Road to Kingdom

**Road to Kingdom** was a 2020 reality television program on Mnet, hosted by Lee Da-hee and Jang Sung-kyu.

It premiered on April 30 to June 18, 2020. It is known as the first part of the male counterpart of **Queendom**, and the prequel of **Kingdom: Legendary War**.

THE BOYZ became the winner of the competition, hence securing a spot in the upcoming program **Kingdom: Legendary War**.

## About the Show

*The popular survival K-pop idol show is back. This time, it is with boy groups that make women’s hearts flutter whenever they dance and sing. Regardless of their experience, they will compete in a cutthroat competition to seize the throne of the Kingdom. To do so, they must put on performances that will blow the audience away. To make it more competitive, new rules have been introduced to the contest, and the contestants are shocked by how brutal it has become. Those who fall behind will be eliminated and be kicked out. Don’t miss out on the great performances!*

## Contestants

**PENTAGON****ONF****Golden Child****THE BOYZ****ONEUS****VERIVERY****TO1**
(competed as TOO)

## Rounds

### Preliminary Round: "**90 Seconds Performances**"

Rules
There is no order decided before the performances - the order is decided on the spot. The first performing boy group is decided by the boy group that volunteers themselves first. After the first boy group has performed, they will decide on the second performing boy group, and the second boy group that has performed will then decide on the third performing boy group. The process goes on until all performances have been completed.
The round's points are entirely decided through a self-evaluation where each boy group will rank the other boy groups' performances from 1st to 6th.
* 1st place: 100 points
* 2nd place: 80 points
* 3rd place: 60 points
* 4th place: 40 points
* 5th place: 20 points
* 6th place: 5 points

Each boy group would receive self-evaluation points from the other 6 boy groups, and they will be added up to become the round's total points obtained for the boy group. This will, however, be not included in the overall points for the show.

"**Sword of Victory**"
THE BOYZ
1st Place"**Road to the Throne**"
PENTAGON
2nd Place"**FACE it**"
VERIVERY
3rd Place"**Beginning**"
Golden Child
4th Place"**Lights on**"
ONF
5th Place"**Phantom of ONEUS**"
ONEUS
6th Place"**Into the dysTOOpia**"
TOO
7th Place

### 1st Round: **"Song of King"**

Rules
* The 1st placed boy group for the 90 Seconds Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances.
* The round's points are entirely decided through a self-evaluation, where each boy group's members will rank the other boy groups' performances from 1st to 6th.
	+ 1st place: 100 points
	+ 2nd place: 80 points
	+ 3rd place: 60 points
	+ 4th place: 40 points
	+ 5th place: 20 points
	+ 6th place: 5 points
* As ONF and ONEUS each have only 6 members, the remaining 5 boy groups will each send 6 of their members to vote for this round. (Total of 42 boy group members voting in this round)
* Each boy group would receive self-evaluation points from the other 6 boy groups' 36 members, and they will be added up to become the round's total points obtained for the boy group.
* The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their self-evaluation points to the self-evaluation points of the 1st placed boy group.

"**Danger**"
THE BOYZ
(orig. Taemin)
1st Place"**Very Good**"
PENTAGON
(orig. Block B)
2nd Place"**Everybody**"
ONF
(orig. SHINee)
3rd Place"**Rising Sun**"
TOO
(orig. TVXQ)
4th Place"**T.O.P**"
Golden Child
(orig. Shinhwa)
5th Place"**Mansae**"
VERIVERY
(orig. SEVENTEEN)
6th Place"**Warrior's Descendant**"
ONEUS
(orig. H.O.T)
7th Place

### 2nd Round: **"My Song"**

Rules
* The 1st placed boy group for the 1st Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances. However, the other boy groups do not find out their own spots, nor the ones of the others, in the cue sheet until the day of the performances.
* The round's points are decided through 2 categories:
	+ Self-evaluation that was used for the 1st Performances voting, where each boy group would receive points from the other 6 boy groups' 36 members. (30% of the points for this round)
	+ Online audience votes from 140 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual only gets to vote for the top 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round)
* The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their total points obtained to the total points obtained for the 1st placed boy group.

"**REVEAL (Catching Fire)**"
THE BOYZ
1st Place"**LIT**"
ONEUS
2nd Place"**The We Must Love**"
ONF
3rd Place"**PHOTO**"
VERIVERY
4th Place"**Shine**" + "**Spring Snow**"
PENTAGON
5th Place"**Magnolia**"
TOO
6th Place"**WANNABE**"
Golden Child
7th Place

### 3rd Round (Part 1): **"Collaboration"**

Rules
* The 3 pairs of boy groups were matched by random picking of one boy group, followed by random picking of the next boy group to be paired with the boy group picked earlier on. The process goes on to form the remaining 2 pairs.
* There are no restrictions in the number of members each boy group would involve and their song choices.
* The round's points are decided through 2 categories:
	+ Self-evaluation, where each boy group will send 6 members (total of 36 boy group members voting) and rank the 3 collaboration performances. (30% of the points for this round)
	+ Online audience votes from 120 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual ranks the 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round)
	+ 1st place - 10 points, 2nd place - 5 points, 3rd place - 1 point
* The 1st placed collaboration performance gets the full 5,000 points each for the boy groups involved, 3,000 each for the boy groups involved in the 2nd placed collaboration performance, and 1,000 each for the boy groups involved in the 3rd placed collaboration performance.

"**Kill This Love**"
Just ON
(orig. BLACKPINK)
1st Place"**ON**"
Maknae on TOP
(orig. BTS)
2nd Place"**Heroine**"
One Voice
(orig. Sunmi)
3rd Place

Points Summary
 2
 3

### 3rd Round (Part 2): **"Your Song"**

Rules
* The 6 remaining boy groups each pick a song, with no restriction, for this round.
* The songs chosen will each then be allocated to another boy group, but only within the pairings that were formed for the Collaboration round.
* The 1st placed boy group for the 2nd Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances. However, the other boy groups do not find out their own spots, nor the ones of the others, in the cue sheet until the day of the performances.
* The round's points are decided through 2 categories:
	+ Self-evaluation, where each boy group will send 6 members (total of 36 boy group members voting). (30% of the points for this round)
	+ Online audience votes from 120 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual would only vote for the top 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round)
* The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their total points obtained to the total points obtained for the 1st placed boy group.

"**It's Raining**"
ONF
(orig. Rain)
1st Place"**Shangri-La (Quasi una fantasia)**"
THE BOYZ
(orig. VIXX)
2nd Place"**gogobebe**"
VERIVERY
(orig. Mamamoo)
3rd Place"**Be Mine**"
ONEUS
(orig. INFINITE)
4th Place"**Follow (PENTAGON Ver.)**"
PENTAGON
(orig. Monsta X)
5th Place"**Hard Carry**"
TOO
(orig. GOT7)
6th Place

#### Second Elimination

 2nd
 3rd
 4th
 5th
 6th

### Final Round: **"Live Comeback Stages"**

Rules
* For this round, live votes will be allocated in the following distribution:
	+ Domestic fans' text message votes (70% of the live votes)
	+ International fans' voting through the Whosfan application (30% of the live votes)
* In addition, the following categories are also considered to decide the final winner:
	+ Total points accumulated in the Performances prior to the finale (except for the 90 Seconds Performances)
	+ View counts of the performance videos on YouTube and Naver TV
	+ Digital points of the Comeback Singles calculated (from time of release to June 16, 2020, at 23:59 (KST))

"**CHECKMATE**"
THE BOYZ
1st Place"**New World**"
ONF
2nd Place"**Basquiat**"
PENTAGON
3rd Place"**COME BACK HOME**"
ONEUS
4th Place"**Beautiful-x**"
VERIVERY
5th Place

## Notes

1. ↑ Last performance to feature member Jinho.
2. ↑ YooA of Oh My Girl joined as a guest performer.
3. ↑ Remix of songs "We Must Love" and "Moscow Moscow".
4. ↑ Members Hui, Kino and Wooseok.
5. ↑ Members Hyojin, J-Us and Wyatt.
6. ↑ Members Sangyeon, Juyeon, New, Q and Sunwoo.