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Yancheng studio of Xinan TV.

"After collective discussion by our mentors, the nine contestants assigned to Class A in the first phase are: C position, captain, trainee Zhao Mi from Hong Kong Zhengdong Records; lead singer, trainee Jin Shizheng from Guona Records; three sub-singers, Yu Lianjing from Chiyo Records, Mina from Stone Records, and Xiaojuan from Butterfly Music; lead dancer, Canmei from Minzu University, deputy lead dancer, Liu Jieqiong from Yancheng Film Academy, and two rappers, Jiang Li from Global Records and Jin Na, the former lead singer of "Little Pepper Band."

"Now, all students go to the rooms corresponding to their classes and rest for half an hour. After that, each class will be assigned the songs to sing on the next stage. Class A will perform a program as a group of nine people. For other classes, everyone can freely choose their teammates, but solo is not allowed. Each class will be divided into two groups to perform on stage. The songs to sing will be decided by instructor Mr. Xia Haoyang based on the voice characteristics of the students in each class."

"Oh wow, yeah~~~"

When Director Tian announced the news, he received collective cheers from the 100 students present.

"Then, Teacher Pei will design dances for each participating team in each class; Instructors Huang Wei, Liu Ming, and Lin Yang Huiyun will provide vocal guidance for everyone in these three months. Even if they fail to debut in the end, we hope that every student can make progress and breakthroughs in this program."

"Hurray, that's great!" The students were all very excited.

"The last thing is, we will arrange for everyone to go to see a movie together at 8 o'clock tonight. It is the popular movie "Introduction to Architecture" written by Professor Xia Haoyang."

"Wow~ I've wanted to watch it for a long time. I watched "My Sassy Girl" before. It was really good. A movie written by mentor Xia Haoyang must be a masterpiece."

"I'm also a fan of Mr. Xia's movies. No, I like all the movies, TV series, music, and variety shows written by Mr. Xia."

"Me too. Me too."

"I've seen 'Architecture 101' before, but it's worth watching again. It's so good and touching. Although the whole movie is not sentimental at all, I started to cry automatically while watching it. And the two heroines are both very beautiful."

On the first day of officially joining "Competition 100", Director Tian gave enough "carrots" to make every student excited. But the "stick" will soon appear. There will be a stage show waiting for the students every five days, and some people will leave after each show.

Although the nine people who entered Class A in the first phase all had good performances and amazing strength in the auditions, it was actually a tacit choice made by the mentors.

Several major music companies have people selected, and they are all one person. This is the balance of the program team.

Is there any shady manipulation in talent shows?

Take the original Produce 101 as an example: before the fourth season finals, the ranking order of the top 20 was already determined, and no one counted the votes on site. The real voting data and debut list did not exist from the beginning.

What the producers shouted to the entire nation, “Please vote for your boys/girls”, is all fake.

Camus once said, "There is an invincible summer in me." For the star-chasing girls in the talent show circle, every summer is indeed unforgettable, full of courage and enthusiasm.

The finale of each season of South Korea's large-scale talent show "PD101" is chosen to end in the summer, and the trainees stand out from the fierce competition of the show and debut as a group.

The flowers bloom in the lush summer, just like their idols' promising future. So fans always like to cheer for their idols by saying "Let's walk on the flower path together!"

Walking on a flowery road, as the name suggests, means walking on a road covered with flowers, which means hoping for smooth sailing and good things to happen all the time. This popular phrase in the fan circle originated from the first season of the PD101 series.

“走花路”的美好愿景并没有贯彻整个《PD101》系列。2019年7月19日，《PRODUCE X 101》（第四季）选出11名出道组成员组成X1。然而，节目公开的票数有多个诡异的巧合。

首先，重复的票数差异。第1名的与第2名、第3名与第4名、第6名与第7名、第7名与第8名、第10名及第11名的票数差距均是“29,978”。

Secondly, all trainees’ votes are multiples of “7494.442.” Also, the 20th-place votes plus the other trainees’ votes will give the other trainee’s votes.

Although the program team came out to publicly refute the rumors and said that these were all coincidences and there was no fraud.

However, Mnet and the production team, who refused to admit to fraud, were soon slapped in the face by the investigating police. On August 8, the police said that they found a recording on the phone of a staff member of the production team that mentioned fraud.

Within a few days, more evidence emerged.

The cyber investigation team revealed that 2 to 3 of the eliminated trainees were supposed to be in the debut group, and the police said that this ranking change showed that the voting was fake.

MBC current affairs program "PD Handbook" reported on the "PRODUCE X 101" voting fraud incident under the title "CJ and the fraudulent audition". The program revealed more of the shady operations of the PD series program team through interviews with the contestants at the time.

For example, the program team will interfere with the composer in allocating weight to the songs to be practiced, and will also reveal the competition songs to certain "connected" trainees in advance so that they can practice early.

According to the police investigation, the program producer Ahn Joon-young, producer Kim Yong-hwan and others received bribes totaling more than 1 million won by accepting dozens of receptions from various entertainment planning agencies.

最终安俊英承认在整个系列节目第1、2、3季节目里也有造假行为，至此，《PD101》系列全4季的真实性已经全军覆没。

This is also the reason why "PRODUCE 101", a popular variety show that has been popular all over Asia since its first season, eventually became unpopular and no one cares about it. Even the singers who became famous because of this variety show are reluctant to mention it.

After being introduced to this time and space, Xia Haoyang also followed the original method, with audience voting to select the elimination or promotion list for each episode.

However, in order to highlight the importance of mentors, Director Tian Danni allowed the five mentors to have voting rights worth 1000 points in addition to the 100 audience members on site.

This operation itself will bring greater benefits to the music company behind the mentor.

So you still want to ask whether talent shows are rigged? If you recall how The Voice of China collapsed, you will understand.