Definitly their first pick is Daniel. They keep pushing him since ep 1 giving him a lot of screentime and the most angel edit. They didn't even really punish him for the cat emoji cheating; they just put him in Open then give him the opportunity to choose from the remaining trainees and then give the best decorations and setting to Open to help it win. And they replayed his openning pose in it like 3 times. And his "I hugged Woojin once" from ep 1 was replayed over and over again throughout the season. Really there are too many things to count.

Others are Samuel, Jisung and maybe Guanlin I think although it is not to the degree of Daniel. Also I feel like they are pushing Jaehwan too because although he doesn't get much screentime from the start of the season he is called like "the vocal" of the trainees when there are othee trainees like Ha Sungwoon who are just as talented vocals as Jaehwan.

I think they are trying to get rid of Haknyeon obviously with his recent lazy and greedy edit. Also, they didn't care about Hyunbin, they gave him lazy edit and when he was 22nd, they eliminated after 20 (which was actually to give more spotlight to Guanlin and get ratings; but still it means that they didn't care if Hyunbin was gone). Also, it's obvious that they don't like Jihoon much. But since Jihoon has the fandom power that would get them money, and since he would get into 11 no matter what, rather then getting rid of him; they are trying to take the center position away from him I think.