It has been concluded that there's no proof of manipulation in Girls Planet 999 final results

Quote from bartkun

and two years later we will learn that some CEO ordered his office workers to create 1000 fake accounts

and vote for their trainee

Well, there was no manipulation from Mnet's side which is all that matters I guess

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I mean you can tell by the results this is what the fans wanted. Mnet rigged in a more legal way by giving Koreans more voting power over the other i-fans AND they switched to one-pick votes so that's why there were some sudden drops for the finale.

Mnet influenced the winning group with edits and rules but I think some girls still overcame their attempts and made it

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btw I'm also curious how would results look if votes wouldn't be reseted after each round

how much ranking would change, and what ranks would Xiaoting and Yurina have

On one hand I'm interested too, but on another that would make it impossible for less popular trainees to ever catch up, even if they showed off their talents later off, were aces or even improved drastically, because fans would have to compensate for like 6 episodes and that's impossible.

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Mnet didn’t rig the lineup but clearly was shady they favored some trainees we can tell

Editing is so important