Factor X (Portuguese TV series)

Factor X
Created byITV
Simon Cowell
Presented byJoão Manzarra(1-2)
Bárbara Guimarães (1)
Cláudia Vieira (2)
JudgesPaulo Junqueiro (1-2)
Sónia Tavares (1-2)
Paulo Ventura (1–2)
Miguel Guedes (2)
Country of originPortugal
Original languagePortuguese
No. of seasons2
Original release
NetworkSIC
Release6 October 2013 (2013-10-06) –
31 December 2014 (2014-12-31)
Related
The X Factor (British TV series)
Other international versions

Factor X is the Portuguese version of the television music competition The X Factor, originally created by Simon Cowell. The first episode premiered on 6 October 2013 hosted by Bárbara Guimarães, João Manzarra, Carolina Torres and Tiago Silva. The three judges are Paulo Junqueiro, Sónia Tavares and Paulo Ventura.

Format

Stages

  • Stage 1: Producers' auditions – these auditions are un-televised, and decide who will sing in front of the judges
  • Stage 2: Judges' auditions – in an arena (series 1–3)
  • Stage 3: Bootcampo – either a series of challenges and knock out rounds and the seat challenge (series 1-3)
  • Stage 4: Judges' houses – either pre-recorded (series 1–3)
  • Stage 5: Live shows (1-3)

Series overview

To date, two seasons 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) "Groups" category
  Contestant in (or mentor of) "Over 25s" category

Season Start Finish Winner Runner-up Third place Winning mentor Presenters Portugal sponsor Main judges
One 6 October 2013 9 February 2014 Berg Mariana D8 Sónia Tavares João Manzarra
Bárbara Guimarães 		OLX Sónia Tavares
Paulo Ventura
Paulo Junqueiro
Two 7 September 2014 31 December 2014 Kika Kardoso Rúben Mendes Inês Morais Paulo Junqueiro João Manzarra
Cláudia Vieira 		Coca-Cola Sónia Tavares
Paulo Ventura
Miguel Guedes
Paulo Junqueiro

Judges' categories and their contestants

In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses 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.
Season Paulo Junqueiro Sónia Tavares Paulo Ventura —
One 16 to 24's
Mariana
D8
Diogo
Rita
Mafalda 		Over 25s
Berg
José Freitas
Sara
Jair
Daduh King 		Groups
Aurora
Cupcake
X4U
Yeah!Land
Netas do Fado
Season Paulo Junqueiro Sónia Tavares Paulo Ventura Miguel Guedes
Two Over 25s
Kika Kardoso
Rúben Mendes
Jorge Baptista
Lúcia Mourinho 		Boys
João Duarte
Júnior Oliveira
Matheus Paraízo
Rúben Pires 		Groups
Babel
P.Y.T.
POP4ROC
XTAG 		Girls
Inês Morais
Mimi Froes
Isabela Nóbrega
Marta Carvalho

Season 1

Contestants

The categories and top 15 acts were as follows:

Key:

  – Winner
  – Runner-up
  – Third place
Category (mentor) Acts
16 to 24's (Junqueiro) Diogo D8 Mafalda Mariana Rita
Over 25s (Tavares) Berg Daduh King Jair José Freitas Sara
Groups (Ventura) Aurora Cupcake Netas do Fado X4U Yeah!Land

Results summary

  – Contestant was in the bottom two
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Groups 16 to 24's Over 25s
Berg — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 1st
Mariana — Safe — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 2nd
D8 — Safe — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Bottom two 3rd
José Freitas — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 10)
Aurora Safe — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Safe Bottom two Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 9)
Cupcake Bottom two — — Bottom two Safe Safe Bottom two Safe Bottom two Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 8)
Diogo — Safe — Safe Safe Bottom two Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 7)
Sara — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 6)
X4U Safe — — Safe Bottom two Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 5)
Yeah!Land Safe — — Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 4)
Jair — — Bottom two Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 3)
Rita — Bottom two — Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 2)
Daduh King — — Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 1)
Mafalda — Bottom two — Eliminated
(Week 1)
Netas do Fado Bottom two — — Eliminated
(Week 1)
Final showdown None Rita,
Cupcake 		X4U,
Jair 		Diogo,
Yeah!Land 		X4U,
Cupcake 		Aurora,
Sara 		Diogo,
Cupcake 		Aurora,
Cupcake 		Aurora,
D8 		D8,
José Freitas 		No judges' vote or final showdown:
public votes alone decide
who is eliminated
Judges voted to Save
Junqueiros's vote — Rita — Rita X4U Diogo N/A1 Aurora Diogo Aurora D8 D8
Venturas's vote Cupcake — — Cupcake X4U Yeah!Land Cupcake Aurora Cupcake Aurora Aurora D8
Tavares's vote — — Jair Cupcake Jair Diogo N/A1 Sara Cupcake Cupcake D8 José Freitas
Eliminated Netas do Fado
by Ventura 		Mafalda
by Junqueiro 		Daduh King
by Tavares 		Rita
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		Jair
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		Yeah!Land
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		X4U
Eliminated by mentor 		Sara
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		Diogo
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		Cupcake
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		Aurora
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		José Freitas
1 of 3 votes
Minority 		D8
Third Place
Notes:
  • 1 Ventura was the only mentor able to vote due to contestants in final showdown are both from groups category.

Season 2

Contestants

The categories and top 16 acts were as follows:

Key:

  – Winner
  – Runner-up
  – Third place
Category (mentor) Acts
Boys (Tavares) João Duarte Júnior Oliveira Matheus Paraízo Rúben Pires
Girls (Guedes) Marta Carvalho Mimi Froes Inês Morais Isabela Nóbrega
Over 25s (Junqueiro) Jorge Baptista Kika Kardoso Rúben Mendes Lúcia Mourinho
Groups (Ventura) Babel POP4ROC P.Y.T. XTAG

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 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
Boys Girls Over 25s Groups
Kika Kardoso — — Safe — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Winner
Rúben Mendes — — Safe — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Runner-up
Inês Morais — Safe — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Safe Safe 3rd Place
Babel — — — Safe Safe 10th Safe Safe Safe Safe 4th Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 9)
Mimi Froes — Safe — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 5th Eliminated
(Week 8)
Jorge Baptista — — Bottom two — Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Bottom three Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 7)
João Duarte Safe — — — Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom three Eliminated
(Week 6)
Isabela Nóbrega — Bottom two — — Safe Safe Safe Safe 8th Eliminated
(Week 6)
P.Y.T. — — — Safe Safe Safe 9th Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 5)
Júnior Oliveira Bottom two — — — Bottom two Safe 10th Eliminated
(Week 4)
POP4ROC — — — Bottom two Safe 11th Eliminated
(Week 3)
Matheus Paraízo Safe — — — Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 2)
Rúben Pires Bottom two — — — Eliminated
(Week 1)
Ḿarta Carvalho — Bottom two — — Eliminated
(Week 1)
Lúcia Mourinho — — Bottom two — Eliminated
(Week 1)
XTAG — — — Bottom two Eliminated
(Week 1)
Final showdown None Matheus Paraízo
Júnior Oliveira 		POP4ROC
Babel 		P.Y.T.
Júnior Oliveira 		Jorge Baptista
P.Y.T. 		João Duarte
Jorge Baptista 		Jorge Baptista
Inês Morais 		Mimi Froes
Babel 		Babel
Rúben Mendes 		No judges' vote or final showdown:
public votes alone decide
who is eliminated
Judges voted to Save
Guedes's vote — Isabela Nóbrega — — Matheus Paraízo POP4ROC Júnior Oliveira Jorge Baptista Jorge Baptista Inês Morais Mimi Froes Rúben Mendes
Junqueiros's vote — — Jorge Baptista — Júnior Oliveira POP4ROC P.Y.T. Jorge Baptista Jorge Baptista Jorge Baptista Mimi Froes Rúben Mendes
Venturas's vote — — — POP4ROC Júnior Oliveira Babel P.Y.T. P.Y.T. Jorge Baptista Inês Morais Babel Babel
Tavares's vote Júnior Oliveira — — — Júnior Oliveira Babel Júnior Oliveira Jorge Baptista João Duarte Inês Morais Babel Rúben Mendes
Eliminated Rúben Pires
by Tavares 		Marta Carvalho
by Guedes 		Lúcia Mourinho
by Junqueiro 		XTAG
by Ventura 		Matheus Paraízo
1 of 4 votes
Minority 		POP4ROC
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock 		Júnior Oliveira
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock 		P.Y.T.
1 of 4 votes
Minority 		Isabela Nóbrega
Fewest votes
to save 		Jorge Baptista
1 of 4 votes
Minority 		Mimi Froes
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock 		Babel
1 of 4 votes
Minority 		Inês Morais
Third Place
João Duarte
1 of 4 votes
Minority

Live shows

Week 1 (2 November 2014)

Contestants performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Júnior Oliveira 1 "Feeling Good" Bottom two
Matheus Paraízo 2 "Breezeblocks" Safe
João Duarte 3 "Moves like Jagger" Safe
Rúben Pires 4 "Chandelier" Eliminated
Jorge Baptista 5 "Alive" Bottom two
Rúben Mendes 6 "Kiss from a Rose" Safe
Kika Kardoso 7 "Respect" Safe
Lúcia Mourinho 8 "Alfama" Eliminated
XTAG 9 "Bang Bang" Eliminated
Babel 10 "Everybody Hurts" Safe
P.Y.T. 11 "All About That Bass" Safe
POP4ROC 12 "The Look" Bottom two
Isabela Nóbrega 13 "Stay" Bottom two
Ḿarta Carvalho 14 "Roar" Eliminated
Mimi Froes 15 "Believe" Safe
Inês Morais 16 "One and Only" Safe

Week 2 (9 November 2014)

Contestants performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
POP4ROC 1 "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" Safe
Mimi Froes 2 "Count On Me" Safe
Kika Kardoso 3 "I Will Always Love You" Safe
João Duarte 4 "Love On Top" Safe
Babel 5 "Rude" Safe
Jorge Baptista 6 "She" Safe
Isabela Nóbrega 7 "Fix You" Safe
Matheus Paraízo 8 "Sozinho" Bottom two
P.Y.T. 9 "Best Day of My Life" Safe
Inês Morais 10 "Try" Safe
Júnior Oliveira 11 "Only Girl (In the World)" Bottom two
Rúben Mendes 12 "Treasure" Safe
Final showdown details
Matheus Paraízo 1 "Landfill" Eliminated
Júnior Oliveira 2 "" Safe

Week 3 (16 November 2014)

Contestants performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
P.Y.T. 1 "Shake It Off" Safe
Inês Morais 2 "You Give Me Something" Safe
Rúben Mendes 3 "Wake Me Up" Safe
Isabela Nóbrega 4 "Stay With Me" Safe
Kika Kardoso 5 "Rolling in the Deep" Safe
João Duarte 6 "Cannonball" Safe
POP4ROC 7 "21 Guns" Bottom two
Mimi Froes 8 "You Got the Love" Safe
Júnior Oliveira 9 "Paparazzi" Safe
Babel 10 "Blurred Lines" Bottom two
Jorge Baptista 11 "Use Somebody" Safe
Final showdown details
POP4ROC 1 "Say Something" Eliminated
Babel 2 "Gravity" Safe

Week 4 (23 November 2014)

Contestants performances on the fourth live show
Act Order Song Result
Kika Kardoso 1 "It's Raining Men" Safe
Isabela Nóbrega 2 "Ordinary Love" Safe
P.Y.T. 3 "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" Bottom two
Mimi Froes 4 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Safe
Júnior Oliveira 5 "I Will Survive" Bottom two
Inês Morais 6 "Who Wants to Live Forever" Safe
Jorge Baptista 7 "Iris" Safe
João Duarte 8 "Over the Rainbow" Safe
Babel 9 "Oh, Pretty Woman" Safe
Rúben Mendes 10 "When a Man Loves a Woman" Safe
Final showdown details
P.Y.T. 1 "Pompeii" Safe
Júnior Oliveira 2 "Oh Happy Day" Eliminated

Week 5 (30 November 2014)

Contestants performances on the fifth live show
Act Order Song Result
Jorge Baptista 1 "The Best" Bottom two
Mimi Froes 2 "Diamonds" Safe
João Duarte 3 "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" Safe
Rúben Mendes 4 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Safe
Babel 5 "The One That Got Away" Safe
Isabela Nóbrega 6 "Back to Black" Safe
P.Y.T. 7 "Give Me All Your Luvin'" Bottom two
Kika Kardoso 8 "Hero" Safe
Inês Morais 9 "Crazy in Love" Safe
Final showdown details
Jorge Baptista 1 "Wicked Game" Safe
P.Y.T. 2 "Counting Stars" Eliminated

Week 6 (7 December 2014)

Contestants performances on the sixth live show
Act Order Song Result
Rúben Mendes 1 "Come Together" Safe
João Duarte 2 "Let It Be" Bottom three
Isabela Nóbrega 3 "A Hard Day's Night" Eliminated
Kika Kardoso 4 "With a Little Help from My Friends" Safe
Babel 5 "Hey Jude" Safe
Inês Morais 6 "Something" Safe
Jorge Baptista 7 "Yesterday" Bottom three
Mimi Froes 8 "Don't Let Me Down" Safe
Final showdown details
João Duarte 1 "A Moment Like This" Eliminated
Jorge Baptista 2 "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes" Safe

Week 7 (14 December 2014)

Contestants performances on the seventh live show
Act Order First Song Order Second Song Result
Jorge Baptista 1 "Magic" 7 "Dancing in the Dark" Bottom two
Inês Morais 2 "Prayer in C" 10 "The Power of Love" Bottom two
Mimi Froes 3 "Balada do Desajeitado" 8 "Like a Prayer" Safe
Kika Kardoso 4 "Story of My Life" 9 "Thriller" Safe
Rúben Mendes 5 "Budapest" 11 "Somebody to Love" Safe
Babel 6 "Say Something" 12 "With or Without You" Safe
Final showdown details
Jorge Baptista 1 "Karma Police" Eliminated
Inês Morais 2 "I Was Here" Safe

Week 8 (21 December 2014)

Contestants performances on the eighth live show
Act Order First Song Order Second Song Result
Kika Kardoso 1 "Hallelujah" 9 "Halo" Safe
Inês Morais 2 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 10 "Un-Break My Heart" Safe
Rúben Mendes 3 "When You Believe" 6 "Please Come Home for Christmas" Safe
Mimi Froes 4 "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" 7 "One" Bottom two
Babel 5 "Gravity" 8 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Bottom two
Final showdown details
Mimi Froes 1 "People Help the People" Eliminated
Babel 2 "Broken Strings" Safe

Week 9 (28 December 2014)

Contestants performances on the ninth live show
Act Order First Song Order Second Song (duet) Result
Ines Morais 1 "Mirrors" 5 "Let Me Be" (with Mónica Ferraz) Safe
Kika Kardoso 2 "Canção de Alterne" 6 "Wonder Why" (with The Black Mamba) Safe
Rúben Mendes 3 "Dance Little Sister" 7 "Mountains" (with Carolina Deslandes) Bottom two
Babel 4 "More Than Words" 8 "S.O.L.O." (with D8) Bottom two
Final showdown details
Rúben Mendes 1 "Always" Safe
Babel 2 "One" Eliminated

Week 10 (31 December 2014)

Round 1

Contestants performances on the Round 1
Act Order First Song Order Second Song Result
Kika Kardoso 1 "Girl on Fire" 6 "Because of You" Safe
Rúben Mendes 2 "Love Never Felt So Good" 4 "Uptown Funk" Safe
Inês Morais 3 "Todo o Tempo do Mundo" 5 "Set Fire to the Rain" Third Place

Final Round

Contestants performances on the Final Round
Act Order Winner's Single Result
Kika Kardoso 1 "Hero" Winner
Rúben Mendes 2 "Hero" Runner-up

References

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