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Street Man Fighter

2022 South Korean reality dance series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Street Man Fighter
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Street Man Fighter (Korean: 스트릿 맨 파이터), often abbreviated SMF, is the second season of the South Korean dance competition franchise Street Woman Fighter. It aired on Mnet from August 23 to November 8, 2022, every Tuesday at 22:20 (KST) time slot for 10 episodes. It revolved around eight male dance crews fighting for the position of Korea's best male dance crew to represent street dance in the country (loosely marketed under the term "K-dance").[1]

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On November 8, 2022, on their last episode, JustJerk came in first place with 92,321 votes. The runner-up was We Dem Boyz, with 44,274 votes, followed by Mbitious (32,302 votes) and Bank Two Brother (25,034 votes). The winning crew (Just Jerk) received 50 million, electric sedans from BMW, a sponsorship deal with KB Kookmin Bank, and the Street Man Fighter Trophy.[2]

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Cast

The program is presented by Kang Daniel.[3]

The dance judges of this season are:[4]

Special Guests

"Class" mission (episode 2)

"Mega Crew" mission (episode 6–7)

  • Sehun (Exo)
  • Harry June (DKB)
  • Kinjaz (video appearance)
  • Mike Song (Kinjaz) (special judge)

"Rain Choreography" mission (episode 7)

Finale (episode 10)

Street Man Fighter: Gala Talkshow (special episodes)

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Contestants

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  •   Sub-Leader
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Missions

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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.

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Round two consists of two-on-two battles. Round three consists of five-on-five crew battles. The rules for these rounds are the same as the one-on-one dance battles except if a rematch is called, it will only be a one-on-one battles with one member from each duo or crew.

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Mission 2: "Class"

Each crew leader chooses seven members[i][j] including themselves to be split into five 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.

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The two worst dancers chosen by the main dancer will have a dance battle. 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.

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  •   Worst dancer(s)
  • Bold denotes chosen choreography
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Vata from WeDemBoyz was chosen as best director by the Fight Judges and paired up the crews for the next mission.

Mission 3: "Global K-Dance"

Two crews compete using the same song from boy groups that "impressed the world with their performances", BTS, BigBang, Exo, and Seventeen. Each crew must also complete the Choreography Copy Challenge. This round also included a bonus backup penalty part where the winner from the Choreography Copy Challenge could make the opposing crew into their backup dancers.

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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.

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As the losing crews – YGX, WeDemBoyz, Prime Kingz, and BankTwoBrothers were chosen as candidates for elimination. BankTwoBrothers was automatically placed in the elimination battle as a result of receiving the lowest score, and YGX was excluded from selection as a result of receiving the highest score out of the 4 losing crews. Later Prime Kingz was announced as the crew to battle BankTwoBrothers in the first elimination round. WeDemBoyz was saved from elimination.

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Mission 4: "Mega Crew"

Crews will compete in a Mega Crew mission where each crew will create their own choreography and perform it with a minimum of 30 performers including themselves. Crews must personally recruit their mega crew performers. Each crew must choose a costume to determine their concept to perform (no duplication) and will have 3 directors.[w]

Final scores are calculated as the sum of the Fight Judges' Score + Global Popular Vote Score.

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Mission 5: "Rain's New Dance Song Choreography"

Each crew will create new choreography for Rain's new single "Domestic". The crew whose choreography is chosen by Rain have the benefit to direct the music video and the crew whose choreography video[ah] receives the most likes will receive 100 extra points each.

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Mission 6: "Muse of Street Man Fighter"

Each crew will be joined by female dancers and must create and perform original choreography.

Final scores are calculated as the sum of the Fight Judges' Score + Global Popular Vote Score + Experts' Jury Score + Rain's New Dance Song Choreography Score.

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As the lowest scoring crew, Eo-Ddae was automatically eliminated. BankTwoBrothers and 1Million will have an elimination battle for the last spot in the finals as the 4th and 5th place crews.

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Mission 7: "Cheers"

Each crew will create a performance that highlights their happy moments.

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Mission 8: "Last Dance"

Each crew will create a performance that shows the color and identity representing them.

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More information Combined Finals Results (Cheers and Last Dance Missions), Rank ...
  Indicates winner of Street Man Fighter
  Indicates the 2nd place crew
  Indicates the 3rd and 4th place crews
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Final ranking

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Part 1

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Part 3

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Part 4

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Viewership

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Street Man Fighter: South Korea viewers per episode (thousands)
Source: Audience measurement performed nationwide by Nielsen Korea.[9]
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Notes

  1. Members: Young-J, J-Ho, S.One, Yejun, Hulk, Howl, Minseo
  2. Originally Competed under the name "BIIB (B2B)", However they changed the crew name and its pronunciation in the middle of the competition due to a controversy over a boyband with the same name
  3. Hyu made his first appearance during the Class Mission round. Since then, he became a regular member of the show.
  4. Formed on Be Mbitious
  5. Kim Jung-woo decided to drop out of the program starting with the Global K-Dance Mission
  6. Before the competition, the crew have competed in America's Got Talent (season 12) and Dancing High, the crew even performed on Hit the Stage and the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony at Pyeongchang
  7. Team colours adjusted for readability
  8. YGX and Mbitious had the two lowest wins in the No Respect battle. Each team sent a member for battle to determine who is the "No Respect" crew in this round.
  9. BankTwoBrothers, Eo-Ddae, and Prime Kingz only have six members so will only send one member to Middle Class 1. Dancers Hyu, HG, and Volley filled in as the second dancer for each crew respectively.
  10. 7 is the max number of members that can be sent. As a result, Mbitious' Roh Tae-Hyun and WeDemBoyz's Dophan did not participate in this round.
  11. Hyu became a regular member of the show during this round
  12. Door did not participate in the judge's evaluation and music video after suffering from HiB meningitis during the choreography practice. Counter also suffered a hand injury during choreography practice but was able to perform alone in this round.
  13. subbed in for Volly, originally not part of the crew
  14. Due to Giseok's health issues and limited number of members available, BankTwoBrothers decided to forfeit during the Choreography Copy Challenge evaluation so automatically became the back-up crew
  15. Deegun did not participate due to injury.
  16. Videos were posted on YouTube by Mnet on The Choom channel on July 8
  17. Yejun did not participate due to a shoulder injury
  18. Deegun did not participate due to injury. BankTwoBrothers member Reckless filled in for his spot and participated for this mission.
  19. Deegun and Giseok did not participate due to injury.
  20. 2Face did not participate in the battle due to injury, thus ending his appearance on the show.
  21. Tied at first battle; J-Roc won in second battle (2–1)
  22. Giseok and Deegun did not participate due to injury
  23. General director is the leader while the other two are from members.
  24. Videos were posted on YouTube by Mnet on The Choom channel on September 20. Restricted to South Korea only.
  25. Including SMF participants
  26. Deegun did not participate and eventually dropped out for the remainder of the show due to personal reasons.
  27. Including Ohbody, Stagger, Groovechan, Rivers Crew (Physicx, Jotee, Shinobi & Gawblin)
  28. Including Bae Seung-yoon (former Be Mbitious contestant), Bboy Drop, Silva, KiKi, Rex, and Simbaa.
  29. Including Monster Woo, b-boy crew Artistreet (Mario, Sknuf, Heady, Spax, Edward Elric, and Whale), and former Be Mbitious contestants (Cha Hyun-seung, Tutat, Kasper, Biggle, Yamakasi, DKB's Harry June, and Kuro)
  30. Including Baw, Boomball, Fawks, Super Dragon, Poker, Drama, Duck goo, Bravo, Begita, and Kaicho
  31. Including Insung, Jay Pak, and Locker 100
  32. Including Exo's Sehun, and b-boy Pocket
  33. Including b-boy crew Jinjo (Skim, Wing, Vero, Soma, Meadow, Kazino, Javelin, and Bekka)
  34. Videos were posted on YouTube by Mnet on The Choom channel on October 12. Voting period from October 12, 2022, to October 17, 2022, at 6:00 pm (KST)
  35. Videos were posted on YouTube by Mnet on The Choom channel on October 19 but a playback error on 1Million video occurred around 3:40 pm KST so it was decided that all videos were made to private. After 5 hours of discussions of each crew leaders and SMF staffs both agreed to close the voting at 3:53 pm KST. Restricted to South Korea only.
  36. BlackQ did not participate in the Rain challenge due to his commitments with NewJeans comeback later that year.
  37. On October 6, 2022, Kamel made his military enlistment. Thus, ending his stay on the show. His last appearances were at the beginning of the Muse of SMF and Rain New Song Dance Challenges but did not participate at the actual missions. He returned for the final episode of SMF as a spectator.
  38. Despite dropping out of the show, Kim Jung-woo made his return and performed with all the members in this round.
  39. Originally scheduled to air Episodes 10 and 11 on November 1 and 8, 2022 respectively, MNET decided to postponed the broadcast to observe the Nationwide mourning in light of the Itaewon Halloween crowd crush. On November 6, 2022, MNET announced that Episode 10 will be aired live on November 8, 2022, and will serve as the show's final episode.[10]
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