It has been reported that the live shows will feature a fifth judge mentoring a "wildcard" category - each of the judges will take four contestants through to the live shows, with one in each category then being put into the wildcard category mentored by the fifth judge. This change will see the abolition of "deadlock", which has existed since series 4.
Wait, has this been confirmed? Bit of a weird change but could be great if true.
Yeah the UK version still has judges houses because everyone loves that, so 6 go through bootcamp, and then either 3 or 4 from each category will go to live shows.
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Originally posted by Maneater
The what?
Each contestants in a category performs, and the judge mentoring the category decides whether they will be given one of six seats or told that they don't make it. Once all 6 seats have been filled, the mentor can then remove someone seated for a contestant who impressed them later on. Exactly like this but with six chairs and they don't go straight to live shows.
I like the idea of Tulisa coming back. Hopefully it just isn't as Louis's guest. I initially hated the idea of a fifth judge but if it's she gets to mentor the wildcards, then I like it.
I like the idea of Tulisa coming back. Hopefully it just isn't as Louis's guest. I initially hated the idea of a fifth judge but if it's she gets to mentor the wildcards, then I like it.
I wouldn't like a wildcard category it would be too overwhelming, I wouldn't mind a fifth judge who remains neutral, a guest fifth judge every week would be a cool idea, sort of how they used to have a celebrity mentor for the contestants each week way back in the earlier seasons.
I wouldn't like a wildcard category it would be too overwhelming, I wouldn't mind a fifth judge who remains neutral, a guest fifth judge every week would be a cool idea, sort of how they used to have a celebrity mentor for the contestants each week way back in the earlier seasons.
Yeah that would be cool indeed. I wouldn't mind this at all.
I wouldn't like a wildcard category it would be too overwhelming, I wouldn't mind a fifth judge who remains neutral, a guest fifth judge every week would be a cool idea, sort of how they used to have a celebrity mentor for the contestants each week way back in the earlier seasons.
Yeah I'm not here for the wildcard, itd be too many people but I'm here for the 5th judge. it'd be cool if is Tulisa because I want her to do well and this would be great for her.
It is now day 2 of bootcamp and it seems the acts have been shortened down to a smaller number by either retrospective eliminations and/or bootcamp tasks such as being grouped together, the contestants now remaining will fight it out in the 6 chair challenge during the weekend, it seems that two categories will perform tomorrow and the other two on Saturday.
Tonight the judges will find out what category they will be getting ahead of the challenge. If and when this information is leaked I will put it in this thread via spoiler tag, I will not be posting any contestant spoilers in the thread that information is available online if you care that much
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@DJSarahJane: Loving my little dress from #SEA ...to see which judges get what category #bootcamp day 2 #Xtrafactor pic.twitter.com/9pRS9a4pKQ
According to her Twitter, Cheryl seems apprehensive for the chair challenge tomorrrow? That either means she has a really strong category which will be hard to narrow down or that she isn't pleased with the category.