It,s just all a BIG fix like the Uk version ! If people would open there eyes and see the bigger picture then they would realise that it,s all about making money for the Tv channel showing the program and Simon Cowell and his producer partners. If you do some research on the Uk version then you would see that most of the finalists who have every won it have been dropped by Simon Cowells label within the first year and have come to nothing. At the end of the day Cowell and his counterparts don,t care who wins it and whether they become a popstar or not cos they have already made there money through advertising etc etc. And if you think that my comment is a little over the top then just look at the 17 that got through.... half of them shouldn,t have even made it to the judges houses.... the most talented of them didn,t get through. Maybe Simon Cowell should consider changing the X to an F... F meaning Fix... I rest my case.