"Rose Blossom" team: I am losing my shit over #Xiong's tiny hat. He looks like he belongs in a Japanese butler cafe.

Could do without the cringey bits with trainees at the beach yelling stuff. I loved that #Dorn made it all about #Plengthai though.

I didn't want to like #Bianura but he seems like a genuinely lovable dude and he's won me over.

#Wuxun is another one who keeps convincing me to love him a bit more every week.

"Feel Special" team #HuYetao oh no his singing is a bit shit but he's so incredibly campy and adorable so I don't care. ohh and he gets a romantic moment with #Yuchen towards the end πŸ’ž

"Happy" team yay #DAY6 cover ... hmm but the backing track is insipid and the singing isn't really the right vibe. Apart from #ThiO -- he's such a good singer, I love him.

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Looking at the results of the first vote, it confirms my expectation that #HuYetao, #Thi_O and #Dorn have a lock on the top 3 places.

Anyone else currently in the top 35 could still make it into the debut group if they have a couple of great performances and get some love and screen time from the producers.

Pray and #Shoya are outside chances and could still make it. Shoya keeps serving cunt every time and I don't want him to go, but it's possible the Chuang audience isn't yet ready for that level of cuntiness. Pray is cute and smart and now that I think about it, his story reminds me of Xiao Zhan (who also gave up his day job & decided to have a go at being an idol around the same age, 26 I think).

I might be on the verge of shipping Hu Yetao, #Yuchen and #YaoZihao as a triad, so I want Yetao's two boyfies to stay and keep him company of course.

Next week's stages will include covers of "Python" (GOT7) and "Mic Drop" (BTS) and oh nooo "When We Disco" by JYP omg whyyyyyy. Also some other songs that have names that are too widely used for me to be able to figure out who they're covering ("Crush", "Original", "I Dream"), and a Chinese song that I don't know ("Last Fireworks of the Summer Night").

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