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I-Land 2: N/a

I-Land2: N/a (Korean: 아이랜드 2; stylized in all caps) is an ongoing South Korean girl group survival reality competition series created by Mnet in collaboration with WakeOne and The Black Label. It is a sequel to I-Land, which created Enhypen. It premiered on Mnet on April 18, 2024, and airs every Thursday at 20:50 (KST) and will follow the process of creating a new girl group. The resulting girl group will be trained and managed under WakeOne and become their first non-temporary girl group with a standard contract.

Concept

In a setup similar to last season, twenty-four trainees are brought to a complex in the middle of a lush green forest. They will stay in either "I-Land" or "Ground". I-Land is a modern three-floor building with living spaces, a gym, dance studios, an item room for storage, a make-up room, and individual practice rooms. However, only 12 contestants can stay there. The remaining contestants will be sent to a simpler building called "Ground," which only has a dance studio, locker room, and dining area. They will have to commute to and from "I-Land" every day at fixed times.

I-Land, and the stage where contestants' skills will be evaluated, known as the I-Stage, are connected by a gate, known as the Meta Ball. Ground is a short walk from the other two connected buildings. The show's concept revolves around the contestants' and producers' votes, which play a crucial role in deciding who stays in I-Land and who goes to the Ground. Because I-Land can only accommodate 12 trainees, the trainees may be dropped and demoted to the Ground and promptly replaced by trainees from the Ground.

This season, a fox-like AI creature named NAsuri will accompany the trainees and serve as the show's mascot. For this season, the audience will be known as I-Mates. The title of this season's signal song is "Final Love Song", which is a rendition of "The Final Countdown" by Europe.

Background and promotion

On July 9, 2023, Mnet officially confirmed they plan to air I-Land 2 in the first half of 2024. Additionally, they announced the opening of global auditions for girls born before January 1, 2011, and a global audition tour was held in 10 countries and 13 cities.

A second season of I-Land was promoted since 2020 as a collaboration with Belift Lab and Hybe. This initial plan eventually fell through, and Belift Lab instead produced R U Next?.

On September 18, 2020, during the finale of the first season of I-Land, at the very end during the credits, it was revealed that auditions would begin shortly in preparation for debuting a girl group. An online audition called 'WWW Untact Audition' was held in December 2020.
On September 27, 2021, Mnet, Belift Lab and HYBE revealed the first teaser video announcing a new season to be called 'I-Land 2' and a global online audition was to be held in seven locations: Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the United States. The applicant submissions began on September 27 and ended on October 10. Any female born before December 31, 2009, regardless of nationality or place of residence, were eligible to apply and over 141,227 applications were received. For those who passed the first round, a real-time video call audition was held from October 24 to November 21 and the final candidates were selected through another audition.

On July 15, 2022, Mnet said that they had decided to temporarily postpone the airing of the show which was scheduled to air in 2022".

On July 24, 2023, Mnet announced that they would collaborate with producer Teddy Park and his label The Black Label. On November 28, on the first day of the 2023 MAMA Awards, Mnet revealed that I-LAND 2 will premiere in April 2024. On February 5, 2024, it was revealed through the media that I-LAND 2 had attracted around 20,000 applicants from a global audition tour that ended in October 2023. On March 11, it was announced that the show will premiere on April 18, while the show's producers and performance directors were revealed to be BIGBANG's Taeyang, dancers Monika and Lee Jung, and producers 24 and VVN a week later.

Cast

Episodes

Contestants

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Missions

Part 1

Entrance Test

The contestants are to perform a song in groups. However, unlike the first season, the producers and directors will vote for those deemed worthy to go to I-Land. If a contestant receives three or more votes, they get the chance to go to I-Land; otherwise, they go to Ground. However, if more than 12 contestants received enough votes to get a chance to go to I-Land after the entrance test is complete, those who were voted to enter I-Land must choose a certain number, based on the number of producer and director votes received, of contestants among themselves to keep in I-Land. Those with the fewest votes would be moved to Ground until only 12 remain.

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I-Land
Contestant moved to "I-Land" but was voted off and moved to "Ground"
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Signal Song Test

Each I-Lander gets graded individually by the producers and the directors, based on how well they executed their part(s) in the Signal Song (Final Love Song). The average score that the I-Landers receive as a team determines how many elimination candidates there can be; the lower the average score, the more elimination candidates there would be. The I-Landers received an average score of 84(.5), therefore three I-Landers would get moved out of I-Land by their own votes. Each I-Lander would receive three votes to use to choose who to keep in I-Land. The three I-Landers with the fewest votes would be demoted to Ground, which would open up three spots in I-Land. The producers and directors would then watch the Grounders performance and choose three of them to replace the demoted I-Landers.

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Contestant got promoted to I-Land by producer and director choice
Contestant got demoted to Ground by I-Lander vote

Seesaw Game

For this mission, both the I-Landers and the Grounders will be divided into two units. The units will be decided based on whoever the I-Landers and Grounders partnered up with; in other words, partners cannot be in the same unit. Both I-Land and Ground will each get two songs, for a total of four songs. The I-Landers received Whistle by Blackpink and Panorama by Iz*One, while the Grounders received Red Velvet's Bad Boy and Like Ooh-Ahh by Twice. Each contestant is graded individually and the combined score of all six members determines the unit score. In I-Land, if one unit defeats the other, by having a higher unit score, the defeated unit will all move down to Ground, while for Ground, the winning unit will all go up to I-Land. Following the relocation of contestants from I-Land to Ground and vice versa, the first elimination of the show will take place; the two members with the lowest scores from either of the losing units would be eliminated from the show.

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Winning Team, I-Land
Losing Team, Ground
Eliminated from the show

Unit Battle

For this mission, both the I-Landers and the Grounders will have to divide themselves up into three units, a vocal unit consisting of two people, a dance unit consisting of three people, and a creative unit consisting of the rest of I-Land or Ground. The I-Land unit of one category would go up against the respective matching unit from Ground. The vocal units receive one song each, the dance units, two each, and the creative units get the same song. The creative unit has the extra job of creating their own choreography for the song they receive. If an I-Land unit loses to the matching Ground unit, three members from I-Land would be demoted down to Ground following all of the performances. This would make for a maximum of nine contestants' demotions from I-Land. The demoted contestants would be decided by whichever contestants had the lowest scores from I-Land, and the promoted contestants would be decided by whichever contestants had the highest scores from Ground. Following the relocation of contestants from I-Land to Ground and vice versa, the second elimination of the show would take place; the two members from Ground with the lowest individual scores would be eliminated from the show.

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Winning Team
Losing Team
Contestant got promoted from Ground to I-Land
Contestant got demoted from I-Land to Ground
Eliminated from the show

1:1 Position Battle

Right after the relocation of contestants from the results of the Unit Battle, the producers make a lyric writing mini mission for the contestants for the original song, I Will Always Love You (IWALY). The winner of this mission gets their written lyrics featured in the song, their name featured as a co-lyricist of the song, and the benefit of choosing whatever part they want, regardless of what the other contestants chose for their desired part, when it came time to choose for this mission. After Fuko is revealed as the winner of the lyric writing mini mission, the I-Landers are to choose their desired team and parts, in the order of the formulated producer ranking. After the other 11 contestants have chosen their desired parts, Fuko, as the winner of the mini mission, gets to choose whatever part she wanted, therefore moving the contestant who previously selected that part to the final empty part of the mission. The contestants who selected the same part on different teams, e.g. Center Team A and Center Team B, are compared by the producers and the winner of the comparison automatically advances to Part 2 of I-Land 2. The loser of the comparison gets demoted to Ground and no Grounders will replace the demoted contestants.

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Advanced to Part 2 (Producer's Pick)

1st Save Vote

The Grounders, after the final mission of Part 1, have been waiting to find out the results of the first I-Mates Save Vote, where each viewer can vote for 6 contestants that they want to advance to Part 2 daily. A total of 50% of each contestant's points are based on Korean votes and the other 50% is based on international votes. The two vote counts would be added together and converted into a points total for each contestant. The contestants with the top 6 highest points total would automatically advance to Part 2, while the rest of the contestants would be eliminated from the show.

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Advanced to Part 2
Eliminated from the show

Part 2

The second part of the show will decide the final six members of the debut group. Within I-Land, the 12 contestants who advanced from the first part will all be assigned rooms based on their ranking; the higher the ranking, the better the amenities their room will contain. In addition, the producers can now watch the trainees prepare for each test in real time in a secret room within the I-Land building. Immediately after each test, the results of each contestant will be revealed. The top six trainees will all wear a badge that symbolizes the debut group, and the ownership of the badge can change depending on who makes it to the top six.

Black Made Test

For this mission, the contestants were divided up by the producers into three groups of four, and each group was automatically given a song, without opinion from any of the contestants. Each unit's leader was automatically decided by the producers as well, while the contestants in each group decided the parts amongst themselves. Instead of performing on the I-Stage from Part 1, on the side of the Meta Ball where the I-Stage used to be were three trucks to transport the contestants to a new performance location. Each contestant was scored individually, 50% of their points came from the 233 I-Mates votes who attended the performance in real time, and the other 50% of their points came from the producer-given score. The I-Mate score is determined by how many votes each contestant gets, the contestant with the most votes, or first place, would get 100 points and each place downwards would get two points less, until twelfth place, getting 78 points. The producer-given score would then be added onto the I-Mate score and the sum would become their total score. The contestants are then ordered by their total score for their rankings following the Black Made Test.

Main Position Test

For this mission, the contestants were divided up by the producers into four groups of varying numbers of contestants, and each group was automatically given a song, also by the producers. Each unit's leader was the contestant with the highest ranking from the previous mission. The parts for this mission were chosen by the contestants in their ranking order. Each contestant was scored individually, 50% of their points came from the 300 I-Mates votes who attended the performance in real time, and the other 50% of their points came from the producer-given score. The I-Mate score is determined by how many votes each contestant gets, the contestant with the most votes, or first place, would get 100 points and each place downwards would get two points less, until twelfth place, getting 78 points. The producer-given score would then be added onto the I-Mate score and the sum would become their total score. The contestants are then ordered by their total score for their rankings following the Main Position Test.