two trainees, An Youzhen and Zhang Yuanying."
After Pei Yourong finished choosing, there was a sigh from below.
"Can you tell me why you chose them?" Li Shengji asked.
"Ah, first of all, they are in the same dormitory as me. We are all familiar with each other. This is very helpful for practicing the stage," Pei Yourong said, looking at the colors of the clothes of the five people next to him, "Also, everyone is very strong. On average, I think what comes out of it is going to be great."
"Guilty, that's it, I'm done."
"Okay, then please come and pick out the next trainee."
Pei Yourong took a step forward and pressed the switch of the gashapon machine.
After a few seconds, she looked at the person's name on the pink ball.
"Ah, it's Jin Minzhouxi."
