Road to Kingdom

Seasons
Queendom	Road to Kingdom	Kingdom: Legendary War

Road to Kingdom

Information

Episodes

8

Premiere

April 30, 2020

Finale

June 18, 2020

Production

Winner

THE BOYZ

Host

Lee Da-hee
Jang Sung-kyu

Season Chronology
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Queendom	Kingdom: Legendary War

Road to Kingdom was a 2020 reality television program on Mnet, hosted by Lee Da-hee and Jang Sung-kyu.

It premiered on April 30 to June 18, 2020. It is known as the first part of the male counterpart of Queendom, and the prequel of Kingdom: Legendary War.

THE BOYZ became the winner of the competition, hence securing a spot in the upcoming program Kingdom: Legendary War.

About the Show[]

The popular survival K-pop idol show is back. This time, it is with boy groups that make women’s hearts flutter whenever they dance and sing. Regardless of their experience, they will compete in a cutthroat competition to seize the throne of the Kingdom. To do so, they must put on performances that will blow the audience away. To make it more competitive, new rules have been introduced to the contest, and the contestants are shocked by how brutal it has become. Those who fall behind will be eliminated and be kicked out. Don’t miss out on the great performances!

Contestants[]

Contestant Progress
Group	Debut Date	Agency	Rounds
Group	Debut Date	Agency	0	1	2	3A	3B	Finale
THE BOYZ	December 6, 2017	Cre.ker Entertainment	1st	1st	1st	3rd	2nd	Winner
ONF	August 2, 2017	WM Entertainment	5th	3rd	3rd	1st	1st	2nd Place
PENTAGON	October 10, 2016	Cube Entertainment	2nd	2nd	5th	1st	5th	3rd Place
ONEUS	January 9, 2019	RBW	6th	7th	2nd	3rd	4th	4th Place
VERIVERY	January 9, 2019	Jellyfish Entertainment	3rd	6th	4th	2nd	3rd	5th Place
TOO	April 1, 2020	n.CH Entertainment	7th	4th	6th	2nd	6th	Eliminated
Golden Child	August 28, 2017	Woollim Entertainment	4th	5th	7th	Eliminated

Rounds[]

Preliminary Round: "90 Seconds Performances"[]

Rules
The 7 boy groups each perform a 90 seconds performance that best express themselves. There is no order decided before the performances - the order is decided on the spot. The first performing boy group is decided by the boy group that volunteers themselves first. After the first boy group has performed, they will decide on the second performing boy group, and the second boy group that has performed will then decide on the third performing boy group. The process goes on until all performances have been completed. The round's points are entirely decided through a self-evaluation where each boy group will rank the other boy groups' performances from 1st to 6th. 1st place: 100 points 2nd place: 80 points 3rd place: 60 points 4th place: 40 points 5th place: 20 points 6th place: 5 points Each boy group would receive self-evaluation points from the other 6 boy groups, and they will be added up to become the round's total points obtained for the boy group. This will, however, be not included in the overall points for the show.

Points Summary
Order	Group	Performance Name	Self-evaluation Ranking						Rank
Order	Group	Performance Name	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Rank
1	TOO	"Into the dysTOOpia"	0	0	1	1	1	3	7th
			0	0	60	40	20	15
			Total Points: 135
2	THE BOYZ	"Sword of Victory"	4	2	0	0	0	0	1st
			400	160	0	0	0	0
			Total Points: 560
3	PENTAGON	"Road To The Throne"	1	4	1	0	0	0	2nd
			100	320	60	0	0	0
			Total Points: 480
4	ONF	"Lights on"	0	0	1	2	0	3	5th
			0	0	60	80	0	15
			Total Points: 155
5	Golden Child	"Beginning"	1	0	2	2	1	0	4th
			100	0	120	80	20	0
			Total Points: 320
6	VERIVERY	"FACE it"	1	1	2	0	2	0	3rd
			100	80	120	0	40	0
			Total Points: 340
7	ONEUS	"Phantom of ONEUS"	0	0	0	2	3	1	6th
			0	0	0	80	60	5
			Total Points: 145

1st Round: "Song of King"[]

Rules
The 7 boy groups each perform one song from their boy group seniors, and is rearranged into a different style. The 1st placed boy group for the 90 Seconds Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances. The round's points are entirely decided through a self-evaluation, where each boy group's members will rank the other boy groups' performances from 1st to 6th. 1st place: 100 points 2nd place: 80 points 3rd place: 60 points 4th place: 40 points 5th place: 20 points 6th place: 5 points As ONF and ONEUS each have only 6 members, the remaining 5 boy groups will each send 6 of their members to vote for this round. (Total of 42 boy group members voting in this round) Each boy group would receive self-evaluation points from the other 6 boy groups' 36 members, and they will be added up to become the round's total points obtained for the boy group. The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their self-evaluation points to the self-evaluation points of the 1st placed boy group.

"Danger" THE BOYZ (orig. Taemin) 1st Place

"Very Good" PENTAGON (orig. Block B) 2nd Place

"Everybody" ONF (orig. SHINee) 3rd Place

"T.O.P" Golden Child (orig. Shinhwa) 5th Place

"Mansae" VERIVERY (orig. SEVENTEEN) 6th Place

"Warrior's Descendant" ONEUS (orig. H.O.T) 7th Place

Points Summary
Order	Group	Song	Original Artist	Self-evaluation Ranking						Rounded Points	Rank
Order	Group	Song	Original Artist	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Rounded Points	Rank
1	ONEUS	"Warrior's Descendant"	H.O.T	1	1	1	4	12	17	2,417	7th
				100	80	60	160	240	85
				Total Points: 725
2	TOO	"Rising Sun"	TVXQ	3	5	6	5	11	6	5,033	4th
				300	400	360	200	220	30
				Total Points: 1,510
3	VERIVERY	"Mansae"	SEVENTEEN	0	1	5	9	6	15	3,117	6th
				0	80	300	360	120	75
				Total Points: 935
4	Golden Child	"T.O.P"	Shinhwa	0	1	2	19	12	2	4,033	5th
				0	80	120	760	240	10
				Total Points: 1,210
5	ONF	"Everybody"	SHINee	12	7	12	2	1	2	8,633	3rd
				1,200	560	720	80	20	10
				Total Points: 2,590
6	PENTAGON	"Very Good"	Block B	12	12	10	2	0	0	9,467	2nd
				1,200	960	600	80	0	0
				Total Points: 2,840
6	THE BOYZ	"Danger"	Taemin	14	15	6	1	0	0	10,000	1st
				1,400	1,200	360	40	0	0
				Total Points: 3,000

2nd Round: "My Song"[]

Rules
The 7 boy groups each perform one of their representative hit songs, that is rearranged and different from their usual stages of the song. The 1st placed boy group for the 1st Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances. However, the other boy groups do not find out their own spots, nor the ones of the others, in the cue sheet until the day of the performances. The round's points are decided through 2 categories: Self-evaluation that was used for the 1st Performances voting, where each boy group would receive points from the other 6 boy groups' 36 members. (30% of the points for this round) Online audience votes from 140 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual only gets to vote for the top 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round) The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their total points obtained to the total points obtained for the 1st placed boy group.

"REVEAL (Catching Fire)" THE BOYZ 1st Place

"Shine" + "Spring Snow" PENTAGON 5th Place

Points Summary
Order	Group	Song	Self-evaluation Points	Online Audience Votes Points	Total Points	Rank
1	PENTAGON^[1]	"Shine" + "Spring Snow"	2,881.29	3,858.97	6,740	5th
2	ONF^[2]	"The We Must Love"^[3]	2,244.60	6,012.82	8,257	3rd
3	Golden Child	"WANNABE"	803.96	3,589.74	4,394	7th
4	ONEUS	"LIT"	2,039.57	6,461.54	8,501	2nd
5	VERIVERY	"PHOTO"	1,775.18	5,833.33	7,609	4th
6	TOO	"Magnolia"	1,079.14	4,128.21	5,207	6th
7	THE BOYZ	"REVEAL (Catching Fire)"	3,000	7,000	10,000	1st

First Elimination[]

Rank	Group	Total Point
1st	THE BOYZ	20,000
2nd	ONF	16,890
3rd	PENTAGON	16,207
4th	ONEUS	10,918
5th	VERIVERY	10,726
6th	TOO	10,240
7th	Golden Child	8,427

3rd Round (Part 1): "Collaboration"[]

Rules
The 6 remaining boy groups will have 2 performances for this round: the first being a collaboration performance, and the second being the performance of a song chosen by another boy group. The 3 pairs of boy groups were matched by random picking of one boy group, followed by random picking of the next boy group to be paired with the boy group picked earlier on. The process goes on to form the remaining 2 pairs. There are no restrictions in the number of members each boy group would involve and their song choices. The round's points are decided through 2 categories: Self-evaluation, where each boy group will send 6 members (total of 36 boy group members voting) and rank the 3 collaboration performances. (30% of the points for this round) Online audience votes from 120 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual ranks the 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round) 1st place - 10 points, 2nd place - 5 points, 3rd place - 1 point The 1st placed collaboration performance gets the full 5,000 points each for the boy groups involved, 3,000 each for the boy groups involved in the 2nd placed collaboration performance, and 1,000 each for the boy groups involved in the 3rd placed collaboration performance.

"Kill This Love" Just ON (orig. BLACKPINK) 1st Place

"ON" Maknae on TOP (orig. BTS) 2nd Place

"Heroine" One Voice (orig. Sunmi) 3rd Place

Points Summary
Order	Unit (Group)	Song	Original Artist	Total Points	Rank
1	Maknae on TOP (VERIVERY & TOO)	"ON"	BTS	3,000	2nd
2	Just ON (PENTAGON^[4] & ONF^[5])	"Kill This Love"	BLACKPINK	5,000	1st
3	One Voice (THE BOYZ^[6] & ONEUS)	"Heroine"	Sunmi	1,000	3rd

3rd Round (Part 2): "Your Song"[]

Rules
The 6 remaining boy groups will have 2 performances for this round: the first being a collaboration performance, and the second being the performance of a song chosen by another boy group. The 6 remaining boy groups each pick a song, with no restriction, for this round. The songs chosen will each then be allocated to another boy group, but only within the pairings that were formed for the Collaboration round. The 1st placed boy group for the 2nd Performances will get a benefit of arranging the cue sheet for this round of performances. However, the other boy groups do not find out their own spots, nor the ones of the others, in the cue sheet until the day of the performances. The round's points are decided through 2 categories: Self-evaluation, where each boy group will send 6 members (total of 36 boy group members voting). (30% of the points for this round) Online audience votes from 120 individuals. Each boy group will gather 20 individuals, and each individual would only vote for the top 3 performances in this round. (70% of the points for this round) The 1st placed boy group gets the full 10,000 points, and the remaining boy groups will each get points based on the proportion of their total points obtained to the total points obtained for the 1st placed boy group.

"It's Raining" ONF (orig. Rain) 1st Place

"Shangri-La (Quasi una fantasia)" THE BOYZ (orig. VIXX) 2nd Place

"gogobebe" VERIVERY (orig. Mamamoo) 3rd Place

"Be Mine" ONEUS (orig. INFINITE) 4th Place

"Follow (PENTAGON Ver.)" PENTAGON (orig. Monsta X) 5th Place

Points Summary
Order	Group	Song	Original Artist	Concept	Self-evaluation Points	Online Audience Votes Points	Total Points	Rank
1	ONEUS	"Be Mine"	INFINITE	Romeo & Juliet	1,621.62	5,300	6,922	4th
2	TOO	"Hard Carry"	GOT7	Street Style	2,459.46	2,000	4,459	6th
3	ONF	"It's Raining"	Rain	Michael Jackson	3,000	7,000	10,000	1st
4	PENTAGON	"Follow (PENTAGON Ver.)"	Monsta X	Pharaoh	2,945.94	2,700	5,646	5th
5	VERIVERY	"gogobebe"	Mamamoo	Aladdin	1,702.70	6,100	7,803	3rd
6	THE BOYZ	"Shangri-La (Quasi una fantasia)"	VIXX	Oriental	2,864.86	6,900	9,765	2nd

Second Elimination[]

Rank	Group	Total Point
Rank	Group	Total Point	1st	ONF	31,890
2nd	THE BOYZ	30,765
3rd	PENTAGON	26,853
4th	VERIVERY	21,529
5th	ONEUS	18,840
6th	TOO	17,699

Final Round: "Live Comeback Stages"[]

Rules
The 5 remaining boy groups will each perform a newly produced song live. For this round, live votes will be allocated in the following distribution: Domestic fans' text message votes (70% of the live votes) International fans' voting through the Whosfan application (30% of the live votes) In addition, the following categories are also considered to decide the final winner: Total points accumulated in the Performances prior to the finale (except for the 90 Seconds Performances) View counts of the performance videos on YouTube and Naver TV Digital points of the Comeback Singles calculated (from time of release to June 16, 2020, at 23:59 (KST))

Points Summary
Order	Group	Song	Ranking (Digital)
1	ONEUS	"COME BACK HOME"	4th
2	VERIVERY	"Beautiful-x"	5th
3	THE BOYZ	"CHECKMATE"	1st
4	PENTAGON	"Basquiat" (바스키아)	3rd
5	ONF	"New World" (신세계)	2nd
Special Performances
F5		BTOB - It's Okay	N/A

Gallery[]

To view the 'Road to Kingdom' gallery, click here.

Videos[]

To view the 'Road to Kingdom' video gallery, click here.

Notes[]

↑ Last performance to feature member Jinho.
↑ YooA of Oh My Girl joined as a guest performer.
↑ Remix of songs "We Must Love" and "Moscow Moscow".
↑ Members Hui, Kino and Wooseok.
↑ Members Hyojin, J-Us and Wyatt.
↑ Members Sangyeon, Juyeon, New, Q and Sunwoo.

Navigation[]

v • e
Road to Kingdom \| Gallery \| Videos
Contestants
Finalists	THE BOYZ • ONF • PENTAGON • ONEUS • VERIVERY
Eliminated	TOO • Golden Child
Units
Maknae on TOP • Just ON • One Voice • F5
Stages
90 Seconds Performances	"Into the dysTOOpia" • "Sword of Victory" • "Road To The Throne" • "Lights on" • "Beginning" • "FACE it" • "Phantom Of ONEUS"
Song of King	"Warrior's Descendant" • "Rising Sun" • "Mansae" • "T.O.P." • "Everybody" • "Very Good" • "Danger"
My Song	"Shine + Spring Snow" • "The We Must Love" • "WANNABE" • "LIT" • "PHOTO" • "Magnolia" • "REVEAL (Catching Fire)"
Collaboration	"ON" • "Kill This Love (PTG&ONF Ver.)" • "Heroine"
Your Song	"Be Mine" • "Hard Carry" • "It's Raining" • "Follow (PENTAGON Ver.)" • "gogobebe" • "Shangri-La (Quasi una fantasia)"
Live Comeback	"COME BACK HOME" • "Beautiful-x" • "CHECKMATE" • "Basquiat" • "New World" • "It's Okay"

[1] Last performance to feature member Jinho.

[2] YooA of Oh My Girl joined as a guest performer.

[3] Remix of songs "We Must Love" and "Moscow Moscow".

[4] Members Hui, Kino and Wooseok.

[5] Members Hyojin, J-Us and Wyatt.

[6] Members Sangyeon, Juyeon, New, Q and Sunwoo.

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