The X Factor (Greece series 3)

The X Factor
Season 3
Broadcast from 1 October 2010 – 11 February 2011
Judges George Levendis
Giorgos Theofanous
Katerina Gagaki
Nikos Mouratidis
Host(s) Sakis Rouvas (Live Shows)
Giorgos Lianos (Audition Shows)
Maria Sinatsaki (Audition Shows)
Broadcaster ANT1
Winner
Haris Antoniou
Origin Limassol, Cyprus and Greece
Song "You Are So Beautiful"
Genre(s) Pop
Runner-up
Alexandros Notas

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 (male soloists aged 16 to 24), Girls (female soloists aged 16 to 24), Over-25s (soloists aged 25 and over) 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

Audition city Dates Venue
Nicosia 24–25 July 2010 Hilton Park
Athens 18–20 August 2010 Studio Kappa
Thessaloniki 24–26 August 2010 Μet Hotel
New York City 10–12 September 2010 NEP Midtown Studios[1]

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.

The sixteen eliminated acts were:

Finalists and categories

The final 16 acts were confirmed as follows:

Key:

     Winner
     Runner-up
     Third Place
Category (Mentor) Acts
Over 25s (Nikos Mouratidis) Elena Anagiotou Alexandros Notas Grigoris Georgiou Patrick Guibert
Girls 16-24 (Katerina Gagaki) Nikki Ponte Maria Katikaridou Elena Georgiou Kirki Katsarou
Boys 16-24 (George Levendis) Alexis Zafeirakis Dimitris Theodorakoglou Haris Antoniou Kostantinos Anastasiadis
Groups (Giorgos Theofanous) The Burning Sticks Revolt T.U. Tik Tok

Results summary

Colour key
     Contestant was in the bottom two/three and had to sing again in the final showdown
Table showing weekly results, indicating which contestants were eliminated or safe, how each judge voted, and positions in each week's public vote where known.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15
Haris Antoniou Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Safe Winner
Alexandros Notas Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Runner-Up
Nikki Ponte Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 3rd Third
T.U. 15th Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Safe Bottom 2 Safe Bottom 2 Safe Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 13)
Dimitris Theodorakoglou Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 8th Safe Bottom 2 Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 12)
Grigoris Georgiou Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 11)
Konstantinos Anastasiadis Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 10)
Elena Anagiotou Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 9)
Maria Katikardiou Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Safe 9th Eliminated (week 8)
The Burning Sticks Safe Safe Bottom 2 Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 7)
Patrick Guibert Safe Bottom 2 Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 6)
Revolt Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 5)
Kirki Katsarou Safe Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 4)
Alexis Zafeirakis Safe Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 3)
Tik Tok Safe Bottom 2 Eliminated (week 2)
Elena Georgiou 16th Eliminated (week 1)
Final showdown Elena Georgiou,
T.U.
Patrick Guibert,
Tik Tok
Alexis Zafeirakis,
The Burining Striks
Kirki Katsarou,
Revolt
Revolt,
T.U.
Maria Katikardiou,
Patrick Guibert
The Burning Sticks,
T.U.
Maria Katikardiou,
Dimitris Theodorakoglou
Elena Anagiotou,
T.U.
Konstantinos Anastasiadis,
Dimitris Theodorakoglou
Grigoris Georgiou,
T.U.
Dimitris Theodorakoglou,
T.U.
Harris Antoniou,
T.U.
No final showdown or judges' vote: results are based on public votes alone
Mouratidis's vote to eliminate T.U. Tik Tok Alexis Zafeirakis Kirki Katsarou Revolt Maria Katikardiou The Burning Sticks Dimitris Theodorakoglou T.U. Konstantinos Anastasiadis T.U. Dimitris Theodorakoglou T.U.
Gagaki's vote to eliminate T.U. Tik Tok Alexis Zafeirakis Revolt Revolt Patrick Guibert T.U. Dimitris Theodorakoglou Elena Anagiotou Konstantinos Anastasiadis Grigoris Georgiou Dimitris Theodorakoglou T.U.
Levendis's vote to eliminate Elena Georgiou Tik Tok The Burning Sticks Kirki Katsarou Revolt Patrick Guibert The Burning Sticks Maria Katikardiou Elena Anagiotou Konstantinos Anastasiadis(x2) Grigoris Georgiou T.U. T.U.
Theofanous's vote to eliminate Elena Gerogiou Patrick Guibert Alexis Zafeirakis Kirki Katsarou N/A Patrick Guibert The Burning Sticks (x2) Maria Katikardiou Elena Anagiotou Dimitris Theodorakoglou Grigoris Georgiou Dimitris Theodorakoglou Harris Antoniou
Eliminated Elena Georgiou
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock
Tik Tok
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Alexis Zafeirakis
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Kirki Katsarou
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Revolt
3 of 3 votes
Majority
Patrick Guibert
3 of 4 votes
Majority
The Burning Sticks
4 of 5 votes
Majority
Maria Katikardiou
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock
Elena Anagiotou
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Konstantinos Anastasiadis
4 of 5 votes
Grigoris Georgiou
3 of 4 votes
Dimitris Theodorakoglou
3 of 4 votes
T.U.
3 of 4 votes
Niki Ponte
Third Place
Alexandros Notas
Runner-Up
Harris Antoniou
Winner

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)

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Alexis Zafeirakis 1 "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)" Safe
Nikki Ponte 2 "Teenage Dream" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 3 "Se Thelo San Trelos" Safe
Tik Tok 4 "Tik Tok" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 5 "To Kalokairi Mou" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 6 "Den Ehi Sidera I Kardia Sou" Safe
The Burning Sticks 7 "Earth Song" Safe
Patrick Guibert 8 "Sympathique" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 9 "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Safe
T.U 10 "Andexa" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 11 "Prigipessa" Safe
Kirki Katsarou 12 "Ayo Technology" Safe
Haris Antoniou 13 "S'eho Erotefthi" Safe
Revolt 14 "Kryfa" Safe
Elena Georgiou 15 "O,ti Axizei" Bottom two
Elena Anagiotou 16 "Aperanto Keno" Safe
Final showdown details
T.U 1 N/A Safe
Elena Georgiou 2 N/A Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

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

Week 2 (5 November 2010)

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 1 "To the Moon and Back" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 2 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" Safe
T.U 3 "Song 2" Safe
Patrick Guibert 4 "Wonderwall" Bottom two
Haris Antoniou 5 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Safe
Nikki Ponte 6 "Mamma Mia" Safe
The Burning Sticks 7 "Seven Nation Army" Safe
Elena Anagiotou 8 "To Maxairi" Safe
Alexis Zafeirakis 9 "Personal Jesus" Safe
Tik Tok 10 "Hung Up"/"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" Bottom two
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 11 "Wonderful Life" Safe
Kirki Katsarou 12 "Last Kiss" Safe
Alexandros Notas 13 "Feugo Gia Mena" Safe
Revolt 14 "Every You Every Me" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 15 "Taxidevo To Ego Mou" Safe
Final showdown details
Tik Tok 1 N/A Eliminated
Patrick Guibert 2 N/A Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 3 (12 November 2010)

Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
The Burning Sticks 1 "Take My Breath Away" Bottom two
Grigoris Georgiou 2 "Theos" Safe
Alexis Zafeirakis 3 "Den Eimai Allos" Bottom two
Maria Katikaridou 4 "An Isouna Agapi" Safe
T.U 5 "Feel" Safe
Haris Antoniou 6 "Into the Night" Safe
Patrick Guibert 7 "Etsi Eimai Ego" Safe
Revolt 8 "I Like the Way (You Move)"/"Klepsidra" Safe
Nikki Ponte 9 "You Lost Me" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 10 "Numb" Safe
Alexandros Notas 11 "Logia Filika" Safe
Kirki Katsarou 12 "Loca" Safe
Elena Anagiotou 13 "Oneiro Itane" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 14 "Spasmeno Karavi" Safe
Final showdown details
The Burning Sticks 1 N/A Safe
Alexis Zafeirakis 2 N/A Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 4 (19 November 2010)

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show
Act Order Song Result
Elena Anagiotou 1 "Kathreftizo To Nou" Safe
T.U 2 "Alors on danse" Safe
Haris Antoniou 3 "More Than Words" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 4 "Smooth" Safe
Nikki Ponte 5 "Take It Off" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 6 "Bad Romance" Safe
Alexandros Notas 7 "Mia Nihta Zoriki" Safe
Revolt 8 "Kryptonite" Bottom two
Patrick Guibert 9 "Kissing a Fool" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 10 "Vertigo" Safe
Kirki Katsarou 11 "Satellite" Bottom two
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 12 "Emena Thes" Safe
The Burning Sticks 13 "Crazy In Love" Safe
Final showdown details
Revolt 1 N/A Safe
Kirki Katsarou 2 N/A Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 5 (26 November 2010)

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show
Act Order Song (original artists) Result
Elena Anagiotou 1 "Eisai Esi O Athropos Mou" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 2 "Soma me Soma" Safe
Revolt 3 "Lonely Day" Bottom two
Grigoris Georgiou 4 "Agapi" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 5 "The Unforgiven" Safe
The Burning Sticks 6 "Black Magic Woman" Safe
Haris Antoniou 7 "Rikse Kokkino Stin Nihta" Safe
T.U 8 "Omen" Bottom two
Nikki Ponte 9 "I (Who Have Nothing)" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 10 "O Imnos Ton Mavron Skilion" Safe
Patrick Guibert 11 "La Vie en rose" Safe
Alexandros Notas 12 "Anthropoi Monahoi" Safe
Final showdown details
T.U 1 N/A Safe
Revolt 2 N/A Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 6 (3 December 2010)

Contestants' performances on the sixth live show
Act Order Song Result
Haris Antoniou 1 "Too Funky" Safe
T.U 2 "Hero" Safe
Alexandros Notas 3 "Mono Mia Fora" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 4 "Maria Maria" Bottom two
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 5 "Come Together" Safe
Elena Anagiotou 6 "Eklaige Mazi Mou To Feggari" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 7 "Oti Agapo Einai Diko Sou" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 8 "Paei I Agapi Mou" Safe
Nikki Ponte 9 "Children of Piraeus (The)" Safe
The Burning Sticks 10 "Valerie" Safe
Patrick Guibert 11 "Don't Stop the Music" Bottom two
Final showdown details
Patrick Guibert 1 N/A Eliminateed
Maria Katikardiou 2 N/A Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 7 (10 December 2010)

Contestants' performances on the seventh live show
Act Order Song Result
T.U 1 "Killing in the Name" Bottom two
The Burning Sticks 2 "Whole Lotta Love" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 3 "Ragizei Apopse" Safe
Haris Antoniou 4 "Corazón espinado" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 5 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 6 "koita Ti Ekanes" Safe
Nikki Ponte 7 "Like a Prayer" Safe
Elena Anagiotou 8 "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 9 "I Skoni" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 10 "Livin' on a Prayer" Safe
Final showdown details
T.U 1 N/A Safe
The Burning Sticks 2 N/A Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 8 (24 December 2010)

Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order Song Result
Maria Katikaridou 1 "Tha 'Mai Allios" Bottom two
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 2 "Paradise City" Bottom two
Elena Anagiotou 3 "Ta Kormia Kai Ta Maheria" Safe
Haris Antoniou 4 "Sinaylia" Safe
Nikki Ponte 5 "Monday Morning" Safe
Alexandros Notas 6 "Oi Eleytheroi ki Wraioi" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 7 "Xoris Anapnoh" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 8 "Zhleyei H Nyxta" Safe
T.U 9 "Diskolos Kairos Gia Prinkipes" Safe
Final showdown details
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 1 "Wanted Dead or Alive" Safe
Maria Katikaridou 2 "All the Man That I Need" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

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

Week 9 (31 December 2010)

Contestants' performances on the ninth live show
Act Order Song Result
Grigoris Georgiou 1 "San Na Min Perase Mia Mera" Safe
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 2 "Xamogelase" Safe
Alexandros Notas 3 "Svise To Feggari" Safe
Haris Antoniou 4 "Superstition" Safe
Nikki Ponte 5 "Respect" Safe
T.U 6 "Bohemian Like You" Bottom two
Elena Anagiotou 7 "Exartatai" Bottom two
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 8 "Love Is Gone" Safe
Final showdown details
Elena Anagiotou 1 "An Den M'Agapas" Eliminated
T.U 2 "Written in the Stars" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 10 (7 January 2011)

Contestants' performances on the tenth live show
Act Order First song (Mentor's choice) Order Second song (Contestant's choice) Result
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 1 "Mi Svineis Ta Fota" 14 "O Bythos Sou" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 2 "Parallila" 11 "Liomeno Pagoto" Safe
T.U 3 "Love the Way You Lie" 8 "Airplanes" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 4 "Dani California" 10 "To Xrono Stamataw" Bottom two
Nikki Ponte 5 "Only Girl (In the World)" 9 "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" Safe
Haris Antoniou 6 "This Love" 12 "Beautiful Day" Safe
Grigoris Georgiou 7 "Asimenia Sfika" 13 "The Blower's Daughter" Safe
Final showdown details
Kostantinos Anastasiadis 1 "Emeina Edw" Eliminated
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 2 "Feel" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 11 (14 January 2011)

Contestants' performances on the eleventh live show
Act Order First song Film or Musical Order Second song (Contestant's choice) Result
Grigoris Georgiou 1 "El Tango de Roxanne" Moulin Rouge! 7 "Gia To Kalo Mou" Bottom two
Haris Antoniou 2 "She" Notting Hill 9 "Just the Way You Are" Safe
T.U 3 "Stayin' Alive" Saturday Night Fever 8 "Apologize" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 4 "Ola Dika Sou" N/A 11 "Pou Na 'Sai" Safe
Nikki Ponte 5 "All That Jazz" Chicago 10 "Telephone" Safe
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 6 "Great Balls of Fire" Great Balls of Fire! 12 "Tha Parw Fwra" Safe
Final showdown details
Grigoris Georgiou 1 "Thalassa Platia" Eliminated
T.U 2 "Sweet Home Alabama" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 12 (21 January 2011)

Contestants' performances on the twelfth live show
Act Order First song (90's) Order Second song (Contestant's choice) Result
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 1 "Gangsta's Paradise" 6 "Highway to Hell" Bottom two
T.U 2 "The Show Must Go On" 7 "Whataya Want from Me" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 3 "Epimenw" 8 "Poios Na Sygkrithei Mazi Sou" Safe
Haris Antoniou 4 "Losing My Religion" 9 "What About Now" Safe
Nikki Ponte 5 "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" 10 "Oops!... I Did It Again" Safe
Final showdown details
Dimitris Theodorakoglou 1 "I Don't Want to Be" Eliminated
T.U 2 "Where Is the Love?" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 13 (28 January 2011)

Contestants' performances on the 13 live show
Act Order First song (Mentor's choice) Order Second song (Contestant's choice) Result
T.U 1 "Pump It" 5 "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" Bottom two
Alexandros Notas 2 "Aporw" 6 "Ena Gramma" Safe
Haris Antoniou 3 "Faith" 7 "All Along the Watchtower" Bottom two
Nikki Ponte 4 "Woman In Love" 8 "Kommati Ap' Tin Kardia Sou" Safe
Final showdown details
Haris Antoniou 1 "Billie Jean" Safe
T.U 2 "H Kybwtos" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 14 (4 February 2011)

Contestants' performances on the 14 live show
Act Order First song (Mentor's choice) Order Second song (Contestant's choice) Result
Alexandros Notas 1 "Eho Esena" 6 "Mikrh Patrida" Safe
Haris Antoniou 2 "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" 4 "Einai Stigmes" Safe
Nikki Ponte 3 "Bad" 5 "Hurt" Eliminated

Week 15 (11 February 2011)

Contestants' performances on the final live show
Act Order First song Order Second song Result
Alexandros Notas 1 " Mia Kokkini Grammi " 3 "Pote ksana (Con te partirò)" Runner Up
Haris Antoniou 2 "You Are So Beautiful" 4 "Ekeini" Winner

References

  1. "X-Factor Auditions". Greekboston.com. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
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