X Factor Adria, usually referred simply as X Faktor, was a pan-Former Yugoslav adaptation of the The X Factor franchise. It covered Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and â as of Season 2 â Croatia as well, making the show regional. The second season was hosted by Antonija BlaÃÂe, Aleksandar RadojiÃÂiàand Sneà ¾ana Velkov. Like the original British version of the series, X Factor Adria aimed to find new singing talents contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions.
The show consists of several phases: auditions, bootcamp, judge's houses and live shows. During the auditions and bootcamp phases of the competition, judges as a group decide on the fate of the contestants with a majority vote. After the bootcamp, acts are split into four different groups and one of the judges is assigned to mentor each of the acts in the group. During the judge's houses stage, judges are accompanied with guest judges and they choose the acts from their category who they want to take to the live shows. Live shows are the final stage of the competition and the first stage where public get their say by voting to keep their favourite in and eventually win.
The first part of the selection process are the auditions. Potential contestants apply for a place at the auditions either online or via text message. Those invited to the auditions perform in front of the producers before some are selected to audition in front of the judges. Producers' auditions are sometimes referred to as pre-auditions.
The first series also featured a mobile video booth where people could audition without previously applying. The booth was set up on the grounds of Petrovaradin Fortress during the Exit festival.
After the pre-auditions, producers call back the acts they want to perform in front of the judges. The judges auditions are the first part of the series that is broadcast. During the auditions, acts introduce themselves and perform in front of the judges. After an act performs, the judges give feedback and vote. Acts need three or four "yes" responses from the judges to get through to the next stage of the competition: Bootcamp.
Bootcamp is the second stage where the acts who made it through are called back to perform again. In bootcamp acts can sometimes face challenges such as performing with other acts, choreography, and sing-offs. Judges as a group select 24 acts, six of each category, to progress to judges houses. When judges and producers feel like there is a lack of good groups, a group sometimes can be formed of the solo acts that did not make it through in their own category. After each of the category is formed, a judge is assigned as mentor to the category.
The acts who have been selected in bootcamp perform in front of a single judge one more time. That judge is usually accompanied with a guest judge who is there to help them make the decision of selecting the acts who will represent him and the category in the live shows. Even though the phase is called judge's houses, it is rare for the judges to have acts perform in their actual ones.
The live shows are the final stage of the competition. In this phase acts perform live in front of an audience and the public votes for their favourite. Each week has a different theme. After all the acts perform and the public votes have been counted, the safe acts are announced, leaving two acts in "the bottom two". The bottom two perform one more time and the judges vote on the act they want to save or send home. The saved/eliminated act is decided by majority vote, in case the judges tie the vote the act who leaves the competition is decided by the public votes that were counted earlier. In the final, judges have no say as the winner is decided solely on the public vote.
According to the series' producers, the first season featured four categories: Girls, Boys, Groups, and "Second chance". The latter includes contestants who are over 30 years old and previously took part in other talent shows. When the show started broadcasting, the producers decided to drop the "Second chance" category and went with "Over 27s".
The first season was judged by Emina JahoviÃÂ, Kristina KovaÃÂ, Kiki LesendriÃÂ, and à ½eljko JoksimoviÃÂ. Kovaàand Joksimoviàwere the first to be announced, while both Jahoviàand Lesendriàwere announced one day later.
After the first two episodes aired, Bane JevtiÃÂ was announced to be replaced after hosting only the first eight episodes, but the producers denied this claim. At night of the first live show, it was reported that a new host was going to replace him, keeping in secret who it was going to be. It was revealed that Slavko KaleziÃÂ would take the role of the host. The day after the first live show it was announced that Slavko would be replaced as well.
In February 2015, it was announced that judges of the second season of X Factor Adria would be à ½eljko JoksimoviÃÂ, TonÃÂi HuljiÃÂ, Massimo SaviÃÂ, and Aleksandra KovaÃÂ.
In Season 2, guess judges at the judge's houses were Nina Badric at Masimo's house and Mirko Vukomanoviàat à ½eljko's house, Kaliopi at Aleksandra's house and Petar Graà ¡o at TonÃÂi's house.
To date, both series have finished broadcasting as summarised below. Contestant in (or mentor of) "Boys" category<br /> Contestant in (or mentor of) "Girls" category<br /> Contestant in (or mentor of) "Over 27s" category<br /> Contestant in (or mentor of) "Groups" category
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.
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