Xodiac storms from fifth to first in OST MATCH POINT vote twist
Xodiac tops the OST MATCH POINT Season 2 idol prelims with 22,721 votes, joining N.SSign and AHOF in the Love Is Coming finals.
A dramatic reversal occurred just before the deadline. The idol category preliminaries for 'OST MATCH POINT' Season 2—a project to select official singers for the new KBS 2TV weekend drama 'Love Is Coming'—concluded at 3 PM on the 13th.
Intense voting before deadline pushes Xodiac to 1st place with 22,721 votes
The real highlight was the shift in rankings right before the cutoff. As of the 10:40 AM count on the 13th, AHOF was in 1st place with 15,793 votes, while Xodiac sat in 5th place with 7,650 votes. However, as the deadline approached, a concentrated surge of voting from the Xodiac fandom flipped the rankings.
According to the final tally, Xodiac advanced to the finals as the 1st place qualifier with 22,721 votes (22.9%). N.SSign took 2nd place with 22,357 votes (22.6%), and AHOF followed in 3rd with 21,539 votes (21.7%). The gap between 1st place Xodiac and 3rd place AHOF is 1,182 votes. ONE PACT failed to advance to the finals, recording 15,168 votes in 4th place.
The top 10 list for the idol category preliminaries is: ▲1st Xodiac (22,721 votes) ▲2nd N.SSign (22,357 votes) ▲3rd AHOF (21,539 votes) ▲4th ONE PACT (15,168 votes) ▲5th Flare U (11,343 votes) ▲6th DKB (2,283 votes) ▲7th TN (1,726 votes) ▲8th Plave (471 votes) ▲9th Lun8 (411 votes) ▲10th And2ble (299 votes).
Finalists Xodiac, N.SSign, and AHOF continue diverse activities
The top three teams advancing to the finals are currently maintaining active schedules. The 1st place group, Xodiac, is a 9-member group under JACSO Entertainment that released their third mini-album 'Phantom Fire' this past June.
The 2nd place group, N.SSign, is a 7-member team formed through the audition program 'Youth Star.' They released the single 'Funky Like Me' this year and are currently conducting a tour in Japan.
The 3rd place group, AHOF, is under F&F Entertainment. To celebrate their first anniversary, they recently released their third EP 'Run To You' and are currently carrying out their first international tour, 'The First Spark.'
Final voting begins at noon on the 14th
Hosted by bnt and organized by Yogurtt Studio and Re-match, with cooperation from the global fandom platform 'JK FANDOM,' this project reflects real-time rankings by combining voting data from the Re-match app and JK FANDOM onto an integrated website.
Following the preliminaries held from June 29 to 3 PM on July 13, the final voting will begin at noon on the 14th and close at 3 PM on the 24th.
