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Former I.O.I members, Jeon Somi and Kim Chungha, hosted a dance battle, where in AKB48's Goto Moe was crowned the "Dancing Queen". Lee Seunggi gave words of advice to the girls. HKT48's Yabuki Nako took first place, and was further revealed to have taken first place overall as her team won the group battle. After all of the performances, the contestants were shown their ranking based purely on their individual live votes without the benefit. The rehearsals and performances of the remaining 14 teams were shown. Only the two teams performing "Love Whisper" were shown performing this week. Ranks 1-58 would advance to the next round, while 59 and below were eliminated from the competition. Members from the winning group received a benefit of 1000 votes each, which would be added to their online votes for the first ranking announcement. The winning team was determined by combining the group's individual votes. Each song was then performed live by the two groups, with each individual being voted on separately by the audience. The episode continued with the groups practicing and assigning positions such as leader, center, main vocal, etc.
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The 8 teams who managed to secure a song were able to choose their desired opponent from the losing teams. The team founders then competed for songs through a foot race. As the center, Miyawaki Sakura was given the privilege of picking her team first, with the rest of the team founders chosen through a random draw.
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16 teams of 5-6 members are formed to compete for 8 given songs - AOA's "Short Hair", Red Velvet's "Peek-a-Boo", GFriend's "Love Whisper", I.O.I's "Very Very Very", Blackpink's "Boombayah", AKB48's "High Tension", Kara's "Mamma Mia" (JPN Ver.), and Twice's "Like OOH-AHH" (JPN Ver.). Lee Seunggi then announced the trainees' second mission - the group battle evaluation. After the live performance on M Countdown, the girls had their first meeting with Lee Seunggi, the national producer representative for the season. HKT48's Miyawaki Sakura was chosen to be the center. Each individual trainee was given one minute to appeal to the lower classes, who proceed to vote for their center pick. The trainees moved to their new groups, after which the new A class competed for the center position in "You're Mine (Pick Me)". The episode ended with an A class trainee being moved down to F, a first in the show's history. The girls were then given their new grades and asked to move into their new practice rooms. Each video was then watched and evaluated by the mentors. The trainees filmed themselves performing the song individually - once in Korean and once in Japanese. The trainees were given three days to memorize the choreography and the lyrics to both versions of the song, after which they underwent a re-evaluation and had their grades reassigned. Their line distribution and positioning on stage was determined by their grades, with A having the most singing lines while F were backup dancers. At the end, the popularity ranking was shown with HKT48's Miyawaki Sakura taking 1st place.Īfter the contestants were grouped according to their grades, the mentors announced that they will be performing on M Countdown with Produce 48 's theme song " You're Mine (Pick Me)", which has a Korean and a Japanese version. Each individual was given a letter grade from A to F based on their overall talents, organizing them into temporary classes for training. The contestants then performed in front of the mentors for evaluation. They revealed that top producers Han Sungsoo and Akimoto Yasushi would be involved in producing the debut album of the final group, which would be composed of 12 members this year instead of 11. After all 96 girls were seated, Jeon Somi and Kang Daniel, the first place winners of the past two seasons, entered as special MC's to explain the rules of the competition. Each contestant was introduced according to their company or group, with their self-predicted rankings shown on a monitor above the stage. The contestants entered the studio, where seats were arranged in a pyramid numbered from 1 to 96. See: Season 3 Contestants Episodes Episode 1 Members of the group will be able to promote under their own agencies concurrently, much like the first season. They adopted the AKB48's concept of "idols you can meet and greet" and will perform in their own theater. They were brought together to form a group that will promote for two and a half years. Produce 48 brought together 96 trainees, of which 39 girls are idols from Japanese idol group AKB48 and its sister groups and 57 girls are trainees from different companies in South Korea.