The Voice (Voice Factor Series)

For the current season, see The Voice 2

The Voice is a Tengaged based singing competition bought to you by the people behind 'Janelle's X Factor. '

The first series premiered on November 24, 2013 and is expected to end early December 2013. The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances. Each coach guides their teams of selected artists theough the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. A number of well known tengaged participants were lined up for the role of a coach or presenter. These included, AJ Flora, Janelle_Pierzina, Joe E and members of Janelle's X Factor family. It was later confirmed that excecutive producers LaurenJade121 and BigBrotherFan132 would become two of the four coaches. Bigbrothermaniac and JoJo7784 were then later announced to be joining them. After much speculation with the presenters it was confirmed that Woollybear98 and Janelle_Pierzina would both present.

History
In Novemeber 2013, 'The Voice' was bought forward as an idea to move forward in the music platform of Tengaged. After many talks, planning and detail, the show was scheduled to premiere with two seasons after Janelle's X Factor 10. During the second season, it was renewed to continue as part of the voice-factor franchise.

The Voice premiered November 24, 2013; it ranked the sixth highest in posts for a series premiere on the Voice-Factor network since Janelle's X Factor (season 5) in March 2013. The season finale aired on December 9, 2013. The second season premiered on December 10, 2013 as an expanded two-hour episode.

Preliminary rounds
Each season begins with the "blind auditions", where coaches form their team of artists (10 in the first season) whom they coach throughout the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during the artists' performances; those interested in the artist press their button, which turns the chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "I WANT YOU." At the conclusion of the performance the artist either defaults to the only coach who turned, or selects their coach if more than one coach expresses interest.

In the "battle rounds", each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then chooses one to advance in the competition. In each season, coaches are assisted by guest advisors that help advise throughout the battle rounds. Coaches are given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated in a battle round by their coach.

The third round of the competition is the "knockout rounds". The four coaches will enter this round with seven team members; five winners of the battle rounds, and two stolen members. In this round, artists will perform a "killer song", the coaches will give one of their seven a "Fast Pass" to the live shows, the other six will then sing in groups of three decided by their coach. There can only be one winner in each group, creating a final three for each coach for the public to vote on.

Live shows
In the live shows, the final twelve artists compete solely for the public votes. In the first live show, a coach is able to save one of their own acts which disregards their percentage in the poll and moves them onto the next week. Each week, the one act from each team is eliminated. In week 2, it is solely down to the publics votes alone where another act from each team is eliminated. In the finale, each act performs two songs, the polls then freeze and the act with the lowest accumilated votes is eliminated in fourth place, the other three then go onto sing their 'solo song' and the lines close after the last performance disregarding the eliminated acts percentage.

Voting System
From the final twelve onwards, all the artists are put into a public poll where the audience can vote once for their favorite artist of the night, the polls open 24 hours before the show actually airs and closes once the artists have performed, the eliminated artists are then revealed at the end of the show after a guest performance. In the final four show, the polls 'freeze' after they perform two of their songs each. The artist with the least amount of votes in the two respective polls is then announced in fourth place. The other three then go onto sing their 'solo song' while the poll stays open, the eliminated contestants vote in the fourth poll is then disregarded and the contestant with the highest combined percentage is named 'the voice'.

Hosts
Sam W. was announced as the first host of the debut season of the voice. It was later confirmed that Janelle Pierzina would co host with him. They front the show, introduce the contestants and deliver the news of eliminated artists. Sam W. and Janelle Pierzina returned as hosts for season two. On December 18th, along with Lauren and JoJo, Sam confirmed that he would be back to host the show for a third season, but it was also confirmed that Janelle Pierzina would not be returning as co-host for the third season.

Current Former

Coaches
Lauren Jade and Sam B. became the first confirmed coaches in early November 2013, later followed by the hire of Riley and JoJo on November 16, 2013. The four original coaches then returned for a second season on the panel together. Talks of the third season that is set to premiere in early January 2014 are already underway with The Voice production them and the coaches. On December 18th, Lauren announced that she would be a coach in the third season of the series. It was also later confirmed that JoJo had agreed to a new contract that would see her coach alongside Lauren for at least another season. A day later, on December 19th, it was revealed that coach Riley had agreed to a new four season contract that would see him remain as a coach until the end of season six with Lauren Jade. Contract details are yet to be announced for Sam.

Coaches' teams
Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place
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Winners are in bold, Finalists are italicized in bold font, and eliminated artists are in small font.

Guest mentors and advisers

 * Battle round advisers are first listed.

Series overview
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 * Team Lauren Jade   Team Sam    Team Riley    Team JoJo