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]
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]
Former member of Cream082 and CrackKidz Known as the "Original Representative of Hip-Hop" One of the innovators of the underground street dance scene in South Korea.
Member of Bitgoeul Dancers and former member of XEBEC Known as the "Bad Boy of the Hip-Hop Dance Scene" Known for his musicality and his frequent wins, with over 200 wins in individual battles.
Founder of JustJerk Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy. Former member of PAYDAY.
J-Ho (제이호)
(1992-02-09) February 9, 1992 (age 32)
Founding member of JustJerk. Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy. Former member of PAYDAY.
S.One (에스원)
(1989-03-21) March 21, 1989 (age 35)
Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy
Yejun (예준)
(1997-12-24) December 24, 1997 (age 26)
Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy
Hulk (헐크)
(1998-11-25) November 25, 1998 (age 25)
Back-up dancer for Chungha and Jay Park Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy
Howl (하울)
(1999-11-11) November 11, 1999 (age 24)
Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy
Minseo (민서)
(2002-06-19) June 19, 2002 (age 22)
Choreographer at Just Jerk Academy
Prime Kingz
Trix (트릭스)
(1990-03-25) March 25, 1990 (age 34)
First and only Asian to win a Krump World Championship Also known as Eyez X Former member of Woo Fam Former contestant in season 2 of Dancing 9
Knucks (넉스)
(1992-03-15) March 15, 1992 (age 32)
Also known as Monster Mijo Former member of Woo Fam Boyfriend of Coca N'Butter leader Rihey in which they performed together in Street Woman Fighter's "Man of Woman" round
2Face (투페이스)
(1985-12-11) December 11, 1985 (age 38)
Professional body builder Former member of Woo Fam
Door (도어)
(1994-08-13) August 13, 1994 (age 30)
Member of Kings Table and Rumble Fam
Counter (카운터)
(1994-11-09) November 9, 1994 (age 29)
Also Known as Lil Rumbler Member of Kings Table and Rumbler Fam
Kyoyung Jr. (교영주니어)
(1995-03-30) March 30, 1995 (age 29)
Missions
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.
Rules for the dance battles
The named dancer points out a dancer they consider to be the weakest, and engages in a one-on-one dance battle for 40 seconds each.
The named dancer goes first while the pointed out dancer goes second.
At the end of the battle, the Fight Judges will determine the winner.
Fight Judges can request a rematch when no winner can be decided. A rematch will take place if two or more judges cannot decide a winner or in the case of a 1:1 tie and the third judge cannot choose a winner. In the rematch, both dancers dance at the same time for 40 seconds.
The winning dancer gives a NO RESPECT sticker of their respective crew color to the losing team, which is stuck on their crew fist.
The team with the most losses are labeled as the NO RESPECT Crew.
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.
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.
Main dancer's benefits
In charge of the center position, choreography, and directing the video for their rank.
Receive 100 points for their crew.
Can designate the two "worst dancers" in their rank to battle for the final "worst" dancer, who will get 50 points deducted from their crew.
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.
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.
Choreography Copy Challenge
There are two copy challenge sections in each song
Of the two sections, each crew must take one section and create the choreography that the other team must "copy" and incorporate into their choreography
If both crews want the same sections, they must discuss it among themselves
Winning Crew chosen by the Fight Judges will also make a choreography where the opposing crew will be backup dancers.
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.
Scoring system
Fight Judges' score: Total of 600 points split between both crews
Global Popular Vote score: Voting period from July 8 to July 13, 2022, at 6:00 PM KST.[p] Score calculated as Views + Likes X 100.
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.
Rules of the elimination battle
Best of 5:
Round 1 – Ace
Round 2 – 2v2
Round 3 – Leader
Round 4 – Crew
Round 5 – Rookie
At the end of each round, the fight judges determine the winner
The first crew to win three rounds is safe from elimination, while the losing crew is eliminated.
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.
Scoring system
Fight Judges' Score: Each judge awards up to 100 points to each three directors of each crew totaling up to 1200 points.
Global Popular Vote Score: Voting period from September 20, 2022, at 12:30 AM KST to September 25, 2022, at 6:00 PM KST.[x] Score calculated as Views + Likes X 100. Crews are ranked from this score and awarded points starting at 1200 points for the highest score.
"Mega Crew" mission (bold song was the original song that they used in the mission)
At the end of each round, the fight judges determine the winner
The first crew to win three rounds is safe from elimination, while the losing crew is eliminated.
Second elimination battle
Round
Contestant
Winning team
WeDemBoyz
YGX
1
Vata, Insun, and Haesung
Deukie, Hyunse, and Dow
WeDemBoyz
2
Vata
Deukie
WeDemBoyz
3
Crew (except Vata)
Junsun, Dow, Hyunse, and Junho
WeDemBoyz
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.
"Rain New Dance Song Mission"
Crew
Main Dancer
Scores
Public Vote
Rain's chosen choreography
Extra points for Most video likes
Total Score
Mbitious
Lee Ho-won
1000
–
100
1100
1Million
Back Koo-young
950
–
–
950
Just Jerk
Howl
900
–
–
900
BankTwoBrothers
Feeldog
850
–
–
850
WeDemBoyz
Vata
800
100
–
900
Eo-Ddae
E Jo
750
–
–
750
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.
Scoring system
Fight Judges' Score: Each judge awards up to 100 points to each crew totaling up to 300 points.
Global Popular Vote Score: Voting period from October 19, 2022, at 12:00 AM KST to 15:53 PM KST.[ai] Score calculated as Views + Likes X 100. Crews are ranked from this score and awarded points starting at 1000 points for the highest score.
Expert Juries' Score: Calculated as the average score of real-time on-site voting scores of 100 expert juries for each genre.
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.
Rules of the third elimination battle
Best of 5:
Round 1 – Hidden Battle
Round 2 – 1v1 (The crew whose water bottle would point at would have the benefit of picking their opponent)
Round 3 – 1v1 (Winner of the previous round will have a chance to choose their own opponent)
Round 4 – Crew Battle
Round 5 – Leader
At the end of each round, the fight judges determine the winner
The first crew to win three rounds is safe from elimination, while the losing crew is eliminated.
Semi-final elimination battle
Round
Contestant
Winning team
BankTwoBrothers
1Million
1
Crew
Crew
1Million
2
Giseok
Yumeki
BankTwoBrothers
3
Feeldog
Nino
BankTwoBrothers
4
Crew (except J-Roc)
Crew (except Back Koo-young)
1Million
5
J-Roc
Back Koo-young
BankTwoBrothers
Mission 7: "Cheers"
Each crew will create a performance that highlights their happy moments.
Scoring system
Live Broadcast Vote Score (100%): via SMS voting (limited to South Korea only)
The team with the most total cumulative score from both Cheers and Last dance missions will be declare the show's winner.
In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
This show aired on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).
^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
^Hyu made his first appearance during the Class Mission round. Since then, he became a regular member of the show.
^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.
^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.
^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.
^Hyu became a regular member of the show during this round
^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.
^subbed in for Volly, originally not part of the crew
^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
^Including Bae Seung-yoon (former Be Mbitious contestant), Bboy Drop, Silva, KiKi, Rex, and Simbaa.
^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)
^Including Baw, Boomball, Fawks, Super Dragon, Poker, Drama, Duck goo, Bravo, Begita, and Kaicho
^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)
^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.
^BlackQ did not participate in the Rain challenge due to his commitments with NewJeans comeback later that year.
^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.
^Despite dropping out of the show, Kim Jung-woo made his return and performed with all the members in this round.
^ 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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