Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40260777-20190814030334/@comment-25433488-20190816221906

Demon Taka wrote: I'm trying to figure out how the removal of judge's choice helped influence their voting. because i believe there was no "glitch" at all.

Normally 5 Acts Go through, 3 are undecided and 4 get thrown off.

Now 6 acts go through, 3 are undecided and 3 get thrown off.

Let's say the voting order was.

1. Kodi Lee

2. Greg Morton

3. Luke Islam

4. Alex Dowis

5. Messoudi Brothers

6. Voices of Service

7. Ansley Burns

8. Sophie Pecora

9. Emerald Belles

10. Bir Khalsa

11. Carmen Carter

12. GFORCE

Let's just say this was the voting order, then, had things went normally, the acts moving on would be Kodi, Greg, Luke, Alex and the Messoudis, with VOS, Ansley and Sophie being up for grabs. VOS would get save, and Sophie would have most likely got the Judge's CHoice. in  ocnclusion, the lack of a judge's choice was done so Ansley could go through. If the producers wanted Ansley to go through that badly then why wouldn't they just fix the results themselves? It accomplishes the exact same thing except it's not suspicious, because AGT doesn't reveal voting percentages like BGT does so they could probably have done that without anyone even realizing. Also, why would the producers favor Ansley over someone like Sophie?

Another thing, if what RedWhaley said earlier about placements determining the early Dunkin Save votes is true, then Sophie was ahead of Ansley initially, so whatever glitch happened didn't really affect anything.

tl;dr still not buying that the whole show is rigged. Yes it's true that the show and its producers influence how people vote, and they've been doing that for a long time. But I don't believe that the whole thing is fake or that the producers do things like pick the winner before the season even starts. Last season proved that if a person is talented enough and liked enough by the audience (Shin), they can beat the really hyped up acts (Courtney).