Junior MasterChef Greece

Junior MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show. It is an adaptation of the Australian show Junior MasterChef Australia. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Greece, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features contestants aged 8 to 12 in season 1 and in season 2 features contestants aged 8 to 13. The show began airing on 30 November 2011 on Mega Channel. On 13 September 2018 began airing the second season on Star Channel.

Junior MasterChef Greece
Genre	Cooking
Directed by	Panos Georgiou (1) Costas Tripylas (2)
Presented by	Maria Mpekatorou
Judges	Lefteris Lazarou Yiannis Loukakos Dimitris Skarmoutsos Eleni Psyhouli Manolis Papoutsakis Magky Tabakaki
Country of origin	Greece Cyprus
Original language	Greek
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	46
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production companies	Season 1: Studio ATA Season 2: EndemolShine Group
Original release
Network	Mega Channel (1) Star Channel (2)
Release	30 November 2011 (2011-11-30) – 24 December 2018 (2018-12-24)

Hosts and judges

Timeline of hosts and judges

Starring	Seasons
	1	2
Dimitris Skarmoutsos	Judge
Lefteris Lazarou	Judge
Yiannis Loukakos	Judge
Maria Mpekatorou	Host
Eleni Psyhouli		Host & Judge
Manolis Papoutsakis		Host & Judge
Magky Tabakaki		Host & Judge

Series overview

Season	Number of contestants	Number of episodes	Originally aired			Classification of first trinity
			First aired	Last aired	Network	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
1	12	20	30 November 2011	5 February 2012	Mega Channel	Lilian Emvaloti	Margarita Marmara	Elsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri
2	22	26	13 September 2018	24 December 2018	Star Channel	Konstantinos Christopoulos	Popi Anevlavi	Katia Ritzaki

Series synopsis

Season 1 (2011-2012)

The first season of the show began production in June 2011. Over 12,000 children from around the nation auditioned for the series. The show premiered on 30 November 2011 and finished airing on 5 February 2012. It was hosted by Maria Mpekatorou. The judges were Yiannis Loukakos, Lefteris Lazarou and Dimitris Skarmoutsos. The winner was twelve-year-old Lilian Emvaloti.

Contestants

The top 12 contestants were chosen throughout the first week of challenges amongst the Top 40 and the Top 20. The full group of 12 were all revealed on Wednesday, 7 December 2011.

Place	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Status
1st	Lilian Emvaloti	12	Nea Smyrni	Winner 5 February
2nd	Margarita Marmara	12	Athens	Runner-up 5 February
3rd	Elsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri	13	Heraklion	Finalists 2 February
4th	Stefania Douvi	11	Athens
5th	Dimitris Karpetis	12	Chania	Eliminated 27 January
6th	Agamemnon Kyriazis	10	Athens
7th	Giorgos Athanasopoulos	12	Thessaloniki	Eliminated 13 January
8th	Spyros Petropoulos	11	Piraeus
9th	Arxontia Vamvakari	11	Petroupoli	Eliminated 29 December
10th	Stelios Kaimakis	13	Piraeus
11th	Alena Saracine	11	Athens	Eliminated 15 December
12th	Matina Roumpou	12	Nea Ionia

Elimination table

Place	Contestants	Episode
		1			2			3			4			5			6
		IT	OT	ET	IT	OT	ET	IT	OT	ET	IT	OT	ET	IT	OT	ET	IT	FD
1	Lilian	MP	WT	IM	HP	LT	WC	BP	BP	HP	BP	HP	WC	MP	MP	WC	WC	WINNER
2	Margarita	WC	IM		MP	WT	IM	MP	WC	IM	MP	MP	HP	MP	WC	IM	HP	2º PLACE
3	Elsa	BP	LT	TWP	WC	IM		HP	BP	SWP	WC	IM		MP	MP	EL
4	Stefania	HP	LT	WC	HP	WT	IM	MP	MP	TWP	MP	WC	IM	MP	HP	EL
5-6	Dimitris	MD	LT	SWP	BP	LT	SWP	HP	MP	WC	HP	BP	EL
	Agamemnon	WC	IM		HP	WT	IM	WC	IN		DC		EL
7-8	Giorgis	HP	WT	IM	BP	WT	IM	MP	HP	EL
	Spyros	MP	WT	IM	MP	WT	IM	BP	HP	EL
9-10	Arxontia	MP	WT	IM	MP	LT	EL
	Stelios	MP	WT	IM	BP	LT	EL
11-12	Alena	BP	LT	EL
	Matina	MP	LT	EL

(IT) Initial test, (OT) Outdoor test, (ET) Elimination test, (FD) Final duel

  The contestant is winner

  The contestant is finalist

  Winner of challenge

  High performance

  Medium performance

  Bad performance

  Immunity

  (WT) Red is winner team (LT) Red is loser team

  (WT) Blue is winner team (LT) Blue is loser team

  Third worst performance

  Second worst performance

  Eliminated

  Don't compete in the challenge

  Don't compete

Season 2 (2018)

The second season premiered on 13 September 2018 and finished airing on 24 December 2018 on Star Channel. Over 1,500 children from around the nation auditioned for the second series.^[1][2] The judges were Eleni Psyhouli, Manolis Papoutsakis and Magky Tabakaki. The winner was twelve-year-old Konstantinos Christopoulos.

Contestants

The group of 22 children (11 boys and 11 girls) was revealed in the weekend of Thursday-Friday 20–21 September 2018. The selection was made from 44 children who went through auditions (22 boys and 22 girls).^[3]

Place	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Status
1st	Konstantinos Christopoulos	12	Agia Varvara, Athens	Winner 24 December
2nd	Popi Anevlavi	12	Apeiranthos, Naxos	Runner-up 24 December
3rd	Katia Ritzaki	9	Irakleio, Athens	Third Place 24 December
4th	Christos Soures da Silva	11	Corfu	Eliminated 21 December
5th	Konstantinos Spanidis	12	Athens
6th	Angelina Stampopoulou	11	Thessaloniki
7th	Manolis Foutoulis	13	Charaki, Rhodes	Eliminated 14 December
8th	Kleopatra Koutantou	8	Athens
9th	Miltiadis Siafakas	13	Piraeus	Eliminated 7 December
10th	Melpomeni Stellaki	12	Athens
11th	Michaela Pagouni	10	Argyroupoli, Athens	Eliminated 15 November
12th	Tonia-Maria Zonia	10	Larnaca, Cyprus	Eliminated 15 November Returned 2 November Eliminated 1 November
13th	Marios Ydreos	11	Agia Paraskevi, Athens	Eliminated 8 November
14th	Marios Liontos	12	Ioannina	Eliminated 8 November Returned 2 November Eliminated 5 October
15th	Kiki Plakida	13	Skydra, Pella	Eliminated 1 November
16th	Thaleia Tsakalou	12	Athens	Eliminated 19 October
17th	Eirini Mavrigiannaki	10	Athens
18th	Konstantinos Terpezidis	8	Serres	Eliminated 12 October
19th	Ariadni Perivolidi	11	Athens
20th	Konstantinos Giovanidis	11	Kallithea, Athens	Eliminated 5 October
21st	Angelos Christodoulou	13	Xylokastro, Corinthia	Eliminated 28 September
22nd	Giannis Kontaxakis	9	Kallithea, Athens

Notes

• Marios Liontos, eliminated on 5 October with Konstantinos Giovanidis, but he got a second chance on 2 November.
• Tonia-Maria Zonia, eliminated on 1 November with Kiki Plakida, but she got a second chance on 2 November.