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On 24 November 2016, Jay Chou was confirmed to be returning for his second season. Eason Chan was also announced to join the show as a new coach, which effectively confirmed that there would be changes to the coaching panel with at least one of the coaches from the previous season exiting the show.[1] On 8 December, it was claimed by an unknown media outlet that Liu Huan, who was formerly a coach on The Voice of China, would also be joining the show as a coach. Lu Wei, the show's publicity director, later refuted the claim.[2] On 28 March 2017, Na Ying was confirmed to be returning for her second season.[3] A month later, on 28 April, Wang Feng issued a statement via his management to announce his departure from the show to focus on his music career, but hinted a possibility of returning in the future seasons.[4] On the same day following Wang's announcement, a photo showing a promotional banner that was claimed to have set up at one of the show's preliminary auditions began to circulate online. The banner in question revealed Liu as part of the coaching lineup, together with the other three coaches who have all been confirmed to join the show. With this, Liu was once again rumoured to be joining the show to fill the final seat on the coaching panel. Lu once again refuted the claim, stating that the promotional banner is "fake", and the team has yet to finalise on the selection of the final coach.[5] However, despite the constant denial from Lu, Liu was announced on 19 May as the fourth coach to join the show, via one of the show's promotional video.[6]Harlem Yu was therefore confirmed to have left the show.[7]
Up till the airing of the premiere episode, it was not revealed who would take on the hosting role for the second season. It was previously rumoured that Li Yong would not return for his second season and be replaced by Shen Tao, a host from Zhejiang Telvision.[8] On 14 July, Hu Qiaohua was revealed as the host on the premiere episode for the season, with Li exiting the show.
The taping of the blind auditions began on 5 June and ended on 20 July. In the blind auditions, the coaches are to recruit nine artists to form a team of their own. Coaches may also recruit more than nine artists during the blind auditions, but to ensure equal representation across all the teams, they are required to cut their team down to nine artists before moving on to the Cross Fighting rounds. At the end of the blind auditions, Jay Chou and Na Ying each recruited nine artists to their teams, while 12 and 13 artists joined the teams of Eason Chan and Liu Huan respectively. Therefore, a total of seven artists (three from Team Eason and four from Team Liu Huan) were eliminated by their coaches and did not advance to the Cross Fighting rounds.
This season saw the introduction of the team badges and flags, which are specially designed by the coaches themselves. When an artist is defaulted or elected to join a coach's team, the respective coach's team flag would be lowered on stage, with the coach going forward to present the artist with the team badge as a signification of their addition to the team. The coach's respective victory songs ("谢谢侬" for Chan, "春暖花开" for Na, "千万次的问" for Liu, and "霍元甲" for Chou) would also be played in the background.
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Coach pressed his or her button
Artist defaulted to this coach's team
Artist elected to join this coach's team
Artist eliminated by coach before the Cross Fighting rounds
Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her button
Episode 1 (14 July)
The four coaches performed a medley of each other's songs – Eason Chan and Na Ying performed "天地在我心", Jay Chou & Liu Huan performed a medley of "一笑而过" and "你的背包", Chan & Chou performed a medley of "印第安老斑鸠" and "谢谢侬", Chou and Na performed "因为爱情", Chan and Liu performed "菊花台", Liu and Na performed "过把瘾" – and concluded the performances with "沧海一声笑".[9]
Dubbed "抢星学员", Asia Zhang and Jeffrey Chen were chosen only in the revival round. Their initial performances, where no coach pressed his or her button, were not broadcast.
The post-blind auditions stage of the competition kicked off with the return of the Cross Fighting rounds, with a slight change in the format this season. Dubbed as the "six-dimensional Cross Fightings", the competition would see all four coaches going head-to-head against one another in the round-robin tournament format, with each coach facing off with every other coach in separate Cross Fighting rounds. In each round, the two coaches involved would randomly pick an artist from their personal team. The two selected artists would then perform and receive votes of approval from a 51-person panel. The artist with the most number of votes in each Cross Fighting rounds would advance to the Internal Fighting rounds, while the other would be eliminated. The eliminated artist would have to remove their personal team badge and pass it on to a surviving team member. The team flag of the winning artist would then be lowered on stage with the team's victory song playing in the background.
Each coach would be allowed to save one losing artist from their team by pressing the button on their chair before the artist leaves the stage. The saved artists would then perform again in the "coach's save" round, with the one receiving the most votes moving on to the Internal Fightings. Coach's saves that are not used by the coaches by the end of the three-week Cross Fighting rounds would be forfeited.
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Artist won the Cross Fighting and advanced to the Internal Cross Fightings
Artist lost the Cross Fighting but was saved by coach
Artist won the Cross Fighting in the "coach's save" round and advanced to the Internal Cross Fightings
