Soompi K-pop Idol Vocalist Challenge: Round 2

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Round 3 has begun: Soompi K-Pop Idol Vocalist Challenge: Round 3 Hello Soompiers, and welcome back to the K-Pop Idol Vocalist Challenge! Round 1 has wrapped up with very few surprises. SM made a strong showing as always, with eight out of nine contestants proceeding to Round 2 (sorry, Jonghyun, we still love you!). Of the soloists, Ailee dominated the votes, but IU also managed to scrape through, competing against Lee Hi for a second-place finish in the Blue group. In each bracket, we placed two well-known idol singers with a third singer who tended to receive less recognition with Soompiers. The only singer in this category to make it through was 2AM's Jokwon, who competed against VIXX's Ken for the second-place finish in the Violet group. Jokwon's bandmate Changmin almost made it through, but was defeated by BIG BANG's Daesung for the second-place position. Full results are as follows: Pink 1 1st place: Super Junior Yesung Pink 2 1st place: Infinite Sungkyu Pink 2nd place: SHINee Onew Red 1 1st place: Girls' Generation Taeyeon Red 2 1st place: f(x) Luna Red 2nd place: BIG BANG Daesung Orange 1 1st place: EXO Baekhyun Orange 2 1st place: FT ISLAND Hongki Orange 2nd place: BIG BANG Taeyang Yellow 1 1st place: JYJ Junsu Yellow 2 1st place: SISTAR Hyorin Yellow 2nd place: MBLAQ G.O Green 1 1st place: EXO Chen Green 2 1st place: Ailee Green 2nd place: WINNER Seungyoon Light Blue 1 1st place: B.A.P Daehyun Light Blue 2 1st place: A Pink Eunji Light Blue 2nd place: CNBLUE Yonghwa Blue 1 1st place: BEAST Yoseob Blue 2 1st place: INFINITE Woohyun Blue 2nd place: IU Violet 1 1st place: TVXQ Changmin Violet 2 1st place: Super Junior Kyuhyun Violet 2nd place: 2AM Jokwon Finally, we'd like to apologize for our handling of the tournament thus far. We ran Round 1 in two halves, and in both halves we made a mistake with the way the polls were set up, so the polls did not shut down automatically when the voting deadline passed. In both cases, the polls ran more than 24 hours after they were supposed to have closed. We felt that it was necessary to honor the deadline, so we exported and deleted the votes (this being the quickest way to deal with the thousands of votes that came in after the deadline). So it may seem that the results were not transparent, but we stand by the accuracy, and hope they can be verified by our audience. Now we proceed to Round 2! To vote, please go to the next page, watch the video clips, and make your choice for the best K-pop vocalist! The second round will end on Monday, February 9, 10 a.m. KST. You can vote once per round every 12 hours. We will be clearing out spam votes, so don’t even bother! Don't worry too much if your favorite artist doesn't move on – we will be incorporating some "staff saves" in Round 3. Happy voting! Pink 1 1st place: Super Junior Yesung Pink 2 1st place: Infinite Sungkyu Pink 2nd place: SHINee Onew [polldaddy poll="8637481"] Red 1 1st place: Girls' Generation Taeyeon Red 2 1st place: f(x) Luna Red 2nd place: BIG BANG Daesung [polldaddy poll="8637483"] Orange 1 1st place: EXO Baekhyun Orange 2 1st place: FT ISLAND Hongki Orange 2nd place: BIG BANG Taeyang [polldaddy poll="8637485"] Yellow 1 1st place: JYJ Junsu Yellow 2 1st place: SISTAR Hyorin Yellow 2nd place: MBLAQ G.O [polldaddy poll="8637488"] Green 1 1st place: EXO Chen Green 2 1st place: Ailee Green 2nd place: WINNER Seungyoon [polldaddy poll="8637490"] Light Blue 1 1st place: B.A.P Daehyun Light Blue 2 1st place: A Pink Eunji Light Blue 2nd place: CNBLUE Yonghwa [polldaddy poll="8637492"] Blue 1 1st place: BEAST Yoseob Blue 2 1st place: INFINITE Woohyun Blue 2nd place: IU [polldaddy poll="8637493"] Violet 1 1st place: TVXQ Changmin Violet 2 1st place: Super Junior Kyuhyun Violet 2nd place: 2AM Jokwon [polldaddy poll="8637495"]

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