Episode 3

## Summary

The trainees react to the first episode along with Lee Dongwook and Gong Yoo.

The trainees moved to their new groups, after which the new A class competed for the center position in "We are your Dreamgirls (Pick Me)".

Each of the individual trainee was given one minute to appeal to the lower classes, who proceed to vote for their center pick. Then they combined the results with the poll where the National Producers had voted. Three trainees from 'A' Class made the cut-off, Kim Sejeong of JYP Entertainment, Sato Akari of AKB48, and Amanda Pang of "AP" Media Entertainment. Amanda Pang won and was therefore chosen to be the center of the performance. After rehearsing several times, they performed at M! Countdown. After the live performance on M Countdown, the girls had their first meeting with Gong Yoo, Lee Dongwook, Yoo Inna, Kim Heechul, Kim Goeun, Yook Sungjae, and Hirai Momo, the national producer representatives for the season. Gong Yoo, Lee Dongwook, Yoo Inna, Kim Heechul, Kim Goeun, Yook Sungjae, and Hirai Momo then announced the trainees' second mission - the group battle evaluation. 20 teams of 20 trainees are formed to compete for 10 songs of the 22 given songs - BLACKPINK's "Whistle", Red Velvet's "Happiness", AOA's "Like A Cat (Japanese Version)", BNK48's "Aitakatta (อยากจะได้พบเธอ)" , GFriend's "Me Gustas Tu (JPN Version)", BEJ48's "The Awakening", GNZ48's "YOU DON’T KNOW ME", AKB48 Team TP's "【勇往直前】官方完整", SGO48's "Koisuru Fortune Cookie - Thất Tình Tích Cực", and I.O.I's "Dream Girls".

The songs that were left from the 22 songs are: Pledis Girlz/PRISTIN's "WEE WOO", (G)-IDLE's "LATATA", EXID's "Up And Down (Japanese Version", Rocket Girls  101's "Light", MAMAMOO's "Mr. Ambiguous", Dream Catcher's "Chase Me", Popu Lady's "Keep Keep Loving", CGM48's "Chiang Mai 106", SGirls' "Tự Tin (Wake Up)", LIME's "Take It Slow", Rose Quartz's "Ra Pa Pam Pam", and S.H.E's "Beauty Up My Life". As the center, Amanda Pang was given the privilege of being the first team founder, with the rest of the team founders chosen through a random draw from all the other 36 Class A trainees.

The remaining trainees choose their team that they wanted to be in. The 20 team founders then competed for songs through a foot race. The 10 teams who managed to secure a song were able to choose their desired opponent from the losing teams. The episode continued with the groups practicing and assigning positions such as leader, center, main vocal, etc. Each song was then performed live by the two groups, with each individual being voted on separately by the audience. The winning team was determined by combining the group's individual votes. 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. Ranks 1-363 would advance to the next round, while 364 and below were eliminated from the competition. Only the two teams performing "Whistle" were shown performing this week.

## Performances

Some of the performance were performed on episode 3, and the rest were on episode 4 and 5. This is a complete list of this challenge's performances. For a list that includes the vote count, visit the Group Battle Evaluation page.

## Ranks

\**This is only the top 19 of the episode.*