WATCH: 'QueendomPuzzle' Kicks Off 1st Battle With Fierce Performances
and Wooyeon; H1-KEY’s Riina and Hwiseo; Rocket Punch’s Suyun, Yeonhee, and Takahashi Juri; former BNK48 member Fye ; and former “Produce 48” contestant and NMB48 member Shiroma Miru. Former IZ*ONE member Lee Chae Yeon and LABOUM’s Haein also participated in the show’s first battle, but both idolsOn June 13, the program aired its highly-anticipated premiere, which began with the contestants arriving one by one and being directed to their assigned seats.
Host Taeyeon then took the stage to introduce the first round of competition: the “Up-Down Battle.” Taeyeon explained that the contestants had been divided into four tiers based on their popularity and success within their groups—and that they had been seated according to those tiers. The tiers were calculated based 50 percent on each contestant’s number of music show wins and 50 percent on their highest first-week album sales to date .
However, all was not lost for those in the lower-ranking tiers. Taeyeon went on to reveal that these initial tiers would be meaningless once the competition began—and that they would be reorganized based on the contestants’ individual results from the Up-Down Battle. In the Up-Down Battle, each contestant took the stage to perform by herself, and the other 27 contestants would vote either “Up” or “Down” while watching her performance. If they thought the performer was better than them, they would vote “Up,” and if they thought the performer was worse than them, they would vote “Down.”Spoilers
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