The X Factor (Greek series 3)


The X Factor Greece is a Greek television reality music competition, based on the original series in the UK, to find new singing talent. The winner of which receives a recording contract with Sony Music Greece is Haris Antoniou. The third series began airing on ANT1 on 1 October 2010 and ended on 11 February 2011. The show was presented by Sakis Rouvas, with Giorgos Lianos and Maria Sinatsaki hosting the audition shows. The competition is split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp, judges' houses and live shows. Auditions took place throughout July and September 2010, with George Levendis, Giorgos Theofanous, Katerina Gagaki and Nikos Mouratidis returning as judges. Following bootcamp, successful acts were split into four categories: Boys, Girls, Over-25s and Groups. The live shows started on 29 October 2010. It is also broadcast abroad via ANT1's international stations.

Selection process

Auditions

The first appeal for auditions occurred on June. The Auditions began in Nicosia on 23 July 2010 and concluded in New York City for the first time in the history of the Greek X Factor, on 12 September 2010.

Audition Venues

Bootcamp

The "bootcamp" stage of the competition began on 20 September 2010 at the Goudi Olympic Complex, which is now the site of the ultra-modern Badminton Theater, hosting major theatrical productions and completed on 23 September 2010. This stage of the competition was aired on 22 October 2010. In this stage, the judges decided at each category the top 20 acts and finally the top 8 acts who qualified to the Judges' Houses. Katerina Gagaki will mentor Girls Under 24, George Levendis has the Boys Under 24, Nikos Mouratidis was given the 25s and Over and Giorgos Theofanous the Groups category.

Judges Houses

In the next round the judges reduced their 8 acts to locations around Greece. Nikos Mouratidis decided the 4 acts that will follow him to the live shows in Athens, Katerina Gagaki in Santorini, George Levendis in Ithaca and Giorgos Theofanous in Athens.This stage of the competition aired on 27 October 2010. After the judges, narrowed down the contestants to four each.
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Results summary

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Live shows

The live shows began on 29 October 2009, with contestants performing on the Friday night shows and the results being announced later on the same day,and continued through to the finale on 11 February 2011. Like the previous series, the televoters had the chance to vote from the beginning of the show.

Week 1 (29 October 2010)

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The result went to deadlock, and Elena Georgiou was eliminated from the competition.

Week 2 (5 November 2010)

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The result went to deadlock, and Maria Katikaridou and was eliminated from the competition.

Week 9 (31 December 2010)

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ActOrderFirst song OrderSecond song Result
Alexandros Notas1"Eho Esena"6"Mikrh Patrida"Safe
Haris Antoniou2"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"4"Einai Stigmes"Safe
Nikki Ponte3"Bad"5"Hurt"Eliminated

Week 15 (11 February 2011)

ActOrderFirst songOrderSecond songResult
Alexandros Notas1" Mia Kokkini Grammi "3"Pote ksana "Runner Up
Haris Antoniou2"You Are So Beautiful"4"Ekeini"Winner