#rkjan20eval
A new decade has just begun and all the five companies’ teams are already working restlessly to put together and execute their strategies and plans for this year that not only involve their active artists but also trainees. As always, the start of a new era comes with high hopes of progress and development and there is no better day to put some resolutions in action and start shaping your own future than today.
In each company, coaches gather their trainees on the first day of the month in the practice room they should know well at this point to pass a message from the superiors. Motivational ‘New Year’ speech aside, they emphasize that the CEOs are looking for results and that it’s fundamental that they are ready if they don’t want to miss out opportunities. “With this in mind, we’ll divide you in male and female groups and you will work on improving some aspect of your performance skills as a group, not individuals, because if you were to debut today, we don’t need a group unable to dance or sing properly, nor we want trainees relaying on this one person to do the dance or hit the notes. You should be the best version of yourselves and be capable of doing well.”
Continuing, they explain that trainees will be sent to camps in Seoul for three days (from January 10 to 12) to focus on the determined area the coaches decide to be the groups’ weakness. The camps consist in Vocals (Singing & Rapping) and Performance (Dance & Stage Presence) and at the end of the month, trainees will show off their improvements in a performance they will put together at the camp under specialized coaches’ supervision. Vans will be waiting outside the companies at 6 a.m. on the 10th to drop them at the camp and they are instructed to take casual and comfortable clothes, but only the necessary.
Once they return to the normal schedules on the 13th, they are expected to resume training but continue practicing for the evaluation. At the end of the month, the 31st, coaches will be waiting for them in a practice room to watch, record and take notes of the performances as usual. All CEOs and directors will watch the tapes later as they make decisions for the upcoming months and years, so it’s smart to make good use of the special lessons.
Below the cut you can find more details on the camp.
In order to collect +2 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH and+2 DEBUT POINTS, write one 250+ words solo or a four-post thread with another trainee about your muse’s experience at the camp. For +3 POINTS IN A RELEVANT SKILL,+2 DEBUT POINTSand+1WK RELEVANT ACHIEVEMENT, write one 300+ words solo regarding their performance at the end of the month. Please tag all your posts with #rkjan20evaland have them up by midnight EST at the end of Friday, January 31st. Threads may be continued after the deadline, but points can only be collected if the requirements are met before it.
JANUARY EVALUATION (for the FEBRUARY 5 verification form)
[link to thread or solo about camp experience]
+2 ___ POINTS
+2 DEBUT POINTS
NEW DEBUT POINTS TOTAL:[link to solo about performance]
+3 ___ (RELEVANT) POINTS
+2 DEBUT POINTS
+1WK ___ (RELEVANT) ACHIEVEMENT (number of times taken + current level)
NEW DEBUT POINTS TOTAL:
PS: The “weaknesses” refer to the group as a whole or decided by other factors in balanced cases and does not necessarily reflect the trainee skill.
Special Schedule
Vocal group:
- 7:00 am - breakfast
- 8:00 am - core strengthening + cardio exercises
- 9:00 am - break
- 10:00 am - singing lessons
- 12:00 am - lunch
- 1:00 pm - rap lessons
- 3:00 pm - practice time
- 7:00 pm - dinner
- 8:00 pm - breathing lessons
- 8:30 pm - free to rest
Performance group:
- 7:00 am - breakfast
- 8:00 am - stretch
- 8:30 am - dance conditioning
- 9:30 am - break
- 10:30 am - dance lessons
- 1:00 pm - lunch
- 2:00 pm - stage presence lessons
- 3:00 pm - practice time
- 7:00 pm - dinner
- 8:00 pm - breathing lessons
- 8:30 pm - free to rest
Groups
- KT Boys - performance / song: We Must Love - ONF (reference)
- KT Girls - performance / song: Picky Picky - Weki Meki (reference)
- Royal Boys - vocals / song: Sign - GOT7 (reference)
- Royal Girls - performancce / song: Loca - Favorite (reference)
- Sphere Boys - performance / song: Poison - VAV (reference)
- Sphere Girls - vocals / song: Be Myself - Gugudan (reference)
- TRC Boys - performance / song: Cherry Bomb - NCT 127 (reference)
- TRC Girls - performance / song: Remember Me - Oh My Girl (reference)
- Nova Boys - vocals / song: Stay - Blackpink (reference)
- Nova Girls - vocals / song: Be The Star - Pristin (reference)
* line distributions can be found here and centers here.
Rooming
KT Boys (Experimental group):
- Room 1: Taemin, Jimin, Seonghwa, Sungho, Hyunjin
- Room 2: Youngmin, Minhyuk, Jongdae, Youngho
KT Boys: Jeongguk, Haruto, Jaehyun
KT Girls: Naeun, Nayeon, Sihyeon, Luda
Royal Boys: Changbin, Eunsang, Bin, Hwichan
Royal Girls 1: Yena, Jisoo, Soohyun, Chaeyoung
Royal Girls 2: Yoojung, Jiwoo, Lisa, Shiah
TRC Boys 1: Minho, Dongmin, Seungjoon, Youngjae
TRC Boys 2: Doyum, Jongsuk, Chanyeol
TRC Girls: Yujin, Yeji, Heejin, Jinsoul, Chaeryeong
Nova Girls: Yongsun, Hyojeong, Nakyung
Nova Boys: Seokwoo, Zhengting, Taeyang, Sungyeol
Sphere Girls: Jihyo, Minhee, Bora, Saerom
Sphere Boys: Daniel, Hyunggu, Chan, Wonpil, Moonbok
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the longer shiah remains a trainee, the more pressure she feels to maintain a standard, at the very least, for these evaluations. her distributions and center parts for this boot camp they’re doing just went to show that if and when she debuted, there would be some responsibilities on her shoulders. she was the focus for some of the chorus, along with lisa and gahyeon, and also for the dance break. she had craved being prominent and valuable in a group, but now that she was starting to see some of the fruits of her labor for the past nearly three years, she was experiencing a new wave of pressures and stresses.
“how are you feeling about the performance?” shiah knew gahyeon had struggled in the past with feeling pressure and wanting to perform acceptably, so she definitely felt a bit of worry for her. she hoped gahyeon wasn’t overthinking or freaking out about the performance. she had a lot of prominent parts herself, after all. it would be easy to fall into that trap of psyching herself out and setting herself up to fumble, much like shiah was starting to fall into now. “i won’t lie, this is the first time in a long while that i’ve actually felt nervous for an evaluation.”
