The Voice of Poland

The Blind Auditions

The blind auditions feature approximately 100 contestants who were selected during non-televised production pre-castings. At the beginning of the performance, the coaches have their backs turned to the participants, and if one of the coaches wants to take on a participant, he turns to face him and the singer is automatically placed on his team. If more than one coach is turned away, the singer chooses the coach they want to work with. In the first four editions and from the tenth, blind auditions end with the selection of 12 contestants. The size of the teams, however, varied over the editions: in the fifth and ninth, the teams had 13 members each, and in the sixth, seventh and eighth, 14.

From 11. edition during blind auditions, each coach can "block" another. The coach against whom the lockout was used loses the ability to invite that participant to his team. Each coach can use this feature at most twice. If a trainer uses a "block" against another judge and he/she does not turn around - the "block" is considered unused; this means that the trainer in question can use it as long as he or she actually "blocks" someone. "Block" buttons can be used both during and after a contestant's performance.

The Battles round

This is followed by battles in which the coaches choose two people from their team (when the number of participants in a team is odd, one of the battles is played by a trio, not a duo) who sing the same song together. The coach decides who moves on and who drops out of the program. In the first edition, coaches were assisted in their decision making by invited specialists. From the second edition onwards, the other coaches can make a "steal", i.e. take the loser to their team (by pressing their button). If more than one coach wants to steal a participant, that participant has the right to choose which team they want to go to. In the seventh edition, the "stealing" system has changed to what is known as the "hot chairs". Each coach can ultimately steal only one player (who sits on the hot seat assigned to that coach's team), because when "stealing" another player, the previously stolen person is replaced and dropped from the program; From this edition, each coach could steal (press the button and take over a player) up to three times, but from 10. The steal button coaches can press without limit. The battles therefore end with seven participants advancing to the next stage. During the ninth season, there was the first ever elimination of all participants from a team in one battle.

The Knockouts round

The battles are followed by a knockout (in the first edition: overtime), in which the coaches eliminate more people who don't make it to the live episodes. Up to and including the sixth edition, each of the coaches selected three people from his or her team (six people in the first edition, seven people in the second edition, eight people in editions three to five, and nine people in the sixth edition) who automatically qualified for the live episodes. He/She divided the others into threes (into two twos by the second edition), and one person from each would go on. Since the seventh edition, all contestants have to sing - the first four from each team are automatically put in the hot seats, and after subsequent performances of the remaining three, the coach decides whether a given contestant stays in the show or not. If a trainer leaves a contestant on stage in the show, they have to eliminate someone sitting in the hot seat. Four (five in the first, second and sixth editions) finalists from each team qualify for the live episodes.

The Live Shows

When the teams consist of 5, 4, or 3 contestants, the coach chooses from among the two contestants with the fewest votes from the viewers (who decide by sending text messages) the person who drops out of the program. Each such live episode ends with the elimination of one person from each group. In 11th season due to the coronavirus pandemic and recording episodes before they aired, the elimination rules were changed. Once all participants from a given team had sung their songs, the coaches scored the performances, awarding them from 1 to 10 points. The coach of that team would then select one participant to move on to the next section (regardless of scoring). The participant with the lowest number of points was eliminated from the remaining three or two (in case of a tie, the points from the coach of the evaluated team were decisive).

In the semi-finals (when the team is made up of two people), the coach distributes 100 points among his/her charges, and then everyone is credited with as many points as the percentage of votes he/she got from the spectators. In 5. edition, while the semi-final took the form of what is known in the international format as "Cross Battles", which involved players dueling between teams. In the semi-final of the 11th edition the deciding factor was the total points awarded by all the coaches.

The Final

Four participants (one from each team, with the exception of 5. edition), and the winner is chosen by viewers in an SMS vote. Voting is divided into three rounds; after each round, the person with the fewest votes drops out. In the first round the finalists sing a foreign language song followed by a duet with their coach; in the second round the repertoire consists of Polish songs; in the third round the remaining two sing their own songs.

• Current coaches
• 
  Marek Piekarczyk (2-5, 12-)
• 
  Tomson (duo, 2-8, 10-)
• 
  Baron (duo, 2-8, 10-)
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  Justyna Steczkowska (2, 4-5, 12-)
• 
  Lanberry (13-)

• Former coaches
• 
  Justyna Steczkowska (2, 4–5, 12–)
• 
  Lanberry (13–)
• 
  Sylwia Grzeszczak (12)
• 
  Urszula Dudziak (11)
• 
  Michał Szpak (8–11)
• 
  Edyta Górniak (3, 5–6, 11)
• 
  Kamil Bednarek (10-14)
• 
  Margaret (10)
• 
  Piotr Cugowski (9)
• 
  Grzegorz Hyzy (9)
• 
  Patrycja Markowska (2, 9)
• 
  Natalia Kukulska (7)
• 
  Maria Sadowska (3–4, 6–8)
• 
  Andrzej Piaseczny (1, 6–8)
• 
  Kayah (1)
• 
  Nergal (1)
• 
  Anna Dąbrowska (1)
• 
  Marek Piekarczyk (2-5, 12-)
• 
  Justyna Steczkowska (2, 4–5, 12–)

  Winner

  Runner-up

  Third place

  Fourth place

Winners are in bold, other finalists in italic, eliminated artists in smaller font.

Warning: the following table presents a significant amount of different colors.

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