Factor X (Portuguese TV series)

Stages

Stage 1: Producers' auditions – these auditions are un-televised, and decide who will sing in front of the judges

Stage 2: Judges' auditions – either in an arena (series 1–2), an room audition and arena audition (3-)

Stage 3: Bootcampo – either a series of challenges and knock out rounds and the seat challenge (series 1-)

Stage 4: Judges' houses – either pre-recorded (series 1–)

Stage 5: Live shows (1-)

Series overview

To date, two series have been broadcast, as summarised below.

     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Boys" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Girls" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "16–24s" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Teens" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Young Adults" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Groups" category
     Contestant in (or mentor of) "Over 25s" category

Judges' categories and their finalists

In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table shows, for each season, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live shows.

Key:

     – Winning judge/category. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.

Series 1

     – Contestant was in the bottom two

Notes:

¹ Ventura was the only mentor able to vote due to contestants in final showdown are both from groups category.

Finalists

The categories and 16 final acts were as follows:

Key:

     – Winner      – Runner-up      – Third place

Results summary

     – Contestant was in the bottom two or three      – Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated

Week 6 (December 7, 2014)

Theme: Songs from The Beatles