Top Model, cycle 9 is the ninth cycle of an ongoing reality television series based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that pits contestants from Poland against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model.
Joanna Krupa, who also serves as the lead judge, returned to host the ninth cycle. Other judges included fashion designer Dawid Woliński, fashion show director Kasia Sokołowska and photographer Marcin Tyszka. This is the sixth season of the show to feature male contestants.
Among the prizes for the season were a contract with Models Plus Management, an appearance on the cover of the Polish issue of Glamour, and 100,000 złotys (US$30,000).
The international destination for this cycle was Athens, Vouliagmeni & Hydra. The winner of the competition was 19 year-old Mikołaj Śmieszek, from Rabka Zdrój.
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| Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | Finish | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiktoria Chorążak | 21 | Włocławek | Episode 4 | 13 | ||
| Dominik Bereżański | 21 | Słupsk | Episode 5 | 12 | ||
| Agnieszka Skrzeczkowska | 30 | Warsaw | Episode 6 | 11 | ||
| Gracja Kalibabka | 19 | Dziwnów | Episode 7 | 10 | ||
| Łukasz Bogusławski | 21 | Warsaw | Episode 8 | 9 | ||
| Karolina Płocka | 18 | Wrocław | Episode 10 | 8 | ||
| Mariusz Jakubowski | 25 | Gdynia | Episode 12 | 7-4 | ||
| Maja Siwik | 19 | Gryfów Śląski | ||||
| Karolina Kuczyńska | 26 | Łomża | ||||
| Ernest Morawski | 20 | Trzcińsko Zdrój | ||||
| Dominic D'Angelica | 30 | Berlin, Germany | (Disqualified)[2] | |||
| Weronika Kaniewska | 19 | Kobylarnia | Episode 13 | 3 | ||
| Patrycja Sobolewska | 23 | Gąsewo | 2 | |||
| Mikołaj Śmieszek | 19 | Rabka Zdrój | 1 | |||
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Auditions for the ninth season of Top Model begin, and aspiring hopefuls are chosen for the semi-final round.
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In the semi-finals, the judges begin to eliminate contestants to narrow the number of models who will battle it out for a place in the top model house.
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In the third and final casting episode of the season, the judges chose the finalists who will move onto the main competition out of the remaining pool of contestants.
| Group | Models | |
|---|---|---|
| One | Gracja, Jacek, Karolina K., Rodrigo, Oliwia, Maks | |
| Two | Dominik B., Karolina P., Agata, Dominic, Wiktoria, Łukasz, | |
| Three | Agnieszka, Mikołaj, Eliza, Patrycja, Mariusz, Weronika M., Adrian | |
| Four | Maja, Tomek, Magda, Ernest, Krzysztof, Klaudia, Dominik T. |
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| Scores[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nº | Model | Jury | Viewers | Total | |
| 1 | Mikołaj | 3 | 2 (57%) | 5 | |
| 2 | Patrycja | 2 | 1 (43%) | 3 | |
| 3 | Weronika | 1 | N/A | 1 | |
| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||
| 1 | Gracja | Ernest | Patrycja | Mikołaj | Dominic | Mariusz | Maja Mikołaj | Mikołaj | Mikołaj | Mikołaj | Patrycja | Mikołaj | Mikołaj | |||
| 2 | Weronika | Maja | Maja | Mikołaj | Dominic | Maja | Maja | Weronika | Dominic | Patrycja | Patrycja | |||||
| 3 | Dominik | Mikołaj | Dominic | Mariusz | Maja | Patrycja | Weronika | Dominic | Mariusz | Maja Mariusz | Weronika | |||||
| 4 | Łukasz | Patrycja | Weronika | Mikołaj | Karolina P. | Patrycja | Weronika | |||||||||
| 5 | Agnieszka | Ernest | Ernest | Mariusz | Weronika | Mariusz | Weronika | |||||||||
| 6 | Wiktoria | Dominik | Weronika | Dominic | Ernest | Ernest | ||||||||||
| 7 | Dominic | Dominic | Patrycja | Ernest | Ernest | Dominic | Mariusz | |||||||||
| 8 | Patrycja | Mikołaj | Weronika | Patrycja | Maja | Patrycja | ||||||||||
| 9 | Agnieszka | Łukasz | Gracja | Gracja | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Mariusz | Łukasz | Łukasz | Łukasz | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Mikołaj | Mariusz | Agnieszka | Łukasz | Gracja | |||||||||||
| 12 | Ernest | Maja | Mariusz | Agnieszka | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Maja | Gracja | Dominik | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Wiktoria | |||||||||||||||
The contestant was immune from elimination.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant was originally eliminated but was saved.
The contestant had to withdraw due to medical reasons.
The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two
The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel.
The contestant was disqualified.
The contestant won the competition.
| Episode | Contestants | Eliminated | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Gracja | Maja | Wiktoria | Wiktoria |
| 5 | Dominik | & | Mariusz | Dominik |
| 6 | Agnieszka | Karolina P. | Łukasz | Agnieszka |
| 7 | Gracja | Karolina K. | Łukasz | Gracja |
| 8 | Karolina P. | Łukasz | Maja | Łukasz |
| 9 | Dominic | Karolina K. | Patrycja | Karolina K. |
| 10 | Ernest | Mariusz | Karolina P. | Mariusz |
| Karolina P. | ||||
| 11 | Karolina K. | & | Weronika | |
| None | ||||
| 12 | Karolina K., Maja, Mariusz, Weronika | Mariusz | ||
| Maja | ||||
| Karolina K. | ||||
| Dominic, Ernest, Patrycja | ||||
| 13 | Mikołaj | Patrycja | Weronika | |
| Weronika | ||||
| Mikołaj | & | Patrycja | Patrycja | |
The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their fourth time in the bottom two
The contestant had to withdraw due to medical reasons
The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel
The contestant was disqualified
The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed third.
The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed second.
| Episode[4] | Date | Audience | Share 4+ | Share 16-49 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 September | 1 039 558 | 9.59% | 16.40% | |
| 2 | 9 September | 1 167 469 | 11.02% | 17.45% | |
| 3 | 16 September | 1 121 627 | 10.54% | 17.26% | |
| 4 | 23 September | 1 240 255 | 11.43% | 19.09% | |
| 5 | 30 September | 1 081 657 | 9.69% | 14.90% | |
| 6 | 7 October | 1 184 754 | 10.07% | 16.30% | |
| 7 | 14 October | 1 032 760 | 8.18% | 12.43% | |
| 8 | 21 October | 1 187 207 | 9.93% | 16.63% | |
| 9 | 28 October | 1 128 166 | 9.43% | 15.22% | |
| 10 | 4 November | 1 182 022 | 9.76% | 15.57% | |
| 11 | 11 November | 1 138 470 | 8.59% | 12.01% | |
| 12 | 18 November | 1 133 560 | 8.69% | 13.76% | |
| 13 | 25 November | 1 502 377 | 12.11% | 18.12% | |
| Average | 2020 | 1 164 808 | 9.88% | 15.68% |
Finalist Dominic D'Angelica was disqualified from the competition two days prior to the show's live finale due to his past criminal record of having pleaded no contest to sexual contact with a minor in the United States. Player.pl who serves as a steamer of TVN released a statement disqualifying D'Angelica from the competition.[5]