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Elimination table
Place
Contestant
Episode
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14/15
1
Che
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
NPT
IN
IMM
LOW
LOW
IN
IN
WIN
HIGH
IN
LOW
IN
WIN
WIN
IN
WIN
WIN
IMM
WINNER
2
Ivy
WIN
IMM
IMM
IMM
NPT
IN
IMM
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
PT
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
WIN
HIGH
WIN
WIN
IN
WIN
RUNNERS-UP
Malia
IN
IN
LOW
WIN
NPT
IN
HIGH
LOW
IN
IN
WIN
WIN
IN
WIN
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
LOW
WIN
IN
WIN
4
Aaron
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
PT
IN
IN
LOW
IN
IN
IN
WIN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
LOW
IN
IN
WIN
IN
ELIM
Reid
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
WIN
HIGH
IN
LOW
IN
IN
IN
WIN
WIN
IMM
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
WIN
WIN
IN
ELIM
Sadie
WIN
IMM
LOW
HIGH
WIN
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
WIN
IN
IN
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
LOW
WIN
IN
ELIM
7
Jaala
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
LOW
IN
IN
LOW
IN
HIGH
WIN
WIN
HIGH
IN
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
ELIM
Matthew
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
WIN
WIN
IMM
IMM
IMM
IN
IN
PT
IN
IN
LOW
LOW
PT
HIGH
ELIM
9
Ben
WIN
IMM
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
HIGH
LOW
WIN
IN
IN
LOW
IN
LOW
LOW
LOW
ELIM
Rhashad
IN
LOW
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
IMM
WIN
IMM
HIGH
IN
PT
IN
IN
LOW
LOW
ELIM
11
Brielle
IN
IN
LOW
LOW
WIN
HIGH
LOW
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
WIN
IN
ELIM
Kyle
IN
IN
LOW
LOW
WIN
IN
LOW
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
WIN
IN
ELIM
13
Evie
IN
WIN
IMM
IMM
WIN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
ELIM
Kate
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
PT
IN
IN
LOW
IN
IN
IN
ELIM
15
Jayden
IN
IN
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
IMM
LOW
ELIM
Nayeli
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
WIN
IN
HIGH
LOW
ELIM
17
Mateo
IN
IN
IMM
IMM
PT
IN
ELIM
Talulah
IN
WIN
IMM
IMM
WIN
IN
ELIM
19
Ashley
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
ELIM
Tal
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
ELIM
21
Shannen
IN
IN
LOW
ELIM
Thomas
IN
WIN
LOW
ELIM
23
Miguel
IN
ELIM
Neko
IN
ELIM
(WINNER) This cook won the competition.
(RUNNERS-UP) These cooks finished in second place.
(WIN) The cook won an individual challenge (Mystery Box Challenge, Elimination Test, Pressure Test, or Skills Challenge).
(WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the Team Challenge and directly advanced to the next round.
(HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in the individual challenge but didn't win.
(IN) The cook was not selected as a top or bottom entry in an individual challenge.
(IN) The cook was not selected as a top or bottom entry in a Team Challenge.
(IMM) The cook did not have to compete in that round of the competition and was safe from elimination.
(IMM) The cook was selected by the Mystery Box Challenge winner and didn't have to compete in the Elimination Test.
(LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge or Pressure Test, and advanced.
(LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in a Team Challenge, and they advanced.
(PT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team Challenge, competed in the Pressure Test, and advanced.
(NPT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team Challenge, but did not compete in the Pressure Test, and advanced.
Mystery Box Challenge: The contestants are given their MasterChef aprons and are challenged to make a breakfast dish in 45 minutes. Ben, Ivy, and Sadie have the top three dishes; all of them win the challenge and are safe from elimination.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Ben Brown, Ivy Angst and Sadie Suskind
Elimination Challenge: The remaining kids have one hour to make one of three school lunches, with the winners choosing who has to cook which dish. Evie, Talulah, and Thomas have the best three dishes, while Kyle, Mateo, Miguel, Neko, Rhashad and Shannen are called up. Miguel, Neko, and Rhashad end up in the bottom.
Winners: Evie Babcock, Talulah and Thomas Reyna
Bottom three: Miguel Jaramillo, Neko Masi and Rhashad Lawery
The judges save Rhashad, sending Miguel and Neko home.
Team Challenge: The contestants randomly draw bananas with colored stickers on them to assign teams. The Yellow Team is Tal, Matthew, Ashley and Ben; the Pink Team is Jayden, Sadie, Malia and Brielle; and the Green Team is Shannen, Rhashad, Kyle and Thomas. All other contestants do not have to compete and are safe for the rest of the day. Each team must assemble as many perfect banana splits as possible in 15 minutes while having their feet tied together. The Yellow Team wins the challenge and are safe in the next round, while all the teams get to pour banana split toppings on the judges.
Immune: Aaron Smith, Che Spiotta, Evie Babcock, Ivy Angst, Jaala Smith, Kate Hendon, Mateo Sugarman, Nayeli Mendoza, Reid Briggs and Talulah
Challenge Winners/Immune: Ashley Johnson, Ben Brown, Matthew Smith and Tal Schulmiller
Elimination Challenge: The other two teams must make a dish within 60 minutes featuring live lobster that they must kill and cook. The best dish belonged to Malia, and the second best to Sadie, while Thomas, Brielle, Shannen and Kyle are called out in the bottom.
Challenge Winner: Malia Brauer
Bottom four: Brielle Jones, Kyle Sisitsky, Shannen Hosman and Thomas Reyna
The judges save Brielle and Kyle, eliminating Shannen and Thomas.
Team Challenge: The kids are taken to a circus where they are randomly split into teams. Che is captain of the Red Team along with Aaron, Ashley, Ivy, Jaala, Kate, Malia, Mateo, Sadie and Tal; Evie is the captain of the Blue Team along with Ben, Brielle, Jayden, Kyle, Matthew, Nayeli, Reid, Rhashad and Talulah. The teams must cook a lunch for 51 circus performers. They have 45 minutes to prep and 60 minutes to serve the meals. The Blue Team wins the challenge.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Ben Brown, Brielle Jones, Evie Babcock, Jayden Ingalls, Kyle Sisitsky, Matthew Smith, Nayeli Mendoza, Reid Briggs, Rhashad Lawery and Talulah.
Pressure Test: Che, Ivy and Malia are declared exempt from the Pressure Test for doing well in the team challenge. The other Red Team members must make their best birthday cake. Sadie makes the best cake, while Kate, Mateo and Aaron are also all safe, leaving Ashley, Jaala and Tal in the bottom.
Immune: Che Spiotta, Ivy Angst and Malia Brauer
Challenge Winner: Sadie Suskind
Bottom three: Ashley Johnson, Jaala Smith and Tal Schulmiller
Mystery Box Challenge: The contestants have 60 minutes to make their best fish dish. Matthew, Brielle and Reid are called up for the best dishes, with Matthew announced as the winner.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Matthew Smith
Elimination Challenge: Matthew gets to choose which of three ingredients the remaining contestants must make their next dish with, and he chooses citrus fruits. He also gets to save five contestants from the challenge; he saves Rhashad, Che, Ivy, Jayden and Evie. The remaining contestants have 60 minutes to make their dish. Malia, Nayeli and Ben were all praised for their dishes, while Mateo, Brielle, Kyle and Talulah are called out as the bottom four.
Immune: Che Spiotta, Evie Babcock, Ivy Angst, Jayden Ingalls and Rhashad Lawery
Bottom four: Brielle Jones, Kyle Sisitsky, Mateo Sugarman and Talulah
Kyle and Brielle are both safe, sending Mateo and Talulah home.
Team Challenge: The contestants will be divided into three teams of five each, and each team must make as many perfect trifles as they can in 20 minutes. The kids must dig through an over-sized trifle to find tokens which will assign them their teams. Matthew finds the gold token, which makes him immune from all challenges for the day. The Red Team consists of Kyle, Brielle, Sadie, Ivy and Rhashad; the Yellow Team has Aaron, Malia, Kate, Jayden and Nayeli; and the Green Team is Reid, Ben, Che, Evie and Jaala. The losing teams will have pudding poured on them to indicate that they have not won. The Red Team wins the challenge, and all teams have pudding dumped on them for fun.
Elimination Challenge: The remaining contestants will have 60 minutes to make three of their best sliders. Ben makes the best dish of the challenge, while Jayden, Nayeli and Che are called out in the bottom.
Challenge Winner: Ben Brown
Bottom three: Che Spiotta, Jayden Ingalls and Nayeli Mendoza
Mystery Box Challenge: After showing how to break down a duck by Aarón, the contestants have one hour to break down their own duck and cook one duck dish. Jaala, Rhashad, and Evie have the best three duck dishes, with Evie as the winner. Afterwards, the kids enjoy cupcakes on the patio.
Challenge Winner: Evie Babcock
Elimination Challenge: All contestants will have to work in pairs with Evie choosing the pairs. Each team has to make a dozen cupcakes, and the winning pair will have their recipe published in the all-new "MasterChef Junior Cookbook." Evie chooses Sadie as her teammate, then she pairs Brielle with Ben, Malia with Jaala, Matthew with Ivy, Rhashad with Reid, Kyle with Che, and Kate with Aaron. Jaala and Malia are the winners of this challenge.
Challenge Winners: Jaala Smith and Malia Brauer
The judges decide not to eliminate anyone, as all pairs performed well.
Team Challenge: The contestants are taken to a MasterChef Junior kids campsite, where they will cook lunch for 51 campers. Jaala and Malia are the team captains because they won the last challenge. Jaala captains the Red Team of Aaron, Che, Kyle, Sadie, Brielle and Reid, while Malia captains the Blue Team of Evie, Rhashad, Ivy, Ben, Matthew and Kate. The winning team will be safe and have their recipe published in Family Circle magazine. The Red Team wins the challenge.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Aaron Smith, Brielle Jones, Che Spiotta, Jaala Smith, Kyle Sisitsky, Reid Briggs and Sadie Suskind
Pressure Test: The Blue Team members must make a chocolate coconut cream pie. Malia wins this challenge, while Ben, Kate and Evie are called out as the bottom.
Mystery Box Challenge: The Mystery Box ingredients have been chosen by members of Kidz Bop, who have been invited to watch this contest. The contestants have one hour to make their best dish using any of the ingredients in the box. The top three dishes belong to Jaala, Reid and Che, and Reid wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Reid Briggs
Elimination Challenge: Reid gets to choose one contestant to be safe in this round, and he chooses Aaron. Reid gets to choose the ingredient the remaining contestants must make their dishes with, based on dishes the judges loved as a child. The choices are cereal, cheese, and canned tuna, and Reid chooses canned tuna. Malia makes the best dish of the night, while Kyle, Brielle and Ben are called out in the bottom.
Immune: Aaron Smith
Challenge Winner: Malia Brauer
Bottom three: Ben Brown, Brielle Jones and Kyle Sisitsky
Team Challenge: The kids are split into three teams of three contestants. They randomly draw colored pasta to assign teams. Ivy draws the black pasta and is immune for the day. The Green Team is Malia, Jaala and Reid; the Yellow Team is Matthew, Rhashad and Che; the Red Team is Aaron, Ben and Sadie. Each team is in a race to roll out a single pasta sheet that is 24 feet long. The winning team wins immunity and gets to dump a large bowl of pasta sauce on their assigned judge. The Green Team wins the challenge, and eventually all the judges have sauce poured on them.
Immune: Ivy Angst
Challenge Winners/Immune: Jaala Smith, Malia Brauer and Reid Briggs
Elimination Challenge: The remaining contestants must make three different types of éclairs. Matthew, Rhashad and Ben are left as the bottom three.
Bottom three: Ben Brown, Matthew Smith and Rhashad Lawery
The judges decide to not send anyone home this week. In addition, all remaining contestants are invited to take part in next summer's MasterChef Junior summer camp.
Team Challenge: The kids are split into teams with contestants that have never been captain before. Ivy captains the Blue team and wins a coin toss, allowing her to choose her entire team at once; she picks Malia, Reid, Che and Sadie; Rhashad captains the Red Team with Aaron, Ben, Jaala and Matthew. Both teams will be cooking meals for guests of the MasterChef Junior restaurant who are all women, including former MasterChef and MasterChef Junior winners. The Blue Team wins the challenge.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Che Spiotta, Ivy Angst, Malia Brauer, Reid Briggs and Sadie Suskind
Pressure Test: The Red Team members must replicate Gordon's signature scallop dish after he demonstrates how to make it. Jaala wins the Pressure Test, while Rhashad, Ben and Aaron are left in the bottom.
Challenge Winner: Jaala Smith
Bottom three: Aaron Smith, Ben Brown and Rhashad Lawery
Mystery Box Challenge: After being showered with corn, the kids must make a dish featuring different types of corn in 60 minutes. The top three dishes belong to Che, Matthew and Ivy, and Che wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner: Che Spiotta
Team Challenge: Che gets to choose the contestants to pair up in the annual tag team challenge. Che teams with Aaron, Ivy teams with Reid, Jaala teams with Matthew, and Malia teams with Sadie. All teams must make a platter of six different tapas in one hour, with the contestants switching out every ten minutes, and both members of the losing team will be eliminated. The winning team is Reid and Ivy. Jaala, Matthew, Malia and Sadie are the teams in the bottom.
Challenge Winners: Ivy Angst and Reid Briggs
Bottom four: Jaala Smith, Matthew Smith, Malia Brauer and Sadie Suskind
The team of Malia and Sadie are saved, sending Jaala and Matthew home.
Team Challenge: The contestants travel to a restaurant named Mélisse, with the judges assigning the teams. Reid captains the Blue Team along with Che and Ivy; Sadie captains the Red Team along with Aaron and Malia. The teams have to prepare two appetizers and entrées from the menu under Ramsay as expeditor. Back in the MasterChef kitchen, it is revealed that both teams are the winner, and nobody is going home.
Challenge Winners: Aaron Smith, Che Spiotta, Ivy Angst, Malia Brauer, Reid Briggs and Sadie Suskind
Mystery Box Challenge: In this last Mystery Box challenge, the kids receive letters of encouragement from their families, and they must make a dish based on their families in one hour. They are then greeted by their families. The winner will advance through to the finale. All the dishes are judged and Che wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner/Immune/Finalist: Che Spiotta
Elimination Challenge: After the families leave, Che is given five fruits and gets to assign one to each contestant. He assigns cherries to Aaron, mango to Reid, pineapple to Sadie, pear to Ivy and peach to Malia. The contestants must make a dish in 60 minutes using their fruit.
Season Finale: The three finalists must prepare their best appetizer, entrée, and dessert. They will have 60 minutes to prepare each course and will be judged at the end of each course.
Appetizer: Malia serves miso-marinated black cod, fresh soba noodles with pickled cucumber and a soy quail egg. Che serves pan-seared prawns and cuttlefish, Calabrian chile butter polenta with lemon vinaigrette and Parmesan crisp. Ivy serves pan-seared red snapper, tropical salsa, avocado crema and tostones.
Entrée: Malia serves pan-seared filet mignon, fried shishito peppers and dashi-braised daikon. Che serves veal saltimbocca, fingerling potatoes, spring pea ragout with morels and mushroom jus. Ivy serves glazed hanger steak, butternut squash two ways, Brussels sprouts and herb purée.
Dessert: Malia serves black sesame panna cotta, mixed berry coulis with raspberry cream and sesame tuile. Che serves gluten-free chocolate olive oil cake, orange glaze with fresh ricotta cream and pistachio tuile. Ivy serves butterscotch pots de creme with caramel sauce, pine nut brittle and whipped creme fraíche.
Final three: Che Spiotta, Ivy Angst and Malia Brauer
Winner Announced: Che is announced as this season's winner of MasterChef Junior, taking home the trophy and the $100,000 prize.
