# Mexico's Next Top Model

Mexico's Next Top Model, sometimes abbreviated as MxNTM, is a Mexican reality television series, based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model. It is the second franchise in Latin America after Brazil's Next Top Model, and like the latter, the Mexican version is broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television.
The series features a group of young women who would be competing for the title of Mexico's Next Top Model and a chance to begin their career in the modeling industry.

## Format
### Challenges

The challenge usually focuses on an element important to modeling which will help the girls to improve on the photo shoot. A guest judge, who is unique to each episode, evaluates the contestants and decides the winner of the challenge, who receives a prize for her victory.

### Judging and elimination

Based upon the girls' performance in the week's challenge, photo shoot, and general attitude, the judges deliberate and decide which girl must leave the competition. Once the judges have made their decision, the girls are called back into the room. The host calls out the names of the girls who performed well in the challenge and photo shoot, giving them a copy of their best photo from the shoot. The last two girls, whose names have not been called, are given criticism about why they were in the bottom two, and one is eliminated. The person who is eliminated does not receive a photo.

## Judges

| Judge/Mentor | Cycle | Cycle | Cycle | Cycle | Cycle |
| Judge/Mentor | 1 (2009) | 2 (2011) | 3 (2012) | 4 (2013) | 5 (2014) |
| Hosts ||||||
| Elsa Benítez | Head Judge | Head Judge | Head Judge | | |
| Jaydy Michel | | | | Head Judge | Head Judge |
| Judging Panelists ||||||
| Alison Fis | Main | Main | Main | Main | Main |
| Jo Lance | Main | Main | | | |
| Glenda Reyna | Main | Main | Main | Main | Main |
| Antonio González de Cosío | | | Main | Main | Recurring |
| Óscar Madrazo | Recurring | Recurring | Recurring | Recurring | Main |

## Cycles

| Cycle | Premiere date | Winner | Runner-up | Other contestants in order of elimination | Number of contestants | International Destinations |
| 1 | 1 October 2009 | Mariana Bayón | Nohemí Hermosillo | Kathya Amor Rodríguez, Yatzil Rubio, Isabel Nieto, Fernanda Sánchez, Ana Laura Cubas, Silvia Noyola, Anelís Echegaray, Verónica Sánchez Alonso, Andrea Carrión, Paulina Haro, Cecilia Pérez Delgadillo | 13 | None |
| 2 | 9 August 2011 | Tracy Reuss | Nikoll Vogas | Pris Zamora, Veronica Sánchez (quit), Marina Ávila, Xareni Sajarópulos, Ana Claudia Armas, Quetzalli Bulnes, Grecia Vargas & Erika Coronel, Melina Laporta, Lee Velázquez, Fer Herrera, Yael Álvarez | 14 | None |
| 3 | 4 September 2012 | Sahily Córdova | Paulina Barragán | Amira del Carmen Díaz, Lili Fifield Sanchez, Leti Ortíz Zapatera, Analí Ramos, Eloina Cavazos, Ana Paula Crippa, Sue Ellen García, Jessica Ortíz Palma, Sofía Saviano Garcia, Perla Gaspar Valdéz, Alessa Bravo | 13 | None |
| 4 | 19 August 2013 | Paloma Aguilar | Cindy Gradilla | Jonnuem Torres, Alejandra Ruz, Lucía de la Vega, Valeria Carmona, Magui Jimenez & Stefy Vargas, Renata Aguilar, Karely Carreón (quit), Michel Estrada, Clara Gonzalez, Bárbara Cortéz, Iliana Ruiz | 14 | None |
| 5 | 29 September 2014 | Vanessa Ponce De Leon | Mariana Berumen | Nydia Galindo, Montserrat Curis, Diana Gill, Samantha Ochoa, Andrea Ibañez Farga, Elsa Chapa, Elisa Ayon Garcia, Kristen Fara (quit), Roxana Reyes Herrera & Nebai Torres, Miranda Chamosa | 13 | Los Angeles |