Street Woman Fighter
Street Woman Fighter (), often abbreviated as SWF, is a South Korean dance survival program that premiered on Mnet on August 24, 2021 and aired every Tuesday at 22:20 KST. It revolved around eight female dance crews fighting for the position of Korea's best female dance crew to represent K-Dance. The winning crew (HolyBang) received million, a sponsorship deal with Budweiser, and the Street Woman Fighter Trophy. A season two was confirmed with all male participants and to be titled "Street Man Fighter". Cast. The program is presented by Kang Daniel. The dance judges are: Contestants . Color key: Episodes. Exclusive Preview (August 18, 2021). Released on the Mnet TV YouTube channel on August 18, 2021. All participating crews are introduced while they enter into their separate rooms. Each crew produces a personal ranking of all participating crews which is shown to each crew. Each crew are called to the main lobby where they are shown a video of their impressions from other participating crews and then seated at their designated area. Each dancer also selects the person that they think is the weakest dancer, and the selected person receives a "No Respect" Sticker. The exclusive preview  ends with a preview of the first episode where Kang Daniel explains the first mission; various dance battle previews can be seen along with reactions from Kang Daniel, the participants, and the judges. Episode 1 (August 24, 2021). The first part of the episode is the same as the exclusive preview with the introductions of the crews, personal rankings, impression videos, and "No Respect" selection. Kang Daniel introduces the judges and explains the first mission, Battle of the Underdog: a dance battle between two participants where one calls out another they think they are better than. The episode ends with  the a preview of the battle between HolyBang leader Honey J and CocaNButter leader Rihey, who used to be in the same dance crew but disbanded. Episode 2 (August 31, 2021). The first mission continues starting with a battle between LACHICA's Rian and WAYB leader Noze. YGX and CocaNButter were tied with the same amount of wins in the final rankings and so YGX leader Leejung had a tiebreaker battle against CocaNButter's Bicki in which YGX was ultimately declared the winner of the first mission. They were given access to the penthouse as the prize. The second mission , the Rank Mission, was announced: each leader select five dancers including themselves to represent their crew in each rank (Leader Rank, Second Rank, Sub Rank, Assist Rank). Each rank would only have one main dancer, chosen by the judges while the rest will be backup dancers. Each member of each rank made a short choreography to be used in the main dancer evaluation which was voted on by the members of the rank. The main dancer evaluation begins with the Assist Rank in which PROWDMON's HYEILY was chosen. The episode ends with the Leader Rank evaluation with WAYB's  NOZE being chosen. Episode 3 (September 7, 2021). The second mission continues starting with the main dancer evaluation for the Sub rank. Instead of one dancer from each team, there are two and both members from one team will be the main dancers. WANT's Emma and Moana were selected as the main dancers. LACHICA's Rian is chosen as main dancer for the Second rank. The choreography video recording is then shown for each rank followed by the choreography video itself. After the choreography video is shown, the main dancer then picks the Worst Dancer in their rank. The  chosen Worst Dancers are: PROWDMON's Monika from the Leader Rank, HolyBang's Jane from the Second Rank, YGX's Jihyo and Yeojin from the Sub Rank, and HOOK's Yoonkyung Seon from the Assist Rank. The chosen Worst Dancers can choose another dancer in their rank who they think is the Worst Dancer to battle, excluding the Main Dancer. The loser, chosen by the remaining dancers, becomes the Worst Dancer for their rank. The chosen battlers are: HolyBang's Honey J from the Leader Rank, WAYB's Leesu from the Second Rank, HOOK's Born and Hyowoo from the  Sub Ranks, and WANT's Lee Chaeyeon from the Assist Class. The final Worst Dancers are: HolyBang's Honey J, WAYB's Leesu, YGX's Yeojin and Jihyo, and WANT's Lee Chaeyeon. The third mission was announced as the 4 Queens of K-Pop Mission where two crews will battle against each other using the same songs. PROWDMON was chosen by the judges as the MVP Crew and thus are allowed to create the matchup bracket for the third mission, choosing which crews battle each other with whose song. It was also announced that a crew will be eliminated  after the next mission. Episode 4 (September 14, 2021). The third mission begins with a showdown between PROWDMON and WAYB with a special video evaluation appearance from CL, whose songs the two crews are using. The performance videos are shown and the fight judges' scores are revealed with PROWDMON coming out on top. The next battle is between CocaNButter and HOOK who are performing to Hyuna's songs. HOOK wins this round. The next battle is between LACHICA and HolyBang, performing to Jessi's song with a special video evaluation appearance of the latter and Psy. LACHICA wins. The last  battle is between YGX and WANT performing to fight judge BoA's songs. YGX wins. After all the fight judges' scores are revealed, the final score is calculated with the Global Popular Vote Score and the Main Dancer and Worst Dancer scores from the last mission. YGX, PROWDMON, LACHICA, and HOOK win their matchup while WANT, WAYB, HolyBang, and CocaNButter are up for elimination. It is announced that two teams will battle it out with the loser being eliminated. CocaNButter is automatically placed in the battle having the lowest overall score. The second team is chosen by YGX, who had  the highest overall score. WANT cannot be chosen and is safe from elimination because they had the highest scores among those who lost. YGX chooses WAYB. CocaNButter faces off against WAYB in a best-of-five dance battle in a similar style to the first mission. CocaNButter comes out on top and WAYB is eliminated. Episode 5 (September 28, 2021). The episode starts with the 7 surviving crews enjoying a pool party on the penthouse. Afterwards, each crew went to their respective hideout where the fourth mission, the Mega Crew Mission, is introduced. Each crew will create and perform  a choreography with a minimum of 25 performers who must be recruited personally by each crew. Weki Meki's Choi Yoo-jung, Loona's Yves, and Lee Young-ji appear as guest performers with WANT. Girls' Generation's Sooyoung appears as a guest performer with HOOK. The performances and Judges' scores of LACHICA, HolyBang, CocaNButter, PROWDMON, and HOOK were shown in this episode. Episode 6 (October 5, 2021). The Mega Crew Mission continues with the performances and Judges' scores for YGX and WANT being revealed. The Global Popular Vote Scores for all the crews are revealed and added to their  Judges' scores to calculate the final scores. HolyBang wins this mission with the highest overall score. The three crews with the lowest scores, LACHICA, CocaNButter, and WANT, are nominated for elimination. It is announced that two teams will battle it out with the loser being eliminated. LACHICA is automatically placed in the battle having the lowest overall score. The second team is chosen by HolyBang, who had the highest overall score. HolyBang chooses WANT. LACHICA faces off against WANT in a best-of-seven dance battle. After an intense battle, LACHICA comes out on top and WANT is eliminated. The  next mission, the P Nation Choreography Mission, is revealed in which each crew will make a choreography for P Nation artist Jessi's new song "Cold Blooded". Jessi makes a guest appearance to announce the song. Episode 7 (October 12, 2021). The semifinal round is revealed to be 2 missions which scores will be combined. It is also revealed that only 4 crews will be in the finals, meaning that 2 crews will be eliminated for this round. The first mission is the Jessi Choreography Mission. Each crew will make a choreography for Jessi's new single "Cold Blooded" and  Jessi and Psy will pick the best choreography. Each team's choreography is shown and Jessi and Psy pick YGX's choreography as the best one. YGX will receive extra points and will have to opportunity to direct the music video. All crews participate in the music video. The second mission is the Men of Women Mission, where each crew must recruit male dancers and create a mixed choreography. 2AM's Jo Kwon appears as a guest dancer with LACHICA. Jay Park appears as a guest dancer with HolyBang. The performances and Judges' scores of LACHICA, HOOK, and CocaNButter were  shown in this episode. Episode 8 (October 19, 2021). The Men of Women Mission continues with the performances and Judges' scores for HolyBang, PROWDMON and YGX being revealed. The Global Popular Vote Scores for all the crews are revealed and added to their Judges' scores in addition to the Jessi Choreography Mission score to calculate the final scores. HOOK, HolyBang, and CocaNButter have the three highest scores and move onto the final round. YGX and LACHICA placed 4th and 5th and were nominated for elimination. PROWDMON had the lowest score and was automatically eliminated. LACHICA faces off against YGX in  a best-of-five dance battle. After an intense battle, LACHICA comes out on top and YGX is eliminated. The finals is revealed to be another 2 part mission, the first being the Performance Sound Source Mission, where each crew will team up with an artist and create a new choreography to the artist's song, and the second being the Color of Crew Mission, where each crew will create and perform a choreography that shows off each crew's color. Episode 9 (October 26, 2021). This episode is the live finale of the program competition. The finals is composed  of two missions, the Performance Song Mission and the Color of Crew Mission. The winner will be decided based on the following criteria: 70% live voting + 30% Global Popular Vote. Audience members in attendance include the four crews eliminated in the previous episodes, YGX, PROWDMON, WANT, and WAYB. The four finalist dance crews, HolyBang, HOOK, LACHICA, and CocaNButter, started the finale off with a performance to "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande. The Performance Song Mission is the first mission to take place. In this mission, musical artists gift songs to the dance crews which will then create a performance  with the song. Chungha gifted "Bad Girl" to LACHICA. CL gifted "CAVIAR" to CocaNButter. Simon Dominic and Loco gifted "NO BREAK" to HolyBang. Sunmi gifted "Too young to die" to HOOK. In the Color of Crew Mission, each crew will create a performance that expresses the color of each crew. The performance order is LACHICA, CocaNButter, HolyBang, and finally HOOK. All the leaders of the crews gave a special performance of "Hey Mama" by David Guetta from the Rank Mission. During the winner's announcement, LACHICA and CocaNButter came in third and fourth respectively. HolyBang was announced as the winner  leaving HOOK as runner-up. Missions. Mission 1: Battle of the Underdog. Each dancer beforehand pointed out a dancer from an opposing team that they can beat in a one-on-one dance battle. The chosen dancer is given a "No Respect" Sticker for each time they are chosen. Color key: Mission 2: Rank Mission. Each crew leader chooses five members including themselves to be split into four ranks. Each rank will work together to create a dance video. Each rank will only have one main dancer which will be chosen by the judges. The rest will be back-up  dancers in the video. Each dancer in a rank will create a short choreography which will be voted on by the members of their rank. The chosen choreography will be the one used to determine the main dancer. The Worst Dancer chosen by the Main Dancer can choose another dancer except for the Main Dancer in their rank that they think is the Worst Dancer. The chosen dancer will have a dance battle with the nominated Worst Dancer. At the end of the battle, all the dancers of the crews except for those of the battlers will vote for the  Worst Dancer using a "Worst" token. The dancer with more "Worst" tokens is the Worst Dancer. Color key: Color key: PROWDMON was chosen as the MVP crew and will create the match-ups for the next mission. Mission 3: 4 Queens of K-Pop Mission. Two crews compete against each other using the same song from 4 Queens of K-Pop, leading female solo artists: BoA, CL, Jessi, and Hyuna. Each crew must also complete the Choreography Copy Challenge. The crew with the higher score for each battle wins and avoids elimination while the losing crew is nominated for elimination . Final scores are calculated as the sum of the "Fight Judges' Score" + "Global Popular Vote Score" + "Main Dancer Score" + "Worst Dancer Score" from the previous mission. Color key: As the losing crews, WANT, WAYB, HolyBang, and CocaNButter were chosen as candidates for elimination. CocaNButter was automatically placed in the elimination battle as a result of receiving the lowest score, and Want was excluded from selection as a result of receiving the highest score out of the 4 losing crews. The crew that ranked 1st, YGX, was given the power to choose their opponent out of the remaining  losing crews. WAYB was chosen as the second candidate for elimination. Mission 4: Mega Crew Mission. Crews will compete in a Mega Crew mission where each crew will create their own choreography and perform it with at minimum 25 performers including themselves. Crews must personally recruit their mega crew performers. Final scores are calculated as the sum of the "Fight Judges' Score" + "Global Popular Vote Score" As the 7th place team, LACHICA was automatically placed in the elimination battle. The crew that ranked 1st, HolyBang, was given the power to choose their opponent out of the remaining bottom 3  crews, WANT and CocaNButter. WANT was chosen as the second candidate for elimination. Mission 5: Jessi Choreography Mission. Each crew will create a new choreography for Jessi's new single "Cold Blooded". The crew whose choreography is chosen by Jessi and the crew whose choreography video receives the most likes will receive 100 extra points. Mission 6: Men of Women Mission. Each crew will be joined by male dancers and must create and perform an original choreography. Final scores are calculated as the sum of the "Fight Judges' Score" + "Global Popular Vote Score" + "Jessi Choreography Mission Score" from  the previous mission. As the lowest scoring crew, PROWDMON was automatically eliminated. YGX and LACHICA will have an elimination battle for the last spot in the finals as the 4th and 5th place crews. Mission 7: Performance Song Mission. Each crew will team up with an artist and create a performance to their song. Mission 8: Color of Crew Mission. Each crew will create a performance that shows the color of each crew. Spin-off. Street Dance Girls Fighter. On 2 November 2021, Mnet Drops 1st Teaser and confirmed that the spin-off titled "Street Dance Girls Fighter" where high  school girls would compete to create a new dance crew was confirmed. It is scheduled to be released on November 30, 2021 at 10.20pm KST. Street Man Fighter & Be Mbitious. In The final of Street Dance Girls Fighter on 4 January 2022, Mnet Drops 1st Teaser and confirmed "Street Man Fighter" where male dance crews fight for the position of Korea's best male dance crew to represent K-Dance to be released on August 2022. On 22 March 2022, Mnet announced "Be Mbitious" which will consist of individual dancers who will come together as one crew for the purpose  of dance competition "Street Man Fighter" to be released on May 2022. Anybody Can Dance. On 23 March 2022, Mnet confirmed the 8 team leaders of 'Street Woman Fighter' will be returning with a brand new reality series. Where non-professional with a passion for dance can apply to be a student on the program to be released on 2022.