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Guys… this new episode is almost three hours long and all they’re doing is announcing rankings. I’m not watching all that. Sorry, even I have my limits.

However, I figure there are readers who would still appreciate a space to discuss this episode and particularly the trainees who were saved or eliminated. So, here are some important stats to keep us all going until next week’s episode.

Top Eight Ranks

If the group were announced today, here are the members:
1. Lee Sang-won
2. Zhou Anxin
3. Chung Sang-hyeon
4. Kim Jun-seo
5. Lee Leo
6. Chuei Li-yu
7. Yoo Kang-min
8. Masato
Not much change from the last voting results, honestly. Notably, we’ve got VERIVERY’s Kangmin in there, along with 1THE9’s Junseo and those two popular “Trainee A” guys (Sangwon and Lee Leo).

Eliminations

Notable eliminations this round were VERIVERY’s Dongheon (a little shocked about this), MCND’s Bang Junhyuk, Song Minjae & Noh Huijun, DKB’s Yang Heechan, WHIB’s Moon Wonjun, and Yusen (that guy with the regretful Rising Sun vocal)

Other Notes

In between eliminations, the guys also had a dance battle hosted by ZEROBASEONE’s Gunwook (apparently! I’ll never see it…)

They also teased the original songs for next week. These have grown duller each year and this new crop sounds quite bad. None of the tracks stand out to me based on these previews. Remember the days of Never? That was a banger! (embedded below for nostalgia)

Never