We’re halfway through the competition and now it’s the time to really go for it! The field of battle is littered with casualties and only the strongest have survived.

The categories are narrowing down to a particularly interesting mix. IU has again sailed through the preliminary rounds to square off with the Alien queen Lee Suhyun. Red Velvet‘s subunit has made it through to compete in visuals and dance. CL made the cut to face Jessi in the female rap category. This is a competition, let’s see who wins!

BTS’s Suga has made it through to take on Mino from Winner in the male rap category — Suga narrowly edged out NCT’s Mark by a single vote last round! An especially exciting category this round is the male visual match between Astro’s Rowoon and Shinee’s Minho. Both Minho and Rowoon thrashed their opponents with over 60% of the votes. Shinee members are doing particularly well this year as Onew advances in the male vocal category to battle against The Rose’s Woosung.

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This round of voting ends on Sunday, 21 March at 23:45PM EST. Make sure you get your votes in before then and comment on your favourite matches below!