The Six Chair Challenge returns, as the judges each decide on the acts they take through to their Judges' House. This year each judge has a golden button, which guarantees one act in their line-up a place in the final 6, meaning that once they have a seat, they cannot be swapped out.
Each X Factor judge is in charge of a different section of singers on the show. The judges do not know what section of the competition they will be in charge of until the audition process has finished. Each judge then has to pick four acts to take forward to the live section of the show. Each week the two acts with the lowest amount of public votes have to sing again in a final showdown after which the judges decide who should be eliminated. Once there are only five acts left remaining it becomes left to the public to decide who should go.