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The first Season of X Factor was started in 2010. The auditions were held in April 2010. The first show started on 20 August 2010. The Judges are Sarah Connor (16-24), George Glueck (Groups) and Till Brönner (25+).
There are four phases:1. Auditions2. Bootcamp3. Judge's House4. Live Shows
The 18 acts who reached the Judge's Houses
Nine of the 18 acts were eliminated with the 9 remaining moving to the live shows, three from each category. The eliminated acts were:
The live shows commenced on 21 September 2010. The following artists made it to the live shows.Ages are as of the date of the show (2010).
Key:
- Winner
- Runner-up
| Category (mentor) | Acts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16–24s (Connor) | Marlon Bertzbach (18) | Mati Gavriel (24) | Pino Severino (18) | |
| 25-and-overs (Brönner) | Anthony Thet (30) | Edita Abdieski (25) | Meral Al-Mer (29) | |
| Groups (Glueck) | Big Soul | LaFamille | Urban Candy | |
Contestants' colour key:
| - Till Brönner's contestants (over 25s) | |
| - Sarah Connor's contestants (16–24s) | |
| - George Glueck's contestants (groups) | |
| – Bottom two | |
| – Eliminated without a final showdown | |
| – Contestant became the Runner-Up | |
| – Highest Vote of a Week |
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edita Abdieski | 4th 13.92% | 5th 12.91% | 3rd 15.33% | 3rd 18.15% | 3rd 19.43% | 1st 27.42% | 1st 41.53% | Winner 74.10% | |
| Big Soul | 1st 25.00% | 1st 25.52% | 1st 22.40% | 2nd 19.50% | 2nd 22.50% | 4th 23.19% | 2nd 30.18% | Runner-Up 25.90% | |
| Mati Gavriel | 5th 10.36% | 4th 13.53% | 5th 10.71% | 4th 16.33% | 5th 14.90% | 2nd 25.05% | 3rd 28.29% | Eliminated (Week 7) | |
| Anthony Thet | 6th 7.04% | 2nd 14.62% | 4th 11.55% | 5th 16.31% | 1st 27.02% | 3rd 24.34% | Eliminated (Week 6) | ||
| Marlon Bertzbach | 2nd 18.87% | 3rd 13.89% | 6th 10.52% | 1st 20.25% | 4th 16.15% | Eliminated (Week 5) | |||
| Pino Severino | 3rd 15.24% | 7th 7.04% | 2nd 20.94% | 6th 9.46% | Eliminated (Week 4) | ||||
| Urban Candy | 7th 6.08% | 6th 9.21% | 7th 8.55% | Eliminated (Week 3) | |||||
| Meral Al-Mer | 8th 1.80% | 8th 2.28% | Eliminated (Week 2) | ||||||
| LaFamille | 9th 1.69% | Eliminated (Week 1) | |||||||
| Bottom two | Meral Al-Mer, LaFamille | Meral Al-Mer, Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach, Urban Candy | Anthony Thet, Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach, Mati Gavriel | Anthony Thet, Big Soul | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins | ||
| Brönner's vote to eliminate | LaFamille | Pino Severino | Urban Candy | Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach | Big Soul | |||
| Connors's vote to eliminate | LaFamille | Meral Al-Mer | Urban Candy | Anthony Thet | Marlon Bertzbach | Anthony Thet | |||
| Glueck's vote to eliminate | Meral Al-Mer | Meral Al-Mer | Marlon Bertzbach | Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach | Anthony Thet | |||
| Eliminated | LaFamille 2 of 3 votes | Meral Al-Mer 2 of 3 votes | Urban Candy 2 of 3 votes | Pino Severino 2 of 3 votes | Marlon Bertzbach 3 of 3 votes | Anthony Thet 2 of 3 votes | Mati Gavriel 28,29% to save | Big Soul 25,90% to win | |
| Edita Abdieski 74,10% to win | |||||||||
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "Secrets" | Safe | |
| LaFamille | 2 | "In My Head" | Bottom two | |
| Mati Gavriel | 3 | "Undisclosed Desires" | Safe | |
| Edita Abdieski | 4 | "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" | Safe | |
| Urban Candy | 5 | "Meet Me Halfway" | Safe | |
| Pino Severino | 6 | "She Said" | Safe | |
| Meral Al-Mer | 7 | "Elektrisches Gefühl" | Bottom two | |
| Big Soul | 8 | "Bad Boys" | Safe | |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 9 | "I Like" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Meral Al-Mer | 1 | "Ein Herz kann man nicht reparieren" | Safe | |
| LaFamille | 2 | "Change" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pino Severino | 1 | "Killer/Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" | Bottom two | |
| Urban Candy | 2 | "Crazy in Love" | Safe | |
| Meral Al-Mer | 3 | "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" | Bottom two | |
| Anthony Thet | 4 | "Purple Rain" | Safe | |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 5 | "The Blower's Daughter" | Safe | |
| Edita Abdieski | 6 | "Street Life" | Safe | |
| Mati Gavriel | 7 | "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" | Safe | |
| Big Soul | 8 | "Think" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Meral Al-Mer | 1 | "Young Hearts Run Free" | Eliminated | |
| Pino Severino | 2 | "Stop Me" | Safe | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edita Abdieski | 1 | "Respect" | Safe | |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 2 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | Bottom two | |
| Urban Candy | 3 | "Geh' davon aus" | Bottom two | |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Don't Stop Me Now" | Safe | |
| Pino Severino | 5 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Safe | |
| Anthony Thet | 6 | "I'll Be Waiting" | Safe | |
| Big Soul | 7 | "Free Your Mind" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Last Request" | Safe | |
| Urban Candy | 2 | "Ding" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Zombie" | Safe | |
| Edita Abdieski | 2 | "Heavy Cross" | Safe | |
| Pino Severino | 3 | "Sympathy for the Devil" | Bottom two | |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Hallelujah" | Safe | |
| Big Soul | 5 | "Thriller" | Safe | |
| Anthony Thet | 6 | "Black Hole Sun" | Bottom two | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "My Love Is Your Love" | Safe | |
| Pino Severino | 2 | "The Climb" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Loud Song | Quiet Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mati Gavriel | 1 | "Song 2" | "Sexed Up" | Bottom two | |
| Big Soul | 2 | "Sex on Fire" | "One" | Safe | |
| Anthony Thet | 3 | "Walk This Way" | "Under the Bridge" | Safe | |
| Edita Abdieski | 4 | "Just Like a Pill" | "Russian Roulette" | Safe | |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 5 | "Closer to the Edge" | "Nothing Else Matters" | Bottom two | |
| Final showdown details | |||||
| Act | Order | Song | Result | ||
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Feeling Good" | Eliminated | ||
| Mati Gavriel | 2 | "Hurt" | Safe | ||
| Order | Song 1 | Song 2 | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Soul | 1 | "It's Raining Men" | "From Zero to Hero" | Bottom two | |
| Anthony Thet | 2 | "When Love Takes Over" | "Give It to Me Right" | Bottom two | |
| Edita Abdieski | 3 | "Why Don't You Love Me" | "Release Me" | Safe | |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Music" | "California Gurls" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | |||||
| Act | Order | Song | Result | ||
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "Never Ever" | Eliminated | ||
| Big Soul | 2 | "You Can't Hurry Love" | Safe | ||
| Order | Friends Song | Order | Jackson Song[1] | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edita Abdieski | 1 | "You Are So Beautiful" | 4 | "Blame It on the Boogie" | Safe | |
| Mati Gavriel | 2 | "Imagine" | 5 | "You Are Not Alone" | Eliminated | |
| Big Soul | 3 | "As" | 6 | "I'll Be There" | Safe |
| Order | Song | Order | Celebrity Duet | Order | Winner's Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Soul | 1 | "That's What Friends Are For" | 3 | "Underneath Your Clothes" (with Shakira) | 5 | "I've come to Life" | Runner-Up | |
| Edita Abdieski | 2 | "Run" | 4 | "Wo willst du hin?" (with Xavier Naidoo) | 6 | "I've come to Life" | Winner |