The Voice (West Smedia season 1)

The first season of *The Voice*, an West Smedian reality talent competition, premiered on 29 May, 2020 on Antena 7 WSD. Angela Lounsburg, TMarr Adams-ROCK, Atti and Rhonda Sexton was all announced as coaches for this season.

## Coaches and hosts

In August of 2019 it was announced that The Voice will arrive to West Smedia and announced its coaches in October of 2019. Angela, Atti, TMarr and Rhonda all joins the judging line-up to find the best singer in the West part of Smedia. In June 2020 the *Good Morning Westland* reported that Mattie Bexter and The Aprils were to fill in as guest mentors for Atti and Sexton respectively, who will be mentoring their acts remotely from the US and SD because of travel restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Teams

**Colour key**

* Winner
* Finalist
* Eliminated in the Semifinals
* Eliminated in the Showdowns
* Eliminated in the Playoffs
* Artist was saved in the Battle rounds by their coach or another coach
* Eliminated in the Battle rounds
* Withdrew due to COVID-19 travel restrictions

* Due to COVID-19 and international travel restrictions, Caleb Jago-Ward and Ella Monnery could not travel from New Zealand to perform in the Playoffs. Elyse Sene-Lefao and Jimi the Kween were chosen to replace them, respectively.

## Blind auditions

In the Blind Auditions, each coach had to complete their teams with 12 contestants. New this season, each coach had two Blocks to prevent another of the coaches from getting a contestant.

**Season one blind auditions colour key**
 **✘** | Coach pressed the "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by Atti from getting the artist

### Episode 10 (15 June)

* Angela turned her chair for Wolf Winters despite already having a full team. Producers allowed her to keep Wolf as the 13th member of her team with the condition of losing two artists in a three-way battle in the next round.

## Battle rounds

The Battle rounds started on 21 June. The coaches can save two losing artists from any team, including their own. Contestants who win their battle or are saved will advance to the Playoffs.

**Season one battle rounds colour key**

### Episode 13 (28 June)

* TMarr could not decide on a winner between Janie and Matt. With approval from the producers, he suggested they become a duo, and both artists agreed.

## Playoffs

The Playoffs started on 5 July. After all of their team's playoffs were done, the coaches chose one of their losing artists as a wildcard. The top 20 contestants then moved on to the Finals. Due to COVID-19 and travel restrictions, Atti and Rhonda mentored their artists remotely, with Mattie Bexter and The Aprils filling in as guest mentors respectively. Artists Caleb Jago-Ward from Team Rhonda and Ella Monnery from Team Atti were unable to continue on the competition also due to travel restrictions, being stuck in New Zealand. Coaches Rhonda and Atti were allowed to bring back an eliminated Battle loser to fill in for Caleb and Ella, Rhonda choosing Elyse Sene-Lefao and Atti chose Jimi the Kween.

**Season one playoffs colour key**

### Episode 16 (6 July)

* Atti opted to take neither Elishia nor Jimi to the Showdowns, with aproval from the producers. To even out his team, Atti was granted an extra wildcard pick.

## Grand finale week

### Showdowns

The Showdowns were first broadcast on 12 and 13 July 2020. Over the two episodes, all artists of the Top 20 take on a solo performance of a song of their choice. Teams Atti and Angela performing on the first night, with Teams TMarr and Rhonda performing on the second night. At the end of each episode, the coaches choose two out of their five artists to advance to the Semifinals.

Non-competition performances
 19.1

### Semi-finals

Non-competition performances
 20.2

### Grand Finale

The Grand Finale will first broadcast on 19 July 2020.

Solo performances

Duet performances

* Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Boy George and Kelly could not perform with their artists, so Boy George had The Veronicas sing with Siala, while Kelly had Daryl Braithwaite sing with Chris.

Group performances

Special guest performances

## Grand finale week results

### Overall

#### Artist's info

* Artist from Team Angela
* Artist from Team TMarr
* Artist from Team Rhonda
* Artist from Team Atti

#### Result details

* Winner
* Finalist
* Artist was saved by the coach
* Artist was eliminated by coach

### Team

#### Result details

* Winner
* Finalist
* Artist was saved by the coach
* Artist was eliminated by the coach