K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance
The sixth and final season of the South Korean reality television competition show "K-pop Star", also branded as "K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance", that premiered in SBS on November 20, 2016, until April 9, 2017. It aired every Sunday evenings as part of the "Good Sunday" lineup. Yang Hyun-suk, Park Jin-young, and You Hee-yeol will return as judges. Changes to the format have been made to the final season, with restrictions lifted for potential contestants to encourage anyone to participate in "the last chance" to become a  K-pop Star. Existing trainees of companies as well as singers who have already debuted are allowed to participate. The winner of the final season will not choose which company to debut with, but instead will be jointly debuted and promoted by all three companies (YG, JYP, Antenna). Battle Audition. Contestants represent the company they were cast to in a 1 to 1 to 1 battle. First place automatically gets to be in the Top 10, while 3rd place is eliminated. Contestants who finish in 2nd place battle the other contestants who finished 2nd place. Anyone who does not get  in the Top 10 teams/contestants is eliminated. For trainees, the winner team advances to Top 10 and lose team joined other contestants in 2nd place for rematch individually.