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We’ve hit another ranking announcement episode, which means I will forgo a longer recap in favor of a quick summary. This week’s episode is over three hours long and I just can’t do that. In contrast, I’m currently going back to watch Universe League (love it!) and that show manages to crank out the ranking announcements in about twenty minutes at the end of a two hour episode that also contains performances and behind the scenes material. It’s super engaging. That’s the way to do it, producers!

In addition to the ranking announcement, there’s a “haunted hospital” variety content this week and some behind the scenes material for next week’s performances, but let’s be honest we all know the important things will be recapped/extended on the next episode.

Top Eight Ranks

If the group were announced today, here are the members:
1. Lee Sangwon (=)
2. Zhou Anxin (=)
3. Lee Leo (↑ 2)
4. He Xinlong (↑ 5)
5. Kim Junseo (↓ 1)
6. Chung Sanghyeon (↓ 3)
7. Kim Geonwoo (↑ 9)
8. Yoo Kangmin (↓ 1)

A couple changes since the last ranking, with Masato and Chuei Liyu falling out of the top eight and Kim Geonwoo and He Xinlong entering. To my mind, it seems the top three are almost guaranteed to debut but strange things have happened during final voting before so we’ll see.

Eliminations

Notable eliminations this round were VERIVERY’s Gyehyeon (this should help Kangmin’s votes, I’d assume), DRIPPIN’s Dongyun (I hope this at least gets DRIPPIN more attention) and NINE.i’s Seowon.