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There was a slight snippet where Liang Liang was portraying Sun Wukong and his Wukong headband wasn’t properly fixed and fell to eye level while dancing to block his sight. I guess it’s not something proud to depict the glory of Sun Wukong in the history of Chinese culture since this part of battle is heavily promoting Chinese culture, and the significance of the Wukong headband that is so well respected.

He definitely light up the environment. The Nikki session was full of awkwardness in Lay, Yibo & Bouboo with many fans guessing that it should be related to the Converse event controversies incident between Lay, Nikki & Bouboo last year and Bouboo-Nikki’s separation.

Follow this week’s coming Day Day Up variety show that Yibo hosts every week. He brought in George and Bouboo to this week’s episode to battle.

Love o2o has stronger hype back in 2016-17. YY won a lot of awards and he also appeared in solo concerts or gala performances singing and dancing. He is more low profile now, only appearing in major drama once in a while and no stage performances, big variety show or massive advertisements. Also now there is other big stars like Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo who is on the rise and are much more active than YY, dominating the major market.

That should be the direction. At this time last year, it’s water and fire stage battle already.

Captains cypher seem to be too heavy loaded with popping. Was hoping that there’s a balance of varieties during that cypher session. Nevertheless, great episode and showmanship by the captains esp YiBo & YiXing

Song by Wang Lee Hom 落叶归根. You can use Shazam app to identify songs

Really miss the lively Jackson Wang and his humour. Hotpot episodes are not the same without him

AC blast the atmosphere so perfectly. Love that spirit. Even captains had fun interacting with AC.

Their age has way passed college student. Might be too matured for Yang Yang to be Xiao Nai again now.

Perhaps a transparent judging criteria should be tabled before the battle begins to be fair

It does relate to current development of a country. China is advancing and trending with their financial technology, aerospace, esports, huge fan base enough to impact the economy - hence they have a lot of dramas like that. Likewise for HK, it’s always police, forensic investigation, firemen, lawyer, business tycoons. Haha what’s next?

The rocket scene probably gotten permission from chinese government to reuse one of their many actual launches like Tiangong. They look the same to me.

It is pre-recorded and edited before broadcast. Filming of the battle started back in June/July and is still ongoing

When it comes to Chinese-Korean collab, it is less likely to get released at the moment. Even the late Godfrey Gao’s show - Wedding Bible cannot be released despite him no longer being with us. That should also be the same reason the many Chinese kpop idols disbanded, left South Korea and return to mainland to expand their career.

From the short clips, they made it looked like Bouboo was eliminated. If Bouboo got eliminated at such early stage, something is not right somewhere. I hope there won’t be any favourism in the end.

During the press conference’s Guess-The-Dancer game, Yibo & Yixing showed so much understanding in dancers’ strength and their signature dance moves. Love their spirit and how well they know the dancers of every team. Kinda miss Jackson Wang’s energy together with Yixing and Yibo in sessions like this.

Couldn’t agree more! I cannot understand their decision and at some point I felt bad for the team that put in much harder effort to showcase difficult moves.