Honestly, this show has been a big waste of time and investment. I was initially was really looking forward to the show as it seemed to be really interesting and the girls were obviously quite talented, and the first episode it seemed really promising as it was really quite smoothly run and not many mistakes were seen in the trainees performances. In the later episodes, the show really started to show its true colors, it feels too rushed as the girls seemed to always feel the need to rush practice and recording to the point where their initial hope, excitement and optimism about the competition started to fate and turn to misery and depression. It can be seen in Chanelle in the later episodes, it really shows how the competition is taking a toll on her confidence, self-esteem and mental well-being. The show seemed to have already have a pre-debut line up planned out and is just using this show to make money of the girls and give light to the already decided line-up which is absurd to me because, why did you have to exploit 22 young girls' dreams and passion just to throw it all away. There is obvious favourtism to one particular trainee, specifically wonhee, since the judges have always had negative things to say about other talented contestants for making mistakes, but when wonhee does the same, she wouldn't be criticsed, obviously she was already planned to debut in the line up no matter what, which i find that you are choosing beauty over talents and plus wonhee is a minor and with not much talent but they are letting her debut because she is pretty.
Personally, watching this show has been really a waste of time since i've voted tirelessly for my picks and for what? for them to be eliminated in the end because of the obvious rigging happening, i've been through 3 girls and all of them have been eliminated (Ruka, Chanelle and Jiwoo). I have voted for them tirelessly, yet they have been eliminated.
I still am skeptical of this show since Chanelle despite ranking 1st in many different countries, is still eliminated while wonhee only ranking 1st in both korea and japan is somehow still in the show, let alone debuted.