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Announcing: Lance Prom

With the tour making it’s way through the United States, many idols who grew up in North America are starting to have deja vu, and while some lived there long enough to experience things regular teens and people would, most idols started training in South Korea at a very young age, missing out on things like prom, graduation, and other rites of passage in the USA.

With that in mind, Lance Kim (with the begrudging support of KBS, MNet, and the Vagabond tour manager) has decided to throw a prom during one of the nights in Los Angeles, to give the missed experience to all the American idols who missed out, and to let idols from elsewhere enjoy it too. 

Below the cut are the results of the Semi-Final of Unpretty Rapstar Season 3. While the vote and the points amassed over the season were taken into account, all of the pairings featured characters from the same mun, so at the end of the day, each mun picked which character they wanted to advance to the finale. To see who the final three are, click the Read More!

EPISODE ONE OUTLINE

It’s finally time to kick off Idol Project 2! EpisodeOone will mainly focus around introducing each trainee to the viewers, watching them settle into their dorm, and getting a feel for their personalities. Each company’s trainees will put on a performance, as sort of an introduction to the skill each company has to offer.

TASKS

To earn points for your trainee, please complete the following tasks. These are not mandatory, and can be done at any time and still be counted.

Weekly Confessional: post an interview or confessional about how your character feels about finally being here, and moving into the dorm.*

Drabble: Write a short drabble (IC or OOC) about your trainee’s audition, or auditions if they had to go through multiple. How they were feeling, how they were received, if they felt prepared enough ect.

Threads: threads to do with the show can earn you points too. Para threads (200+ words) are worth more points than gif chats and one liners. Threads played out to their completion are worth even more points too; if you finish a thread, submit the link to the last post to the Idol Project blog.

Self Paras: self-paras to do with the show (ie practicing, dorm life, self reflection, performances, calls home) can also earn you points. These can be done as often as you’d like as long as you provide some variety in the content.

Weekly Challenge: Each company has prepared a performance for the first episode. Songs were picked by their CEOs, and they had to figure out the details on their own. Write a short para (IC or OOC) about your character’s reaction to all of this– be it just the practice, or the performance as well.*

Tasks can be completed at any time. Episode-specific tasks are indicated with a little ‘*’ above, so when you complete them (even if you end up doing it in a few weeks or something), be sure to mark it as ‘EPISODE ONE’, be it as a title or in the info before your self para or something like that. Any completed tasks and challenges can be tagged ‘rivalsipdone’

WEEKLY PERFORMANCE

For this week’s performance, as stated above, each company’s trainees will perform as a unit, showcasing what that company has to offer. The CEOs picked the songs, and after that it was up to the trainees to learn the choreography and the lines. The performances are as follows:

ALPHA RECORDS’s trainees will be performing Helix’s “Voodoo Doll” DS MEDIA’s trainees will be performing Gemini’s “Last Romeo” NEW WAVE MUSIC’s trainees will be performing Nu’Est’s “Action” RADIOACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT’s trainees will be performing Legacy’s “War of Hormone” SPOTLIGHT PRODUCTIONS’s trainees will be performing B.O.W’s “Sherlock”

WEEKLY VOTE

This is for the entire roleplay, not just the trainees! VOTE HERE for your favorites! It will be noted that the popularity vote results affect the ranking very little. The vote is just for fun.

BREAKING: KBS And MNet Announce Global Tour Featuring Kpop’s Biggest Stars

It’s no secret that Kpop is an international phenomenon, with fans everywhere from Japan, to Brazil, to the USA and back, though it’s a rare occasion when international fans can see their favorite groups perform-- very few groups are graced with world tours, and those that are don’t get them very often, but KBS and MNet plan on bringing the music to you with their next big project; their most ambitious project yet. Teaming up together, also with Radioactive Entertainment, Spotlight Productions, DS Media, Alpha Records, 360 Studios and Gaia International, the companies are set to embark on a world tour, featuring artists from all six companies. 

Featuring stops in nearly 50 cities, across 27 countries, groups and soloists alike will travel together in a world tour, performing in day-long festivals at each stop. It’s been said that there will even be special performances-- trainee performances, collaborations, debuts and more!

The Vagabond Tour is set to begin on September 28th in Seoul, with all the artists involved releasing new songs just for the tour in the days beforehand. The festival will include meet & greets for lucky VIP fans with all their favorite groups. Models and Actors will act as hosts and entertainers too, and MNet has confirmed that VagabondTV will air on their channel, featuring highlights from the festivals throughout. 

More information will be released as Dispatch finds it, but the tour dates have been revealed-- tickets are now on sale!

Hotel Rooms

The admin team would very much like to thank everyone who filled out the little survey we posted a few days ago; it was very informative and helpful to receive your feedback, and we’re happy the tour is being received relatively positively thus far! If ever you have questions, concerns, or comments regarding the event, please do not hesitate to send them to the vagabond blog-- on or off anon.

One of the most common comments we got was with problems with time constraints; many people felt that there wasn’t enough time every day to do threads and keep up, and while we understand that, we cannot stretch out any of the days-- as it is the tour is four months long, and not only is it a huge time commitment to the admins (one that we’re not sure we can keep up beyond that), but we also don’t want to burden those who may not be enjoying the event. On that note, though, please do not feel as though you are restricted to doing threads in real time or relatively close do the date! If you see a special stage you are interested in doing a thread in, or would like to explore your character in a specific city, we encourage you to do threads and post starters and roleplay in past locations if you so desire! Just be sure to mark it clearly in the tags somewhere so those who are reading understand that the thread is happening elsewhere and in the past.

We’re doing our best to add variety and change things up with the daily posts, and we hope everyone is liking things so far!

WRAP UP POST

With Idol Project 3 slowly drawing to a close, it’s time for the last challenge. Before we outline that, though, we would like to thank everyone who invested so much time, effort, and interest into this task and made it so successful. It would not have existed without you guys wanting it too, so thank you.

On that note, the Idol project Finale Summary will be posted on September 18th, with the line up of the final group-- Syndicate-- being posted periodically throughout the day before the summary is posted. Syndicate will debut on September 19th.

The results as they stand are not final. If you wish to go back and do write ups of challenges or drabbles you missed in past episodes to earn points, you are totally allowed to do that! Those points will be recorded until Semptember 17th, which is also the deadline to finish the challenge as well.

This weeks challenge? One final confessional from your trainee, talking about their whole experience. What the show was like, the friendships they made, the rivalries. The stages they put on, the songs they released. Their hopes for the finale, their hopes for the future-- everything.