Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the auditioner's performance to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team. If two or more judges want the same singer, the singer has the final choice of coach.
The Blind Auditions, Part 1
The Blind Auditions, Part 2
The Blind Auditions, Part 3
The Blind Auditions, Part 4
The Blind Auditions, Part 5
The Battles
In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have three of their team members battle against each other directly by singing the same song together, with the coach choosing which team member to advance from each of individual "battles" into the Sing-Off stage.
The Sing-Off
Each coach brought his or her team after the "Battle" back to five acts, but there were only two candidates to the final. All five contestants will battle each other in "The Sing-Off", where they re-sung their audition song. The coaches then selected two of the five contestants to move to the live finals.
Sing Off #
Coach
Contestant
Song
1
Nick & Simon
Bente
"Lost"
1
Nick & Simon
Channah
"Mercy"
1
Nick & Simon
Dave
"Geef mij je angst"
1
Nick & Simon
Milou
"Nobody's Perfect"
1
Nick & Simon
Pim
"Love You More"
2
Angela Groothuizen
Amy
"Bleeding Love"
2
Angela Groothuizen
Brett
"Love You More"
2
Angela Groothuizen
Fabiënne
"The A Team"
2
Angela Groothuizen
Lieke
"Bottles"
2
Angela Groothuizen
Vinchenzo
"You Give Me Something"
3
Marco Borsato
Bram
"You Give Me Something"
3
Marco Borsato
Louise
"Foolin"
3
Marco Borsato
Melissa
"Jar of Hearts"
3
Marco Borsato
Vajèn
"The Climb"
3
Marco Borsato
Zendé
"Here I Am"
Live
Teams
Winner
Runner-up
Third place
Finalist
Show
Competition Performances
Non-Competition performance
Celebrity performance
Results
Selecting the three finalists was based on two aspects, voting by the three coaches and televoting by viewers at home. Both the coaches and the public each had up to one-hundred points to give to their favorite finalist.
Finalist
Coach
Points from coach
Points from public
Total
Result
Melissa
Marco Borsato
30
38.4
68.4
Eliminated
Vajèn
Marco Borsato
70
61.6
131.6
Finalist
Channah
Nick & Simon
35
36.1
71.1
Eliminated
Dave
Nick & Simon
65
63.9
128.9
Finalist
Fabiënne
Angela Groothuizen
56
74.6
130.6
Finalist
Lieke
Angela Groothuizen
44
25.4
69.4
Eliminated
Finale
Channah, Lieke, and Melissa were immediately eliminated. Then were the finalists Dave, Fabiënne, and Vajèn.
Early November 2011: the enrollment had closed because there were already 17,000 applications.
Before the start of The Voice Kids was on 25 January 2012, there was a press conference of the coaches. The interviewers were 24 students from different schools, so that a report could write their school.
