Kingdom: Legendary War

**Kingdom: Legendary War** was a 2021 South Korean reality television program on Mnet, hosted by TVXQ.

The show served as the male version of *Queendom*. In 2020, a preliminary show titled *Road to Kingdom* was aired. It aired from April 1, 2021 to June 3, 2021.

It featured established boy groups competing against each other in order to determine "the real number one". BTOB, iKON, SF9, THE BOYZ, Stray Kids, and ATEEZ will all take part in the competition.

Stray Kids was announced as the winner of Kingdom on the tenth episode.

## About the Show

*Six idol groups have gathered to show off their skills and talent to the world. ATEEZ, THE BOYZ, Stray Kids, iKON, BTOB, and SF9 prepared performances for the introduction stage. Stay tuned to watch their stellar performances.*

## Contestants

**BTOB****iKON****SF9****THE BOYZ****Stray Kids****ATEEZ**

## Rounds

The overall final ranking of the show is based on the following criteria:

1. Self-evaluation points (25%)
2. Experts' voting (25%)
3. Global voting (40%)
4. Performance video view count (10%)

### Preliminary Round: **"Introduction Stage"**

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 introduction performances will be streamed live through Mnet's YouTube channel on February 23, 2021. Voting for the round started after the live stream and closed on February 27, 2021 at 23:59 (KST). Viewers will vote their top 3 groups through the Whosfan app.
The winning boy group for this round will get 1,000 points, plus the benefit of arranging the cue sheet for the next round of performances.

**Miroh**
Stray Kids
1st Place**The Stealer (Epic version)**
THE BOYZ
2nd Place**Beautiful Pain (Choir version)**
BTOB
3rd Place**Good Guy (The Glory)**
SF9
4th Place**Wave: Overture**
ATEEZ
5th Place**Rhythm Ta (Kingdom version)**
iKON
6th Place

### 1st Round: **"To The World"**

Rules
* Voting via the Whosfan app for the round started from April 15 at 22:00 (KST) and closed on April 18 at 23:59 (KST). Viewers will vote for their top 3 performances.
* Experts' votes come from 30 professional judges, and each judge will have 3 votes to cast.
* For self-evaluation, each boy group will hold 3 votes, and will vote for other boy groups other than their own group.
* The winning boy group for this round will get 20,000 points.

**Jasin (Oneself 'Ja', Ghost 'Sin')**
Stray Kids
1st Place**Symphony No.9 (From the Wonderland)**
ATEEZ
2nd Place**No Air (A Song of Ice and Fire)**
THE BOYZ
3rd Place**Missing You (Theatre version)**
BTOB
4th Place**Love Scenario & Killing Me (Kingdom version)**
iKON
5th Place**Jealous**
SF9
6th Place

### 2nd Round: **"RE-BORN"**

Rules
* Voting via the Whosfan app for the round started from April 29 at 22:00 (KST) and closes on May 2 at 23:59 (KST). Viewers will vote for their top 3 performances.
* Views will only be counted for the first three days after the full versions of performances are released on Mnet's official YouTube channel.

**Rhythm Ta (The Awakening of Summer)**
ATEEZ
1st Place**Back Door**
BTOB
2nd Place**The Stealer (The Scene)**
SF9
3rd Place**Pray (I'll Be Your Man) (Stray Kids Ver.)**"
Stray Kids
4th Place**Inception (iKON ver.)**
iKON
5th Place**O Sole Mio (The Red Wedding)**
THE BOYZ
6th Place

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

Rules
The 3rd Stage of the competition is divided into two rounds. The first round involves the six individual groups being sorted into two larger teams (selected by ATEEZ, the highest scoring team in the "Reborn" Round's Evaluation & Self-Assessment). Each large team then divides its members into three smaller units-a dance unit, a vocal unit, and a rap unit, based on each individual idol's specialty. The corresponding units in each group will go head over three rounds- dance, vocal, and rap. The winning group in each of the three rounds will earn 5000 points, which will be evenly distributed. The awarding of points is solely based on which group won each round. A total of 15,000 points are up for grabs.
The second part of the 3rd Stage will be back in individual groups, with a total of 25000 points to be distributed, in the same way as the other rounds. However, for the idol group's self-assessment, each group can only vote for two teams, instead of three in previous rounds.
* For Part 1 of this round, 33 special judges are invited to judge the performances and each will have 1 vote. The special judges include Super Junior members Shindong & Donghae, producer and CEO of Brand New Music Rhymer, idol hitmaker Shinsadong Tiger, music critic Kim Young-dae, song production team MonoTree, choreographer Lia Kim and idol group members of BDC, Weeekly, Tri.be and Mirae.

#### Rap Unit

**Colours (물감놀이)**
Mayfly Rap Unit
Won**Full DaSH**
It's One Rap Unit
Lost

Points Summary
 Mayfly | Lee Minhyuk (BTOB)
 Hongjoong (ATEEZ)

#### Dance Unit

**EXO - Wolf**
Mayfly Dance Unit
Won**King and Queen (王과 妃 (왕과 비))**
It's One Dance Unit
Lost

Points Summary
 Mayfly | Peniel (BTOB)
 ATEEZ (Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Wooyoung)

#### Vocal Unit

**IU - Love Poem**
Mayfly Vocal Unit
Won**Taeyeon - Spark**
It's One Vocal Unit
Lost

Points Summary
 Mayfly | Seo Eunkwang (BTOB)
 Jongho (ATEEZ)

### 3rd Round (Part 2): **"NO LIMIT"**

**God's DDU-DU DDU-DU**
Stray Kids
1st Place**Move**
SF9
2nd Place**Classy Savage**
iKON
3rd Place**Monster (Stormborn)**
THE BOYZ
4th Place**Blue Moon (Cinema Ver.)**
BTOB
5th Place**Answer : Ode to Joy**
ATEEZ
6th Place

### Final Round: **"Who Is The King"**

Rules
* Voting for this round includes live text votes for voters living in South Korea, and through Whosfan app for overseas fans.
* Digitals rankings will be determined via Gaon Music Chart for South Korea, and via Apple Music for overseas, from the time of release to June 1, 2021.

**Wolfgang**
Stray Kids
1st Place**Kingdom Come**
THE BOYZ
2nd Place**The Real**
ATEEZ
3rd Place**Show and Prove**
BTOB
4th Place**At Ease**
iKON
5th Place**Believer**
SF9
6th Place

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Member Rowoon did not perform due to his waist injury.
2. ↑ Lisa of BLACKPINK joined as a guest performer.
3. ↑ Miyeon of (G)I-DLE joined as a guest performer.
4. ↑ La Poem joined as a guest performer.
5. ↑ Member Rowoon did not perform with the group.
6. ↑ Member Younghoon did not perform with the group.