MasterChef (U.S. TV series)
Seasons
The guest judges rotated between Sanchez, Wolfgang Puck, Edward Lee, Kevin Sbraga, Richard Blais, and Daniel Boulud

MasterChef (U.S. TV series)

Section Title: Seasons
Table Section Text: The guest judges rotated between Sanchez, Wolfgang Puck, Edward Lee, Kevin Sbraga, Richard Blais, and Daniel Boulud

Season	Episodes	Premiere Date	Finale Date	No. of Finalists	Winner	Runner(s)-up	Order of Elimination	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3

1	13	July 27, 2010	September 15, 2010	14	Whitney Miller	David Miller	Avis White, Sheena Zadeh, Jenna Hamiter, Faruq Jenkins, Anthony "Tony" Carbone, Kim "Slim" Dung Huynh, Tracy Nailor, Jacob "Jake" Gandolfo, Michael "Mike" Kim, Sharone Hakman, Sheetal Bhagat, Lee Knaz	Gordon Ramsay	Graham Elliot	Joe Bastianich

2	20	June 6, 2011	August 16, 2011	18	Jennifer Behm	Adrien Nieto	Angel Moore-Soukkay, Mark Raffaeli, Anthony "Tony" Scruggs, Alvin Schultz, Max Kramer, Jennifer "Jennie" Kelley, Esther Kang, Erryn Cobb, Giuseppe Morisco, Alejandra Schrader, Christine Corley, Derrick Prince, Tracy Kontos, Benjamin "Ben" Starr, Susan "Suzy" Singh, Christian Collins

3	20	June 4, 2012	September 10, 2012	Christine Hà	Joshua Marks†	Samantha De Silva, David "Dave" Mack, Michael Chen, Helene Leeds, Ryan Umane, Scott Little, Anna Rossi, Michael "Mike" Hill, Tanya Noble, Tali Clavijo, Stacey Amagrande, Felix Fang, David Martinez, Mairym "Monti" Carlo, Franklin "Frank" Mirando, Rebecca "Becky" Reams

4	25	May 22, 2013	September 11, 2013	19	Luca Manfé	Natasha Crnjac	Sasha Foxx, Adriana Guillen, Malcolm Green, Kathleen "Kathy" Prieto, Howard Simpson, Albaya "Bime" Cruz, Elizabeth "Beth" Kirby, Jonathan "Jonny" Blanchard, Lynn Chyi, Savannah Sturges, Bethy Rossos, Eddie Jackson, Jordan Roots, Brianna "Bri" Kozior, James Nelson, Krissi Biasiello, Jessica "Jessie" Lysiak

5	19	May 26, 2014	September 15, 2014	22	Courtney Lapresi	Elizabeth Cauvel	Astrid Lavenia, Whitney Bray, Stephani Syfax-Shepherd, Gordon Houston, Kira Novak, Jordan Kaminski, Tyler Viars, Francis Biondi, Daniel "Dan" Wu, Elisa "Elise" Mayfield, Christine Silverstein, Francis Legge, Victoria Scroggins, Ahran Cho, Daniel McGuffey, William "Willie" Mike, Jaimee Vitolo, Christian Green, Joshua "Cutter" Brewer, Leslie Gilliams

6	20	May 20, 2015	September 16, 2015	Claudia Sandoval	Derrick Peltz	Matthew "Mateo" McConnell, Brianna Watson, Darah Carattini, Justin Banister, Daniel "Dan" Collado, Ailsa von Dobeneck, Veronica Cili, Jesse Romero, Charlie Chapman, Amanda Saab, Kerry Prince, Sara Zacek, Christopher Lu, Michelle "Shelly" Flash, Olivia Crouppen, Thomas "Tommy" Walton, Hetal Vasavada, Katrina Kozar, Nicholas "Nick" Nappi, Stephen Lee	Christina Tosi

7	19	June 1, 2016	September 14, 2016	20	Shaun O'Neale	David Williams & Brandi Mudd	Cassandra "Cassie" Peterson, William "Bill" Travers, Barbara Savage, Brittany Craig, Lisa-Ann Marchesi, Emmanuel "Manny" Washington Jr., Diana Bilow, D'Andre Balaoing, Alejandro Toro, Andrea Galan, Diamond Alexander, Terence "Terry" Mueller, Eric Howard, Nathan Barnhouse, Katie Dixon, Daniel "Dan" Paustian, Tanorria Askew	Guest judges

8	21	May 31, 2017	September 20, 2017	Dino Angelo Luciano	Eboni Henry & Jason Wang	Mark Togni, Paige Jimenez, Heather Dombrosky, Sam Reiff-Pasarew, Jennifer Williams, Necco Ceresani, Brien O'Brien, Reba Billingsley, Mike "Newton" Newton, Jenny Cavellier, Adam Wong, Caitlin Jones, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Gabriel Lewis, Yachecia Holston, Jeff Philbin, Caitlin "Cate" Meade	Aarón Sanchez

9	23	May 30, 2018	September 19, 2018	24	Gerron Hurt	Ashley Mincey & Cesar Cano	Sid Hoeltzell, Sal Maida, Olusola Ogbomo, Stephanie Willis, Darrick Krause, Alecia Winters, Juni Cuevas, Matthew "Matt" Houck, Lindsay Haigh, Ryan Cortez, Mark Ingraham, Ralph Xavier Degala, Chelsea Sargent, Seung Joo "SJ" Yun, Emily Hallock, Taylor Waltmon, Shanika Patterson, Julia Danno, Farhan Momin, Bowen Li, Samantha Daily	Joe Bastianich

Sentence(s)

For the first 5 seasons, MasterChef (U.S. TV series) starred Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich.

final_sentence: For the first 5 seasons, MasterChef (U.S. TV series) starred Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich.