# X Factor (Ukrainian TV series) series 9

X Factor is a Ukrainian television music competition to find new singing talent and part of a British franchise The X Factor. The ninth series began on 1 September 2018 and concluded on 29 December 2018. The judging panel remained the same from last series of Oleg Vinnik, Anastasia Kamenskykh, Dmytro Shurov and Andriy Danylko. Andrey Bednyakov returned as presenter of the main show on STB.
ZBSband won the competition and for the first time on the Ukrainian version of the x factor a group won the show and Anastasia Kamenskykh became the winning for the first time.

## Selection process
### Finalists

    – Winner
    – Runner-up
    – Third place
| Mentor | Acts | Acts | Acts | Acts |
| Boys (Danylko) | Ivan Ishchenko | Oleksandr Ilykha | Petro Harasymiv | Dmytro Volkanov |
| Girls (Vinnik) | Palina | Olha Zhmurina | Margaryta Dvoynenko | |
| Over 30s (Shurov) | Mark Savin | Olha Tsepkalo | Oleksandr Ryabenko | |
| Groups (Kamenskykh) | Duke Time | Jazzforacat | ZBSband | |

## Live Shows
### Results summary
#### Colour key

| – | Contestant was in the bottom two/three and had to perform again in the sing-off |
| – | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no final showdown) |
| – | Contestant received the most public votes |
| Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
| ZBSband | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
| Dmytro Volkanov | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
| Mark Savin | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 5) |
| Olha Zhmurina | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Bottom three | 4th | Eliminated (week 5) |
| Duke Time | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 4) | Eliminated (week 4) |
| Petro Harasymiv | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 4) | Eliminated (week 4) |
| Palina | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 3) | Eliminated (week 3) | Eliminated (week 3) |
| Ivan Ishchenko | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 3) | Eliminated (week 3) | Eliminated (week 3) |
| Jazzforacat | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) |
| Margaryta Dvoynenko | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) |
| Olha Tsepkalo | Bottom three | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) | Eliminated (week 2) |
| Oleksandr Ilykha | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) |
| Oleksandr Ryabenko | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) | Eliminated (week 1) |
| Bottom three | Oleksandr Ilykha, Oleksandr Ryabenko, Olha Tsepkalo | Jazzforacat, Margaryta Dvoynenko, Olha Tsepkalo | Ivan Ishchenko, Olha Zhmurina, Palina | Duke Time, Olha Zhmurina, Petro Harasymiv | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Judges voted to: | Save | Save | Save | Save | | | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Shurov's vote to save: | Olha Tsepkalo | Olha Tsepkalo | Palina | Olha Zhmurina | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Vinnik's vote to save: | Olha Tsepkalo | Margaryta Dvoynenko | Olha Zhmurina | Olha Zhmurina | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Danylko's vote to save: | Oleksandr Ilykha | – | Ivan Ishchenko | Petro Harasymiv | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Kamenskykh's vote to save: | Olha Tsepkalo | Jazzforacat | Olha Zhmurina | Duke Time | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. |
| Eliminated | Oleksandr Ilykha 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Jazzforacat 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Palina 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Duke Time 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Mark Savin Fewest votes to save | Dmytro Volkanov Fewest votes to win |
| Eliminated | Oleksandr Ilykha 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Olha Tsepkalo 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Palina 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Duke Time 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Mark Savin Fewest votes to save | Dmytro Volkanov Fewest votes to win |
| Eliminated | Oleksandr Ryabenko 0 of 4 votes to save Minority | Margaryta Dvoynenko 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Ivan Ishchenko 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Petro Harasymiv 1 of 4 votes to save Minority | Olha Zhmurina Fewest votes to save | Dmytro Volkanov Fewest votes to win |

### Live show details
#### Week 1 (24 November)

Contestants' performances on the first live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Olha Zhmurina | 1 | "Шкода" | Safe |
| Petro Harasymiv | 2 | "Очі на піску" | Safe |
| Olha Tsepkalo | 3 | "Журавлі" | Bottom three |
| Jazzforacat | 4 | "Вахтерам" | Safe |
| Mark Savin | 5 | "Whatever It Takes" | Safe |
| Ivan Ishchenko | 6 | "Де би я" | Safe |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 7 | "Une vie d'amour" | Safe |
| Margaryta Dvoynenko | 8 | "Плакала" | Safe |
| Oleksandr Ryabenko | 9 | "Дождь осенний" | Bottom three |
| ZBSband | 10 | "Ресницы" | Safe |
| Oleksandr Ilykha | 11 | "Secret" | Bottom three |
| Palina | 12 | "Тримай" | Safe |
| Duke Time | 13 | "Apologize" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Oleksandr Ryabenko | 1 | "О любви немало песен сложено" | Eliminated |
| Oleksandr Ilykha | 2 | "Helter Skelter" | Eliminated |
| Olha Tsepkalo | 3 | "Turn Around" | Saved |

#### Week 2 (1 December)

Contestants' performances on the second live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 1 | "Тополиный Пух" | Safe |
| Palina | 2 | "Ариведерчи" | Safe |
| Duke Time | 3 | "Самба белого мотылька" | Safe |
| Ivan Ishchenko | 4 | "Careless Whisper" | Safe |
| Olha Tsepkalo | 5 | "Ney Na Na Na" | Bottom three |
| Jazzforacat | 6 | "Полковнику никто не пишет" | Bottom three |
| ZBSband | 7 | "Он тебя целует" | Safe |
| Olha Zhmurina | 8 | "Be My Lover" | Safe |
| Mark Savin | 9 | "Февраль" | Safe |
| Margaryta Dvoynenko | 10 | "Ночной Мотылек" | Bottom three |
| Petro Harasymiv | 11 | "Піду втоплюся" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Olha Tsepkalo | 1 | "Sweet Child O' Mine" | Eliminated |
| Margaryta Dvoynenko | 2 | "Стена" | Eliminated |
| Jazzforacat | 3 | "Кораблі" | Eliminated |

#### Week 3 (8 December)

Contestants' performances on the third live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Ivan Ishchenko | 1 | "Happy" | Bottom three |
| Olha Zhmurina | 2 | "Останусь" | Bottom three |
| Petro Harasymiv | 3 | "Чито-Грито" | Safe |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 4 | "Jamaica" | Safe |
| Palina | 5 | "Около тебя" | Bottom three |
| ZBSband | 6 | "CrazyMFlove" | Safe |
| Duke Time | 7 | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Safe |
| Mark Savin | 8 | "Танцы на стеклах" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Palina | 1 | "Як ты" | Eliminated |
| Ivan Ishchenko | 2 | "О любвы" | Eliminated |
| Olha Zhmurina | 3 | "Highway to Hell" | Saved |

#### Week 4 (15 December)

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show :
| Act | Order | First song | Order | Second song | Result |
| Duke Time | 1 | "Цвет настроения синий" | 7 | "Осколки лета" | Bottom three |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 2 | "Біла голубка" | 8 | "Livin' la Vida Loca" | Safe |
| ZBSband | 3 | "Будь, що буде" | 9 | "Пацик хоче у Львов" | Safe |
| Olha Zhmurina | 4 | "Don't Speak" | 10 | "After Dark" | Bottom three |
| Petro Harasymiv | 5 | "А липи цвітуть" | 11 | "Любов останньою ніколи не буває" | Bottom three |
| Mark Savin | 6 | "Квіти у волоссі" | 12 | "Я тебя люблю" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||||
| Act | Act | Order | Order | Song | Result |
| Petro Harasymiv | Petro Harasymiv | 1 | 1 | "Материнська любов" | Eliminated |
| Olha Zhmurina | Olha Zhmurina | 2 | 2 | "Неизвестно" | Saved |
| Duke Time | Duke Time | 3 | 3 | "The Final Countdown" | Eliminated |

#### Week 5 Semi-final (22 December)

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show :
| Act | Order | First Song | Order | Second Song | Order | Third Song | Result |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 1 | "Historia de un amor" | 5 | "Зибен-Зибен, Ай-Лю-Лю" (With Andriy Danylko) | 9 | "Голуби" | Safe |
| ZBSband | 2 | "На морозі" | 6 | "Важно" (With Monatik) | 10 | "Тралики" | Safe |
| Olha Zhmurina | 3 | "Whole Lotta Love" | 7 | "Viva Forever" (With Melanie C) | 11 | "О нём" | Eliminated |
| Mark Savin | 4 | "Iron Sky" | 8 | "Too Close" (With Alex Clare) | 12 | "Бегу по небу" | Eliminated |

#### Week 6 Final (29 December)

Contestants' performances on the sixth live show :
| Act | Order | First Song | Order | Second Song | Result |
| ZBSband | 1 | "Пацик хоче у Львов" | 3 | "Птицы" | Winner |
| Dmytro Volkanov | 2 | "Тополиный Пух" | 4 | "Ну что же ты" | Runner-up |