In the spirit of a new season of Queendom 2, I would like to review the last seasons of Queendom and Kingdom before the new season air at the end of March.
This episode would be dedicate to the first season of Queendom. I would go over the different rules and point systems along with ranking for each round.
If you haven't seen the show, please go and watch it, if not, don't be sad that I am spoiling it here because it been over two years.
All the information written on this post is from the Wikipedia page Queendom. Like always, the image credits will be at the end of the post. I do not own any of the pictures. All the pictures were found through google search.
Overview:
The program is a comeback battle between six trending girl group acts, in order to 'determine the real number one' when all six release their brand new singles at the same time.
The program would last for ten weeks from August 29, 2019 to October 31, 2019. The program features three preliminary performances and one live comeback stage from each act. The Comeback Singles, which are newly produced songs, of the six acts were released on October 25, 2019. The digital points accumulated for the Comeback Singles and love votes for the comeback stages on the final episode, together with the accumulated points from the three preliminary performances, are the keys to determine the final winner.
The winning group will have a comeback show dedicated to only them, showing the new song and other hit songs, arranged however they want it. The comeback show was broadcast on Mnet and M2. This comeback show happened on November 3, 2020, as the show's winner made their comeback with their album.
Host:
Lee Da Hee | Jang Sung Kyu
Contestants:
Mamamoo
AOA
Park Bom
(G)I-DLE
Lovelyz
Oh My Girl
Rules:
The overall final ranking of the show is based on the following three preliminary performances:
1st preliminary round - Representative Hit Song - 10,000 points
2nd preliminary round - Cover Song - 10,000 points
3rd preliminary round - Unit Performances - 15,000 points
* For the preliminary performances, if one act gets a 6th place twice, they would have to step down from the show. This is named the 'Dishonored Step Down.'
1st Preliminary Round - Representative Hit Song
The six acts each perform one of their representative hit songs that is rearranged and different from their usual stages of the song.
Before the Performance
- All six acts have ten minutes to arrange the cue sheet for this round.
- The acts can forcefully rearrange the orders.
- If one act doesn't put themselves onto the cue sheets by the end of the ten minutes, a 1,000 points penalty will be rules to that act.
After the Performance
- For this round, each act can get a maximum of 10,000 points and in the following distribution:
- Audience Judge Squad: 7,000 points
- *Special Judge Squad: 2,000 points
- Self-assessment from the other Queendom acts: 1,000 points
- The audience and the special judges will watch all six performances and after that each of them can only vote for two acts.
- For the self-assessment from the other Queendom acts, every act has to vote for an act that they believed to have performed better than them and an act they believed to have performed worse than them. A hidden rule is that an act can choose not to vote (usually) for an act that is better than them.
* Special Judge Squad changes every preliminary round. This round the squad were idol trainees who are all direct juniors of the Queendom acts.
2nd Preliminary Round - Cover Song
The six acts each perform a song from a fellow Queendom act and is rearranged into a different style.
Before the Performance
- The 1st placed act from the 1st preliminary performances will get the priority to choose an act of their choice and cover one of their songs in this round. The chosen act will also cover one of the songs from the chooser act. This process goes on for the 2nd place act and the remaining two acts not chosen will automatically become a pair to cover each other's songs.
- The 1st placed act from the 1st preliminary performances will also get to arrange the cue sheet for this round.
- Each act has to perform a Queendom Quest, which is to be picked by random. When an act successfully completed the Queendom Quest, they can get only one of the following benefits picked by random:
- Rehearsal Watching 1 Day Free Pass (they are not allowed to watch other acts rehearse)
- Special Effects Free Pass
- One-time Cue Sheet Position Exchange Pass
- 2nd Preliminary Performances Song Selection Free Pass
- Production Crew Chance
- For this round, each act can get a maximum of 10,000 points and in the following distribution:
- Audience Judge Squad: 7,000 points
- *Special Judge Squad: 2,000 points
- Self-assessment from the other Queendom acts: 1,000 points
- The audience and the special judges will watch all six performances and after that each of them can only vote for two acts.
- The act that receives the most votes from the Special Judge Squad will have all 2,000 points secured to themselves.
- For the self-assessment from the other Queendom acts, every act has to vote for an act that they believed to have performed better than them and an act they believed to have performed worse than them. A hidden rule is that an act can choose not to vote (usually) for an act that is better than them.
* Special Judge Squad changes every preliminary round. This round the squad were security guards.
3rd Preliminary Round - Unit Performances
Part 1: Unit Round (5,000 points) - The six acts will each send a main vocalist and a main dancer to form vocal units and one performance unit. The vocal units will compete to gain a points as a unit, while the performance unit will perform together but will compete for their respective groups' points.
Part 2: Fan-dora's Box (10,000 points) - The six acts will each perform a song suggested by the audience.
Before the Performance
- For this round, besides each act sending a main vocalist and a main dancer to the Queendom Workshop to practice for the unit performances, the rest of the contestants would join the Workshop as supporters.
- Special appearances by Don Spike and Lia Kim as vocal mentor and dance mentor respectively.
- During the Queendom Workshop, each of the vocal units would undergo an intermediate check. All the contestants will each vote for a vocal unit they think would be number on in the real performances after all the units have performed their small snippets.
- During the Queendom Workshop, a Queendom Quest between the six acts will be played. The winning act of the Queendom Workshop will get to choose the Special Judge Squad for the Fan-dora's Box.
- The 1st placed act from the 2nd preliminary performances gets to arrange the cue sheet for Fan-dora's Box.
After the Performance
Part 1: Unit Round
- Members of the audience will each vote for their favorite vocal unit and a favorite member of the performance unit.
- For this part, each act can get a maximum of 5,000 points combined through the following distribution:
- Vocal units points allocated in the following distribution:
- 1st place vocal unit: 2,500 points each for the unit's members' respective groups
- 2nd place vocal unit: 1,500 points each for the unit's members' respective groups
- 3rd place vocal unit: 500 points each for the unit's members' respective groups
- Performance unit points, the member with the most votes gets the full 2,500 points for her group and the points of the remaining members would be calculated in proportion to the 1st placed member
Part 2: Fan-dora's Box
- For this part, each act can get a maximum of 10,000 points and in the following distribution:
- Audience Judge Squad: 7,000 points
- *Special Judge Squad: 2,000 points
- Self-assessment from the other Queendom acts: 1,000 points
- The audience and the special judges will watch all six performances and after that each of them can only vote for two acts.
- The act that receives the most votes from the Special Judge Squad will have all 2,000 points secured to themselves.
- For the self-assessment from the other Queendom acts, every act has to vote for an act that they believed to have performed better than them and an act they believed to have performed worse than them. A hidden rule is that an act can choose not to vote (usually) for an act that is better than them.
* Special Judge Squad changes every preliminary round. This round the squad were housewives singing club members.
Finale Live Comeback Stages
The six acts will each perform a newly produced song live on the final episode.
- The 1st placed act from the 3rd preliminary performances gets to arrange the cue sheet for the final stages.
- For this round, each act can get a maximum of 50,000 points, all the points based on the text message votes from the general public and there will not be any live audience voting.
- The act with the most votes gets 50,000 points and the points of the remaining acts would be calculated in proportion to the numbers of votes received to the number of votes received by the 1st place act.
Review: Honestly, I was very excited about this but kind of disappointed with the show. I love the performance, but its the lineup. I love each of them truly trust me, I really do, but I think the whole entire solo vs the group is a disappointment. If anything, I love the cover song performance the most just because we don't get to see that happening now.
Image Credit: Queendom, Lee Da Hee and Jang Sung Kyu, Mamamoo, AOA, Park Bom, (G)I-DLE, Lovelyz, and Oh My Girl.
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