MasterChef Turkey

This season is the first MasterChef season directed by Acun Ilıcalı, and unlike the first season, it is a much more modernized and detailed season.

Since it was broadcast on a completely different channel 7 years after the first season and has brand new staff and judges, this season is thought to be the first season.

Compared to its successors this season, it does not have a published its pre-qualifying process.

• Alp Mehmet Sıy
• Atakan Erbek
• Burcu Eminoğlu (third place)
• Doruk Ulufer
• Ercan Demir
• Eslem Sena Yurt
• Esra Maydoğdu
• Ezgi Gürkaş
• Hakan Kanik (fifth place)
• Kerem Giritlioğlu (runner-up)
• Mehmet Sur
• Meltem Pisboğa (fourth place)
• Murat Özdemir (disqualified/ninth place)
• Özlem Yüksektepe
• Tuğçe Sökesoğlu
• Uğur Kardaş (winner)
• Umut Yeke
• Zeynep Palikoç

As of this season, Danilo Zanna has replaced Hazer Amani in the jury cast.

This season, compared to the previous two seasons, is the first season in which the pre-selection process of this competition has been broadcast.

Contestants will first go through an audition stage where the judges will cook within a certain period of time before the eyes of the judges, and the contestant who gets approval from at least two judges will move on to the next stage. In the next stage, they will go through the triple duel stage in order to enter the main cast, the person who cooks the best food in that stage will pass to the main cast, while the others will be eliminated.

However, unlike previous seasons, it has a 'reserve cast' system in which some of the eliminated in the triple duel were recalled for the replacing main cast contestants who were eliminated.

• Açelya Kılıçay
• Alican Sabunsoy (runner-up)
• Bahri Papila
• Batuhan Bayır (fifth place)
• Cemre Uyanık (winner)
• Eda Karabulut
• Güzide Mertcan (third place)
• Ekin Eylem Ulaş (fourth place)
• Faruk Batuhan Öner
• Kıvanç Ermiş
• Murat Tokmak
• Mustafa Aydın
• Müge Güney
• Onur Dursun
• Orhan Eren
• Rıfat Yurttaş
• Nalan Toprak
• Suna Aydın
• Yasin Obuz
• Yekaterina Sungur

This season, unlike the previous season, the third qualifying stage called the 'final round' was introduced.

At this stage, the 28 winners of the triple duel were divided into two groups and 8 people were determined for the main squad from each group.

Successful contestants who failed to enter the main cast were included in the competition as reserve cast contestants. These contestants are: Sefa, Berker, Arem, Selin, Walison and Didem.

• Arem Yüce
• Ayyüce Kamit
• Barbaros Yoloğlu (runner-up)
• Berk İlter
• Berker Başmanav
• Celal Sarıgül
• Didem Devay
• Duygu Acarsoy
• Ebru Has
• Emir Elidemir (third place)
• Eray Aksungur (fifth place)
• Esra Tokelli
• Gülşah Suna
• Furkan Yalçın
• Özgül Coşar (fourth place)
• Sedat Tuncer
• Sefa Okyay Kılıç
• Selin Öztürk Aydın
• Serhat Doğramacı (winner)
• Tanya Kilitkayalı
• Uğur Yılmaz Deniz (disqualified/eighth place)
• Walison Fonseca

Along with a chosen contestant by juries whose eliminated in the triple duel stage, 5 main cast contestants and 5 reserve cast contestants are selected from each group of 15 people. Thus, the number of main cast and reserve cast contestants will be completed to 15.

The selected reserve cast contestants have to compete against each other each week to replace an eliminated contestant from the main cast.(in the first match, for to be the last contestant of the main cast)

The selection of the reserve cast is made before the qualifying day, but in terms of the rules it is the same as the final round stage. In the last two reserve selections, the second stage, the creativity stage, is removed. Instead, the person who cooks the food requested by the chefs best is included in the main cast.

In addition, the 'loop round, in which the eliminated contestants are brought back, was introduced this season. Two of the contestants eliminated before they reach the last ten in this round have a chance to be reintegrated into the main cast, thus reshaping the second turning point, the last twelve.

This season is the season where the elimination system is changed the most, and it is also the MasterChef season with the most reserve contestants called up. (13 reserve calling in total; 3 for final round, 7 for main cast, 2 for main cast in mid-to-end season )

• Fatma Polat
• Milhan Erdem
• Dilara Başaran (fifth place)
• İbrahim Cingözler
• Tunahan Ak
• Sükrü Özsarı
• Hamza Mercimek
• Burcu Önal (sixth place)
• Görkem Demiral
• Hasan Biltekin (runner-up)
• Tahsin Küçük (third place)
• Eren Kaşıkçı (winner)
• Mert Yılmaz
• Safanur Bol
• Emre Büber

• Nursima Toğaç
• Berk Vural Urun
• Mert Ateş Durukan

(Participated as 3rd reserve contestant)

• Sergen Özen

(Participated as 16th contestant/fourth place)

• Mete Ozan Kibar
• Azize Polat

(Participated as 2nd reserve contestant)

• Araz Aknam

(Participated as 4th reserve contestant)

• Samet Enes
• Merve Karagül
• Zerda Karagülle
• Mustafa Ozan

(Participated as 1st reserve contestant)

• Melis Di Gennaro
• Pelin Zaman

(Participated as 5th reserve contestant)

• Yiğit Gök
• Rabia Nur Çamurlu

(Participated as 6th reserve contestant)

Slightly different from the previous season, they did not call a reserve contestants for the final round. Instead, they choose 6 contestant from each batch of 16 contestants for the main cast, then they choose 5 contestants from each batch of remaining 10 contestants for the reserve cast. Complete the number of main cast contestants to 18, reserve cast contestants to 15.

Since the number of main cast contestants for this season has been increased to 18, the number of reserve contestants to be recruited this season has been reduced to 5. That's why it is the first season in which the number of reserve contestants is reduced.

• Metin Yavuz (winner)
• Gamze Tosun
• Onur Biçim
• Çağatay Akgül
• Şeyma Müjdeci
• Melih Berkay Gündüz
• Büsra Zambak
• Fatma Nur Uçar
• Tayfun Genç
• Yağız Özçelik
• Burak Revanbahş
• Kaan Noyanalpan
• Burak Kaya (fifth place)
• Dilan Karataş
• Barış Demir
• Kıvanç Karadeniz (runner-up)
• Ayaz Geçer (third place)
• Serpilay Salkım

• Doğukan Güneş
• Atike Bozyaka

(Participated as 3rd reserve contestant)

• Başar Varol
• Tolga Şener

(Participated as 4th reserve contestant/sixth place)

• Seyfullah Karagöz

(withdrew)

• Ege Pakalın
• Vural Burnaz

(Participated as 2nd reserve contestant)

• Erkan Kalanyer
• Ayşegül Zengin
• Şule Yaman

(Participated as 5th reserve contestant)

• Makbule Cengiz
• Görkem Ünal

(Participated as 1st reserve contestant/fourth place)

• Sema Fıçıcı
• Göktuğ Çolak
• Cenkay Ceviz

Although the elimination system runs parallel to the 5th and 6th seasons, it differs from its predecessors by including runner-ups and champions from the reserves in the competition.

Contestants who cannot become finalists are categorized according to the seasons they are in and divided into 4 batches and competed each other to enter 5 person-quota each:

•1'st Batch: Season 2 (2018) and Season 3 (2019)

This batch is consisted of only 12. Due to their small number, they selected only 3 people for the reserve candidates, apart from those who entered the 5-person main squad quota.

•2'nd Batch: Season 4 (2020)

This batch is consisted of 14. Just like in the first batch, only 3 reserve candidates were selected from this group. It also differs from other seasons in that this season's champion is not included in the squad.

•3'rd Batch: Season 5 (2021)

This batch is consisted of 20. It differs from other seasons in that everyone in this season participates in the preliminary round.

Since they are more numerous, they increased the number of reserve candidates to 4.

•4'th Batch: Season 6 (2022)

This batch is consisted of 17. Since it is the most current season before the All Star season, they increased the number of reserve candidates to 5.

They start the competition by selecting only 2 people from the reserve candidates along with the 20 people selected for the main squad. The runner-ups of their current season are included in the squad week by week, immediately after the two selected reserve contestants.

After all runner ups arrive and the number of remaining contestants is reduced to 16, 4 champions are added to the squad at the same time, thus completing the squad.

In this season, the 3 team game-6 elimination candidate system, which was implemented in the last 3 seasons, continues as it is. However, the captain duel system and masterclass sections have been completely removed. Instead, the award game, which was played in the 6th season and counted as the 4th team game, and an individual game in which the 7th elimination candidate was determined were added.