Be Mbitious (Korean: 비앰비셔스) is a 2022 South Korean dance reality competition program created by Mnet. It aired from May 24 to 31, 2022. It is the first part of the male counterpart of Street Woman Fighter, and prequel to Street Man Fighter. The purpose of the show is to create a dance crew with male solo dancers to compete on Street Man Fighter. The new crew will be named Mbitious.[1]
Cast
The program is presented by Rain.[2] The dance judges are:
A total of 458 participants applied to the program. Only 40 were selected by special evaluators to compete in the program. Notable applicants who did not make the cut are Kim Samuel, B.A.P's Jong-up and Zelo, DKB's Hee-chan, and WetBoy.[a]
Contestants must learn and memorize two choreographies of "Hey Mama" by David Guetta created by Street Woman Fighter crews HolyBang and LACHICA. Contestants will then dance these choreographies back to back starting with HolyBang's choreography in groups of three to be evaluated by HolyBang and LACHICA. Each crew will then give each contestant either a "Respect" ranking or "Retry" ranking. A contestant must receive a "Respect" ranking from both crews to be able to pass the mission and be labeled a "RESPECT" dancer. "RESPECT" dancers may choose any non-"RESPECT" dancer as their opponent for the next round and label them as "NO RESPECT" dancers. If a contestant receives at least one "Retry" ranking, they must go back to the main area and try again. Contestants can only attempt to be evaluated twice. If a contestant receives a "Retry" Ranking on their second attempt, they are automatically labelled a "NO RESPECT" dancer. If a contestant goes to be evaluated and they have been chosen as a "NO RESPECT" dancer, they cannot be evaluated and must leave the evaluation room. This mission ends when 20 contestants pass as "RESPECT" dancers or when the time limit of 3 hours is over.
Final RESPECT/NO RESPECT List
RESPECT
Trandee Rock
Wootae
BROTHER BIN
Clown Maker
Bae Seung-yoon
Kasper
Cha Hyun-seung
Jinwoo
Kino
JIN
LIL'C
Tarzan
Jung Koo-sung
UKUN
Yamakasi
Lee Ho-won
Harry June
Tutat
U
Ciz
NO RESPECT
OHBODY
Kuro
Kim Jung-woo
XHIN
Ain
BM
Midnightblue
Byun Yong-seok
DAN
Roh Tae-hyun
Logan
Trexman
Austin
Kuma Shin
Crazy Kyo
Juki
Baek Jin
Biggle
Kim Pyoung-ya
5000
Mission 2: 1 on 1 Battle Evaluation
Each "RESPECT" dancer calls out their chosen "NO RESPECT" dancer. They will compete in a one on one battle with the winner advancing to the next round. The one on one battle consists of two parts, a choreography section and a freestyle section. For the choreography section, the "RESPECT" dancer will create a choreography to "SMF" by Changmo (Prod. Czaer) and then teach their opposing "NO RESPECT" dancer. Both dancers will then compete after some time of practice and will be evaluated by the dance judges. The dance judges will vote on who will advance to the next round, with the advancing contestants receiving an "IN". Each round will either have one or both contestants receiving an "OUT". A total of 20 contestants will be eliminated.
The final crew, Mbitious, will consist of 8 members. The members will be chosen through evaluation by a crew selection committee combined with an online popular vote.[3]
The Crew Selection Committee can award up to 600 points.
The voting period is from June 1, 2022, after the airing of the third episode to June 4, 2022, at 23:59 KST. [f] Scores are calculated as Views + Likes X 100. Contestants are ranked from this score and awarded points starting at 400 points for the highest score.
Final scores are calculated as the sum of the Crew Selection Committee's Score + Global Popular Vote Score
The final results were announced on the one-episode television special Be the SMF, presented by Kang Daniel.
Final rankings
Name
Public Score
Committee Score
Total
Ranking
Roh Tae-hyun (노태현)
400
482.7
882.7
1
PASS
5000 (오천)
201.6
578
779.6
2
PASS
Wootae (우태)
164.9
596.3
761.2
3
PASS
Tarzan (타잔)
136.2
599.9
736.1
4
PASS
Lee Ho-won (이호원)
243.2
492
735.2
5
PASS
Kim Pyoung-ya (김병야)
152.7
574.4
727.1
6
PASS
Kim Jung-woo (김정우)
214.6
494.9
709.5
7
PASS
Jinwoo (진우)
89.2
587.2
676.4
8
PASS
Trandee Rock (트렌디락)
140.4
530.6
671
9
Kino (키노)
145.7
524.5
670.2
10
BROTHER BIN (브라더빈)
103.7
553.6
657.3
11
DAN (단)
96.5
524.3
620.8
12
Bae Seung-yoon (배승윤)
171.4
442.6
614
13
XHIN (씬)
118.7
491.1
609.8
14
Biggle (비글)
88.1
501.3
589.4
15
Yamakasi (야마카시)
95.6
491.9
587.5
16
LIL'C (릴씨)
30.7
511.8
542.5
17
Harry June (해리준)
43.1
498
541.1
18
OHBODY (오바디)
61.1
466.3
527.4
19
UKUN (유쿤)
40.3
457.1
497.4
20
Cha Hyun-seung (차현승)
70.7
419.5
490.2
21
Numbers in bold for each score category denotes the top 8 highest scores.
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).
Sequel
Be the SMF
Be the SMF is a one-episode television special that preceded Street Man Fighter and aired on July 5, 2022. It announced the final eight members who will jointly make up the 'Mbitious' crew on SMF. It also revealed the 8 crews participating in Street Man Fighter.[5]
Street Man Fighter
In the final of Street Dance Girls Fighter on January 4, 2022, Mnet Drops 1st Teaser and confirmed "Street Man Fighter" where male dance crews fight for the position of Korea's best male dance crew to represent K-Dance to be released in August 2022.[6]
Notes
^All audition videos were posted on YouTube on THE CHOOM channel
^ abcdReceived a pass due to dance judges having to choose 3 additional contestants to pass since only 17 contestants receiving "IN" in the initial evaluation
^Initially, only 20 contestants are allowed to the next round but due to the consensus of the dance judges, an exception was made and the number of contestants advancing increased to 21
^ abUnaired battle. Battle was uploaded on YouTube to THE CHOOM channel.
^Videos were posted on YouTube on THE CHOOM channel on June 1. Restricted to only Korea
^"비 앰비셔스". Daum (in Korean). Retrieved May 31, 2022.
^"'비더스맨파' 엠비셔스 최종 8인→'스맨파' 8크루 공개...노제 "실력있는 분들" 응원" [The final 8 members of 'Be the SMF' → 8 crew members of 'SMF' will be released... Noze "skilled people" support]. tvReport (in Korean). Naver. July 6, 2022. Archived from the original on July 8, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.