Cocktail Master
2025 Croatian TV series or program
Cocktail Master is a Croatian reality competition streaming television series that premiered on 24 March 2025 on Voyo. The series follows bartenders who vie to earn a cash prize for preparing the best cocktails.
01Production
RTL announced the series on 17 March 2025. On the same day, a premiere date of 24 March 2024 was confirmed. The series released on RTL's streaming service Voyo in Croatia and Serbia, as well as on the Slovene iteration of the platform. The series is set to consist of eleven 40-minute episodes, with the final episode scheduled to release on 19 April 2025.
The competition took place in five cities: Zagreb, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Skopje and Sarajevo. The grand finale took place in Zagreb.
Format
A total of 100 bartenders enter the competition in order to win a cash prize of 30,000€. The contestant are challenged to prepare cocktails, which are judged by three professional bartenders, Tijana Klajn, Filip Lipnik, and Mario Majcen.
In the first round of the competition, the jury selects top five contestants in each of the five competing countries. Among the top five, three contestants are declared automatic qualifiers, whereas the remaining two contestants enter an elimination round where they are prompted to prepare another cocktail; the contestant with the better drink advances in the competition. After a top four is selected from each country, a total of twenty contestants participate in the grand final in Zagreb.
02Contestants
The following is a list of contestants that qualified into the Top 5 from their respective country.
| Top 5 qualifiers from | Contestant | Age | Residence | Outcome |
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| North Macedonia | David Davidovikj | 30 | Skopje | Winner (ep. 11) |
| Croatia | Tomislav Stančić | 35 | Šibenik | Runner-up (ep. 11) |
| North Macedonia | Vanja Golovski | 29 | Skopje | Eliminated at Top 3 (ep. 11) |
| Slovenia | Benjamin Škafer | 32 | Ljubljana | Eliminated at Top 4 (ep. 11) |
| Montenegro | Krsto Vukanić | 31 | Podgorica | Eliminated at Top 5 (ep. 10) |
| Serbia | Boban Lazarević | 52 | Kragujevac | Eliminated at Top 6 (ep. 9) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Dalibor Kapetanovic | 36 | Sarajevo | TBA |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Josip Ružić | 29 | Vitez | TBA |
| Croatia | Leon Švec | 18 | Zagreb | TBA |
| Slovenia | Lovro | 25 | Zreče | TBA |
| Eliminated at Top 20 | ||||
| Slovenia | Aleksandar | 21 | Koper | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| North Macedonia | Darko Jovancevski | 31 | Skopje | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Croatia | Hrvoje Rihtaric | 31 | Zagreb | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ivan Brkić | 33 | Ljubuški | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| North Macedonia | Ljupčo Jakovleski | 33 | Skopje | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Serbia | Nikola | 31 | Belgrade | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Croatia | Svjetlana | 47 | Strmec Samoborski | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Serbia | Todor | 22 | Kragujevac | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Slovenia | Žan | 26 | Ljubljana | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Žarko Zekić | 34 | Sarajevo | Eliminated at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Slovenia | Gal | 26 | Ljubljana | Withdrew at Top 20 (ep. 6) |
| Eliminated at the local Qualification Rounds | ||||
| North Macedonia | Vančo Stojanov | 41 | Skopje | Eliminated at the Qualifications (ep. 5) |
| Montenegro | Rajko | 40 | Podgorica | Eliminated at the Qualifications(ep. 4) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Edis Duvnjak | 39 | Sarajevo | Eliminated at the Qualifications (ep. 2) |
| Croatia | Andrija Kulušić | 29 | Split | Eliminated at the Qualifications (ep. 1) |
03Episodes
| No. | Title | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Episode 1" | 24 March 2025 (2025-03-24) | |
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A group of contestants form Croatia enter the competition in Zagreb. They were prompted to prepare a cocktail with a maximum of five ingredients. After tasting all of the cocktails, the judges selected a Top 5. Among the top 5, Hrvoje, Leon and Tomislav were declared automatic qualifiers, whereas Svjetlana and Andrija had to take a part in an elimination round, where they had to prepare an additional cocktail.
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| 2 | "Episode 2" | 25 March 2025 (2025-03-25) | |
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The second episode takes place in Sarajevo. Josip, Ivan and Žarko were selected as the automatic qualifiers, whereas Edis and Dalibor entered the elimination round. In the elimination round, the contestants had to implement rakia in their cocktails.
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| 3 | "Episode 3" | 26 March 2025 (2025-03-26) | |
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The third episode took place in Ljubljana. The jury selected Benjamin, Aleksandar and Žan as the automatic qualifiers, whereas Lovro and Gal entered the elimination round, at which the secret ingredient was the egg. Lovro was eliminated.
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| 4 | "Episode 4" | 27 March 2025 (2025-03-27) | |
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The fourth episode took place in Belgrade, with contestants from Serbia and Montenegro participating. Boban, Kristo, Todor, Nikola and Rajko were selected as the Top 5, with Nikola and Rajko entering the elimination round. They had to prepare an additional coktali, using raspberries, which were introduced as the secret ingredient. After th elimination round, the jury voted Rajko out.
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| 5 | "Episode 5" | 28 March 2025 (2025-03-28) | |
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The fifth and the final episode of qualification rounds took place in Skopje. At the elimination round, the secret ingredients were the grapes.
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| 6 | "Episode 6" | 4 April 2025 (2025-04-04) | |
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The Top 20 contestants, four from the each of five countries, entered the final of the competition that takes place in Zagreb. The judges announced that Gal from Slovenia has withdrawn from the competition and has been replaced with Lovro, who originally made it to Top 5 in Slovenia, but was eliminated at the elimination round. All 20 contestants prepare one cocktail. The judges announced that only 10 out of 20 will advance in the competition.
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| 7 | "Episode 7" | 5 April 2025 (2025-04-05) | |
| 8 | "Episode 8" | 11 April 2025 (2025-04-11) | |
| 9 | "Episode 9" | 12 April 2025 (2025-04-12) | |
| 10 | "Episode 10" | 18 April 2025 (2025-04-18) | |
| 11 | "Episode 11" | 19 April 2025 (2025-04-19) | |
Sources and credits
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