Street Woman Fighter 2

''Street Woman Fighter 2'' (), abbreviated as ''SWF2'', is the second season of the South Korean TV dance competition franchise ''Street Woman Fighter''. It aired on Mnet from August 22 to October 31, 2023, every Tuesday in the 22:20 KST time slot for 10 episodes.

It revolves around eight female dance crews fighting for the position of Korea's best female dance crew to represent street dance to the country (loosely marketed under the term "K-dance"). The winning crew (Bebe) received million, diamond rings from Amondz and the Street Woman Fighter 2 trophy.

Cast

The program is presented by Kang Daniel.

The dance judges of this season are:
* Shownu (Monsta X)
* Monika (Prowdmon)

In addition to the two dance judges, there are special judges for each mission:
* Mike Song (Kinjaz) (Missions 1–2, 7–8)
* Bae Yoon-Jung (Mission 3)
* Rie Hata (Mission 4)
* Aiki (Hook) (Mission 4)
* Honey J (Holy Bang) and Trix (Prime Kingz) (Mission 6)

Special guests

"Class" mission (episode 2)

* DJ Som
* Dynamic Duo
* Crush
* Taeyong and Ten ( NCT)
* Miyeon and Yuqi ((G)I-dle)
* Czaer

"K-pop Death Match" mission (episode 3–4)

* Chaewon, Kazuha, and Eunchae (Le Sserafim)
* Changbin, Han, and Bang Chan (Stray Kids/3Racha)

"Mega Crew" mission (episode 5–6)

* Sandara Park
* SinB (Viviz)
* Winter (Aespa)
* Yell ( YGX)
* Lip J (Prowdmon)
* Hyojin Choi (Want)
* Ingyoo, Insun, Kyungnam, Dophan, and Youngbin (WeDemBoyz)
* Young J and Howl (Just Jerk)

"Hwasa Choreography" mission (episode 7)

* Hwasa

"Battle Performance" mission (episode 8)

* Trix (Prime Kingz)
* Honey J (HolyBang)

"Global Artist" and "Ending Credit" missions (episode 10)

* Taeyong ( NCT)
* Kim Jae-hwan
* Nam Ji-hyun
* Back Koo-young (1Million)
* Hyojin Choi (Want)
* Trix (Prime Kingz)
* Zhang Hao, Sung Han-bin, Seok Matthew and Kim Taerae (Zerobaseone)
* Jaejae
* Kwak Yoon-gy
* Dawn Elizabeth Bennet (New Zealand Ambassador to South Korea)
* Yuju
* E-Jo and Ted (Eoddae)
* Limlala as Nilriria Kim (Lia Kim parody), Heo Min-jin as King Bada (Bada parody), Han Ji-won as Haribo (Harimu parody), Na Bo-ram as Gwein Gwein/Guilty Guilt (JJ parody), Yeon Ye-rim as Sadlic (Redlic parody), Kim Ri-an as Oh Deulodeuli/Quake (Audrey parody), Kim Ji-you as AllReddy Callreddy (Redy parody), Hyeji Daeji as Nom/The Guy (Nob parody) (''Street Gag Fighter 2'' comedians)
* Haesung and Ingyoo (WeDemBoyz)
* Mood Dok (YGX)
* LeoJ

Contestants

Color key:
* Leader
* Sub-Leader

Missions

Mission 1: "No Respect, Battle of the Weakest"

Each dancer points out a dancer from an opposing team that they can beat in a one-on-one dance battle. The chosen dancer is given a "No Respect" sticker for each time they are chosen.

* The named dancer points out a dancer they consider to be the weakest, and engages in a one-on-one dance battle for 40 seconds each.
* The named dancer goes first while the pointed out dancer goes second.
* At the end of the battle, the Fight Judges will determine the winner.
* Fight Judges can request a rematch when no winner can be decided. A rematch will take place if two or more judges cannot decide a winner or in the case of a 1:1 tie and the third judge cannot choose a winner. In the rematch, both dancers dance at the same time for 40 seconds.
* The winning dancer gives a NO RESPECT sticker of their respective crew color to the losing team, which is stuck on their crew fist.
* The team with the most losses are labeled as the NO RESPECT Crew.

Round two consists of two-on-two battles. Round three consists of five-on-five crew battles. A special round, "Ace Battle", was introduced. In Ace Battle, each team chose one Ace member. A random Ace member is chosen as an opponent and the other Ace members have 100 seconds to choose to battle them. If more than one Ace member challenges the chosen Ace member, one of them would be chosen at random. The rules are the same for all the rounds, but rematches consist of one-on-one battles and points for victories and defeats are doubled in Ace Battles.

Mission 2: "Class"

Each crew leader chooses five members, including themselves, to be split into four ranks. Each rank works together to create a dance video. Each rank only has one main dancer, who would be chosen by the judges. The rest would be back-up dancers in the video. Each dancer in a rank will create a short choreography that would be voted on by the members of their rank. The chosen choreography would be the one used to determine the main dancer.

* In charge of the center position, choreography, and directing the video for their rank.
* Receive 100 points for their crew.
* Will choose the "worst dancer" in their rank and they will battle it out to which of their teams will receive the "worst dancer" points.

Unlike previous seasons, individual scores were given out. The Fight Judges ranked the dancers of each class from 1st to 8th and the scores were based on those rankings. The Fight Judges will also choose the winner of the worst dancer battles similar to the "no respect" battles.

Color key:

Color key:
* Winner

Mission 3: "K-Pop Death Match"

Two crews compete using the same songs from one of the four main Korean entertainment companies: SM, JYP, YG, and HYBE. Each crew chooses which entertainment company they want to dance to and if three or more crews choose the same entertainment company, they will each choreograph a 30-second section of the selected songs, which will be judged and voted on by the non-competing crews. The two crews with the fewest votes will compete against each other for this round, while the losing crew will need to choose another available entertainment company, with the crew receiving the fewest votes getting to choose first. Each crew must also complete the Choreography Copy Challenge.

* There are two copy challenge sections in each song
* Of the two sections, each crew must take one section and create the choreography that the other team must "copy" and incorporate into their choreography
* If both crews want the same sections, they must discuss it among themselves

As part of the scoring, crews will perform their choreography in front of an audience, and the audience will choose the better choreography. The performance order will be determined by each entertainment company's performance director or artist representatives.

Color key:
* Loser

The crew with the higher score for each battle wins and avoids elimination, while the losing crew is nominated for elimination. Final scores are calculated as the sum of the ''Fight Judges' Score'' + ''Audience Score'' + ''Global Popular Vote Score'' + ''Class Mission Score''.

* Fight Judges' score: Total of 150 points split between both crews.
* Audience Score: 50 points to the crew with the most votes from the live audience.
* Global Popular Vote score: Voting period from June 23 to 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM KST. Score calculated as ''Views'' + ''Likes X 100'' + ''Mnet Plus Votes X 100''.
* Class Mission score: 200 points for first place, then deducting 10 points for each lower rank.

Color key:
* Winner

The losing crews – Deep N Dap, Mannequeen, Wolf'Lo, and Tsubakill – were chosen as candidates for elimination. The two crews that placed in 7th and 8th rank, which were Wolf'Lo and Tsubakill, were automatically placed in the elimination battle.

* Best of 5:
** Round 1 – Crew
** Round 2 – Ace
** Round 3 – Leader
** Round 4 – Duet
** Round 5 – Hidden
* At the end of each round, the Fight Judges determine the winner.
* The first crew to win three rounds is safe from elimination, while the losing crew is eliminated.

Mission 4: "Mega Crew"

The remaining crews competed in a Mega Crew mission where each crew selects a theme on which to base their own choreography and perform it with a minimum of 30 performers including themselves. The two crews that selected the same theme compete against each other with the winner receiving extra points. Crews personally recruited their mega crew performers. Each crew has 3 directors, of which one of the 3 was the crew's leader.

Final scores were calculated as the sum of the ''Fight Judges' Score'' + ''Public Vote Score''.

* Fight Judges' Score: Each judge awards up to ''400'' points to each three directors of each crew totaling up to ''1200'' points.
* Global Popular Vote Score: Voting period from September 12, 2023, at 12:30 AM KST to September 19, 2023, at 6:00 PM KST. Score calculated as ''Views'' + ''Likes X 100''. Crews are ranked from this score and awarded points starting at ''500'' points for the highest score.
* The winning crew on each theme match-up will receive an extra 100 points.
* If a crew does not meet the minimum number of crew members on their team (including the participants), the leader of the crew will get 100 points deduction from the Fight Judges' Score.

Color key:
* Winner

At the end of the Mega Crew mission, the two crews with the lowest total points competed in the second elimination battle.

* Best of 7:
** Round 1 – Hidden
** Round 2 – 1v1 (winner of last round will choose their representative first)
** Round 3 – 1v1 (winner of last round will choose their representative first)
** Round 4 – 5v5
** Round 5 – Ace
** Round 6 – 2v2
** Round 7 – Leader
* At the end of each round, the Fight Judges determine the winner.
* The first crew to win four rounds will advance to the next round, while the losing crew is eliminated.

Mission 5: "Hwasa Choreography Mission"

Each crew created a new choreography for Hwasa's new single "Chili". Points distribution was based on online voting (up to 400 points) plus additional points for the crew with the most views. Additionally, the crew whose choreography was chosen by Hwasa would have the benefit of directing the music video, and the crew whose choreography video receives the most likes would receive 100 extra points. 1Million's choreography was chosen and the crew directed the "Chili" music video.

* Global Popular Vote Score: 250-400 points possible. The crew with the most views received a total of 400 points, while 2nd to 6th place crews had 30 points deducted per rank. The voting period was from October 3 to October 10, 2023, at 12:00 AM KST. Voting was based on the number of YouTube likes and 'Mnet Plus' voting. Views due to video campaign promotion and various abuse were not included in the count. Voting within the 'Mnet Plus' app could only be done once a day. Multiple voting is possible, but duplicate voting is not possible. (One could vote again at 12:00 AM KST)
* Hwasa's pick: The crew which choreography was selected received an additional 100 points.
* Additional points for the Chili Challenge: the crew with the most of social media challenges received an additional 100 points.
* Total possible points for this mission was 600 points.

Mission 6: "Battle Performance Mission"

The remaining 6 crews were paired against each other to compete in this round. Each crew prepared a dance performance where they picked the first song while the second song was from the opposing crew's performance preview song. The winning crew received additional points in this round.

Final scores were calculated as the sum of the Fight Judges' Score + Global Popular Vote Score + Audience Vote Score + Cumulative points from Hwasa's Choreography Mission.

* Fight Judges' Score: Each judge gave 10 points to the crew they selected to win on each match-up (Up to 30 points possible).
* Audience Votes: The crew with the higher vote count from the audience on each match-up received 70 points.
* Global Popular Vote Score: Up to 500 points possible. 1st place received 500 points, while 2th to 6th place crews had 30 points deducted per rank. The voting period was from October 10–13, 2023, at 12:00 AM KST. The global rating score was calculated as the sum of likes X 100 and views of the evaluation video posted on YouTube's The CHOOM channel, and Mnet Plus vote X 100. Views due to video campaign promotion and various abuse were not included in the count. Voting within the 'Mnet Plus' app could only be done once a day. Multiple voting was possible, but duplicate voting was not possible. (You can vote again at 12:00 AM KST)
* Total possible points for this mission was 1200 points (cumulative scores for the Battle Performance + Hwasa Choreography Mission was included).

As the lowest scoring crew, Wolf'Lo was automatically eliminated. In contrast, as the 5th place team, Mannequeen, was automatically placed in the elimination battle. The crew that ranked 1st, Bebe, was given the ability to choose Mannequeen's opponent out of the remaining 3 crews. LadyBounce was chosen as the second candidate for elimination.

* Best of 7:
** Round 1 – Hidden
** Round 2 – 1v1 (winner of last round will choose their representative first)
** Round 3 – Secret Round (3v3 Relay Dance Battle; the crew will randomly select 3 members to compete depending on what music the DJ will play.)
** Round 4 – 5v5
** Round 5 – 1v1 (winner of last round will choose their representative first)
** Round 6 – 2v2 (winner of last round will choose their representative first)
** Round 7 – Leader
* At the end of each round, the Fight Judges determine the winner.
* The first crew to win four rounds is safe from elimination, while the losing crew is eliminated.

Mission 7: "Global Artist Mission"

Each crew created a choreography from the following artists: Rihanna, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande. Prior to the live episode, each team selected an artist's song they would like to perform with. In the event that more than one team selects the same artist, all contestants each voted for the team whose artist would best suit their performance. The remaining teams not chosen made a 2nd artist selection for their performance.

* Live Broadcast Vote Score (80%): The crew with the highest score received 800 points, then 2nd to 4th place crews had 30 points deducted per rank. Voting was done via SMS (limited within South Korea only). Voting for multiple crews was allowed. No duplicate voting for the same crew was allowed.
* Crew Performance Vote (20%): The crew with the highest score received 200 points, then 2nd to 4th place crews had 10 points deducted per rank.
* The team with the most total cumulative score from both Ending Credit and Global Artist missions was declared the show's winner.

Color key:
* Team with the most votes gets to perform Beyonce's choreography

Mission 8: "Ending Credit"

The finalists each portrayed and showcased the best concept, color, identity, and characteristics of their team. This mission tried to prove each crew's uniqueness and world-class expertise as they put their all into this final performance.

* Live Broadcast Vote Score (80%): The crew with the highest score received 800 points, then 2nd to 4th place crews were deducted 50 points per rank. Voting was done via SMS (limited within South Korea only). Voting for multiple crews was allowed. No duplicate voting for the same crew was allowed.
* Crew Performance Vote (20%): The crew with the highest score received 200 points, then 2nd to 4th place crews were deducted 10 points per rank.
* The team with the most total cumulative score from both Ending Credit and Global Artist missions were declared the show's winner.

: Indicates winner of ''Street Woman Fighter 2''
: Indicates the 2nd place crew
: Indicates the 3rd place and 4th place crews

Final ranking

Original soundtrack

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Viewership

Awards and nominations

Spin-offs

'' Street Dance Girls Fighter 2''

Following the conclusion of ''Street Woman Fighter 2'' on October 31, Mnet officially announced that ''Street Dance Girls Fighter'' would also return for its second season on November 21, at 10 pm KST.

''Street Woman Fighter 2: World Wide Log''

This is an observational reality show that delves into the global lifestyle of the crews that dominated the Korean dance scene and will show the members' hidden charms. It is often abbreviated as SWF2.

Notes

References

External links

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