Ladies and gents, are you ready?

Welcome to the first round of polling for Seoulbeats’ March Madness to determine who exactly will be crowned the Ultimate Idol.

We introduced the bracket we’ll be using a few days ago, but as a refresher:

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Today, we’ll let you guys vote on the initial candidates for each of the categories. Just to reiterate: your votes for idols in both genders for each of the four categories will advance them to the next round, after which they will start competing between categories, and then ultimately one idol of each gender will go head-to-head for the title of Ultimate Idol.

You still have until the end of today March 12 at 11:59PM EST to submit your bracket predictions — refer to this post for more details. Here is a link to the bracket submission page. After midnight tonight, the submission page will be closed, so see if you have a good enough knowledge of K-pop fans to accurately guess this all the way through.

Now for the polls. The round one polls below will close on March 16 at 11:59PM EST, and the second round will begin on March 17.

Happy voting!

MALE DANCE

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MALE VOCAL

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MALE VISUAL

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MALE VARIETY

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FEMALE DANCE

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FEMALE VOCAL

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FEMALE VISUAL

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FEMALE VARIETY

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