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Members of Team John Legend for Season 16 of The Voice include (from left) Matthew Johnson, Denton Arnell, Lisa Ramey, Talon Cardon, Savannah Brister, Jacob Maxwell, Maelyn Jarmon, John Legend, Kayslin Victoria, Julian King, Oliv Blu, Shawn Sounds, Betsy Ade — (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)

The Season 16 battle round on The Voice begins Monday night.

Sharp-eyed viewers who watched last week’s Best of the Blinds episode have already figured many of the pairings.

For those not already revealed, spoiler sites are helping fill in the gaps.

Below are the battle round pairings for Team John Legend. Following the links will take you to a profile of each singer. The number is parenthesis is the number of chairs each singer turn in the blind auditions.

Each coach will presumably have two steals in this round, meaning eight contestants who lose their battles will survive anyway.

Three more defeated battle round contestants will head to the Comeback Stage, where Kanard Thomas, Kayla Seeber and the duo of
Chesi and Nathan Arnett await.

Well, actually no one’s waiting for anything. Like the blind auditions, the battles were filmed a while back.

There are still no Tuesday night episodes, and no announced schedule of how long the battles will run. They typically last two weeks — six hours of viewing time — which means lots of battles will be montaged or else the battle round will have to be extended into a third week.

Betsy Ade (updated) (2) vs. Lisa Ramey (updated) (1)

Denton Arnell (1) vs. Julian King (updated) (2)

Jacob Maxwell (updated) (2) vs. Talon Cardon (1)

Kayslin Victoria (2) vs. Oliv Blu (updated) (1)

Maelyn Jarmon (updated) (4) vs. Savannah Brister (updated) (2)

Matthew Johnson (updated) (4) vs. Shawn Sounds (updated) (4)