Contestant Progress
| Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickfire Winner |
Stefan | Radhika | Leah | Leah | Hosea | Ariane | Radhika | Stefan | Leah Radhika |
Stefan | Stefan | Carla | Jeff | None |
| Hosea | IN (+) | LOW | WIN 2 | IN | IN (+) | WIN | IN | LOW | IN (+) | HIGH | LOW | LOW | HIGH | WINNER |
| Stefan | WIN | IN | IN (+) | IN | IN (+) | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | WIN | LOW | WIN | LOW | LOW | RUNNER-UP |
| Carla | IN (-) | HIGH | IN (-) | IN | LOW | IN | LOW | WIN | LOW | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | RUNNER-UP |
| Fabio | IN (-) | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | IN (-) | IN | IN | IN (-) | HIGH | LOW | HIGH | WIN | OUT | |
| Jeff | IN (+) | IN | LOW | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | IN | IN (-) | IN (-) | OUT | OUT 5 | |||
| Leah | HIGH | IN | IN (+) | IN | IN (-) | IN | IN | LOW | IN (+) | HIGH | LOW | OUT | ||
| Jamie | IN (+) | HIGH | IN (+) | LOW | HIGH | LOW | WIN | WIN | IN (-) | HIGH | OUT | |||
| Radhika | IN (-) | IN | WIN 2 | IN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | IN (-) | OUT | |||||
| Ariane | LOW | LOW | IN (-) | WIN | WIN | IN | HIGH | OUT | ||||||
| Eugene | HIGH | IN | IN (-) | IN | LOW | LOW | OUT 4 | |||||||
| Melissa | IN (-) | IN | HIGH | LOW | IN (-) | LOW | OUT 4 | |||||||
| Danny | IN (+) | IN | LOW | IN | OUT | |||||||||
| Alex | IN (-) | IN | IN (-) | OUT | ||||||||||
| Richard | IN (-) | IN | OUT | |||||||||||
| Jill | IN (+) | OUT | ||||||||||||
| Patrick | OUT | |||||||||||||
| Lauren | OUT 1 | |||||||||||||
^Note 1 : Lauren was immediately eliminated by placing last in the Quickfire Challenge.
^Note 2 : Team Sexy Pants was proclaimed the winning team on the show, but Verizon Wireless V CAST revealed that there were two individual winners: Radhika and Hosea. However, Bravotv.com states that all chefs from the winning team won the elimination challenge.
^Note 3 : Due to a refrigerator malfunction which spoiled some of the chefs' ingredients during the Elimination Challenge, no one was eliminated. On air, the judges said they would not eliminate any of the contestants as a "holiday gift" because they admired the way they had all helped the affected chefs when the refrigerator failed, and because they had all performed below expectations.
^Note 4 : Because no one was eliminated in Episode 6 (see 3), two contestants were eliminated in this episode.
^Note 5 : Leah, Jamie, and Jeff (the three most recently eliminated contestants) were brought back to the competition to compete in a Quickfire Challenge. The winner would compete in the subsequent Elimination Challenge, but could only move on to the Final Challenge if they won this challenge. Jeff won the Quickfire, and the judges picked him as one of their favorites in the Elimination Challenge, but did not select him to win. Consequently, he was eliminated automatically.
- (WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
- (RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
- (WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
- (HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
- (LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
- (OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
- (IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
- IN (+) The chef won a pair or team challenge but was not chosen as one of the judges' favorites.
- IN (-) The chef lost a pair or team challenge but was not selected as one of the judges' least favorites.
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