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The X Factor is an American reality Tv music competition created by Simon Cowell and produced by SYCOtv and Also FremantleMedia North America, a partnership between Sony Music Entertainment and Cowell, on Fox. Predicated on the UK show, and an accession to the X Factor franchise, singing ability, attracted out of auditions that are public is found by the series, and they compete against one another for votes. The winner is decided by the series's audiences via telephone, Internet, and SMS text voting, and is given a recording contract with Cowell's record label Syco Music, worth $5 million in seasons one and two, and $1 million in season 3. The champions were Tate Stevens in season 2 and Melanie Amaro in season 1. The US adaptation of the show has aired from September, and began airing on September 2 1, 2011 The series employs a panel of judges who review the contestants' performances. Each contestant is assigned into at least one of four different categories. The group acts are just one category and others are primarily based on gender or age. As an example, in the past three the categories are boys, girls, groups, and over-25-year-olds. Each judge is assigned to one of the categories,and acts as mentor to the contestants in their category, helping to decide song choices, styling, while also contestants from one other types after each and staging of their live performances. They compete together to use to get one of the contestants within their category to gain your contest, thus making them the estimate that is winning.