The X Factor is a Greek and Cypriot television music competition to find new singing talent.
On 9 March 2017, Sakis Rouvas 7 days after the final of The Voice of Greece where he was a coach of series 3 he confirmed that he would return to present for the fifth time The X Factor on Skai TV and Sigma TV.
On 26 December 2016 it was confirmed that Evangelia Aravani would return to present the backstage of The X Factor Live for the second time.
It was broadcast in an episode with the final audition after this the bootcamp began for one hour on 6 May 2017.
The contestants all chose their favourite song to sing and then they put them in groups and one by one sang, in front of the judges.
120 acts were successful in this part, and the judges then deliberated to cut the number of contestants down to forty, to decide who would reach the four-chair challenge.
At the end of Bootcamp, the judges discovered which categories they would mentor: Papadopoulos was given the Girls, Tamta was given the Boys, Mazonakis was given the Over 25s and Stokas was given the Groups.