MasterChef (Spanish TV series)

MasterChef is a Spanish competitive reality television cooking show based on the British television cooking game show of the same title. It premiered on La 1 on 10 April 2013. The show is, nowadays, presented by Pepe Rodríguez, Jordi Cruz and Samantha Vallejo-Nágera, who are also the judges of the competition.
History.
In the first season, only 15 people were chosen from among the 9,000 in the initial casting selection and competed for the title of "MasterChef". The winner was given 100,000 euros, the opportunity to publish his own book of recipes, and the chance to attend the esteemed culinary school "Le Cordon Bleu".
The initial selections began on February 4, 2013 in five areas of the country. All types of people came, including high-level executives, housewives, and construction workers. All of the candidates came together over their love of cooking. They had to be amateur cooks without culinary experience, but at the same time very talented.
The contestants competed against each other in individual challenges in the kitchen and also in group challenges outside of the set kitchen. The judges were Pepe Rodríguez, Jordi Cruz, and Samanta Vallejo-Nágera. The first season aired on La 1 of Televisión Española starting on April 10, 2013, and was hosted by Eva González.
In October 2013, MasterChef received the Ondas Awards for the best entertainment program in Spanish television. 
Legend chart.
=First season (2013)=
Fifteen amateur chefs competed in different challenges cooking alone or in teams, both in the set kitchen and elsewhere. Throughout the first season of "MasterChef", the contestants were visited by the best chefs in Spain who gave them exclusive cooking classes. These included Juan Mari Arzak, Pedro Subijana, Joan Roca, Paco Roncero, Dani García, Quique Dacosta, Eneko Atxa, and Andoni Luis Aduriz, among others. The finale featured Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, considered the best "chef" in the world, as one of the judges.
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=Second season (2014)=
During the finale of the first season of MasterChef, Eva González told viewers that the program would be renewed for a second season in May 2014, after MasterChef Junior. Starting in late October 2013 Televisión Española and Shine Iberia started casting for the second season. It premiered on April 9. During the week before, Radiotelevisión Española aired various cooking specials to lead up to the show.
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=Third season (2015)=
Televisión Española and Shine Iberia started casting for the third season in December 2014. It premiered on April 7, 2015.
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=Fourth season (2016)=
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=Fifth season (2017)=
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=Sixth season (2018)=
The casting of the sixth season finished on January 15, 2018, 150 of the 23.000 participant was chosen to be challengers, in which only 15 will be candidates to win the program. It was released on April 22, 2018 in La 1. It will be the most demanding season.
Despite being pregnant, Eva González will not be replaced, although she will be absent after the 6th episode.
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=Seventh season (2019)=
For the very first season, there was no host (as Eva Gonzalez left) and the three judges did her work as host during the tasks.
Contestant's trajectory.
This edition was the one in which the judges participated the most. The contestants competed individually but each of them belonged to the team of one of the judges. In this way:
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=Eighth season (2020)=
The show begun on April 14, 2020. Almost 30,000 people attended the castings but only 50 went to the final phase where the judges decided which one attended the first task.
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=Ninth season (2021)=
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