Watch: "Kingdom" Reveals Results Of Fan Vote + Kicks Off Cover Battle With Epic Performances

Apr 22, 2021

The competition is heating up on Mnet’s “Kingdom: Legendary War”!

On April 22, the idol competition show revealed the fan voting results from Round 1—and kicked off Round 2 with several jaw-dropping performances.

Spoilers

The episode began with hosts TVXQ informing the contestants that the theme of the second official round of competition was “Re-Born,” meaning that they were tasked with covering and reinterpreting a song by one of the other groups.

As ATEEZ took first place in both the contestants’ votes and expert judges’ evaluations in the first round, they were given the opportunity to choose the group with whom they wanted to swap songs—and after a brief discussion, they chose iKON. Stray Kids, who came in second place in the two categories, selected BTOB. Finally, THE BOYZ and SF9 were automatically paired up with one another.

On the day of the battle, each of the pairs of groups performed back-to-back, with SF9 and THE BOYZ up first, iKON and ATEEZ next, and BTOB and Stray Kids last. SF9 added a cinematic twist to THE BOYZ’s “The Stealer,” THE BOYZ lit up the stage with SF9’s “O Sole Mio,” and iKON put their own spin on ATEEZ’s “Inception.”

Check out the first three performances of the round below!

SF9 – THE BOYZ’s “The Stealer”

THE BOYZ – SF9’s “O Sole Mio”

iKON – ATEEZ’s “Inception”

ATEEZ’s cover of iKON’s “Rhythm Ta,” BTOB’s cover of Stray Kids’ “Back Door,” and Stray Kids’ cover of BTOB’s “I’ll Be Your Man” will be revealed on next week’s episode of “Kingdom,” which airs on April 29.

At the very end of the episode, “Kingdom” also unveiled the second half of the results from Round 1.

As previously announced, the “Kingdom” contestants will be awarded points over the course of the competition based on the following criteria: votes by the six competing groups (25 percent), evaluations by a panel of 30 experts (25 percent), domestic and global fan votes (40 percent), and video view count (10 percent).

Last week, “Kingdom” revealed the results of the votes by the six competing groups and the evaluations by the panel of expert judges, which add up to a total of 50 percent of the contestants’ scores. After tallying domestic and global fan votes and video view counts this week, the show revealed the rankings for all four categories.

The full results for Round 1, as seen in the chart below, are as follows:

Expert Panel Evaluations (25 percent)