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Kingdom Connect (Korean: 킹덤 커넥트) is an fictitious fan-made upcoming 2024 South Korean reality competition show created by Mnet. It will begin premiering on Mnet on April 30, 2024, Every Tuesday at 10PM KST.

It is known as a spin-off series of Kingdom: Legendary War, but does not relate to the concepts of the previous seasons, it only took the name of the series.

Concept and format
On April 22, 2024, it was announced that the Kingdom series would have a second season, but would be different from the previous season.

The show will focus on forming a powerful global project boy group by taking members from currently and formerly promoting boy groups as well as solo male artists and connecting them together, hence the title "Kingdom Connect". It will take on a completely new format from the pre-existing "Kingdom" series, with individual competitions taking place rather than team ones.

Out of the initial 28 contestants, they will compete with performances to finally become a supergroup of seven members of a project boy group. It was revealed on April 24 that the name of the final group would be nitroxyn, inspired by the seventh element in the periodic table nitrogen.

Host

 * Kai (EXO) & Key (SHINee)

Contestants
There will be 28 contestants. All of the contestants have previous experiences in the music industry, either being members or former boy group members or being soloists. The lineup of contestants includes members of 8TURN, AB6IX, Astro, B1A4, Block B, Cravity, Epex, MIRAE, Omega X, ONF, Pentagon, SF9, Stray Kids, Tempest, UP10TION, Vanner, VERIVERY, Victon, & xikers, South Korean based P-pop group HORI7ON, J-pop band INI, and ex-members of 1TEAM, B.A.P., Monsta X, Seven O' Clock, Wanna One, and X1.
 * Color key

Episodes
The final group will be decided based on fictional votes through the Mnet Plus application, where each voter choose 7 contestants to vote as an ideal final boy group.

First Voting Period
 * The voting period for every week began from the start of the episode, to 2 hours before the airing of the following episode. The entire voting period started from April 28, 2024, during the broadcast of Episode 1, and had concluded on May 4, 2024, 23:00.
 * All votes cast to each contestant would be accumulated throughout the voting period and will be reflected in the eventual ranking after this voting period. The voting results would be based on 50% for Korea and 50% for all other global regions.
 * At the end of Episode 2, 3 contestants will be eliminated based off the lowest votes.

Second Voting Period
 * The votes in the first voting period will be carried over to the second voting period.
 * The voting period would begin from after Episode 2, to during the broadcast of the Episode 4.
 * Voters can vote once every day. However, on May 19, which is the live broadcast for Episode 4, voters can vote twice on this day: once before 20:00, and once during the broadcast of the episode.
 * All votes cast to each contestant would be accumulated throughout the voting period and will be reflected in the eventual ranking after this voting period. The voting results would be based on 50% for Korea and 50% for all other global regions.
 * At the end of Episode 4, 3 contestants will be eliminated based off the lowest votes.

Third Voting Period
 * The votes in both the first and the second voting periods would be carried over to the third voting period.
 * The voting period would begin from after Episode 4, to during the broadcast of the Episode 6.
 * Voters can vote once every day. However, on June 2, which is the live broadcast for Episode 6, voters can vote twice on this day: once before 20:00, and once during the broadcast of the episode.
 * All votes cast to each contestant would be accumulated throughout the voting period and will be reflected in the eventual ranking after this voting period. The voting results would be based on 50% for Korea and 50% for all other global regions.
 * At the end of Episode 6, 3 contestants will be eliminated based off the lowest votes.

Fourth Voting Period
 * The votes in all the previous voting periods would be carried over to the fourth voting period.
 * The voting period would begin from after Episode 6, to during the broadcast of the Episode 8.
 * Voters can vote once every day. However, on June 16, which is the live broadcast for Episode 8, voters can vote twice on this day: once before 20:00, and once during the broadcast of the episode.
 * All votes cast to each contestant would be accumulated throughout the voting period and will be reflected in the eventual ranking after this voting period. The voting results would be based on 50% for Korea and 50% for all other global regions.
 * At the end of Episode 8, 5 contestants will be eliminated based off the lowest votes.

Final Voting Period
 * The votes in both in all the previous voting periods would be carried over to the final voting period.
 * The voting percentages will be 15% from all previous periods (60%) plus another 40% on June 30, the date of the final episode.
 * The voting period would begin from an hour before Episode 10 airs to 30 minutes before the finale.
 * Voters can put in 5 unique votes for 5 different contestants, meaning you cannot vote for the same contestant twice.
 * All votes cast to each contestant would be announced live by either Kai or Key, and just like with the Produce 48 & 101 series, the winning contestants would meet each other on a stage together.
 * At the end of the finale, 7 contestants will be eliminated based off the lowest votes.

Round 1: Contestant's Choice (Episode 1-2)
The 28 contestants are split into four tiers of seven men each, based on the following criteria (as at April 23, 2024): The two scores are added up and each contestant would be placed in Tiers 1 to 4 to give each tier a diverse range of experiences, age, and backgrounds.
 * Date they debuted on to April 23rd, 2024 plus
 * Age they were at debut plus
 * Age they are now divided by divided by 3 to get a mean number.

Each contestant would then have a solo performance of another song not originally by their groups, the remaining 27 contestants would each vote for the contestant. "Up" would be pressed if the voters each think that the performing contestant has performed better than the original performer, and if otherwise "Down" would be pressed. After the performances, the contestants would be rearranged into their new tiers based on the results of the performances.

After Performances

Round 2: 7:7 Team Battle (Episode 2-3)
For this round, each contestant would be randomly selected into a team to perform the 2 signal songs, "Savage" and "My World", in meaning there would be 14 contestants per song. Each song would consist of 2 teams: "ZAVAGEZ" and "RULERZ".


 * A panel of 13 expert judges H.O.T.'s Tony Ahn, H.O.T.'s Kangta, Jinusean's Jinu, Jinusean's Sean, Mamamoo's Hwasa, producer Dem Jointz, producer Kenzie, choreographer Lia Kim, choreographer Kany, video director Bang Jae-yeob, video director and idol DPR IAN, soloist Sunmi, and soloist BoA were all called in to be the special guest judges.
 * In addition, the 14 contestants of "Snap" would evaluate both teams of "Charismatic", and vice versa.
 * For each song, the team with more votes wins. The contestants under the winning team of each song would get a benefit of 10,000 votes.
 * There would be 1 MVP for the winning team of each song, based on the selection of the expert panel. The 2 MVPs selected would have the right to form for the next round.