Contestant Progress
| Contestant | 11 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickfire Winner |
None | Mark | Richard | Dale | Antonia | Jennifer | Richard | Antonia | Andrew Antonia Richard Stephanie |
Spike | Antonia | Spike | Stephanie | None |
| Stephanie | WIN | LOW | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | LOW | HIGH4 | HIGH | WIN | WIN | HIGH | WINNER |
| Richard | HIGH | IN | IN (+) | WIN | LOW3 | IN | WIN | IN | WIN4 | IN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | RUNNER-UP8 |
| Lisa | IN (+) | IN (+) | IN (+) | HIGH | WIN | IN | LOW | LOW | IN (-)5 | LOW | LOW | LOW | LOW | RUNNER-UP8 |
| Antonia | HIGH | IN (-) | HIGH | LOW2 | IN | HIGH | LOW | WIN | HIGH | IN | HIGH | HIGH | OUT | |
| Spike | IN (-) | IN (-) | IN (-) | LOW | LOW | IN | HIGH | IN | LOW | LOW | LOW7 | OUT | ||
| Dale | IN (+) | IN (-) | IN (-) | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | WIN | IN | LOW | WIN | OUT | |||
| Andrew | IN (-) | WIN | IN (-) | HIGH | LOW3 | IN | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH6 | OUT | ||||
| Nikki | HIGH | LOW | IN (+) | IN | IN | LOW | IN | HIGH | OUT | |||||
| Mark | LOW | HIGH | IN (+) | IN | LOW3 | LOW | IN | OUT | ||||||
| Jennifer | IN (-) | IN (+) | IN (-) | IN | IN | IN | OUT | |||||||
| Ryan | LOW | IN | LOW | IN | IN | OUT | ||||||||
| Zoi | IN (+) | HIGH | LOW | LOW2 | OUT | |||||||||
| Manuel | IN (-) | IN (+) | IN (+) | OUT | ||||||||||
| Erik | LOW | IN | OUT | |||||||||||
| Valerie | IN (+) | OUT | ||||||||||||
| Nimma | OUT | |||||||||||||
^Note 1 : Episode 1's Quickfire Challenge resulted in the 16 contestants being split into two groups of 8: the Winners and the Losers. No elimination immunity was given to the Winners group. This was done for the purpose of the head-to-head cook-off in the Elimination Challenge.
^Note 2 : Although Antonia and Zoi landed in the bottom for this challenge, they were declared safe prior to Manuel's elimination (following a more concise explanation of their dish).
^Note 3 : The judges depicted Team Earth as the worst team; however, Team Water was one of the judges' least favorites because the fish was not scaled properly.
^Note 4 : Richard was originally awarded the win by the judges. Even though he gave the win to Stephanie and she shared the prize, he is considered the sole winner of this challenge according to the Bravo website.
^Note 5 : Despite being on the losing team, Lisa's wedding cake for the groom pleased the judges and she was spared from being indicated as a potential elimination.
^Note 6 : Meanwhile, despite being on the winning team, Andrew's dish received criticisms and was not in the running for the win.
^Note 7 : Spike did well serving everybody and wasn't in the running for elimination.
^Note 8 : Stephanie was declared the winner of Top Chef. The judges did not designate a first or second runner-up.
- (WINNER) The chef won the series 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.
- The chef won a pair or team challenge but was not chosen as one of the judges' favorites.
- The chef lost a pair or team challenge but was not selected as one of the judges' least favorites.
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